Episode #408 - Olive McGloin and Darrell Johnson (Raindance and The Chimp)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Olive McGloin and Darrell Johnson don't seem content with straightforward thru-hikes, they tend to go for the YOYO. That is: they turn around and head back the way they've come to complete double thrus in a season. Olive has YOYO'd the Triple Crown, with Darrell almost complete in that endeavor.
Their remarkable story has, I'm afraid, been beset by some technical difficulties on my part, but their story is so fascinating that I wanted to tell it.
You can follow along with their adventures through Instagram at Instagram (@oudarrell)
Mark Carpenter returns to the show with his reflections on his 2023 thru-hike after the benefit of a couple of months back home.
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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, |
| 0:23.8 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm your host Steve Adams also knows Mighty Blue. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm going to start this week with an apology. |
| 0:44.5 | This is not the show I was hoping to put out. |
| 0:47.1 | The sound is inconsistent and you may have to adjust your volume from time to time, so really I'm sorry about that. |
| 0:53.2 | Also, both recordings were marred by |
| 0:55.2 | technical difficulties, the like of which I've rarely had to encounter. So, for example, |
| 1:00.2 | our main guest interview starts after about a couple of minutes of our conversation. I have |
| 1:05.7 | no idea why. Then in the second interview, my guest appears to just disappear. I mean, he didn't. He carried on talking, but he didn't carry on recording him. I don't know what happened there. I've tried to manipulate stuff, but I'm afraid it isn't as good as I'd like. And to this, the fact that my partner, Dana, had to be admitted to hospital last night. I've had to put the show together between a couple of trips to the hospital and back, which is about 10 miles away. Anyway, it's been a day. Let me tell |
| 1:32.4 | you. So forgive me. Today we have a couple on the show who have hiked around 30,000 miles together. |
| 1:38.9 | Olive McLean and Darrell Johnson have kind of specialised in yo-yo through hikes with |
| 1:44.1 | olive having yo-yo through hikes with Olive having |
| 1:45.0 | yo-yoed the triple crown, while Darrell had to leave one of those attempts through injury. |
| 1:49.7 | The two of them will be on shortly. |
| 1:51.7 | Then we catch up with the first person to finish in the Mighty Blue Class of 2023 as a through |
| 1:56.4 | hiker, as Mark Carpenter reflects upon his adventure with the benefit of a couple of months at home. |
| 2:02.0 | As you know, there's going to be no reading until I return from the UK in June. |
| 2:05.5 | So we'll crack on and introduce you all to Olive and Darrell. |
| 2:08.9 | As I say, the recording of the first couple of minutes seemed to go awry. |
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