#92 | A 2020 Appalachian Trail thru hiker answers TOUGH questions about Covid with Rune Ravn

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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It's no secret that thru hiking in 2020 is a very controversial topic. I usually try to stay out of controversial issues, but due to a number of listeners who reached out to me (and my own curiosity) I finally cracked... I present to you, and interview with Rune Ravn, a 2020 Appalachian Trail thru hiker. I ask Rune to tell his story, and ask him a number of tough questions about covid and the ethics of hiking during the pandemic. I believe it's very important to hear all sides of the story, so I hope you will listen with an open mind. Check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/JustAboveU Huge thanks to CS Instant Coffee for sponsoring this episode! Go check them out through my affiliate link: https://cs-instant-coffee.peachs.co/a/kyle-ogrady/ 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 going on everybody. Welcome to episode number 92 of Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I am a
0:18.8	through hiker. I am a peak bagger. I am a huge hiking nerd.
0:21.8	Every single week on this podcast, you know what I do. I chat with other through hikers and other
0:27.3	peekbangers and other hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail. This week's guest is a man
0:33.4	named Rune Raven. He is from the great nation of Denmark, and Rune hiked the Appalachian Trail
0:41.7	in 2020. Very controversial, I know. And that's pretty much what we talk about in this episode.
0:50.1	I give a preamble, I guess, to our conversation when the actual recording starts here.
0:58.2	So I'm not going to go into it too much right now.
1:00.2	I'll just say, yeah, it's a bit controversial.
1:02.1	I tried to ask him some tough questions.
1:04.0	And I also tried to let him tell his side of the story because I think the 2020 through hikers were very villainized this year, if that's even a word.
1:12.9	And I don't know, I feel like, I feel like even, no matter what side you're on, you can tell
1:17.7	I'm stumbling over my words here, no matter what side you're on them, when it comes to this
1:21.7	very delicate issue, I think you should still at least be willing to listen to the other
1:26.4	side.
1:27.2	And I'll leave it there.
1:28.4	So thank you, Rune, for coming on.
1:30.1	Thank you for answering my tough questions.
1:32.5	I really appreciate it, and I hope people can get a lot out of this.
1:35.4	We're going to do another episode eventually as well because he's awesome,
1:38.3	and we're really good friends.
1:39.5	So yeah, thank you so much, Rune.
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