Episode #516 - Galloway Johnson (Clementine)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We meet a young New Hampshire guy today who had never hiked in New Hampshire prior to his Appalachian Trail thru-hike this year. Galloway Johnson had dreamed about the AT for five years and made it a reality this year.

He didn't enjoy those early days, finding it tougher than he had imagined and carrying on almost to spite the trail!!

But he made it to the end and came on the show to share his story, telling me that despite vowing never to hike again, he is considering the PCT next year.

We have another report on my own progress in my accountability blog. I'm afraid it isn't as positive as I had hoped, though I am resolved to keep going and keep preparing for my upcoming third AT thru-hike.

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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,
0:24.1	joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.1	Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast.
0:35.4	This is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trial, the Ultimate Medlife Crisis,
0:39.0	and we are at episode number 516. You may recall that when I chose hikers to represent the Mighty Blue
0:46.2	class of 2025, I'd already chosen Beth as the woman I wanted to follow, so I chatted with a bunch
0:51.8	of guys before deciding that Dave would be my guy.
0:54.9	However, I met so many really good potential guests that I invited them all to come back to me
0:59.6	when they were done, finished or not finished, and I'd get their story out there.
1:03.5	Well, today we have one of those guys. Galloway Johnson is a young man who had been dreaming
1:08.3	of through hiking the AT for about five years, I think, and at the age of 27, it was his year. As you may have guessed, Galloway made it, and we spoke a couple of weeks back as he told me his story. Galloway will be on in a moment. After Galloway, my accountability blog will reveal a bit of a disappointing week. I'm always a tad harder myself, so perhaps I'm overreacting to it, but I feel I should have
1:30.8	done better.
1:31.7	Anyway, it's about my accountability to you, my friends, so maybe you should be the judge.
1:36.5	But we'll get into that after we hear from Galloway Johnson or Clementine.
1:44.1	Our guest today is one other guys who originally applied to be part of the Mighty Blue
1:49.3	Class II 25.
1:50.5	And I told everybody that I'd love to have them on the show once they return home from
1:55.3	the trail.
1:56.5	And Galloway Johnson did do that.
1:59.0	So Galloway, how's it going?
2:01.0	It's gone, you know, got done with the trail.
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