Your browser does not support the audio element. Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, Fernanda Rodriguez had never heard of “climbing” until she stumbled across a group of boulderers in the forest. That day, she remembers feeling “like a flame was lit inside my heart.” At 15, despite the tide of economic and cultural challenge that [...]
Your browser does not support the audio element. When Carmen Kuntz thinks “adventure,” it doesn’t always mean a mega-trip many miles from home. Instead, she challenged herself and her friends to invent an adventure just out the backdoor. With skis, skins and paddles, they rediscover a familiar landscape in the Coastal Mountains of British Columbia. [...]
Your browser does not support the audio element. Bloody tracks on a dark road. Hooded figures juggling lights. Eerie handprints appearing. We hope you’re ready to get spooky with our annual Tales of Terror! We have three stories from the backcountry that will send chills down your spine. Turn down the lights and grab your [...]
Want More Of Your Favorite Podcast? Subscribe to Dirtbag Diaries+ A Deeper Connection To The Things We Love The Dirtbag Diaries is a beloved project because we’ve shaped it with you and the broader community of dirtbags. As creatives, we have always looked for ways to continue to push ourselves. For years, we wanted to create [...]
Your browser does not support the audio element. “Everything that we love is affected by politics for better or worse, and we can't afford to not be engaged with it,” says Canyon Woodward. Today we hear stories from two people who’ve leaned in and worked directly with elected leaders to have a say in the [...]
Your browser does not support the audio element. “I'm stubborn,” reflects Steve Baskis. “When my mind tells me not to do something because I'm afraid or nervous, I tend to tell myself to do it.” What happens when you lose something fundamental to how you function in the world in a single second? For ex-infantryman [...]
Your browser does not support the audio element. Today, we are sharing one of our favorite podcasts-- Scene on Radio. Over the course of twelve episodes, host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explore a theme both evergreen and immediately urgent: democracy in America. Fitz talks with John about the recent season and shares the [...]
Your browser does not support the audio element. “I do not remember the ‘first time’ we played hide-n-seek in the barn,” recalls producer Cordelia Zars, “it just always happened.” How do you stay positive when you’re hiding from a pandemic and wildfire smoke with no end in sight? For Cordelia, reflecting on her favorite childhood [...]
Your browser does not support the audio element. Bailey, Colorado is a rural town in the Rocky Mountains. “Bailey is boating hell. There is no water around us at all,” says high school teacher, Steve Hanford. Now imagine 13 high school students building a triple-hulled canoe from scratch and racing it on the ocean. Despite [...]
