Who: All Ages showing of 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless on the Big Screen and support Rios Libres.

What: All proceeds will go to help Rios Libres and help insure Patagonia stays WILD!

When: Thursday, August 19th. Doors/Drinks at 7pm Movie at 7:30pm. After movie party with live music from Low Cash's Avianna Acid and the Rain Makers!
 

Where: Orpheum Theater, Flagstaff, AZ

How: Buytickets at Mountain Sports Downtown ($10 cash or check)

Prizes: Win a New Belgium Cruiser sporting a new pair of Chacos or other awesome raffle prizes from Patagonia, Osprey Packs, Mountain Sports and Kahtoola, Inc.
 

Movie Description: Inspired by pioneering outdoorsman Yvon Chouinard's freewheeling 1968 van trip to Patagonia, South America, a band of bliss-seeking surfer-mountaineers sets out in 2007 to remake the journey in this adventure documentary. Jeff Johnson and his buddies, including Timmy O’Neill (a team member of Rios Libres) begin by climbing NA Wall on El Capitan. The group continues south hugging the coast in a sailboat, stopping at the Galapagos Islands and Easter Island before arriving in Patagonia -- a region that's still breathtaking but is now besieged by environmental threats.

Please take action to keep Patagonia wild! 

Express your opposition to HidroAysen's proposal to dam the Baker and Pascua - two pristine rivers deep in the heart of Patagonia, Chile.

Make a difference by taking just a few minutes to write a letter to ENEL - the giant Italian electric utility company that owns a controlling interest in the European partner for HidroAysén.

The Places In Between by Craig Childs

At night, the face of the earth is webbed with light. Our cities have swallowed almost everything. When you see this image, where does your imagination fall, on the dazzling, viral spread of humanity or the last dark places in between?

Late one night, I slipped naked into a lake full of stars down along the serrated edges of southern Chile, where on satellite images of the earth at night, the tail of South America blends into the black sea. Rivers and lakes do not emit light, nor do ice caps or chains of mountains. The sky rippled ahead of me as I swam through the cold water of Patagonia. I pushed my arms into this darkness, felt it across every inch of my skin, took it into my mouth and drank.

We were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of this graceful creature bounding it's way across the rocky moraine leading up to the Neff Glacier. The ecosystems of the Baker and Pascua rivers support a high degree of biodiversity, including documented populations of the endangered huemul deer.