The Shorts--Hooch

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"It's never encouraging to be awoken in a tent by headlights. I wanted to play possum--roll over, and pretend to sleep until they left," writes David Hanson. "But this was exactly why I was here, a few hundred miles into a 500-mile canoe float down Georgia's Chattahoochee. I came here to see the river, but I really came here to see its people. And here they were." Today, we bring you David's story of discovering a culture at once foreign and strangely familiar--and all within a day's drive of the place where he grew up. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN David recently returned to the Chattahoochee to create a documentary, Who Owns Water, that chronicles a tri-state water war that threatens the river and the communities that depend on it.

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0:00.0	We move outside our comfort zone and see new experiences to grow.
0:06.1	We find adventure in the epic and the everyday.
0:09.1	We travel to broaden our horizons and engage with nature.
0:13.7	We are most at home in remote landscapes and far away places, but never far from our
0:18.7	community of passionate dreamers and wanderers.
0:22.3	We are Chaconians.
0:24.4	Join the ChacoSphere at ChacoS.com.
0:28.9	We are where your ChacoS go.
0:36.1	This is the Shorts.
0:37.1	In your listening to the Jert Bag Diaries, a duct tape and beer production, with additional
0:42.9	support from New Belgium Brewing, Kuat Rax and Patagonia.
0:48.8	It's never encouraging to be a woken in a tent by headlights.
1:01.1	I didn't have a good feeling about the boat ramp from the get-go, but another violent
1:04.9	thunderstorm was set to roll through that night and the area had a picnic pavilion
1:08.9	where I could stay dry.
1:11.5	I looked at my phone, 1.15 am.
1:14.6	Nothing good ever happens past midnight.
1:17.0	My dad used to say that, a classic explanation for a midnight curfew.
1:20.8	It's especially true at a riverside parking lot in Georgia, illuminated by the orange halos
1:26.3	of street lamps.
1:27.6	I reached from my rusty machete, the only sort of intimidating thing I brought with me.
1:34.3	The car rolled to a stop 30 yards away, the engine cut, but the headlights stayed on.
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