After completing two master’s degrees at the Longy School of Music, composer and musician Liz Derstine heads into the wilderness to chase another big goal: attempting a self-supported Fastest Known Time on the Pacific Crest Trail. As she navigates isolation, harsh new climates, and demanding terrain, she searches to understand her unrelenting drive to squeeze the most out of life and herself, in music and in miles.
Presented by Mountain Hardwear
A Retriever production
In Association with Solstice
Director - Anna Brannon
Producer - Coann Kurfman
Executive Producer - Jon Michael Ryan
Director of Photography - Emily Cameron
Editor - Anna Brannon
Sound Design - Dane Dickman
Color - Clark Griffith
Graphics - Max Churchill
Music - Liz Derstine + Musicbed
Production Company - Retriever, Solstice
Ridgeline
After completing two master’s degrees at the Longy School of Music, composer and musician Liz Derstine heads into the wilderness to chase another big goal: attempting a self-supported Fastest Known Time on the Pacific Crest Trail. As she navigates isolation, harsh new climates, and demanding terrain, she searches to understand her unrelenting drive to squeeze the most out of life and herself, in music and in miles.