Episode #91 - Linnea Van Manen (Shiver)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Linnea Van Manen struggled with Lyme Disease as a young girl and felt the effects through her teens. Lyme manifested itself by intense bouts of bursitis in her knees, so much so that a year before heading out to the Appalachian Trail for a solo thru-hike, Linnea was confined to a wheelchair for some of the time.

She was a flip-flopper (or OBOer) and spread her hike over an eleven month period with seven months of hiking, much of it utterly alone. Despite all manner of incidents and occasional problems, Linnea reached her goal of a thru-hike at the unremarkable spot of Buena Vista. However, Linnea celebrated that finish as much as one would on the top of Katahdin.

She kept a blog about her journey at 2200miles.blog and has an Instagram account at lvanm01 if you'd like to reach out to her.

Tim McGann, one of my 2014 classmates, only really wanted to change his name. He.....well, let him tell you.

We hope that you take the opportunity to support our sponsor, Trailtopia, when you consider your next backpacking trip. Go to https://www.trailtopia.com/ to check out their wide variety of meals.

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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 his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:32.8	Welcome back and thanks for tuning in again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, sponsored by Trialopia Adventure Foods.
0:40.2	Just a bit of a warning, I'm in the middle of a Florida thunderstorm.
0:43.3	We've got a bit of a lull, so I'm trying to recall this in time.
0:46.7	We've hit episode number 90 already and like last week, our guest is a young lady, Linnea van
0:52.8	Manon or Shiba.
0:56.6	But unlike Kayla or Popeye last week, our guest is a young lady, Linnea Van Manon or Shibba. But unlike Kayla or Popeye last week, this young lady was a bit younger and went all alone. She did a flip-flop, or oboes,
1:03.5	I keep trying to call them, and for much of a hike she was very much alone. She was actually
1:08.4	just out of high school and had only just turned 17 when she began a hike.
1:13.0	As you're going to hear, though, Linnea turns out to be another of these resourceful,
1:17.5	wonderfully strong young women who were all lucky enough to run into on the trail from time to time.
1:23.3	Linnea will be here soon. In, if I get it again.
1:28.3	I'm back to my class of 2014 and the very friendly Tim McGahn, or Tyg or Irish, as he became.
1:36.3	In fact, his name was one of the things that Tim wanted to talk about.
1:39.8	He's going to be along after Linnea.
1:41.9	Last, but hopefully not least, we had the third chapter of the
1:45.2	year we seize the day by Elizabeth Best and Colin Bowles. In this one, Colin returns to his
1:50.5	roots to offer up a bit of language that is best avoided by a beep. You'll know it when you hear it,
1:55.6	but I think you might also work out the word that it replaces. I'm trying my hardest here. Don't
2:00.0	shoot the piano player. Before we get to all of that, Trautopia have something to tell you. About those days, when you struggle through the morning, probably got 10 miles under your belt, and breakfast is a distant memory. It's lunchtime and, yeah, you could always have your full snickers of the day for yet another sugar rush but sitting there in an empty shelter protected from the bitter wind i'm sure you'd really
2:23.3	rather have troutopias beef flavored ramen noodles with green beans corn and mushrooms de-flippinlicious
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