Listen to “To Infinity” Dirtbag Diaries Podcast Episode

The Dirtbag Diaries / 23 Dec 2016 / Community, Culture

Chad Kellogg. September 22, 1971 to February 14, 2014. Seattle climbing community legend. Dear friend to many. And the toughest guy around.

“For Chad, not eating and shivering on ledges, that was like skiing powder for him. It was just that fun,” remembers Jens Holsten.

Today, we take a look at what gets left behind when someone like Chad leaves us, and what grows in the vacant space.

In part one, we hear from Jens, Chad’s climbing partner, good friend and mentee during the final years of his life.

In part two, we follow Ras Vaughan and Gavin Woody as they pick up the torch on a project Chad dreamed up, but never completed: the Rainier Infinity Loop. An idea so grand, it seemed almost inhuman.

This episode contains adult language. If that offends you, you’ll want to skip this one.

https://soundcloud.com/thedirtbagdiaries/to-infinity

Hear more of Chad Kellogg’s story in the 2009 Diaries episode, The Cowboy and the Maiden.

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The campfire tale—it’s ubiquitous in mountain culture. As long as we’ve climbed, skied, boated or traveled, we’ve been telling stories. In March of 2007, Fitz Cahall launched The Dirtbag Diaries, a grassroots podcast dedicated to the sometimes serious, often humorous stories from wild places. What began as a solitary experiment has evolved into a collaboration between writers, photographers, artists and listeners to produce the types of stories that rarely find homes in the glossy pages of magazines.