Ginnylynnpeterson: October 2008

Friday, October 31, 2008

I'll just keep adding photos when i take them....Check it out!

Paul and I have been up the same skin track a few times now and I was able to document changes in this glide crack. Super interesting to watch.....

October 17 2008

October 20, 2008

October 27, 2008

Nov 6, 2008

I think the avalanche course I took way back when was actually one of my first blog postings...the information that I learned in that class still races through my mind.....take the course if you havn't already!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

The O' Malley Attempt

Does the first day out dictate what the rest
of the season is going to be like??
I'm hoping not as, once again, we suffered through
a good portion of the day!

This is a view of what we were heading into....
post holing of course.....

This is our turn around point....I think had it been better weather with a bad trail or an easy trail with bad weather
we would have kept moving forward....
but with a hard trail, wind that was knocking us over, no visibility, exposed skin close to frostbite....
well, it helped to make the decision a little easier.....

But of course when we got back to the car and looked back to where we just were.....well, no one one would really believe us when we told them what we just went through!

Till the next adventure!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Hatchers Pass 2008

Hatchers Pass, still one of my favorite places in Alaska. And now the skiing is back in. Its been about perfect out there.....dark blue sky's, dreamy powder, nice untracked lines.....mmmmm. Last weekend we made it out to El Dorado, Marmot and out towards the mine. I've grouped the days together under one slide show.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Pizza Pie and French Fry - The First Ski Experience

A big thank you to RC and Sherrie for their teaching skills, patience and willingness to take me out skiing for the first time - ever! A beautiful day with some turning, lots of tumbles and, I have to admit, very little frustration - Yeah for that one!

My new view!

yep, early Hatchers skiing...tell me again why I thought skiing from the top of April Bowl early season was a good idea?!?!

And a fine finish to the day! Thanks again you guys!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Sí, nueva nieve en las montañas!!

A couple of days after the crow pass adventure our bodies were still wrecked, but felt the need to move around and be outside. I have not been up Flattop in years and always forget how pretty it is up there. Sherrie jumping for joy with all the fresh snow in the mountains!

Meet Joe Black Quote

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived"

To Lucy Barfield (The dedication in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

My Dear Lucy,
I wrote ths story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be

your affectionate Godfather,
C.S. Lewis

Ithaka

When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,wish always that your course be long, full of adventure, full of lore.Of the Laestrygones and of the Cyclopes,of an irate Poseidon never be afraid; such things along your way you will not find,if lofty is your thinking, if fine sentimentin spirit and in body touches you. Neither Laestrygones nor Cyclopes,nor wild Poseidon will you ever meet,unless you bear them in your soul,unless your soul has raised them up in front of you.

Wish always that your course be long;that many there be of summer mornswhen with such pleasure, such great joy,you enter ports now for the first time seen;that you may stop at some Phoenician marts,to purchase there the best of wares,mother-of-pearl and coral, amber, ebony,hedonic perfumes of all sorts--as many such hedonic perfumes as you can;that you may go to various Egyptian townsto learn, and learn from those schooled there.

Your mind should ever be on Ithaca.Your reaching there is your prime goal.But do not rush your journey anywise.Better that it should last for many years,and that, now old, you moor at Ithaca at last,a man enriched by all you gained upon the way,and not expecting Ithaca to give you further wealth.
For Ithaca has given you the lovely trip.Without her you would not have set your course.There is no more that she can give.

If Ithaca seems then too lean, you have not been deceived.As wise as you are now become, of such experience,you will have understood what Ithaca stands for.

Constantine P. Cavafy

I am Vertical - Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up minerals and motherly love So that each March I may gleam into leaf, Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted, Unknowing I must soon unpetal. Compared with me, a tree is immortal And a flower-head not tall, but more startling, And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars, The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors. I walk among them, but none of them are noticing. Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping I must most perfectly resemble them --
Thoughts gone dim. It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation, And I shall be useful when I lie down finally: Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.

Thoughts....

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

A friend of mine just shared this with me and I thought I would pass it on!

Myself
by Edgar Guest

I have to live with myself, and so, I want to be fit for myself to know;I want to be able as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself as I come and go Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress myself up in sham. I want to deserve all men's respect; But here in this struggle for fame and pelf, I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to think as I come and go That I'm for bluster and bluff and empty show. I never can hide myself from me, I see what others may never see, I know what others may never know, I never can fool myself -- and so, Whatever happens, I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free.

Ginnylynnpeterson