Rocks and Roots

Hey friends and a happy belated New Year. We missed you and hope you missed us.  We have been working hard training for our redemption ultramarathon taking place in less than 2 weeks!  Check out our adventure running Manhattan. Mucho mucho love. 

Heyo!  The duo discusses one of Tumbles’ favorite sections of the AT and its historic impact on the Appalachian Trail.  Crank goes into an unknown trail near the Zoo and Tumbles tries to not get sick. 

Hey y’all!  We got our booties out and traveled down to Virginia for some AT/Mau-Har Trail action!  It’s the height of foliage in western Virginia and we were blessed with great weather and even a rainbow!  Come check out the 3 Ridges Trail on this episode, known as one of the most difficult in Virginia!

Barefoot Ken joins us once again for a fantastic chat on his Ultra/Half Marathon run, the Shawangunk Ridge Trail Run!  We get into the logistics of this trail and what made him decide to co-race direct this awesome race!  We also go into some of Ken’s recent and upcoming races as well as New York/New Jersey Trail Conference updates. Thanks, Ken, it was fun to catch up!  

Check Ken out at thelongbrownpath.com

The lovely Tina Merritt joins us once again to talk all about her journey to the Grand Canyon. Not only that but Tina went to hike one of the most difficult trails out there, the R3 or Rim to Rim to Rim. That’s going from the south rim of the Canyon to the North Rim and back to the South Rim. Just shy of 50 miles, Tina talks about her experience with Project Athena, heat induced hallucinations, and a SNAFU at the North Rim which resulted in a 10pm dinner with a 12am wake up time. 

Check out Tina on Insta! @tinatreksne

Project Athena: www.projectathena.org

And they said it wouldn’t last, but we’ve reached 100 proper episodes on the Rocks and Roots Podcast!  We are thrilled to chat with ultrarunner and author Catra Corbett!  

https://catracorbett.com

Insta: @dirtdiva333

TikTok: @dirtdiva3 

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/dirtdiva333/?wtsid=rdr_0Zdj0QQ6mL0s2wmkA

What a fun chat we had with Kate Cloud (Feathers)!  Kate has years of trail miles under her belt as she’s an AT alum class of 2018 and a PCT alum class of 2019.  

The journey continues with Kate’s recent acquisition of a laundromat-turning-hostel in Rawlins, Wyoming.

Kate’s energy and joy is contagious as we talked trail, goats, and hostels all while giggling. 

If you’re to take anything away from this episode it’s this quote, “If you don’t push back, the universe tends to bring you what you need.”

Follow Kate!

www.youtube.com/@KateCloud

Insta: kate_cloud_feathers

Art website: littlebitsandbigdeals.com

Little Leaf 🐐: little_leaf_goat

We’re thrilled to welcome back 46 of 46 Podcast host James Appleton to the show to speak to us about his half marathon experience with minimal running training (but a bunch of hiking training).  

@46of46podcast 

@jamesappleton46

We had the pleasure of chatting with Mike of the popular Adirondacks-based Instagram handle @ADKFunPolice.  

With a passion for the park and a sense of humor, Mike has made it one of his missions to bring up-to-date trail news and trail memes to his followers… with some light prodding in there too. 

We also spend some time talking about the ever popular topic of registration and permits to hike the popular trails, especially in the High Peaks Region. 

A big thanks to Mike for joining us and we hope to have you on the show again sooner than later!

The deluge hit the High Peaks with many hours of rain, thunderstorms, bugs and unnerving river crossings.  Cranky and Tumbles took a few days to bag some peaks only to find that it wasn’t as easy as they thought.  A trying expedition up to Nye Mountain would make or break the aspiring 46er along with bagging another orphaned peak we left behind a few weeks ago made it one for the books. 

Onward!