Episode #496 - Charles Bruce (Tracker) - Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

We meet Charles Bruce, or Tracker, this week. Charles is a member of the Appalachian Trail Class of 2022, and he fulfilled a long-held bucket list item when he completed his thru-hike.

Charles is from the northeast, and one of his passions is to track white-tailed deer through the snow. While those skills didn't help with his thru-hike, they gave him his awesome trail name!

We'll hear why he needed to be finished before October, and his current plan to keep a promise he made to his wife.

Beth and Andrew have reached, and passed, the halfway marker, while the REAL rocks of Pennsylvania will be keeping them company for the next week or so!

Meanwhile, Dave is now very much in job mode, with his goal to finish mid-August very much in his sights.

I used my hike last year on the South West Coast Path in the UK to help raise money for my absolute favorite charity, Parenting Matters, on whose board I've been privileged to serve for over a decade. You can learn more about the hike and the organization–and donate–by visiting Hike with Steve - Empowering Parents, One Step at a Time | Parenting Matters %. I hope you want to support this critical mission.

Don't forget. Our entire series of videos from our Woods Hole Weekend in 2022 is now FREE and available at my YouTube page at Woods Hole Weekend - Trailer There, you'll find all sorts of tips and tricks that our guests took away from the weekend that helped them with their own hikes this year. Check it out.

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