Ridgeline / Liz Derstine (Powered by The Mountain View Auto Group)

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Dawson Wheeler interviews Liz Derstine about her short film Ridgeline and her achievements as an ultra athlete.

This week we sat down with Liz Derstine and talked about her new short film Ridgeline. The short film is about Liz's PCT thru hike is now available to watch at mountainhardwear.com/ridgeline.html (you can also find it on Mountain Hardwear's YouTube channel @MountainHardwear).To describe Liz in a few sentences is impossible. Her achievements are many. She is an elite ultra athlete who has set many FKT's; fastest known times. Liz is a professional pianist, composer, and trail athlete for Mountain Hardwear. She's set Fastest Known Times on the Appalachian Trail northbound, Vermont’s Long Trail, the Pinhoti Trail in Georgia and Alabama, Kungsleden in Sweden, the Swiss Via Alpina, and more. In 2025 she thru-hiked the 2,655 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, self-supported, in 69 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes–this made her the third fastest woman in history and eighth-fastest person in the self-supported style to complete the PCT. This series is Sponsored by Mtn View Auto group. Serving southeast Tn and North Ga for 45 years. Mtn View Auto group has been supporting the great outdoors for all 45 years. Thanks for listening! Find all our episodes at dayfirepodcast.com Sponsored…

People in this episode

Host: Dawson Wheeler

Guest: Liz Derstine

Topics covered

• ultra athletics
• Pacific Crest Trail
• short films
• outdoor adventure
• fitness
• trail running

Keywords

• Liz Derstine
• Ridgeline
• PCT
• ultra athlete
• Mountain Hardwear
• Fastest Known Times
• trail running
• outdoor adventure

Sponsors

Mtn View Auto group

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mountain Hardwear

Books & works: Ridgeline

Places: Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, Vermont’s Long Trail, Pinhoti Trail, Georgia, Alabama, Sweden, Swiss Via Alpina

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