The Shorts--Commit Fully

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

"Our four seater plane touched down on a small gravel bar in the heart of the Brooks Range. We unloaded. The engine roared back to life, and the plane disappeared down valley into the blue-gray mountains. Then, the mosquitos came," writes Fitz Cahall. In May, Fitz received an email that contained a golden ticket--a float trip down the Kongakut River through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There was just one problem: the timeline collided with prior commitments to family and friends. How one email, one trip and one decision to say yes crystallized Fitz's commitment to responsibility and desire.

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0:00.0	This is the Shorts, and you're listening to the Jert Bag Diaries, a duct tape then beer production,
0:12.0	with additional support from New Belgium Brewing, Kuat Rax and Patagonia.
0:31.0	This summer an email came in just like any other email.
0:35.0	The subject line read, Connecting You Too.
0:38.0	I get a lot of these, which is rad, or, at the very least, it's a great distraction from organizing words all day.
0:45.0	So I opened it up and immediately thought, crap.
0:49.0	This is going to explode my life.
0:52.0	Early summer was busy.
0:54.0	Our good friend T.E. was getting married in Idaho on the 4th of July.
0:57.0	A ton of friends would be there, and we had enthusiastically sent in the RSVP and planned a short family road trip.
1:03.0	The week before that our family was coming to town for an extended visit.
1:07.0	We had some cool work projects in the midst of becoming realities.
1:11.0	Beck and I had gotten into a great routine, swapping evenings to mountain bike ride, climb or trail run,
1:16.0	and taking tep out into the cascades on the weekends.
1:20.0	Then the email.
1:23.0	It read, We are interested in having you join us on a float trip down the Konga Cut River from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean
1:31.0	to create photos and video in support of our campaign to permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling.
1:38.0	The trip dates are June 23 to July 3.
1:41.0	Are you available?
1:42.0	Sincerely, Dan, the Sierra Club.
1:46.0	Boom!
1:47.0	Chaos.
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