Ep. 1052: Thru-Hiking With a Dog - Revisited - Whitney "Allgood" LaRuffa
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Hiking: Whitney LaRuffa on Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail with Rescue Dog Erwin, 13 Years of Shared Adventures, and Tips for Hiking America's Great Trails with Dogs from the CDT.
Originally published July 7th, 2016
While thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1996, Whitney LaRuffa found his new hiking companion, a wandering dog which he named Erwin after the town in Tennessee where they met. Erwin continued the AT hike the rest of the way through to Maine and went on to accompany Allgood for 13 years on many more hikes. Whitney joins Travis from his Continental Divide Trail thru-hike on today's show to talk about hiking with dogs and the adventures of hiking America's greatest trails.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, today's throwback Thursday episode is going to go back to the early days of the podcast, 2016. |
| 0:13.2 | This is when Travis was hosting the show with Whitney, All Good, LaRoufa, talking about coming across a dog while through hiking the Appalachian Trail back in 1996. |
| 0:26.5 | And that dog, Irwin continued to hike with Whitney for 13 years. |
| 0:30.9 | And this might sound a little bit similar to the recent episode Finding Gobe. |
| 0:35.8 | That was last week, episode 149 with Dionne Leonard. That one was |
| 0:40.8 | similar. Came across a dog out on a run in Mongolia, an ultra run, and yeah, became best |
| 0:48.6 | friends. And that was an unbelievable story, amazing book. Probably going to be a film about it |
| 0:53.5 | someday. So this is similar, |
| 0:55.1 | a little different, but I remember this being a great episode. So I hope you enjoy. And we'll be |
| 0:59.4 | coming at you with a brand new episode on Monday. |
| 1:14.5 | Hi, welcome back to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:15.7 | This is your host, Travis. |
| 1:19.8 | With me today is Whitney LaRoufa, also known as Allgood. |
| 1:24.7 | And because All Good is a trail name, you probably already figured out that Whitney is a throughhiker. |
| 1:30.0 | Whitney has a pretty long list of accomplishments from looking at here. |
| 1:36.0 | Back when he was 18 in 1996, he did his first through hike of the Appalachian Trail. |
| 1:44.1 | After that, he apparently kind of latched on to a love or discovered a love for it because he went on to be a ridge runner for the appalachian trail he |
| 1:44.5 | sectioned hiked the alleghany trail he summited mount st helens mount adams and mount hood all in the |
| 1:49.9 | cascades he also threw hiked the john murr trail the wonderland trail and he's done a timbrein trail |
| 1:56.9 | through hike uh tahoe rim trail and he's currently kind of working on section hiking |
| 2:03.3 | the PCT, but where we caught up with them is in the middle of the Continental Divide Trail. |
| 2:08.6 | So Whitney, we found in Pine, Colorado, take a little bit of a break and resupplying before he |
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