It Begins…Welcome to The Season 2

It’s been said that stories are like rivers. Bryan and I specialize in following them to their conclusion. We are very proud to present The Season 2.

This year we picked five new athletes each with their own unique storyline. An amputee climber sets his sights on becoming whole again by returning to Yosemite to realize a lifelong dream. A conservationist and angler searches for a fabled ghost run of wild steelhead on one of California’s most troubled rivers. One of the world’s best boulderers struggles to balance her career as a boulderer with raising her daughter. From a burned forest, a vision of an incredible mountain bike trail emerges from the ashes into reality. In the wake of achieving an unthinkable goal, a ski mountaineer returns to the peak where he first met failure.

Here is a kick ass trailer

After a year of hard work, Bryan Smith and I present The Season 2, five stories from a whole new set of athletes. This 22-episode web TV series following five athletes through the course of a year is available first at arcteryx.com and then as a download from iTunes. Visit theseasontv.com to subscribe and find information about the songs and download the cuts. The series begins in earnest Tuesday, September 6th.

Those are the nuts and bolts. A release is always a crazy moment in my life. I dread them up until the moment they happen. There are so many details to be worked out that it can be difficult to sleep, remember to turn the stove off or keep track of what day of the week it is. It is consuming. The reward is obvious. You — the community — makes this all worthwhile. Your feedback, both good and bad (but always thoughtful), is deeply appreciated. When Bryan and I started out on round 2, we had you in mind. How do we make The Season better? The answer was clear- feed off the energy you all put into the first installment. So we invested time and money. And committed to spending more time with each athlete and more time in the field. We feel we’ve achieved our goals. I hope you are pleased with our efforts.

Rise up. Become legend. Welcome to The Season 2.

Music info:
The Glitch Mob
“Warrior Concerto” (mp3)
from “We Can Make The World Stop – EP”
(Glass Air)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
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The Love Letter

This was a movie I worked on this fall and winter.  I’m excited about it. The Season 2 is right around the corner.

The Season 2 is in the works…in the meantime

Bryan and I have been hard at work on The Season 2. It launches the first week in September. We are pumped about the stories. In the meantime, we’ve been working on a couple different projects. National Geographic saw our work from the Season and wanted to take us to a broader audience. We used it to create Fringe Elements, a series about the frontiers of adventure.

Here’s Matt’s National Geographic episode. Hope you enjoy.

Anti-cam 2.0…Episode 21

It’s come down to the wire. Matt’s foot and ankle took longer than expected to heal. He couldn’t climb again until this winter, but in his free time he went to work redesigning the anti cam. Now he’s got three shiny pieces of gear, a renewed enthusiasm and a date with the guillotine flake.

The iPhone Conundrum

Thanks everyone for bearing with us. It’s much appreciated and we’ve had to wade through a lot of technical details to figure out what was going on. Thanks to all who took the time to let us know what hardware you were using.

Here’s the gig. So if you’ve got an iPhone 3Gs you should have no problem downloading an episode via iTunes and playing it back on the newest iPhone.  Older generations don’t support true HD and that’s the standard we are pushing with this project. A lot of iPhone users have reported no problems, so we won’t be downgrading our normal feed, BUT we rerendered files for those of you with older phones. On our main site you will see a mobile tab; this is where you can get your files. We’ll be posting up older episodes and also adding the newest versions.

Thanks again for your patience.

Fitz and Bryan

Episode 6…Rock Climber Matt Maddaloni

Matt Maddaloni used climbing as a vehicle to explore the world, but found there was a limit to his body.  He could only climb so hard. To maintain his passion he had to find new ways to push himself.  This season, Matt decided to create a new experimental piece of climbing gear and put it into action.