Enchanté/ Las Motivadas prAna Premiere

  I picked up my first video camera in SLC about 7 years ago after a close friend and climbing career confidant encouraged my boyfriend and I to capture the candid moments of our travels, and document our coolest sends. Turned out most of the cool sends came from my boyfriend’s end of the rope, which left me dangling on the other side learning how to be "creative” suspended in mid air. (more…)

belvedere drift

Daila Ojeda hard at "work", climbing some great classic for the Prana short we filmed last month in La Turbie, France just above Monaco
Daila Ojeda hard at "work", climbing some great classic for the Prana short we filmed last month in La Turbie, France just above Monaco.
I guess writing is just like anything else. The less I do you it, the harder it becomes and eventually the need for it can fade. But just like a lot of things I’ve discovered over the last months, most of the time all I have to do is jump right back in to an old pursuit, to remember just how much I love something. (more…)

Redirect to Rio

Olivia Hsu catching some rays and enjoying the view on the beach in Rio.
Olivia Hsu catching some rays and enjoying the view on the beach in Rio.
When I first arrived in Rio I couldn’t stop falling over. I mean I’m not the most coordinated person to begin with, I always joke I can send my project in style then trip over a tree branch going to take my shoes off, but the amount of dizziness and inability to gain composure that surrounded my daily moment was abnormal. My logical mind knew I was likely just overwhelmed, leaving Boulder in a slightly panicked state, with big life changes on the horizon and a work load that canopied this trip which I was still unsure how to navigate. (more…)