Trespassers

The Dirtbag Diaries

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Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"You have to imagine that you're on the frozen Arctic Ocean. You're six miles from shore, you can't really tell where the ocean stops and the white shore begins. All you see is white--and this thing where they're dumping crap into the ocean to make this island," says Dan Ritzman. "And there, stuck in the ice, is a sign that says 'No Trespassing'." It was 1999, the beginning of the climate movement. Oil companies had started to talk about green energy, but continued their dogged search for fossil fuel. At the time, Dan worked for Greenpeace, who was determined to expose that hypocrisy by any means necessary. Today, we bring you the story of a Danish ex-special forces trainer, some very cold weather, some crooked State Troopers, a group of activists and the sometimes thin line between standing up for our wild places and adventuring in them.

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0:00.0	Of course, like every other teenage kid, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.
0:06.9	When I was 16 years old, I took off and drove across the country to Wyoming, went into
0:12.0	the Wind River Range and discovered mountains.
0:15.6	In 1973, Yvonne Chinard founded Patagonia.
0:18.8	I never wanted to be a businessman.
0:23.5	All I wanted to do was do my craft and climb mountains.
0:29.9	So then I had to figure out a way to where I was going to be a businessman, but I was
0:36.4	going to do it completely on my own terms.
0:40.0	Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, inspire and implement solutions to the
0:46.2	environmental crisis.
0:48.4	Join us at Patagonia.com.
0:54.4	You're listening to The Dirt Backdaries, a production of duct tape and beer, with additional
0:59.1	support from REI, Fireside Provision and Kuat Racks.
1:03.5	Now these folks here today, very lively, chanting climate justice, shall know we won't go
1:09.0	and they have banners also saying, save the Arctic and other sentiments.
1:13.6	Now summer 2015, you probably caught this on your Facebook feed or all the news.
1:18.9	Protesters are not only in the Willamette River, they're actually hanging above the water
1:24.3	just below a bridge there.
1:27.0	There are 13 of them who are hanging off of the St. John's Bridge.
1:29.9	So this is a precarious position that they're in.
1:32.7	Of course, they have put themselves here in this position protesting, shall they push
1:37.7	through Alaska and now they're trying to push through Portland.
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