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Photo: Sweetgrass Productions

Photo: Sweetgrass Productions


The Inertia

Whatever it is, let’s keep it wild. In fact, Keep Jumbo Wild Forever.

Keep the wild, wild, I say. And so says Patagonia and the crew over at Sweetgrass.

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The narration to the trailer (the movie “Jumbo Wild” comes out this fall) speaks like a poem:

The idea of the wild is

When you can actually walk through a landscape that is

Without roads,

Where the sky is not scraped

By airplanes

But by raptors.

A place where the trails are delineated

By the footsteps of wildlife.

A place where

Wolf and grizzly bear

Still exist.

The wild is a place where

You can be robbed

For the forces of nature.

Screenshot: Sweetgrass Productions

Screenshot: Sweetgrass Productions

For more backstory per Patagonia: “For decades, First Nations, conservationists, backcountry skiers and snowboarders have fought a proposed large-scale ski resort deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. After 24 years of opposition, what more will it take to keep Jumbo wild for good?”

I’m not sure what it will take, but I hope for all of our sakes we give it all we got.

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Screenshot: Sweetgrass Productions

 
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