Ep. 641: Thru-Hiking With Man's Best Friend - Revisited - Whitney "Allgood" LaRuffa
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
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 | Carlock was really awesome. He would run up to a blowdown and turn and look at me. And if I didn't start going over the blowdown, he would come up behind me and nudge the back of my knee with his head gently to kind of keep me going. |
| 0:18.4 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:24.0 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:28.3 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Hey folks. |
| 0:43.9 | I hope you're having a good one. |
| 0:45.6 | I know it's a crazy week in the world right now. |
| 0:48.0 | And I just want to take this chance to say, |
| 0:50.7 | I hope you're using your voice to make a difference. |
| 0:53.4 | Hope you're taking action. |
| 0:54.6 | I am a big proponent of taking action when you see something in the world that you don't like, |
| 1:00.3 | something that you think needs to change, and that's only going to happen through action. |
| 1:04.7 | So going to today's episode, this is a throwback Thursday episode. Travis is doing it this goes back to I think in the |
| 1:12.3 | one hundreds and it's through hiking with dogs and it's with Whitney all good LaRoufa and he is uh he did a |
| 1:20.8 | through hike of the Appalachian Trail took his dog and I know this is you know with so much going on |
| 1:25.5 | in the world I was like now show we post this but you know one thing we going on in the world I was like you know should we post |
| 1:27.5 | this but you know one thing we can agree on when when times are crazy is that our pets and to |
| 1:33.8 | me I'm partial to dogs you know if you're like cat person you know that's that's cool I love dogs |
| 1:39.7 | and uh you know it's like dogs make us happy. Dogs bring us together. |
| 1:44.7 | Dogs unite. |
| 1:46.4 | And, you know, I think a lot of people have dreams of doing adventures with dogs. |
| 1:50.8 | I tell you what, my dog's been aggravating the mess out of me lately. |
| 1:54.1 | And I took her backpacking a couple weeks ago. |
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