Ep. 181: Thru-Hiking with Man's Best Friend - Whitney "Allgood" LaRuffa
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2016
⏱️ 69 minutes
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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 | car luck was really awesome he um he would run up to a blowdown and turn and look at me and then he'd like find a way over the blowdown going the other side and turn around and look at me and if i didn't start going over the blowdown he would come back over the blowdown run behind me nudge my knee and then go back over the blowdown and wait for me so he did this for miles and miles and then when we got in areas where there weren't blowdowns and we were hiking, |
| 0:21.6 | I mean, I was moving pretty slow. |
| 0:23.0 | He would come up behind me and nudged So we did this for miles and miles. And then when we got in areas where there weren't blowdowns and we were hiking, I mean, I was moving pretty slow. |
| 0:23.0 | He would come up behind me and nudge the back of my knee with his head gently to kind of keep me going. |
| 0:51.2 | Yeah. This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180 tack. |
| 0:53.0 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:00.9 | Episode 181, Whitney LaRoufa talks about through hiking with man's best friend. This episode of the Adventure Sports podcast is sponsored by Biotropic Labs.com, custom formulators in sports performance supplements for active people like you. Designed for everyone from weekend warriors and outdoor enthusiasts to high-level athletes, if your body moves, you need biotropic. |
| 1:35.2 | Hi, welcome back to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:37.5 | This is your host, Travis. |
| 1:39.1 | With me today is Whitney LaRoufa, also known as Allgood. |
| 1:43.0 | And because All Good is a trail name, you probably |
| 1:45.3 | already figured out that Whitney is a through hiker. Whitney has a pretty long list of |
| 1:51.1 | accomplishments from looking at here. Back when he was 18 in 1996, he did his first through hike |
| 1:57.5 | of the Appalachian Trail. After that, he apparently kind of latched on to a love or discovered a love for it because he |
| 2:04.5 | went on to be a ridge runner for the Appalachian Trail. |
| 2:07.1 | He sectioned hiked the Allegheny Trail. |
| 2:09.0 | He summited Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, and Mount Hood, all in the Cascades. |
| 2:13.8 | He also threw hiked the John Muir Trail, the Wonderland Trail, and he's done a Timberline Trail through hike. |
| 2:21.5 | Tahoe Rim Trail, and he's currently kind of working on section hiking the PCT. |
| 2:27.0 | But where we caught up with them is in the middle of the Continental Divide Trail. |
| 2:31.3 | So Whitney, we found in Pine, Colorado, take a little bit of break and resupplying before he keeps |
| 2:37.6 | en route. |
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