Listen to “Fear Squared” Dirtbag Diaries Podcast Episode

The Dirtbag Diaries / October 31, 2008 / Community, Culture

Pumpkin_logo In honor of Halloween, The Dirtbag Diaries ran a contest asking for your scariest stories. Filled with treats, and maybe one trick, the winning entries have been compiled in today’s episode. Show host Fitz Cahall sets the stage:

What scares dirtbags? Global warming? Nine to five? Johnny Law? The unequivocal answer – bears. After sifting through the entries for the “Night of the Living Dirtbag,” it became clear – bears scare the daylights out of you all.

To celebrate Halloween, we bring you two tales of terror. Contest winner Chris Peters explains why it pays to listen to the safety talk and a very special guest remembers a family vacation to the Alaskan wilderness gone wrong. Fear is a funny thing. Whether the threat is real or imagined, the emotion of fear – heart-pumping terror – is just as powerful.

Listen to "Fear Squared"
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Fitz is always looking for great stories to feature on the show. If you’re a climber, skier, surfer, activist or anybody who can’t get enough of being outside, consider sharing your story at www.dirtbagdiaries.com.

Happy Halloween everybody.

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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.