Episode #49 - Lynne Savino (Caboose)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Lynne Savino wrote to me and gave me some funny examples of the differences between a section hiker and a thru-hiker. I have a lot of respect for section hikers and the way in which they have to rediscover their hiking legs EVERY time they go out into the woods. I love to hear these different perspectives so I invited Lynne onto the show. She told us about how she was introduced to camping as a child by her father through adventures in a GMC Motorhome. The picture below is of Lynne and her brother, by the GMC, somewhere out west in the 1970s. She even tried to replicate that spirit, using the very same GMC, with her own family. 
While she muses that one day she'll be able to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, Lynne is currently content to hit the trail any time that she can and bite off sections. She can be found on Facebook and Instagram, though she confesses to being a little behind with her Instagram account and promises to do better!! In our conversation, I learned that Lynne is a physician and she shared some important information regarding the almost industrial-scale consumption of Ibuprofen, or Vitamin I, on the trail. She referred to a recent article in the New York Times and sent me a link to it. As I used to ship in four of these wonder drugs every day, I'll be reading it with interest. 
Now that I'm back home, I've caught up with Jessa once more, so John Boyet's excellent advice series has been pushed back for this week. Speaking with Jessa proved to be a lovely recap and her progress really lifted my spirits. Finally, thanks to everybody who pledged to support me on my hike. While I was unable to complete it–and thus reach out to you to collect your pledges–I'm gratified at how generous some of you were. Stuff like that really warms my heart.
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| 0:00.0 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:29.2 | If everything is gone as planned, this should be episode number 49. |
| 0:33.5 | And if you listen to it on the day of release, it should be August the 24th, 2017. By now, I should be two weeks into my John Muir trail hike and all tanned and strong. On the other hand, I could be a pale, quivering mess and struggling to make my way forward. It's all been a bit surreal for outloading my podcasts. I've got totally confused about where I'm supposed to be. |
| 0:59.5 | Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was me a couple of weeks ago, giving you what I presumed to be the two alternatives that I had for the John Mio Trail. What I hadn't imagined |
| 1:04.3 | was I'd already be home, having quit for the second straight year after just 30 miles and three days. |
| 1:12.0 | The sad truth, for me at least, is that my body simply cannot cope with elevations above |
| 1:17.5 | about 9,500 feet. |
| 1:19.6 | I took five days driving there. |
| 1:21.9 | I camped at about 9,200 feet for five days. |
| 1:25.1 | I even took in a bit of hiking as well. |
| 1:27.2 | But the moment I got above |
| 1:28.4 | about 9,500 feet, I was walking as if I was drunk without any of the benefits. So that's it. |
| 1:36.4 | That window is closed in my life and I've got to tell you, it sucks to realise that you're not |
| 1:41.2 | immortal. Still, the good news is that I've been able to catch up with Jessa to tell you where |
| 1:46.0 | her hike is. |
| 1:47.4 | She'll be along later. |
| 1:48.7 | I'm now going to revert back to my original intro for this week's guest. |
| 1:52.7 | The current me will return. |
| 1:54.4 | I do know that this week's guest is Lynn Savino. |
| 1:58.0 | Now, Lynn is a section hiker who sent me a very funny email that highlights her view |
| 2:02.1 | of the differences between section and through hikers. I liked her email, so I reached out to her and |
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