Episode #373 - Jana Giles & David Nelson (Ducky & Gravy)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

We have a young couple as our guests this week; Jana Giles and David Nelson, otherwise known as Ducky and Gravy. They have known each other for some time but, in planning to go on an Appalachian Trail thru-hike, they started dating just before they headed out on the trail.

Despite putting their relationship on the line, they clearly worked it out, finishing just five months after starting South bound from Katahdin.

Jana wrote a blog for the Trek, so you can check that out at http://thetrek.co/author/jana-giles

Our intrepid three from the Class of 23 are Steve Nota, who describes his encounter with the dreaded Norovirus, Joanne Flagg, who is gratefully through with Pennsylvania, and Dale Shotkoski, who puts some of Doctor Lynne's advice to use.

If you'd like to find out more about "Then The Hail Came," check out George's website at https://georgesteffanos.webador.com/. You can also find George's book on Amazon at this link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFG4ZR6.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk 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.
0:33.6	Hey guys, thanks for coming back to the podcast, and we're up to episode number 373 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. This week we have as our main guests, Janet Giles and David Nelson, or to those who met them on the AT last year, Ducky and Gravy. Fortunately, they explain those names to us. Janira and David became a couple just before they hit the trail, so the fact that the two of them are still a couple, after completing a through hike of the AT, speaks much to the strength of that relationship.
1:03.4	Ducky and Gravy will be on in a moment.
1:05.6	Then we have three more members of our class of 23.
1:08.8	The good news is that each of them, Steve Noda, Joan Flagg Dale Shokoski, are still going strong. It hasn't all been plane sailing. It never is out of the trail, but each in their own way is having a blast. I'm also going to be addressing a housekeeping issue for the episode in two weeks' time when I'll be away at trail days, then hiking for five days and unable to
1:27.8	include a catch-up with our class of 23 members. I'm looking out for your suggestions for a middle
1:32.9	section of the show for that week. Finally, we'll hear about George Staphanos in Them the Hale
1:38.0	game, where George reflects upon some of the now lost parts of the trail in Connecticut.
1:44.2	So let's hear how a new couple decided to take their first real date on an Appalachian Trail
1:49.7	Through hike.
1:50.5	Here's Gianna and David or Ducky and Gravy.
1:55.8	Today we have that, I don't know, almost inexplicable combination.
2:02.7	A couple who decided to hike the Appalachian Trail together. This is Jana Giles and David Nelson. Hey guys, thanks for coming
2:07.9	on the podcast. Thanks. Excited to be here. Good. Yeah. Now, and you guys were actually there
2:16.3	when we were all at our Woods Hole weekend last October.
2:20.5	There was quite a vibe at the time, wasn't it?
2:22.8	Why were so many people out there together?
2:26.2	So that was what we like to call our little Sobo bubble, I guess.
2:30.1	And we just happened upon this like retreat in the woods where everyone was learning about
2:35.1	through hiking and we had no idea that was going on. We just sort of showed up and there was like
2:40.2	this giant hiking convention type thing going on. Yeah. So what was it like there? How many of you
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