Episode #52 - Jessa Hackman (Attie)

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

Steve Adams

Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

For our 52nd episode–which commemorates the fact that we've been podcasting for precisely a year–I caught up with Jessa Hackman, otherwise known as Attie. Jessa was first introduced to listeners of the show in Episode #16. She had written to me requesting Grizz's hiking preparations spreadsheet and, as I sent that to her, I wondered if she would be a candidate for a project I'd been considering. I wanted to follow a hiker in their preparations for the hike, then continue to hear from them throughout their journey. Jessa had just qualified as lawyer, she was very articulate, and it seemed to me that she had the potential to really give the Appalachian Trail a determined try. We discussed the idea and I immediately gave her an "out." I wanted her to be sure that this show would be something that she could commit to and, after a weekend's thought, she agreed. Later hearing from her mother, Joan, about Jessa's many achievements already in her young life, I knew that we'd found an exceptional woman. Moreover, involving both Joan and Jessa's fiance, Nick, in her journey seemed to give extra impetus to the project. For this week's pictures, I asked for one of Jessa as a lawyer and one of her at her skankiest as a hiker. Typically, Jessa obliged by giving me a neat set of "kind of matching" images. For me, this is something of a sad farewell, as I've thoroughly enjoyed my weekly chats with Jessa. That said, we now have a permanent record of her hike that, in some small way, this show has helped bring to fruition. Hopefully, guests, listeners and I feel some part of that success and can share in the feeling in the picture below.

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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.
0:27.1	Hi everybody and welcome back to the show. At the end of my first year in podcasting.
0:33.5	This is episode number 52 when we've released an episode every Thursday morning at 3am Eastern Time
0:39.3	since the pilot episode last September.
0:42.9	In the serendipitous way of the Appalachian Trail,
0:46.1	this milestone episode features a young lady we followed throughout her own Appalachian Trail journey as a member
0:51.3	and now newly minted through hiker of the class of 2017.
0:56.8	Jessa Hackman or Eddie.
0:59.6	I was really disappointed to miss covering those last couple of hundred miles while I was away in
1:05.0	California but I promised to have a full show with Jesser on my return and she is the main
1:09.5	guest today along with Nick
1:11.1	her fiancee and Joan her mum they're all coming up later but first I wanted to address a couple of
1:17.2	things that happened to me this week well I'll address one now and the other one after Jessa
1:22.5	this week Hurricane Irma took aim at my adopted home state of Florida, and even though we had a week of warnings, I just wasn't prepared for what I saw and heard on Sunday.
1:34.6	What I saw was wall-to-wall coverage, mainly on CNN, but loudly on my local news channel to see how my area was being affected.
1:42.7	I was also able to follow the weather online
1:45.1	as my power stayed on throughout the day,
1:47.4	hunkered down as I was behind my metal shutters.
1:50.7	At one point, at 207pm on Sunday afternoon,
1:55.0	I posted a close-up of the then-projected track of the storm,
1:59.4	and the dead centre of the cone was heading directly
2:04.4	over my community and parish. I could even see my road on the map. That of course made it time
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