If You Build It
If You Build It
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127767267″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]Powerful ideas often demand that we leave the comfort of a safety net. We quit a nine to five. We take out a second mortgage on our house. Along the way, we can expect to be called a crazy one day and brilliant the next. In the late 1990’s, Jeff Pensiero had an idea–to build a backcountry ski lodge that catered to snowboarders. It was outlandish–targeting a market that barely existed—and yet perfect. But, like any dream, it took years of sweat, worry, right people-right time connections, and damn good perseverance to make it all look seamless. From the shores of Lake Tahoe to the world renowned slopes of Baldface Lodge, we bring you one snowboarder’s journey to create his dream.
Music: The Watchmaker by David Beard • What Would Wolves Do? by Les Savy Fav • Gone Home by Battery Life • Letters Home by emFRIK • Nathaniel by O’Death • Angels Make Contact by Matt Mays • This Modern Love by Bloc Party
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The Shorts — Fighting with Our Feet
Fighting with Our Feet
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124610990″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]Significant life tumult propelled Nick Triolo to leave his home and move to Todos Santos, Baja earlier this year. As an ultra-runner, he instinctively explored the area on foot. As he settled into the town and its community, he became aware of a growing resistance to proposed mining in the area. And he knew he wanted to help. But how? It might have been easy for Nick to shrug off the feeling. Instead he thought big–he would organize a protest run across the 70-mile wide stretch of the Baja Peninsula–through the heart of where the mining was proposed. And he would run it in a day. Now, could he get anyone to join him?
See Nick’s photos from the run here and here. This story was adapted from Nick’s post on The Jasmine Dialogues
Special thanks to Montana Public Radio KUFM in Missoula and Sherie Newman for volunteering time to help with the recording.
Music: New Mexico by The Ukulele Hipster Kings • Baja Taxi by Brain Buckit • Walk the Whole Earth by Publish the Quest
Jacob Bain and Publish the Quest have been longtime friends of ours at the Diaries. Jacob travels and music were highlighted in A Brief Moment in a Beautiful Place, and Publish the Quest’s journey to Africa to collaborate with African musicians in Sodade. For the past few years, PTQ has been lucky enough to perform at festivals in Zimbabwe, Mail, Senegal and the Cape Verde Islands. PTQ has carried recording equipment on their travels, and found amazing opportunities to connect with folks by sitting down and recording songs. They are working on a documentary, The Truth About 99 Cents, about what we get when we buy a song for 99 cents, and what we give.
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Tales of Terror Vol. 4
Tales of Terror Vol. 4
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117889778″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]Is there something out there? It’s a question that lurks in the back of my mind. Probably in yours too. It’s one of the very reasons why I love the outdoors: the unpredictability. Over the years, I’ve collected experiences. Moments, like bits of data, that, collectively guide my intuition. And yet. We’ve all had that moment where hairs stand up on the back of our neck. Was it heightened perception? Or did the wind just blow in just the right way? And if you convince yourself it was the wind, does some lump of doubt sit in your stomach? Because sometimes you just won’t believe something is out there. Until it’s right there.
Music: Restless Spirits (Underscore and Beat A) by David Beard • The Forest by Sam Haynes • Gradations by A Single Voice • Bombs and Bruises by Black Pistol Fire • Boogie Man Jam by Earl Clifton Radio
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The Shorts — By Slim Chance
By Slim Chance
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114888678″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]”It’s the unpredictable elements that throw our lives off course, for better or for worse,” writes Niki Yoblonski. We leave a trailhead with some idea of what we’re seeking, but on true adventures, what we walk away with is never what we expected. When Niki and her boyfriend, Jason, set out to climb Mt. Darwin one Labor Day weekend, they didn’t take home a summit photo, or a bag of shiny coins, but, by a series of slim chances, they took home a treasure perhaps more valuable than anything they could have expected.
Music: Snow Cow Exodus by The Walthall Tango • Shadows by woodrowgerber • City of Lakes by Matt Mays
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The Shorts — Cave Sweet Cave
Cave Sweet Cave
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112479568″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]Walking into someone’s apartment, house, van, tent or trailer for the first time can feel sort of like flipping open the first page of their journal. The places we choose to call home and the way we assemble them say a lot about who we are and where our priorities lie. But at some point, our environments can start to construct us as well. In the two months between the end of a semester of college and the beginning of a seasonal job, Ethan Newman loaded all of his belongings into his Saturn sedan “like a champion Tetris player,” and drove to Bishop, California. He was thrilled to discover an alternative to pitching a tent every night or getting sand blown in his face while he slept. Until he woke up one morning to realize that the habitat he had constructed had started to change him.
Music: Snow Cow Exodus by The Walthall Tango • Shadows by woodrowgerber • City of Lakes by Matt Mays
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