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Over the last 10 years, Thomasina Pidgeon rose to the top of female bouldering. With multiple V12 ascents to her name, she spends most of her life on the road searching out the next project. Her traveling companion and sometimes climbing partner is her four-year-old daughter Cedar. How do you balance pursuit of world class boulder problems, life on the road and motherhood? Watch.
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Kevin Landry and Jeremy Norris both moved west to the mountain biking mecca of Squamish with the same goal in mind — ride as much as possible and create their own vision of mountain biking. As luck would have it, they would move into home right across the street from one another, forge a friend ship and begin sniffing around for new lines and trails. Curiosity powers mountain biking’s evolution, so Kevin and Jeremy went looking.
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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.
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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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This was a movie I worked on this fall and winter. I’m excited about it. The Season 2 is right around the corner.
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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.
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That’s it. That’s all. After a year and half of work, the Season winds down, but not before we catch up with Matt as he tries to free climb “The Guillotine Flake” high on the Grand Wall.
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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.
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Dr. Scott Petett is a family man. He’s worked long hours to build an incredible practice and care for his wife and daughter, but strip away the lab coat and he flies through the air like super man. This season, Scott Petett has decided to head to Whistler to race.
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Jonaven Moore went against his better instincts to get a shot for a film part and it nearly took his best friend’s life. Faced with the implications of his decision to poach a wilderness area via helicopter, Jonaven stepped back from professional snowboarding and decided to make a change.
