The Season

Hello Blogosphere! It trust the holiday season was kind to all and Santa brought toys to sew the seeds of adventure, art and a life well lived.

Regular Adventureskope readers will know all about The Dirtbag Diaries – for those not in the know, The Diaries is a superb outdoor flavored podcast that tells the tale of adventure. I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute an episode last year, which you can listen to by hitting this link.

Fitz Cahall, the mastermind behind The Dirtbag Diaries, has a new project in the works that look just awesome. He’s calling it, “The Season” and it is a 22-part television series that will be available for FREE on iTunes in the coming months. As you can see by the preview below, it looks like it’s going to be something well worth tuning in to watch – or downloading it as it were.

The Season Trailer from Fitz Cahall on Vimeo.

Here’s how Fitz describes the show – The Season. Five lives. A world of possibility.
From the creators of The Dirtbag Diaries and 49 Megawatts comes a new web television project following five athletes through the course of a single season in the Pacific Northwest. A veteran climber invents a new piece of gear. A pro snowboarder searches for a way to return to the roots of his sport. A boulderer returns from a series of injuries with new perspective. A family man goes to Whistler to test himself against mountain biking’s elite. A young sea kayaker with a troubled past sets out to reinvent his sport.

I’ll be tuning in – you should too!

Monthly round-up

This is a first for me, doing a monthly re-cap, but it’s been a super-busy month. It would seem that heaps of the projects that I’ve been working on over the past little bit have all seen the light of day in the last thirty days or so. So here are the highlights:

It’s been a month filled with adventure with an ultra-marathon in early May – with my good mate Christian I ran the Routeburn track twice in one day. You’ll notice that I’ve been pretty quiet about that trip on the blog after it was all said and done – the reason for that is that a film project is in the works – watch this space! Click HERE for more about this adventure.

My Dirtbag Diaries podcast went live this month. I got some great feedback on it and was really stoked with how it turned out. Click HERE to listen to it.

My website http://www.adventureskope.com/ was re-launched this month – with a fresh coat of paint and some new updates it’s ready to take on the world – if you haven’t seen the fresh look yet, head on over – click HERE to get there fast.

A story I wrote was published in SPOKE magazine and went to print. It’s an interesting yarn about friends in the outdoors and how the bond of friendship is often forged under the harshest of circumstances. Read more about it HERE.

One of the videos that I made while I was in Egypt has been completed and is now live on the Lonely Planet TV website – click HERE to check it out.

Of course the photo of the day project is going ahead full steam – it’s over a month now with at last count somewhere in the neighborhood of 37 individual photographs posted. It’s amazing how this project has opened my eyes to the possibility of art – everywhere.

As always, my heartfelt gratitude to you my loyal readers that continue to check out this blog – I really do appreciate it!

So what’s on tap for next month? Well, more photos, more stories about cool adventures, more videos and more published work – keep checking back and I’ll keep the fresh content coming!

Cheers!
Scott

The Dirtbag Diaries

About a week ago I dropped a big hint about a very cool podcast series called The Dirtbag Diaries. Those good guessers out there won’t be too surprised to hear that I have penned an episode of the popular series! It’s just gone ‘live’ and is available for free download at either the Dirtbag Diaries site or from iTunes.

It was a really interesting process helping to create this podcast. It all started with an idea I had for a story – a rather important part of my growth as a climber that not many of you know about. Actually I can with good confidence say that this is a story that none of you know – this was one that I held pretty close to my chest. The story starts nearly ten years ago and in many ways isn’t finished even today. It’s about climbing, relationships, the feeling of security and commitment. I’m really happy with how it turned out and I’d love for you to check it out.

As a bit of a bonus here is a photo to go along with the episode. The title of the story is The Great White Book named after a climbing route in Yosemite Valley of the same name - here is a photo of the climb. I can’t take credit for this shot – Mr. Ansel Adams took this one. The climb is the prominent corner crack on the lefthand dome.

Have a listen and have a think – as always I’d love to hear what you have to say about it.
Cheers,
Scott