Rebirth of Belief

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2013

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"We had the discussion around the campfire one night of trying to define 'what is wilderness'," John Stoneman remembers. "We determined that if you get hurt or you have a problem and there's really no way out, you're in the wilderness." Despite the fact that 29,000 people raft down the Colorado River every year, the Grand Canyon is still unquestionably that-- wilderness. But what happens if you do need to get out? When the one place you need to be is a thousand miles away and you are off the grid? In 2010, John put in at Lees Ferry and embarked upon the trip of a lifetime - but not in the way he imagined. Today, we bring you a story about a race against time and the lengths that perfect strangers will go to help others in need. Buckle up. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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0:00.0	I've been involved in the Patagonia field testing program for a little over 20 years right now.
0:08.0	For silent sports done in nature.
0:10.0	That's the feeling. That's the feeling that I fell in love with with climate.
0:14.0	Cos new and necessary harm.
0:16.0	The organic cotton and recycle polyester to recycling the clothing to measuring our carbon footprint.
0:22.0	Inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.
0:26.0	So give some love back to the server that doesn't happen.
0:29.0	So it's not getting any love.
0:31.0	See what drives us at Patagonia.com.
0:35.0	Welcome to the Drip Ag Diaries, a duct tape and beer production.
0:40.0	With additional support from Coat Racks and New Belgium Brewing.
0:45.0	Once you start, you're really committed. There's no easy way out of the canyon.
0:50.0	I've done a bunch of significant trips that are 5 days, 7 days, 10 days long.
0:55.0	I mean, I feel really privileged to have spent multiple trips in Alaska and remote places on other continents.
1:00.0	During those trips, you typically will just keep using normal time reference points.
1:05.0	Like Monday, Tuesday, or the 5th day, or 7th of a month.
1:09.0	But in the grand, that starts to faint away.
1:12.0	It's fair to say in my experience that the Grand Canyon is the most remote place in the lower 48.
1:17.0	When you're down there, you just go back to, I don't know, this most basic, meanderthal level.
1:23.0	Where the map really becomes like your calendar and its end.
1:26.0	Your day-to-day reality just becomes, who's going to make dinner tonight, where are we sleeping tonight, and where am I going to go to the bathroom?
1:34.0	In the first couple of miles, you pass the two bridges that you'll see for the entirety of the trip.
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