Oronaut

The morning before the wedding and the day we drove out of town we skiing up on Thompson Pass. The first day was only my girlfriend’s second day backcountry skiing ever, so we did a pretty mild and short run on the East side the road, on the shoulder of Odyssey. The second day was [...]

Tags: Backcountry Skiing, Chugach, Odyssey, Skiing, summer skiing, Thompson Pass, Valdez
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Our time in Valdez with our friends was really great, and that speaks a lot for our friends considering the circumstances we ended up arriving under. Tragically, the week before we got there, a close friend of theirs committed suicide. The reason we were joined by Luke a week early, who we are floating Birch [...]

Tags: glaciers, porpoises, sea kayaking, Shoup Bay, Skiing, Thompson Pass, Valdez
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