Plenty of famous folks have written for the Mountain
Gazette over the years — David Roberts, Royal Robbins,
Ed Abbey, Mary Sojourner, Charles Bowden, John Nichols
et al. Plenty of MG writers have done other cool things,
and all the items in this month’s Mountain Media just happen
to come from writers who have been published in this magazine.
Hey, speaking of famous MG writers, if anyone wants to buy/publish
a 60,000-word manuscript tentatively titled “The Only Good
Story I Know,” drop me a line. media@mountaingazette.com.
Web: “The Season”
Freelance writer and dirtbag Fitz Cahall wrote a couple stories
for the MG a few years back, my favorite being the one about
how he bought a Mitsubishi Sigma in Australia for a few hundred
dollars, and when it died, he set it on fire and rolled it off a cliff
into the ocean. Fitz has moved onto other notable pursuits, like
dreaming up, creating and producing “The Dirtbag Diaries,” about
to enter its fourth year of podcasting. Fitz has now teamed up
with filmmaker Bryan Smith
(“49 Megawatts”) to produce
an Internet TV show called
“The Season,” a 22-episode
series following five Pacific
Northwest outdoor athletes —
a climber, a mountain biker, a
snowboarder, a kayaker and a
boulderer — through a season
of their respective pursuits. What is an “Internet TV show,” you
ask? It’ll be available for free download on several websites, including
Arc’Teryx and Outside magazine, and if you have one of
those iPod walkman machines, you can get the show on iTunes
and then watch it with your headphones on while you’re on the
shuttle bus to the slopes.
Theseasontv.com
