A Slosh in the Bucket

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Eric Johnson lives in Sturgis, South Dakota with his wife and three young daughters. He works as a high school English teacher. He's responsible--well, most of the time. Half way into his thirties, Eric emptied his retirement account to buy a raft, despite the fact that he lives in a state without any navigable whitewater. Just over a year later, he found something too good to be true: a group of experienced guides advertising an open spot on a pre-season trip down Idaho's Main Salmon. Today, we bring you the story of what happens when you ignore the red flags that pop up when something is actually too good to be true and of what it feels like to bob around in the bucket of someone else's bucket list.

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0:00.0	Of course, like every other teenage kid, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.
0:06.9	When I was 16 years old, I took off and drove across the country to Wyoming, went into
0:12.0	the Wind River Range and discovered mountains.
0:15.6	In 1973, Yvonne Chinard founded Patagonia.
0:18.8	I never wanted to be a businessman.
0:23.4	All I wanted to do was do my craft and climb mountains.
0:29.9	So then I had to figure out a way to where I was going to be a businessman, but I was
0:36.4	going to do it completely on my own terms.
0:40.0	Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, inspire and implement solutions to the
0:46.2	environmental crisis.
0:48.3	Join us at Patagonia.com.
0:56.6	We're listening to the dirt bag diaries, a production of duct tape and beer, with additional
1:01.2	support from REI, fireside provisions and co-aracks.
1:13.6	So it seems to me that you feel it's important to throw yourself in situations that there
1:17.8	are situations that are potentially over your head.
1:20.1	Yeah, I do, because when you're young, that's like second nature sort of, because you
1:25.0	don't really, you don't exercise good judgment and you don't always have good judgment.
1:29.5	And so just by virtue of being young and dumb, you do.
1:34.6	But as you get older, you develop these amazing powers of judgment.
1:40.8	And some of it's like when you become a parent, like you imagine all these horrible things
1:45.1	that could happen to your children.
1:46.4	And so you begin to see life as one unending, impending disaster that needs to be avoided.
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