#88 | CRUSHING the FKT for the White Mountains Direttissima

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Will Peterson thru hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2019, and after cancelling a 2020 PCT thru hike he decided to go after the White Mountains Direttissima FKT. Despite no previous experience setting FKTs, Will crushed the route and ended up setting the new unsupported FKT at 5 days, 13 hours and 5 minutes. Super awesome! Article about Will's White Mountains Direttissima FKT: https://thetrek.co/my-trip-report-from-setting-the-white-mountains-direttissima-record/ Check out this episode's sponsor, Sawyer Products: https://sawyer.com/ Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtalesFeel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes, and subscribe if you like the show! My personal Instagram is @kylehateshiking, so feel free to follow me on there as well. Subscribe on iTunes, and listen on Google Play and Stitcher

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? You are listening to Trail Tales episode number 88. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a through hiker. I'm a peakbacker. I am a huge hiking nerd. And every single week on this podcast. I chat with other hiking nerds
0:21.9	about their experiences on the trail. I'm doing something right now with this introduction
0:26.8	that I don't normally do. I am recording it right after I finished recording the episode.
0:32.4	I usually recorded a few days later, but I literally just finished talking to this week's guest, a man named
0:39.6	Will Peterson who currently holds the unsupported FKT for the White Mountains diaratissima,
0:47.6	which in case you don't know, I actually forgot to ask him to explain this in the episode.
0:51.6	It's been covered on other episodes too, but in case you don't know,
1:00.1	the diartissimo is basically when you hike all 48 of the 4,000 footers in the White Mountains in one shot. So you essentially through hike the 4,000 footers and the whites. It's a incredible feat.
1:06.7	It's incredible to do a diartismaisma period no matter the time it takes you.
1:11.5	The fact that he did it so fast is just absolutely insane.
1:15.7	It blows my mind.
1:16.4	We talk all about that.
1:17.8	We also talk about his through hike of the Appalachian Trail.
1:21.7	He threw hike the Appalachian Trail in 2019.
1:24.7	He absolutely crushed it too.
1:26.0	I found out in this episode that he did the Appalachian Trail
1:29.0	in less than four months, which is really, really impressive. Just an all-around badass hiker.
1:34.7	And we also talk about our moms quite a bit at the beginning because both of our moms went to
1:39.4	high school together and grew up together, it turns out. So that's pretty funny. Anyways,
1:43.9	Will Peterson,
1:44.9	complete badass hiker. It was a great time talking. And Will, when you hear this, dude,
1:49.4	let's do it again soon. Before we get into the conversation here, I need to say a few things. First
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