Episode #415 - Al Marriott (Lookout)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We have two returning guests today. First up, Al Marriott, fresh from his AT thru-hike in 2022, followed up with the PCT last year. Al shares his varied life of adventure in a great conversation with Steve.

He also tells us a story of how serendipitous the trail can be, with a chance meeting with people he shared an AT shelter with the previous year.

Al's YouTube channel–Adventure Together–continues to show his adventures. You can catch it here. https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventureTogether1?sub_confirmation=1 , while he has a bunch of great pictures on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/adventuretogether.ig/ and a wealth of stories on his blog at the Trek https://thetrek.co/author/al-marriott/ .

Natisha Webb is our second returning guest, with her Christmas escape coming on the Foothills Trail. You can learn more about the trail at https://foothillstrail.org/

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8ImK4qpNc&list=PLu8u88nsJtgWZxT8DLwEW2yXcz4gT6HXs 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.

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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	Hey guys, it's Thursday, which means that you've dropped in to the latest episode of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis.
0:41.5	I'm Steve Adams or Mighty Blue, and this is episode number 415 of the podcast.
0:46.2	And I think probably for the first time, our two guests today have both been on as a main guest before.
0:52.6	First up, following a successful through hike of the Appalachian Trail the previous year,
0:57.2	Al Marriott or Lookout returns to share his PCT through hike last year.
1:01.9	Well, I knew that Al was a widely travelled guy.
1:04.7	I don't think I'd realised the scope of the varied life that he's had and continues to lead.
1:10.2	Al will be on in the moment.
1:12.1	Then we've got another returning guest, Natisha Webb or Calypso. Natisha also did the
1:16.6	AT, heading out originally in March 2020, bad month ago, COVID month of course, and she followed
1:23.1	the ATC's advice and went home until 2021, when she went and achieved a successful through hike.
1:29.8	Natisha told me that she'd hiked the foothills trail over Christmas, so we called up and
1:33.4	chatted about it. Natasha will be on after Al. And with my UK hike rushing up on me,
1:40.4	usually I've been planning for the show in my absence and we'll fill you in on those details as
1:45.2	well. So let's meet for the second time. I'll marry it or lookout. We've met today's guests
1:54.8	before. In 2022 we hiked the Appalachian Trail and this year he's back after completed the Pacific Cross Trail in 2023. This is Al Marriott or Lookout. Hey, Al, good to see you again. Hey, good to be back. Thank you for having me. Brits are so polite, aren't they? Thank you for having me indeed. So what's life to be like for you since we last spoke? What have you been doing?
2:21.9	Trudging through a lot of snow and burn zones and deserts.
2:23.2	Yeah, it's been fantastic.
2:30.7	I've had a wonderful life-affirming six months or five months on the Pacific Christ Trail.
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