Episode #449 - Mighty Blue Class of 2024

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

We're catching up with all five members of our Mighty Blue Class of 2014 this week, so each of them will update us on where they are and their coming plans.

There are no real notes this week for the class, just their latest pictures of them all having a blast!!

Anita (Moxie)

Bobby (Sloggy)

David (Professor Milkshake)

Sondra (Lemonade)

Michael (No Rush the Elder)

Also today, we meet Bill and Donna Milsten, owners of The Green Dragon Hostel in Hiawasee.

You can reach out to them on their website at https://www.greendragonhostel.com/ or call 407-435-0294.

I also shared a bit about my recent return to the Appalachian Trail with two friends.

Our new book reading, Happy Hiking, by my friend, Emily Leonard is–of course–written from a woman's POV and a woman's voice. I hope you enjoy listening to my reading of it. If you'd like to buy the book, you can find it on Amazon at Happy Hiking: Falling in love on the Appalachian Trail, or on Emily's website, at Happy Hiking.

I used my recent 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/. I hope you want to support this critical mission.

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.

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. https://www.hikingradionetwork.com/show/mighty-blue-on-the-appalachian-trail-the-ultimate-mid-life-c/guests/intake/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.6	Hey guys, good to be back with you all for episode number 449 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis.
0:41.3	This week we've got a bit of a different show with all five members of our Mighty Blue Class of 2024 checking in with me.
0:47.8	Spoiler alert, one of them finished on Monday.
0:51.0	Then I'm going to be letting you all know how my hike on the AT went last week.
0:54.0	And second spoiler alert, it didn't go quite as planned. Shocker, right? Monday. Then I'm going to be letting you all know how my hike on the AT went last week and
0:54.3	second spoiler alert, it didn't go as planned. Shocker, eh? In fact, it's had implications
1:00.4	on other future plans which I'll fill you in on later. But out of that hike, I'm going
1:05.2	to be introducing you all to two new friends who happened to own the hostel I stayed at on that
1:09.2	trip. They're Donna and Bill Milston and their hostel is the Green Dragon in Hiawasi, Georgia. Third and last spoiler alert, I loved it there. So that's why I asked them on the show. With so many interviews this week, I've put back the next chapter of Emily Leonard's book, Happy Hiking, until next week. I'm sure you'll understand. So let's get to it and meet for the first time in a few weeks, Anita Svrentner or Moxie.
1:36.3	Well? Hey, Anita. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm not as excited as you are, I'm sure.
1:47.6	So tell everybody what happened this morning.
1:54.9	I submitted Katahdin at 9 a.m. this morning. Oh dear. That is amazing. What time did you set off then? We set off about 620. So we got a little bit later start than we wanted but um it was beautiful day
2:04.0	it was perfect and yeah we cruised right up you're moving there blummy you got up there at nine wow
2:10.2	yeah just like five minutes after nine something like that well we haven't spoken for for a couple
2:16.1	weeks and i obviously want to catch up with
2:18.1	how it's gone, because I don't think you were even in Maine when we last spoke. Yeah, actually, I was. I had just done, like, the Mahusik Notch and all of that. Right, okay, right. So let's get to Katahdin. We'll talk about Katahdin again in a minute, but let's go back to where you were.
2:34.5	You've done Moose, Zip, Notch and so on.
2:36.5	How have the last couple of weeks been? get to Qatar and we'll talk about Katahdin again in a minute but let's let's go back to where
2:34.2	you were you've done the moose it notch and son how have the last couple of weeks been then
2:38.5	not too bad um the weather was not cooperating really for quite a bit so when we got in what way
2:46.5	in what way um when we got to the 100 mile wilderness, we just had complete fog.
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