Long Live Brad Gobright. I was cleaning out some hard drives and stumbled upon an interview I shot with Brad about a year after we filmed Safety 3rd, and only a couple months before he passed in a climbing accident. At the time I shot this I was thinking of starting a “talk show” and then I got sidetracked by other adventures and completely forgot this footage existed. It was bittersweet to revisit this interview, but I’m excited to release it to the world and watching it reinforced and reminded me of the fact that Brad was just a salt of the earth good dude, and truly a world class friend and climber. Head over to my YouTube to watch the interview, or click link in bio.
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
A quick deep water solo mission with @shawnraboutou @honngy @bookofsamuel @sheneenagins and @felipe.camargo during the @thenorthface athlete summit in Sardinia. Especially impressive watching Matty climb to the 75 foot mark on hard climbing then down climb a bit and huck off! 💪👊
Today @nmilfeld and I celebrate our 12 year anniversary! I never imagined I could love someone so deeply and completely. Nellie is by far the greatest gift this crazy life has given me. We continue to have so much fun together, climbing, flying and just being together. Love you Nellie. You continue to motivate and inspire me. ❤️🥰
Today @nmilfeld and I celebrate our 12 year anniversary! I never imagined I could love someone so deeply and completely. Nellie is by far the greatest gift this crazy life has given me. We continue to have so much fun together, climbing, flying and just being together. Love you Nellie. You continue to motivate and inspire me. ❤️🥰
Today @nmilfeld and I celebrate our 12 year anniversary! I never imagined I could love someone so deeply and completely. Nellie is by far the greatest gift this crazy life has given me. We continue to have so much fun together, climbing, flying and just being together. Love you Nellie. You continue to motivate and inspire me. ❤️🥰
Today @nmilfeld and I celebrate our 12 year anniversary! I never imagined I could love someone so deeply and completely. Nellie is by far the greatest gift this crazy life has given me. We continue to have so much fun together, climbing, flying and just being together. Love you Nellie. You continue to motivate and inspire me. ❤️🥰
Attention Dirtbags! I am excited to announce that applications for the second round of The Dirt Bag Fund are officially open! Thanks to some generous donations the fund has doubled this year and I will be giving 10k in 1-2k grants to climbers who are contributing to the culture and community of climbing all while scrapping by on next to nothing! The link to the application is in my bio and at my website where there is also a link to donate if you feel like this is something you’d like to support! cedarwright.com Last year’s recipients had big adventures and made meaningful contributions in our weird little world of rock climbing. I even paid for a full dirtbag choss climber to have surgery on their ruptured sphincter after a nasty fall, so the Dirtbag Fund is off to a legendary start!! 😜I also worked with several creative filmmaker 🎥 dirtbags to hone short films about their adventures, a fun way for me to be hands on and put a few bucks in the pockets of creatives…and to spread the word about the fund! HINT: for this year’s applicants I will be looking for people with specific missions, whether it is a climbing objective dream project, a community service mission, or just a good story you’d like to bootstrap and share through my channels to spread the dirtbag stoke! Of course there are no hard set rules to dirtbagging and so I’m open to any and all dirtbags as long as you are legitimately living hand to mouth. This is all a work in progress and I’m hoping to grow the reach and mission of The Dirtbag Fund over time!! Photo of me soloing cave crack back in the day by @ladzinski
One of the beauties of the @thenorthface athlete summits is that they bring together passionate athletes from disparate sports. Climbers, Skiers and Ultra-Runners! Years ago at a TNF event in Yosemite I found myself at the base of manure pile buttress w a bunch of runners and skiers. I asked “who wants to climb to the top of this thing?” At first it was silent and then a long haired hippy looking kid named @nickmcnutt raised his hand. “I’ll go I guess,” he said. I sized him up… he looked capable enough. I would later find out that he was one of the best free skiers in North America… something of a phenom! “Have you ever climbed before?” I asked him. “Once in a climbing gym for a birthday party,” he replied. I was in a particularly cavalier stage in my life and so I figured what could go wrong? I quickly taught him a figure 8, and how to belay and then we launched up The Nutcracker… stout 5.8… a formidable first outdoor rock climb. I told him that eventually the rope would go tight and then he could start climbing. Nick’s first rock climb was a simul-climb of nutcracker! Nick miraculously sent and survived… and was STOKED!!! He asked me all kinds of questions on the descent and a couple weeks later he had his own chalk-bag, harness, and shoes. The rest is history. He began what will surely be a life-long obsession with climbing and most impressively became a prolific first ascentionist in squamish where he moved to be closer to climbing. Now when he isn’t busting ski acrobatics off of gnarly mountain spines in Alaska he is obsessively crushing granite FAs! Nick developed an entire new crag for which he won a trophy! I’m so Proud! It was awesome to reconnect and climb with Nick at the Athlete summit in Sardinia this year and I can report that he is a full on legit real rock climber now! Nick continues to excel at skiing and has credited climbing with making him more resilient and athletic on the slopes! Nick snapped this photo of me… proving I too still climb😜. After hanging tough I realised Nick is an excellent partner. Now things are coming full circle. Nick and I are planning a big remote first ascent expedition for this summer!
