Episode #422 - South West Coast Path (Days 1-3)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The first three days of my South West Coast Path hike are in the books. Unfortunately, my notes weren't in the books! I somehow lost them, so this first podcast is a little thin on detail, though full of my heart. I hope you enjoy it.
I'm using my hike in the UK on the South West Coast Path to help raise money for my absolute favorite charity, Parenting Matters, on whose board I've been privileged to serve for over a decade. You can learn more about the hike and the organization–and donate–by visiting https://parentingmattersfl.org/eventer/hike-with-steve-empowering-parents-one-step-at-a-time/edate/2024-04-15/. And, maybe, you'll get a personal picture of me thanking you with your name etched in the sand during my hike. I hope you want to support this critical mission.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers about hikers for everybody. |
| 0:19.4 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:25.0 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:35.5 | Well, as you know, it's not Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, but it's mighty blue on the |
| 0:40.1 | Southwest Coast Park. And wow, I've just done three days. I am freaking exhausted. It's Wednesday night. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm sitting here, sitting in my room, recording all three days. |
| 0:57.0 | And first up, I've got to say, love the trail. |
| 1:01.0 | And so thanks for all the trail maintainers who keep this trail in such great condition. |
| 1:07.0 | It's different to the Applesian Trail, very different, incredibly exposed these first three days have been. |
| 1:13.6 | And yet it looks dangerous. There are some kind of freakishly close climbs along or walks along the coastal path that have a pretty dire fall on the right as you look at it. |
| 1:32.3 | But, you know, I can't fault the trail. |
| 1:36.3 | You know, three days has been a long three days, 34 miles, I think it is, and I'm with my friend John and we've enjoyed |
| 1:46.7 | it a lot. I've enjoyed it thoroughly and I think I said to John today that I relish this |
| 1:51.6 | sort of the difficulty of it and I really did find it quite difficult today and he's found |
| 1:57.7 | it quite difficult as well but he's so determined to keep up with me that he's quite happy to just carry on as we are. |
| 2:04.6 | Now the bad news, unfortunately. |
| 2:06.6 | I lost all my notes tonight. |
| 2:09.6 | I was preparing to record. |
| 2:12.6 | And you know, I kind of like to put a proper professional sort of show out to you guys but I've tried |
| 2:20.6 | to recreate some of them but you know I'm not happy with what I have I know I've forgotten some |
| 2:26.1 | moments I'm going to try to add as many moments as I can and I've decided that going forward |
| 2:30.9 | I'm going to record each night to avoid this happening again. I promise |
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