Episode #509 - Chrissy and Ady Schubert
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Chrissy Schubert and her daughter Ady will be attempting a 250-mile section of the Appalachian Trail next year. No big deal, you may think. Think again. Ady is afflicted by profound autism, communicates through writing, and has a heart as big as the trail itself.
The adversity that Ady and her family have overcome during her earlier years has strengthened their faith and helped so many others along the way.
These links each tell a short story or speak to the way in which Ady is triumphing in life as she faces her teenage years. It is worth checking them all out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obk0wB7yDuI
https://www.youtube.com/@adysbigarmy
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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 Stephen |
| 0:24.8 | his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi everybody, welcome to October on the Mighty Blue show. This is episode number 509 on the podcast, |
| 0:40.2 | and I'm your host, Steve Adams, or Mighty Blue. And for this month, I'm going to be |
| 0:45.0 | travelling up to the older gathering with my partner, Dana, before we go on a road trip for the |
| 0:49.1 | rest of the month and reach Maine before heading home again. We're going to visit a few |
| 0:53.8 | historical sites, try to touch the Appalachian Trail a couple of times, and we'll be taking a detour out to the La Hamptons on Long Island, because neither of us has ever been there before. So with our class of 2025 done and dusted, with Dave, Beth and Andrews successfully completed the 2200 mile journey, I thought I'd use this month to have a main |
| 1:11.6 | interview only. I'll be starting my own preparation from my 80th through height when I get back to |
| 1:16.4 | Florida at the end of the month and I've already told you that I intend to remain accountable |
| 1:20.5 | and tell you the progress that I'm making or not making. I also want to add a few gear item |
| 1:26.2 | conversations to the show around then, but for this |
| 1:28.5 | month only, it'll be me, my microphone and my guest. All of these episodes will be finished before |
| 1:36.0 | I drive to the Alder Gathering next week, so if you're a financial supporter of the show at that |
| 1:40.4 | level, you'll be getting the shows for the rest of the month in the coming days. |
| 1:48.8 | If you'd like to get these advanced shows, just head to Buy Me a Coffee.com forward slash Mighty Blue and sign up for a membership level of at least $5 a month to get access to the early |
| 1:53.2 | recordings. And, of course, because I'm only offering one conversation each week, |
| 1:57.5 | I want you to really enjoy them. I think we're starting with a riveting interview this |
| 2:01.0 | week. Our guests are Chrissy and Addy Schubert and you'll soon hear that Chrissy will be the only one doing the talking apart from me of course and you'll learn about a remarkable young woman, her daughter, Addy, who's going to be heading out on the Appalachian Trail next year with Chrissy and I promise to meet up with them when I'm out there. |
| 2:18.7 | I don't want to give too much way before we start but suffice it to say that |
| 2:22.5 | this story is truly unlike any other we've aired so I hope you find it just as inspiring as I did. |
| 2:28.5 | Before we hear from Chrissy I want to thank those of you who support us financially. |
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