Listen to “The First Time: Part 5” Dirtbag Diaries Podcast Episode

The Dirtbag Diaries / Jul 27, 2007 / Community, Culture

The_first_time_title_pt5 It’s been a fun week of First Time stories thanks to The Dirtbag Diaries. We’ve heard from an extreme sledder, a freestyle kayaker, an ice climber, an alpinist and now, a snowboarder:

Snowboarding can’t change a life. Carving four beautiful turns down an impossibly steep face aren’t going to alter a person’s course through this world. Snow melts, but life doesn’t get any easier. Snowboarding, the mountains, wild places, they may provide a not-so gentle nudge forward, but deep seeded change can only come from within.

Today, Stephanie McLawrence, a self-described bookworm from Brooklyn’s notorious Bushwick neighborhood, brings us a story about finding a second chance in a first time.

Listen to the MP3:
The First Time – Part 5 (right-click to download)

[Thanks to Tanya and Steve for participating, and thanks to Fitz for this special extended episode.]

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The Dirtbag Diaries

The campfire tale—it’s ubiquitous in mountain culture. As long as we’ve climbed, skied, boated or traveled, we’ve been telling stories. In March of 2007, Fitz Cahall launched The Dirtbag Diaries, a grassroots podcast dedicated to the sometimes serious, often humorous stories from wild places. What began as a solitary experiment has evolved into a collaboration between writers, photographers, artists and listeners to produce the types of stories that rarely find homes in the glossy pages of magazines.