Venture Out

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

“I was working this corporate job, and, every day, I looked out the window and thought, ‘Man, those mountains are so beautiful, I wish I was out there’,” remembers Perry Cohen. Growing up, Perry was an outdoorsy kid--hiking and cross-country skiing in rural New Hampshire. He was thrilled when, as a teenager, he got to sign up for an Outward Bound course. But the experience left him disappointed. For the first time, he didn’t click with the group. Perry reconnected strongly with the outdoors in his late thirties, as he transitioned from female to male. Being outside helped Perry have an appreciation for a body that he had felt alienated from. Looking out that window, he realized that he wanted to help other transgender folks get outside. “I thought there must be some queer outdoor organization leading trips that I could go work for, but I didn’t find one. So, I got despondent for about twenty-four hours, and then I thought to myself, ‘I’ve led a corporate HR department, I understand how to run a business, maybe I should just start one’. And so I did.”

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0:00.0	If the first 50 years were an experiment, to prove that a business could be
0:05.4	responsible and successful, turns out it's not just possible. It's profitable. So
0:12.5	what's next? What's next is simple. It's human power and it's finding the joy
0:17.8	in doing difficult things. What's next is turning capitalism on its head and
0:23.4	putting all our money where our mouth is. What's next is unstoppable. For nearly
0:31.4	50 years Patagonia has given a damn about people and the environment. Find
0:35.8	more at Patagonia.com slash stories.
0:42.8	You're listening to the dirt factories, a production of duct tape then beer, with
0:47.4	additional support from Kuwait because you love your bike. A.G.1, foundational
0:52.6	nutrition that supports whole body health and yeti products built for the
0:57.6	wild.
1:06.2	We come up to this beautiful shelter after a long day and we're really excited
1:11.2	to set our sleeping bags up in the shelter and make dinner and we walk in and
1:15.9	there is an enormous fire going in the fire pit. Like there was actually
1:20.4	tree trunks on fire in the pit but then the trunk extended probably good 20
1:25.4	feet out and so immediately we're like this is not necessarily safe and we go
1:31.0	in. We see one backpack there but no person and so we set up our stuff and
1:35.4	then this big white bearded dude comes in who looks like a pretty typical
1:41.0	backpacker and something's off about him. This is Perry Cohen. Perry and his
1:47.4	group were hiking the long trail the fame 275 mile trail that runs north to
1:51.8	south across Vermont. He starts looking at us funny and it's that look that if
1:57.4	you've ever been a marginalized person you'll recognize it immediately because
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