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

Episode #62 - Jessica Mills (Dixie)

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

Steve Adams

Wilderness, Sports

4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

  Jessica Mills has become something of a YouTube sensation, with her Appalachian Trail videos securing a base of support during her 2015 thru-hike. However, that support has grown exponentially this year, as she took on, and beat, the Pacific Crest Trail, battling the snow in the Sierras, then smoke from fires the rest of the way.     Her breezy delivery, thoughtful commentary, great pictures (including some taken from a drone, and sheer bravado in the face of difficult conditions, have made her PCT vidoes required viewing for aspiring and veteran hikers alike. Jessica discusses this year's hike with Steve and answers the inevitable question, "Did you prefer the AT or the PCT?"     Jessica is very active on social media, under the name of Homemade Wanderlust, and she can be contacted through the following sites. Website: www.homemadewanderlust.com Facebook: homemadewanderlust Instagram: @homemadewanderlust YouTube: homemadewanderlust Patreon: homemadewanderlust Twitter: @homemadeWL You can also find Jessica's book about her 2015 Appalachian Trail thru-hike on Amazon     Lynne Savino gives us another Doc Spot, with her spotlight focused on heat related illness. Steve remains utterly clueless in these pieces and thanks Lynne for her diligence in bringing this important information to hikers. If a hiker learns the thing that can save his or her life then Lynne's work will be rewarded.   Please check out our sister podcast, Returning to Katahdin: An Appalachian Trail Dream, featuring a detailed look at Bruce Matson's attempt to hike the AT in 2018. If you want to find out more about Bruce and his hike, go to his website, ReturningToKatahdin.com.   Also, don't forget to try out our title sponsor's website, Trailtopia.com, when planning your next trip into the woods.      

 
 

Transcript

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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 and welcome back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, sponsored by Trail Tauopia.

0:32.9

This episode is going out on Thanksgiving Day 2017 and I thought I'd tell you what I'm

0:37.4

thankful for this year. To be honest with you, I'm thankful for a ton of things but always

0:42.4

top of my list is I'm thankful for my lovely wife, Diane. I'm also thankful to my friends for

0:48.2

indulging me when I talk about the podcast and my indifferent hiking skills. And today,

0:53.4

here is a segue.

0:55.2

I'm especially thankful that our guest on episode number 62 of the podcast

0:58.8

is the incredibly popular Jessica Mills,

1:02.2

known to one and all as Dixie.

1:05.1

But before we get on to Dixie, there's this.

1:09.4

How about those days when you've struggled through the morning,

1:12.6

probably got 10 miles under your belt,

1:14.8

and breakfast is a distant memory.

1:17.2

It's lunchtime, and yep, you could always have your full snickers of the day

1:20.7

for yet another sugar rush.

1:22.5

But sitting there in an empty shelter protected from the bit of wind,

1:26.5

I'm sure you'd really rather have Trutopia's beef-flavoured ramen noodles

1:30.7

with green beans, corner mushrooms.

1:33.6

Tea-flippin-licious!

1:35.5

And if you need to go without the gluten,

1:37.4

all of Trautopias, ramen noodle lunches and light dinners are available gluten-free.

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