On a aircraft carrier in the gulf of aden
And last night was pretty funny in a Pro Shop in a bowling alley<weird
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I used to get up around four am strap on the snowshoes a daypack with crampons, pick, MSR ministove a tin cup bowl n bag of northern lights and my snowboard. I would step out of the cabin in the dark with the snow blue from the moonlight and the snow reflecting a billion little stars. It was often well below zero and the buildup on my beard would begin with the first exhalation. By sunrise I would be about five or six thousand feet up sometimes more by noon I could push pretty high up there if i kept going but usually 6.5 thou up in the Alaskan Range is ok. I'd fire up a cup of tea from melted snow add in a small bag of instant oatmeal and chow down. sitting there looking out over the northern matanuska valley the Chilitna river below my tracks somewhere way down there. I would strap in my board fire upa hefty bowl and sit there smoking till I was too cold or too fucking stoned to the gills.
Day lasts but a while at that lattitude and before the shadows would get too long I would cast off and lay long unknown lines across the creator's best work. One run, fast, steep as fuck, soft as down and perfect. These were the days when Burton was just getting noticed well and the heli runs in Alaska were just about to make people see freaking glory in those chutes. And that Alaskan Range and the lower alpine meadows of Denali St. Park across the river were all mine.
I would make it back by about seven or nine at night, exhausted beaten out from pushing fresh tracks in deep Alaskan powder. I would often lie on top of the cabin - it was easy, it snowed so much there I could walk up my shovel pile to the roof line (first winter it snowed 34 feet) sometimes I'd pull the winter bag up there and sleep outside watching the lime green northern lights roll across the stars, primitive and devine. I would smoke some green but usually just lie there in the silence connected with everything and went wanting for nothing.
I will post pics sometime after they are scanned...this was many years ago, a number of you were not even sperm or egg.