In honor of International Women’s day I’d like to celebrate the exceptional @us_womens_paragliding team! Right now as I write this we have four female pilots competing against the best pilots in the world in what is basically the “Super Bowl” of paragliding, @flyfreerunwild @readysetgalen @alexiaf8 and @jellyoneil …It’s called the “Paragliding World Cup Super Final” and right now I believe we have the most women to qualify of any country, and in fact there are more American women than men in this years superfinal! Historic, and Impressive work ladies. Unlike the “Super Bowl” … in paragliding competitions the women and men compete together…against each other in the “overall results”, and @flyfreerunwild and @readysetgalen have podiumed in some competitive North American comps, beating out hundreds of men in the process, and proving that women can compete at the highest level! In fact @readysetgalen is our current over all US champion! Beyond the four women competing in the superfinal, there are a whole host of up and coming ladies who are pictured in these photos, and frankly, they are some of my best friends, and I find myself hanging with my “girl-crew” more than the dudes on a lot of my international paragliding trips. The last slide is a video taken on task 1 of the 10 day competition, which was cancelled due to rain, but the competition will be heating up over the next week so send good vibes to all the women, and all the people in general competing in this obscure but noble pursuit. ❤️🫶
In honor of International Women’s day I’d like to celebrate the exceptional @us_womens_paragliding team! Right now as I write this we have four female pilots competing against the best pilots in the world in what is basically the “Super Bowl” of paragliding, @flyfreerunwild @readysetgalen @alexiaf8 and @jellyoneil …It’s called the “Paragliding World Cup Super Final” and right now I believe we have the most women to qualify of any country, and in fact there are more American women than men in this years superfinal! Historic, and Impressive work ladies. Unlike the “Super Bowl” … in paragliding competitions the women and men compete together…against each other in the “overall results”, and @flyfreerunwild and @readysetgalen have podiumed in some competitive North American comps, beating out hundreds of men in the process, and proving that women can compete at the highest level! In fact @readysetgalen is our current over all US champion! Beyond the four women competing in the superfinal, there are a whole host of up and coming ladies who are pictured in these photos, and frankly, they are some of my best friends, and I find myself hanging with my “girl-crew” more than the dudes on a lot of my international paragliding trips. The last slide is a video taken on task 1 of the 10 day competition, which was cancelled due to rain, but the competition will be heating up over the next week so send good vibes to all the women, and all the people in general competing in this obscure but noble pursuit. ❤️🫶
In honor of International Women’s day I’d like to celebrate the exceptional @us_womens_paragliding team! Right now as I write this we have four female pilots competing against the best pilots in the world in what is basically the “Super Bowl” of paragliding, @flyfreerunwild @readysetgalen @alexiaf8 and @jellyoneil …It’s called the “Paragliding World Cup Super Final” and right now I believe we have the most women to qualify of any country, and in fact there are more American women than men in this years superfinal! Historic, and Impressive work ladies. Unlike the “Super Bowl” … in paragliding competitions the women and men compete together…against each other in the “overall results”, and @flyfreerunwild and @readysetgalen have podiumed in some competitive North American comps, beating out hundreds of men in the process, and proving that women can compete at the highest level! In fact @readysetgalen is our current over all US champion! Beyond the four women competing in the superfinal, there are a whole host of up and coming ladies who are pictured in these photos, and frankly, they are some of my best friends, and I find myself hanging with my “girl-crew” more than the dudes on a lot of my international paragliding trips. The last slide is a video taken on task 1 of the 10 day competition, which was cancelled due to rain, but the competition will be heating up over the next week so send good vibes to all the women, and all the people in general competing in this obscure but noble pursuit. ❤️🫶
