Episode #290 - Deb Taylor and Danny Mooney (Sundial and FIIK)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We have a husband and wife section-hiking team on the show today. Deb Taylor and Danny Mooney have done Iron Man races, Triathlons, and Marathons for years, yet Covid cemented and grew a new love–backpacking on the Appalachian Trail.

Deb and Danny share their insights and reflect upon the correlations they have found between hiking the trail and those other disciplines.

You should also check out their AT journeys at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8hBpjbcE1Gil9GwPEb8s1Q/videos where, amongst other goodies, as we referred to in our conversation, Danny Mooney lives up to his name with the Cog Train in the Whites.

You can also connect with Deb on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/coachdeb32/

and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/deb.taylor.984

The two pics below are from their Iron Man days. A spectator caught the two of them meeting up in the race, then grabbing a quick kiss.

Katie is out of Maine and heading into the Presidential Range and New Hamphire. She reflects upon Maine and looks forward to this next great chapter in her adventure.

Finally, we meet a couple of hikers who are reluctant to shed pounds from their packs in the famous Mountain Crossings shakedown.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers
0:05.3	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	Hi everybody and thanks for coming back to the podcast on a momentous day for me personally and for the show as well.
0:41.1	This is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail of the Ultimate Midlife Crisis, sponsored for the entire month of September by Cedar Trail Gear.
0:49.0	I am Mighty Blue and I'm editing the show this afternoon on Wednesday, September the 29th.
0:54.2	And I only realised an hour or so ago that today is the 7th anniversary of my 2014
1:01.6	Cataritan summit after my first ever through hike on the Appalachian Trail.
1:06.1	In fact, it was my first ever hike on any trail.
1:10.4	But not only is it that anniversary, it is also the
1:13.3	fifth anniversary of this podcast with its Thursday morning publication. The first show was a pilot
1:18.7	nine days earlier, but the first proper show with an interview of a fellow 2014-80-thruhiker
1:24.5	Max Michkin or Bearbeg was on the 29th of September 2016 and I scheduled the publication at 3 a.m in the morning.
1:33.8	I've never missed that deadline since then.
1:37.6	How about that?
1:38.9	You've helped me grow this show to nearly 300 episodes and we'll be passing the 1.5 million download mark next month.
1:46.1	I've got to tell you, I'm pretty proud of that. You should be too.
1:50.6	Today's guests are a husband and wife team, Deb Taylor and Danny Mooney, or Sundial and Fick.
1:57.2	They have an interesting take on hiking and its correlation with Ironman and Triathlans,
2:02.4	so I think you're going to enjoy listening to our conversation.
2:05.6	Katie's out of Maine and about to hit the presidential range.
2:08.7	She's been very deliberate in a hike and is really putting the reducing daylight hours to best use.
2:13.6	Katie will be on after Deb and Danny.
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