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The Dirtbag Diaries

Back To The Boundary Waters

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Erik Grams has been taking trips to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota for over 30 years. It's his favorite place in the world. But last year, a fatal accident on a fishing trip that Erik was leading changed his life. On this episode from our friends at Points North, we hear Erik's harrowing story and how he has wrestled with his feelings about a place he’s loved for decades. Support comes from Kuat Racks  Terns Use code DIRTBAG to save 25% off your first order Oboz Register for Trails for Trees by March 31st 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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The Diaries is supported by headlamps. That's right. Headlamps. Ever been stuck in the woods

0:05.9

a night without one? Me neither. But for real, the difference between a shiverbivvy

0:13.0

and a pleasant night hike through the woods is just a little bit of light. And every time

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someone joins the Diaries Plus, they give us like a little

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extra support to try these hard things, right? And that is incredible. It allows us to push harder

0:30.4

because the things we're doing, the kind of stories we are creating and reporting on, it's the same

0:35.9

thing as taking on a big climb and knowing that there's a

0:39.1

good chance you won't make it home for dinner, but you're going to go anyway. You're going to try

0:44.3

something difficult because you know you have that support. You know you have that little bit of

0:48.4

light. That's what it's done for us when people have joined the Diaries Plus. Every time someone

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joins and says,

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I support what you are doing.

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We believe a little bit more in ourselves.

1:00.0

We try just a little bit harder.

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So please consider joining this global community.

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We thank you. Link is in powers this project. We thank you.

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