Episode #97 - Cathryn Pugh (Sunshine)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Hiking the Appalachian Trail is a daunting undertaking for people with no medical issues. For those who rely upon their medication, the AT can be logistically challenging. Cathryn Pugh didn't let that get in the way once she decided to do a thru-hike in 2017. Her sunny disposition and can-do attitude are inspiring–even to the extent of convincing somebody else to tackle the trail next year. We'll be speaking with that person as well.

Cathryn learned a life-affirming lesson on the trail–she can do absolutely anything. She even started dating her boyfriend, Mike, while she was on the AT, though even that wasn't straightforward and they didn't see each other for another month.

If you'd like to learn more about Cathryn and her journey, you can find her on Instagram at hikeswithdiabetes.

Nate Harrington made a welcome return to the show with the tweak he'd make to his hike were he ever to go again. I mention the Katahdin sign that Nate makes and sell. Here is the link to the sign on his site, Between The Blazes.

We're up to Episode Eight of the Year We Seized The Day, with more grief for Colin between the laughs.

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
0:05.2	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.
0:33.7	Hello and thanks for dropping by again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachshan Trail, sponsored by Trialopia Adventure Foods.
0:40.8	We have another spirited young woman this week as our main guest.
0:44.3	We're talking with Catherine Pugh or, as you'll pick up from her delightful demeanour, sunshine.
0:50.0	A very apt name, let me tell you.
0:52.4	I know I've had a few of these young women on the show before.
0:55.1	They're always inspirational to me and I hope to you.
0:58.4	Catherine provides a special type of inspiration and I know that you're going to love her.
1:03.2	Actually, Catherine is so inspirational that I have a quick chat after I speak with her
1:07.2	with somebody who was so taken with her achievement that she too is now planning on hitting
1:11.5	the trail next year on if i hit it again we have the return of nate harrington originally one of the
1:19.7	two hiking vikings along with his wife the lovely sharon when we last spoke with nate and
1:24.8	sharon they were expecting their second child.
1:29.6	Actually, or maybe you'd just been born, I'm not sure.
1:35.0	Well, now there's a third one on the way, so the hiking Vikings are rapidly becoming a horde of Vikings.
1:37.0	It was nice to hear from Nate again.
1:45.9	Last but hopefully not least, we're up to Chapter 8 of the year we seize the day by Elizabeth Best and Colin Bowles. This week we have another glimpse at Colin's inner demons and tempers start to get a little bit frayed. If I said
1:51.7	fried instead of frayed just then, that would have been a great segue to this. When I was hiking,
1:57.5	I'd wake up to my alarm, deflate my airpad and contemplate my blah breakfast.
2:03.9	Every morning I poured water into those different coloured paper bags, scrunched around the
2:08.9	ingredients, not one of which had any association with fruit, and then eat that soulless
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