The Journey Within

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

"I'm thirty-year-old, and a complete and utter failure," writes Chris Kalman. "My mom is a PhD astrophysicist, my dad, a PhD mathematician, and my sister has a Master's in epidemiology. They all have jobs, children, houses. I, on the other hand, am a dirtbag." Earlier this fall, Chris moved away from his favorite climbing haunts toward something bigger and more intimidating than giant rock walls. As he helped care for an extended family member thousands of miles from the place he had called home, he had to figure out how to take a journey very different than an annual pilgrimage to climb in Patagonia: a journey within. You can find more of Chris Kalman's writing on his blog, Fringe's Folly, "for the purists, dirtbags and salty oldtimers who live climbing." CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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0:00.0	We move outside our comfort zone and seek new experiences to grow.
0:06.7	We find adventure in the epic and the everyday.
0:09.7	We travel to broaden our horizons and engage with nature.
0:14.3	We are most at home in remote landscapes and far away places, but never far from our
0:19.3	community of passionate dreamers and wanderers.
0:22.9	We are Chaconians.
0:25.0	Join the ChacoSphere at ChacoS.com.
0:29.5	Where were your ChacoS go?
0:36.7	This is the Shorts and you're listening to the Dirtback Diaries, a ductate and beer production,
0:43.7	with additional support from New Belgium Brewing, Kuat Rax and Patagonia.
0:58.2	I wake in sunlight blinking.
1:01.8	It's 10 o'clock.
1:03.3	Outside, a lawnmower rumbles up and down the yard.
1:07.4	Maybe that's what I should do, I think to myself.
1:10.6	I could mow lawns.
1:12.2	All I need to do is buy a mower.
1:13.6	I'll print out a bunch of flyers, advertise on Craigslist, start up an LLC.
1:18.2	I'll need a 401k.
1:20.2	I think.
1:21.8	What is that anyway?
1:24.0	My mind meanders across the rifts and valleys of my brain, yet I accomplish nothing.
1:29.3	By 1030, I've moved on from lawns to philanthropy, as I hatch a plan to write a Von Schronard,
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