In honor of International Women’s day I’d like to celebrate the exceptional @us_womens_paragliding team! Right now as I write this we have four female pilots competing against the best pilots in the world in what is basically the “Super Bowl” of paragliding, @flyfreerunwild @readysetgalen @alexiaf8 and @jellyoneil …It’s called the “Paragliding World Cup Super Final” and right now I believe we have the most women to qualify of any country, and in fact there are more American women than men in this years superfinal! Historic, and Impressive work ladies. Unlike the “Super Bowl” … in paragliding competitions the women and men compete together…against each other in the “overall results”, and @flyfreerunwild and @readysetgalen have podiumed in some competitive North American comps, beating out hundreds of men in the process, and proving that women can compete at the highest level! In fact @readysetgalen is our current over all US champion! Beyond the four women competing in the superfinal, there are a whole host of up and coming ladies who are pictured in these photos, and frankly, they are some of my best friends, and I find myself hanging with my “girl-crew” more than the dudes on a lot of my international paragliding trips. The last slide is a video taken on task 1 of the 10 day competition, which was cancelled due to rain, but the competition will be heating up over the next week so send good vibes to all the women, and all the people in general competing in this obscure but noble pursuit. ❤️🫶
In honor of International Women’s day I’d like to celebrate the exceptional @us_womens_paragliding team! Right now as I write this we have four female pilots competing against the best pilots in the world in what is basically the “Super Bowl” of paragliding, @flyfreerunwild @readysetgalen @alexiaf8 and @jellyoneil …It’s called the “Paragliding World Cup Super Final” and right now I believe we have the most women to qualify of any country, and in fact there are more American women than men in this years superfinal! Historic, and Impressive work ladies. Unlike the “Super Bowl” … in paragliding competitions the women and men compete together…against each other in the “overall results”, and @flyfreerunwild and @readysetgalen have podiumed in some competitive North American comps, beating out hundreds of men in the process, and proving that women can compete at the highest level! In fact @readysetgalen is our current over all US champion! Beyond the four women competing in the superfinal, there are a whole host of up and coming ladies who are pictured in these photos, and frankly, they are some of my best friends, and I find myself hanging with my “girl-crew” more than the dudes on a lot of my international paragliding trips. The last slide is a video taken on task 1 of the 10 day competition, which was cancelled due to rain, but the competition will be heating up over the next week so send good vibes to all the women, and all the people in general competing in this obscure but noble pursuit. ❤️🫶
Not all goes to plan! Dirt Bag Fund recipient @etaiveaho had a proper epic in Washington! Legendary trip report from Emilio here! Next round of dirtbag fund applications opening soon! In Emilio’s words: “This summer i got lucky enough to be one of the recipients of Cedar Wright’s dirtbag fund! this was the only time being a dirt bag paid in money as well as experiences. For a while now I’ve been going into the backcountry every summer—mountaineering, climbing, and eating homemade dehydrated eggs for weeks (sometimes months) at a time. Outside of that I’ve been maximizing a dirtbag life by living in an RV in rural North Carolina, splitting my time between grad school and climbing, honing my trad skills and getting repeated tastes of humble pie at Moores Wall and Stone Mountain. This spring I used up the last of my cash to buy plane tickets to fly out to Washington and was ready to be completely broke until the dirtbag fund came to my rescue! Crisis averted: Thank you Cedar!! As soon as I arrived in Washington, my climbing partner Mo and I hit the road towards the Olympics, where we repeated Wayne Wallace’s “Sawtooth Ridge.” Sawtooth was one of the best climbs I’ve had the privilege of doing, with some cerebral and delicious leads. The choss got the best of us, though, and Mo and I both ended up in the hospital.. Mo for a shoulder injury and I for a rectal prolapse and sphincter incision after a fall. While we were able to walk ourselves out of the Olympics, these injuries kept us out of the pickets for the season. I used up more of the dirtbag funds to pay for the hospital bills, some salmon, and a ride back to NC. As I was healing in NC, I was climbing as much as possible and getting some exposure therapy. Eventually I was able to bum around and climb in West Virginia and was comforted by bulletproof rock… I drained the fund on gas money, and got to climb all over the Linville Gorge. Although my main objectives were put on pause because of the injury, the stoke for dirtbaggery is at an all time high!!!”
