Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and I am back in

studio here in Salt Lake City. This is our first episode post-Western states, the last three

episodes, if you've been following along with Jim Walmsley, Scott Jurek, and Toffer Gaylord. We're all

recorded in Olympic Valley, California, but we saved them for our July feed.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed those.

I know the audio quality was tough at times.

We learned a lot from a technological standpoint for next year, but I hope the quality of the

conversations was unassailable.

Anyways, this one with Andrew, I am really stoked about.

If you're a longtime listener of the show, you'll recall we had Andrew on the pod way back in 2022, almost three years ago.

In that conversation, we covered a lot of good topics across the board on the New England trail running scene.

In this episode, we extend that for sure.

But the main focus is a new fastest known time that Andrew just set on the White Mountains,

Derartissimo, which alongside Vermont's Long Trail might be the most interesting multi-day route in the region.

We taught gear choices, sleep strategy, pacing, and general takeaways from the experience among much, much more.

Before we get started, though, a few things.

First, I will be headed back to the great state of Maine in two weeks to make another attempt

at the 100-mile wilderness section of the Appalachian Trail.

That is where everything started for me back in 2013, 2014.

A few of the final gear choices are still up in the air, but for shoes, I will be using the

zero one model from Norto, which I think is the perfect shoe to take across 100 miles of some

of the most rugged terrain in North America. And for the night section in possible inclement weather,

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