Listen to “Anatomy of an Accident” Dirtbag Diaries Podcast Episode

The Dirtbag Diaries / June 5, 2007 / Community, Culture

Episode6

Gather ’round the campfire one and all; embrace a loved one or grab a cold one; smoke ’em if you got ’em and leave your troubles behind. It’s time for another episode of The Dirtbag Diaries with Fitz Cahall:

In May of 2007, I made a mistake that should have cost me my life when I slipped high on a Central Oregon volcano. I fell between 250-300 feet, over a cliff, through rock bands before grabbing a rock out cropping and stopping my fall. I’m still not sure how I stopped myself. Amazingly, I walked away with a sprained thumb. This week the Dirtbag Diaries presents the Anatomy of an Accident. What do you take away from a near-death experience? Is there meaning in it? If so, what does it say about our relationships with these mountains, these rivers and these oceans.

Episode Six – Anatomy of an Accident (click to listen; right-click to download)

Music from Episode Six:
Birdy Nam Nam — “Engineer Fear” from the album Birdy Nam Nam
Elliot Smith — “Needle in the Hay” from the album Elliot Smith

Additional music provided by Patagonia’s very own Sus Corez. Check out more music from Sus at her myspace page.

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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.