Episode #413 - Daniel Clark (Lucky Colleague)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
We meet another Brit on the show today. Daniel Clark is a listener to the podcast, and he filled in the form to register as a guest on our website, adding rich detail about his 2023 thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. We explore some of his stories.
Daniel has a terrific website that chronicles some of his other hikes. You can find it at All Walks | Ourwalks
He is also on social media at Instagram and YouTube at Instagram (@walking__north) and Englishman Just Walking
In our casual series of other hikes, my friend Andrew Cohen shares his recent experience on the TGO Challenge in Scotland. You can catch his YouTube at The Wandering Drew, where there is a playlist with 23 videos related to his equipment, some planning, as well as each day of the journey, and his travel to and from the UK. Check them out, as well as the TGO Challenge site itself, at A unique Scottish backpacking adventure, where you'll find a ton of info about the challenge.
Don't forget. Our entire series of videos from our Woods Hole Weekend in 2022 is now FREE and available at my YouTube page at Woods Hole Weekend - Trailer. There, you'll find all sorts of tips and tricks that our guests took away from the weekend that helped them with their own hikes this year. Check it out.
I often ask listeners for ideas on who to interview, and I'm sure several of you say, "I could do that. I've got an awesome story to tell." You're the person we need to hear from. If you'd like to be interviewed on the podcast, just register as a guest on the link below, and I'll be in touch. Come on the show!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:24.1 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.7 | Hey guys, it's me again, Mighty Blue, |
| 0:36.2 | and you're listening to another episode of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. |
| 0:42.1 | This is episode number 413, and our guest is one of you guys. He's a listener who clicked on the register as a guest button on the hiking radio network.com website. |
| 0:51.8 | Once you do this, you're taken to a page that allows you to fill out as much |
| 0:54.9 | information as you like, and I get the result. I then reach out to you and Bob's your uncle, which is |
| 1:00.4 | a very British expression, by the way, and you're on the show. Well, today's main guest, Daniel |
| 1:05.3 | Clark, who is a fellow Brit, click that button and frankly provided me with a fire hose of information and stories I could |
| 1:12.6 | use to interview him. Daniel Heighted the AT last year and like we all do, he wanted to share |
| 1:18.5 | some of his stories. He'll be on in a moment. Now we were hoping to catch up with Jessica |
| 1:23.7 | Eng Wright as our second guest today. I wanted to know how she's settling down after her epic through hike last year, |
| 1:30.6 | which ended just before Christmas. |
| 1:33.0 | Unfortunately, she couldn't make that work this week, but she'll be on next week. |
| 1:37.0 | Instead, I've got a buddy of mine on the show. |
| 1:39.4 | Andrew Cohen and I did the TSX challenge together in 2022, |
| 1:43.2 | and he's on today to tell you about the TGO challenge, |
| 1:46.1 | which is a kind of make it up as you go along route from coast to coast in Scotland. Andrew did it last |
| 1:51.8 | year, so I asked him to come on the show and share his story. Andrew will be along after Daniel. |
| 1:57.6 | Oh, and while I think about it, I was at a meeting last Monday evening at the Appalachian Trial Club of Florida Yep there is one and one of our members Scott doing asked club members if any of them had knowledge of the W Trail in Patagonia I'd heard of it but I didn't know any details myself Scott's heading there soon and I said I'd mention it on the show so if some of you know about this hike and will be willing to chat with Scott about it, |
| 2:20.8 | just email me at Steve at HikingRadioNetwork.com |
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