#64 | Pushing the Limits of What's Possible in New Hampshire's White Mountains with Arlette Laan

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Arlette Laan has done some incredible things in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and elsewhere. She is a triple crowner, and currently holds the FKT for the woman's unsupported White Mountain Direttissima. Not only that, but she also crushed the first ever WINTER Direttissima with her husband. In our conversation she tells the story of both of these incredible feats in the White Mountains, plus the story of how she met her husband while thru hiking! Arlette's Instagram: @arlette_laan Arlette's website: http://arlettelaan.com/ Check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kylehateshiking While you're at it, Check out the show's website at trailtalespod.com Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Facebook, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] If you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtales.

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0:00.0	What's going on, everybody? Welcome to Trail Tales episode number 64. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I am your host. I am a through hiker. I am a peak bagger. I am a huge hiking nerd and every single week on this podcast I chat with another through hiker, another peakbagger or another hiking nerd like myself. And this week's guest, she is definitely a through hiker. She's definitely a peakbagger and she is definitely a peak bagger, and she is definitely a hiking nerd.
0:40.1	Her name is Arlette Lon.
0:41.8	She is an absolute legend in the White Mountains.
0:44.9	If you hike in the whites a lot, you've probably already heard of her, and if you haven't,
0:49.0	wait till you hear about some of the stuff she's done.
0:51.1	It's just insane.
0:53.2	It's awesome, and I'm very thankful that I got to talk to her.
0:55.9	So Arlette, when you hear this, thank you so, so much. And I would love to do another episode soon.
1:01.9	Real quick, before we get into the conversation, I just got to say a couple things. First of all,
1:07.2	Instagram, at Trail TalesPod, go follow the show on Instagram. In my personal Instagram,
1:11.8	I always forget to plug this, but at Kyle Hitzhiking, the same name as my YouTube channel,
1:17.3	which you should also go check out, link to that in the show notes. Trailtails on Facebook,
1:22.7	go check that out. And Trailtailspod.com, if this is your first time listening and you want to go listen to more,
1:29.4	go to TrailTalespod.com. I always forget to plug the website as well. Now, if you want to help
1:35.4	support the show, if you listen every single week, there's a couple ways you can do that. First of all,
1:39.9	five-star iTunes reviews. A lot of you guys know I love the five-star iTunes reviews and I read them out loud during
1:46.4	episode intros, which is what I'm going to do right now.
1:49.2	Honestly, it's been so long now, I can't even remember the one I left off on.
1:52.6	So I might have read this one already, but it's really short, so I'm just going to do it again,
1:55.5	just to be sure.
1:56.7	This one says, Love This podcast, can relate to everyone. Well, whoever wrote that, you must have done a lot of hiking if you can relate to every single episode.
2:04.2	But that's awesome.
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