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

Episode #495 - Dr Lynne Savino (Older hikers on trail)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is an old friend of the show; Dr Lynne Savino. Lynne always has an interesting take on medical issues related to hiking, and this week, she discusses older hikers on trail.

She brings her normal passion for hiking and medicine to the podcast, teaching me a few things along the way.

We also caught up with Dave, Beth and Andrew, as they all cope with the heat bubble on the east coast of the US.

Dave has moved into Connecticut, his 10th state, and he got this stunning, early-morning view of New York City from the trail a few days ago.

Meanwhile, Beth and Andrew have reached the traditional halfway point of Harpers Ferry, where they took the opportunity to visit the ATC headquarters to record the mandatory picture!

I used my hike last 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.

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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, joins Steve and his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

0:33.6

Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,

0:37.7

the ultimate mid-life crisis, and I'm your host, Steve Mighty Blue Adams.

0:42.3

Camino is in my rearview mirror and yes, I'm missing it. You don't go on a long hike and

0:47.4

immediately leave it behind. Well, I don't at least. I lived that life for several weeks and

0:52.7

really got into it in a way that I hadn't before really.

0:55.8

I missed the simplicity of life on a trail and I miss my fellow hikers, all of whom impacted me in some way,

1:01.4

though some more than others of course.

1:03.7

This transition back to normal life is a slow process for me and it happens pretty much every time I go.

1:09.9

Today though I'm welcoming back an old friend of the show.

1:13.0

Dr. Lynn Savino is recently retired, yet she remains my go-to on issues medical,

1:18.2

and it's always interesting when she has a subject she can get her teeth into.

1:21.7

This week I invited Lynn onto the podcast to talk about, I'm not joking,

1:25.4

the intersection of geriatrics, climate change and wilderness

1:29.3

medicine. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? And being a geriatric myself, I have a particular interest in

1:34.7

the topic, so I came up with the kind of questions I wanted to know answers to, and Lynn provided

1:39.1

them. Then, after Lynn, Dave tells us about surviving in the current heat bubble in the United States

1:44.7

as he pushes towards 1,500 miles on his Appalachian Trail Odyssey.

1:49.2

While several hundred miles behind him, the heat bubble is also impacting Beth and Andrew

1:53.3

as they get to the halfway mark and contemplate the enormity of doing those miles again

1:58.0

in the second half of their 80th through hike.

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