Two days into a high pressure and with stable conditions I am now in that world of butterflies and insomnia. When food and sleep become limited I know things are getting heavy. Yesterday night I hit a line with one of the gnarliest roll overs I have ever done. Sitting at the [...]
Archives for April, 2008
AK…Rollover from Hell
AK goes blue!
Three weeks of unsettled weather has come to an end. It took a high pressure the size of Russia to clear things out but unfortunately the sunny skies have come with a strong north wind. It is the dreaded north wind that does the damage because it strips the north faces, the aspect [...]
AK….still snowing?
We check the weather sights multiple times a day. It is funny how excited we get when the forecast makes the slightest change from “snow likely” to “mostly cloudy” even though it is still days away. Hope hangs on any slight improvement in the forecast. Mads Johnson summed it up best when he [...]
Return to Valdez
From the moment I got of the plane the memories have been flowing threw my head as vividly as if they were yesterday. It was here in Valdez 14 years ago that my life got redirected on a coarse that I am still on today.
The real moment came toward the end of my trip [...]
AK Mega Day
We have been waiting a long time for this break. I pushed my departure back three times to get this day and I took full advantage of every minute. It has been a long time since I have seen conditions this good.
Do to the heavily fluted face and sluffed out aprons we were able to [...]