Good Good Bad: White Mountain Direttissima

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Five days, 231.82 miles, 85,967 vertical feet, nearly 94 hours of moving time - this is the White Mountain Direttissima as experienced by ultra-athlete Andrew Drummond. A rugged DIY run that connects all 48 of the White Mountains’ 4,000ft peaks in New Hampshire, the Direttissima has developed a lore of its own. Andrew shares his multi-year journey through the spectrum of microclimates, peaks, valleys, and stages of exhaustion. Support comes from Kuat Racks Oboz Washington Discover Pass: Get your Pass at discoverpass.wa.gov Diaries+ Members-- Their support is powering the Diaries- thank you! You can join today. Our book, States of Adventure, 30 stories adapted from The Diaries, is out in the wild. See if it's available on your local shelves or order it here: geni.us/StatesofAdventure

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0:00.0	For 18 years, the Diaries has been in the business of getting you out there, doing what you love, with the people you love,
0:07.7	pushing you to maybe see a different way or a different path through life and realizing that others have done this before.
0:15.7	We know when we tell stories about people doing hard things, chasing dreams, working for their communities,
0:22.4	and being curious, it begets more of that.
0:25.3	It's infectious.
0:26.7	Good things can happen.
0:28.9	Right now, we're doing that with the show.
0:31.0	We need you to keep this project going.
0:33.6	That's the reality of the modern internet.
0:36.4	To keep inspiration alive and the thoughtful stories and the laughter going,
0:41.4	some of you have come forward and stepped up and joined the Diaries Plus,
0:44.7	but we need more of you.
0:45.9	We need a bigger community saying this kind of project matters in this world.
0:52.0	Diaries Plus is the tool that we make that happen with. So please consider
0:57.0	becoming a member of Diaries Plus. There's a link in the show notes. You become a part of something.
1:03.2	You become part of the inspiration, part of the creativity and the community. And we thank you for
1:08.3	that. And I think we can build the show into the powerful thing
1:13.3	it's been and the powerful thing it's going to become together. The link is in the show notes.
1:19.3	We're on our website, dirtbagdarees.com. Here's to more type 2 fun. Here's to being part something
1:25.3	positive. The trails were just built different here.
1:28.4	They're straight up and straight down.
1:30.9	There aren't many switchbacks.
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