Endangered Spaces: Eastern Sierra

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

California’s legacy of gold mining goes back generations, but as the world of mining has evolved, so too have our ideas about public lands. Today’s mining projects are still dictated by the 1872 Mining Law, leaving land managers little recourse to say no to environmentally damaging projects. Last spring, environmental advocates and cycling enthusiasts Emily Markstein and Amber Rassler organized a bike tour along the Eastern Sierra to see firsthand the spaces under imminent threat from mining projects– and to learn that some things are worth more than gold. Support comes from Patagonia Athletic Greens Kuat Racks YETI

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0:00.0	If the first 50 years were an experiment to prove that a business could be
0:05.4	responsible and successful turns out it's not just possible it's profitable so
0:12.5	what's next what's next is simple it's human power and it's finding the joy in
0:18.0	doing difficult things what's next is turning capitalism on its head and
0:23.4	putting all our money where our mouth is what's next is unstoppable for nearly
0:31.4	50 years Patagonia has given a damn about people and the environment find
0:35.7	more at Patagonia.com slash stories
0:42.8	you're listening to the dirt factories a production of duct tape then beer with
0:47.4	additional support from Kuat because you love your bike AG1 foundational
0:52.6	nutrition that supports whole body health and yeti products built for the
0:57.6	wild
1:02.4	all right Lauren what's the oldest piece of climbing gear or like what's the oldest
1:08.9	piece of outdoor equipment that you on? oh that's a good question um I think
1:14.7	that the oldest thing that I owned that I like used regularly I was just
1:20.2	thinking about this out climbing the other days probably my gree-gree because
1:23.7	I remember buying this gree-gree after having kind of a near-miss climbing and I
1:27.8	realized that that was like 11 years ago and so maybe I shouldn't admit this
1:33.8	but I've definitely been using the same ballet device now for well over a
1:38.2	decade I don't think I don't think there's anything wrong with that as someone who's
1:41.6	also probably owned the same gree-gree for 10 years so you're okay here you're
1:47.4	safe here the reason to ask is I was I was thinking about the story that we're
1:52.4	gonna talk about today and like think about the sports we'd like to do whether
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