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We went and saw the public lands wildlife thrasher film Cocaine Bear in theaters. Was it good?
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In 1975, Dunlap and Heffernan proposed that outdoor recreation turns people into environmentalists. In this episode Mara and Jesse review the 1975 paper and many since and discover that its pretty much all garbage.
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This week Mara and Jesse talk about the podcast miniseries "Dope Lake" from Duct Tape Then Beer's Climbing Gold podcast. The story is iconic within the rock climbing community and has been mythologized in tons of different ways in the past. Why do we keep telling this story? Is it just because its epic? Or is it becuase of the taboo of money in the community? Or is just because Alex Honnold wanted to tell it?
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Today, the ski industry is facing a handful of simultaneous crises. While corporate consolidation "destroys the soul" of the industry, others in the skiing orbit are confronting the exlusionary and hyper-white history of skiing. Oh yeah, and climate change. Amongst multiple crises there is also a tendancy for mainstream reporting on the industry to be absolutely awful. In this episode, Mara and Jesse unpack four recent, somewhat deslusional New York Times articles about the ski industry, where it is, and where its going.
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Mara and Jesse talk about Bill Cronon's famous essay "The Trouble With Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" and its implications for recreation, environmentalism, and place-based education. Is it good? Is it bad? Or is it just an mainstream essay for 19-year-olds? Who is the essay for, exactly?
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Mara and Jesse talk about the good and the bad of HBO's new rock climbing reality show, The Climb. Was it good? Sure. Did it have flaws? Sure. SPOILERS!
