Fitz Cahall

I found the valley, I envisioned the trip, I got the funding, made it happen, stood at the base, picked the line, climbed it, sent, we were at the top and it wasn’t feeling the way I wanted it to feel,” says Chris Kalman. Chris, Austin Siadak and Miranda Oakley got to go on what should have been a climber’s dream trip–fully funded first ascents of granite big walls in the Coast Range of British Columbia, helicopter transport in and out, minimal struggles and good team dynamics. But, by the end, Chris realized that this dream trip left him feeling a little hollow and he needed to redefine how he pursues meaningful adventures. Rewire Your Cables by Little Glass Men    • Freaks by Bradley Carter    •

“To work in tourism is to witness the human comedy,” says Joe Aultman-Moore. Working as a seasonal guide at a remote camp in rural Alaska with ten other men, Joe also discovered that nowhere would it be harder to find a girlfriend. Give a listen to Joe’s first Short, The Swallow and the Anchor. Music: Graze by Evan Schaeffer     •     Break by Little Glass Men     •     Frontier by Canyon Kids     •     Anxiety by Kai Engel     •     Little Black Balloon by Fog Lake Tracks provided by Free Music Archive and with permission from the artists.

Drew Hamilton makes a living by taking tourists out into the remote Alaskan wilderness to hang out with brown bears. No fences, no guns–just Drew, and the eight hundred pound, six and a half foot tall, Ursus arctos horribilis of southern Alaska. For the fifth installment of our Endangered Spaces series, our producer Jen Altschul takes us to the mainland of southern Alaska to to better understand the threats to this landscape and community, to better understand the economic drivers that keep the threat of the Pebble Mine alive and to meet the extraordinary people doing everything in their power to protect this special place. To stay up to date on the latest from Pebble mine, visit SaveBristolBay.org and PebbleWatch.com To stay up to date on Pebble particularly as it relates to McNeil River and the bears, visit:

Instead of buying a sports car, Fitz took a sabbatical. Today, he presents a story about mountain biking the Oregon Timber Trail, a 670-mile-long, mostly single track trail across the state’s deserts and forests. If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain and Nis Kotto    • The Quest Tracks provided by Free Music Archive and with permission from the artists.