Episode #414 - Jessie Gehner (Twisted Sister)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Jessie Gehner, MD, is a thru-hiker from 2008 who then went to medical school. She currently works as an ER physician at Roanoke hospital, and is a member of the faculty of the Wilderness Medical Society, spearheading the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at her hospital.
She has continued her hiking life and, in her work capacity, also hikes to Everest Base Camp each year with a group of medical professionals.
Jessie has provided links for both the base camp group, https://www.blueridgeadventuremed.com/everest-trek.html and the Wilderness Medical Society. https://wms.org/WMS/WMS/Attend/Adventure-CME/Backpacking-Medicine/Master.aspx?EventKey=23BACK&hkey=784185ed-d042-416a-8eb6-b827030ebed2
She can also be found on Facebook at https://m.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=1445550661
We also finished our Mighty Blue Class of 2023 debriefs with Jessica Lang-Wright who, as you can see, has done a bit with her hair!
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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. |
| 0:19.3 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome back to the show. You're listening to Episode 414 of Marty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:39.4 | the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm your host, the aforementioned Mighty Blue. And we've got another |
| 0:44.1 | great show for you today. First up, we've got Jesse Gaynor, or the deliciously named Twisted Sister. |
| 0:50.6 | Jesse was suggested to me by Lynn Savino as the woman who led the hike of the Virginia Triple Crown |
| 0:55.4 | that Lynn and her fellow medical practitioners attended last year. |
| 0:59.7 | Lynn was on the show a few months back and put me on to Jesse. |
| 1:03.2 | Jesse spearheads the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at her hospital in Roanoke |
| 1:06.9 | and she has such varied experiences than I wanted to introduce you to her. |
| 1:12.5 | Jesse will be on in a moment. |
| 1:20.0 | Then, at last, we catch up with a very blue-haired Jessica Lang Wright for her debrief on her completed through hike that she finished just before Christmas. I caught Jessica in a pensive |
| 1:25.5 | mood, I suppose, but she's always interesting to interview, and I'm |
| 1:28.6 | sure you'll get a kick out of her after Jessie. Just before we meet Jesse, I wanted to let you all |
| 1:33.2 | know that the news I was intending to share a few weeks back didn't materialise, so there is no news. |
| 1:39.5 | Let's meet Jesse now. She was outside her home, leaning on a tree with a very spotty internet. In fact, |
| 1:45.2 | she went quiet on me several times, but I think I've managed to pull together the full |
| 1:48.5 | interview. Hopefully, you won't notice the various cuts in the recording. Here's Jesse. |
| 1:56.4 | Regular listeners to the show will recall Dr. Lynn, Lynn Savino. So when when Lynn wrote to me |
| 2:02.3 | and suggested I should interview Jesse Gaynor, of course I got in contact with Jesse. Hey, Jesse, |
| 2:07.7 | thanks for coming on the podcast. Oh, you're welcome. I'm happy to be here. Well, actually, |
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