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…)

SE-time

Rocktown.
Rocktown.
Besides a few weeks here and there I left Nashville when I was 18, and have never returned with any sense of permanence. When I arrived there last November slightly disheveled from international travel and being whipped by the ways of the world, my sensitive self felt more determined than ever not to get tangled up in its southern claws. I planned my departure dates with sternness to my family, implying I had so many better places to be. (more…)

Getting Braziled

Climber's dusty car parked at Serra do Cipo, one of Brazil top climbing areas.
Climber's dusty car parked at Serra do Cipo, one of Brazil top climbing areas.
One of my life goals is to become a good cook. I know having a kitchen is a prerequisite for that, but in the meantime I just talk about it lot and hope by some sort of osmosis I’ll get better just by eating other peoples’ good food. (more…)