Episode #466 - Collyn Nielsen (Doc) Hiker Trash Radio
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We have a fellow hiking podcaster on the show today. Collyn Nielsen, known as Doc to his listeners, is the host of Hiker Trash Radio. The show was originally the John Freakin' Muir Podcast, but Doc extended its remit by re-branding to reach a wider audience, speaking to climbers, kayakers and others who spend their time in the outdoors.
You can find his podcast on all the platforms, as well as at his website, hikertrashradio.com.
Doc even turned the tables on me by interviewing me in a section taken directly from his own show. Check it out.
Our 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.
Our new sponsor for the New Year is TSX Challenge, who turn one week into inspiration for a lifetime. And I should know. Chris at TSX told me he could get me to the top of Mt Whitney…and he did. Check out their incredible group hikes at TSX Challenge - Guided Backpacking Trips to Mt. Whitney, Grand Canyon & Beyond, and save 10% at checkout by using the code MIGHTYBLUE.
I used my hike earlier this year on the South West Coast Path in the UK 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 Hike with Steve - Empowering Parents, One Step at a Time | Parenting Matters %. 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 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.
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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 |
| 0:05.3 | About Hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:24.0 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.5 | Hey guys, it's so good to be paid with you all again. |
| 0:36.3 | This is episode number 466 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail for the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm your host, Steve Adams, and each week I try to bring you a guest you might not have heard of but who will always have a story to tell. A guest this week is somebody many of you will have heard of as his fellow podcaster. He's Colin Nielsen or Doc, and Colin is the host of |
| 0:56.3 | Hiker Trash Radio. One of our listeners, Phil Hall, suggested I interview other podcasters, so |
| 1:01.9 | always game, I reached out. It's probably the last thing a marketer would recommend me to do, |
| 1:07.0 | you know, highlighting other biking podcasts, but I've never felt in competition with other shows. |
| 1:11.7 | We all bring our own unique perspective to our own podcasts and I thought it was an interesting |
| 1:15.5 | thing to be able to do. Not only that, I'll be doing it again sometime in the future. |
| 1:20.6 | Colin turned out to be a great guest, even turning the tables on me by using one of the sections |
| 1:24.6 | of his show to interview me. We'll hear from Colin shortly. |
| 1:28.8 | Then we continue Emily Leonard's Happy Hiking, |
| 1:31.3 | where our hero meets Pennsylvania's rocks |
| 1:34.0 | and the Superfund, |
| 1:35.3 | and Super Fun, climb up from Lehigh Gap. |
| 1:38.7 | Before we get to meet Doc, there's this. |
| 1:41.6 | If you joined us last week, |
| 1:43.0 | you know that we picked up a new sponsor, |
| 1:44.8 | TSX Challenge. TSSX Challenge leads guided backpacking tracks through a Sierra, Grand Canyon, |
| 1:50.5 | and beyond for all ages and experience levels. To be honest with you, when Chris Casado, my friend |
| 1:55.6 | and co-founder of TSX gave me this description and read, my main reaction was that it doesn't |
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