Grassroots Music, Adventure, Energy Resilience
Q and A with prominent figure in music, outdoor recreation, environmental resilience.
Just to be near Willy Tea Taylor is to love him. He speaks with the warm embrace of a bed of coals in a fire. He resembles the warrior elf Gimli from Lord of the Rings, and laughs with the same rambunctious brawn. His songs are as intimate as a late night conversation with your… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Willy Tea Taylor
If there were someone I’d want to huck it off a powdery cliff with, it’d be Molly Armanino. For one, she has a knack for finding big features in out of the way spots. She rides with her brother and filmmaker Sam Armanino with a big crew of hucksters in Squid and Friends – which… Continue reading Q&A: Molly Armanino
Virginia City, Nevada has always been a place of hardtack women. Found in the desert mountains just to the east of Reno it was the site of the first large deposit of silver ore the Comstock Lode and became one of the biggest silver boom towns of the era, a swelling zeitgeist of danger, excitement… Continue reading Q&A: Caitlin Jemma
I don't know if I've ever listened to Will Johnson in the bright of the day. His music seems to live in the softer light of the dawn and dusk, where things aren't so clear and the quiet helps you tune into the parts of your soul you ignore in the daylight. From fronting the… Continue reading Q&A: Will Johnson
I knew Steve Griggs was ripe for adventure when I met him onsite at Lightning in a Bottle 2018. It was my first time working a music festival of that size and it was our job to herd 10,000 cats (people) into their camping spots for the weekend. Mini-bikes are the cavalry and scouts in… Continue reading Q&A: Steve Griggs
The newest, grandest and gnarliest mountain bike trail in Colorado is the Palisade Plunge. It ribbons along the Grand Mesa and cuts into the Grand Valley near Palisade, CO like barbed wire, taking mountain bike thrill seekers on a 33.8-mile semi-perilous journey through the desert in some of the most remote and exposed terrain one… Continue reading Q&A: Spencer Rugland of Singletrack Trails
In the Bible it is told that upon his birth, the baby Jesus, Son of God, was visited by three magi. These wise men had followed the North Star for 12 days all the way to the town of Bethlehem to pay their respects to the new king, bestowing upon him the gifts of gold,… Continue reading Q&A: Tri Magi
I think it is safe to say that at this point in the modern world of the internet, video messaging and phones that are essentially pocket-sized oracles, the oft decried attention span of a goldfish is longer than that of a person. But nature has always had a different sense of time than humans. Changing… Continue reading Q&A: Dudley Edmondson
All Rudy Norman wanted was to be on the radio. He had fallen in love with music as a young boy as he shopped around 45s with his older brother. It was his first love and and a joyous constant while the rest of the world churned around him in uncertainty. His dad was a… Continue reading Q&A: Rudy Norman
Climber Damion Estrada heard the mountains calling all the way down in the limestone flats of Texas. An architecture major, he knew he’d never follow down such a path after he spent most of his time in class daydreaming about mountains out west or climbing at the climbing gym that his college had built, which… Continue reading Q&A: Damion Estrada
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