Michelle “SuperClassy” Markel is a long-distance hiker with more than 8,000 mostly-solo trail miles, from the swamps of Big Cypress on the Florida Trail to the northern Cascades of Washington on the Pacific Crest Trail. In 2017, recognizing that the long trails could not exist without the public lands beneath them, she launched supportpubliclands.com, which she is currently rebuilding completely, in an effort to inspire outdoors advocacy by encouraging outdoors activity. When she is not on trail, she can typically be found exploring and van-dwelling somewhere on our 850 million acres of public lands.

Discussed in this episode:

• Website: supportpubliclands.com
• Michelle’s beautiful 2019 TEDxSkyforest Talk, “Opening the Heart at 3mph”
• “Support Public Lands” Youtube Channel
• “SuperClassy Adventures” Youtube Channel

Follow Michelle and Support Public Lands:

• Instagram: @supportpubliclands @superclassyadventures
• Facebook: @SupportPubLands

Follow Social Sport:

• Instagram: @socialsportpod
• Facebook: @socialsportpod
• Twitter: @emmamzimm

Quote: “𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀, 𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻, 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁.”