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Episode #23 - Charlotte Taney (Two-Pack)
Charlotte Taney was transformed by the Appalachian Trail. Initially nervous, she blossomed into a steely-eyed hiking machine. That, at least, was how…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode #22 - Rad Watkins (The Bear Whisperer)
First things first, it was me who named Rad Watkins The Bear Whisperer. He didn't have a trail name, but he certainly had a story. Rad is a landscape…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode #21 - Kate Schmidlin (Tigger)
One of the fearless women I met in the Class of 2014, Kate Schmidlin, or Tigger, embodied the spirit of the trail. I never saw her pissed off at anyb…
8 years, 11 months ago
Episode #20 - Brandon Jacob (The Dude)
Brandon Jacob, AKA The Dude, became something of a social magnet on the Appalachian Trail in 2016 with his Dudefests. Straight out of the corporate w…
8 years, 11 months ago
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8 years, 11 months ago
Episode #19 - Steven Cullen (Scotty)
Steven Cullen was a section hiker who I met on my first day on the trail. We clicked straight away and he continued to follow my, and other, blogs on…
8 years, 11 months ago
Episode #18 - Patrick Bredlau (RW)
Patrick Bredlau had a truly life-changing experience on the trail. His candor at his spiritual epiphany was touching, while his encounter with a ma…
8 years, 11 months ago
Episode #17 - James Claiborne (Buchanan)
James Claiborne was a fellow member of the Class of 2014. I only met him a few times, though once, memorably, at the Curly Maple Shelter, just outsid…
9 years ago
Episode #16 - Jessa Hackman
In this first episode of 2017, I'm introducing Jessa Hackman, our very own member of the Class of 2017 thru-hikers. She is from Madison, Wisconsin, i…
9 years ago
Episode #15 - Clay Bonnyman Evans (Pony)
Clay Bonnyman Evans, 55, is a writer who moved to the beaches of South Carolina in 2015 after spending his previous life in the mountain west and Cal…
9 years ago