Monthly Archives: November 2009

Friday Stoke

This photo comes from friend, reader, and honorary Dirtbag Diaries board member Josh Norris.  Josh snapped a photo of Griffin on his first steps into the vertical.  Josh may have his hands full later in life — from an early … Continue reading

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Finding Farley

I spent the last weekend up at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.  There was an incredible array of outdoor oriented films and many of them were big budget productions with hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown towards plane tickets, helicopters … Continue reading

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The Big Red Island: Part 3

…the final installment of Jason’s Alberts essay. A discussion I began to have frequently with my wife in Madagascar revolved around the premise of students becoming teachers and teachers becoming students. My middle school teaching career was interrupted to facilitate … Continue reading

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The Big Red Island: Part 2

…today we present part two of Jason Albert’s the Big Red Island… Outdoor school began. Draped above our tent was an old-growth Tamarind tree. Sporadically we heard jostling in the limbs above. Unzipping the tent, my son gawked up. A … Continue reading

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The Big Red Island: Part 1

This week we’ve got a special guest — Jason Albert. Like so many adventures, his family’s work trip to Madagascar started as an inspiring idea, got painfully epic in the process and ended up being the most important journey  in … Continue reading

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