Okay, I'm an addict. I can't help it. The strangest thing is that I'm not really a morning person - ask Mrs. Powstash, she'll tell ya. It's just that the powder and the juggle of a career and that I just can't let go of the dream of skiing when I want and how much I want. In one short year I went from my first dawn patrol to exclusive dawn patrol.
I realized this morning that I'm just looney, crazy, out there, gone.
Argument:
This past week I've dawn patrolled 4 times. 3 of them solo, 3 of them to Mount Aire (Parley's Canyon). Friends I dawn patrol with one day are not ready to roll the next day. Fact of the matter is, neither am I but like the coke addict, I just cannot say no to the powder. My wife thinks I've lost it.
This morning my dawn patrol partner didn't show. He overslept (we're even now). So I'm sitting there in my car, it's 10 degrees out, pitch black, 6 am, and I'm only 15 minutes from a warm bed with Mrs. Powstash...BUT I CAN'T START THE CAR. I know that although my body needs the rest, there are turns to be had, powder to be slayed. So out I go.
Evidence:
Last Friday - solo on Mt. Aire
Today - solo on Mt. Aire
Is it me, or does anyone see a dramatic change? Yea, I thought so.
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02-18-2005, 10:15 PM #1
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Confessions of a dawn patrol addict
"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair." -Emerson
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02-18-2005, 10:39 PM #2
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02-18-2005, 11:23 PM #3
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Ever since you got that reverse mullet, you've been kicking ass.
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02-18-2005, 11:25 PM #4
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Dude, it's not even light in this one. Lay off the crack already.
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02-18-2005, 11:53 PM #5
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Would you introduce me to your dealer.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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02-19-2005, 12:51 AM #6
Good to be gettin' some
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Rest is best from May to October.
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Ski, Bike, Climb.
Resistence is futile.
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02-19-2005, 01:06 AM #7
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Originally Posted by powstash
Okay, I'm an addict. I can't help it. The strangest thing is that I'm not really a morning person - ask Mrs. Powstash, she'll tell ya. It's just that the powder and the juggle of a career and that I just can't let go of the dream of skiing when I want and how much I want. In one short year I went from my first dawn patrol to exclusive dawn patrol.
I realized this morning that I'm just looney, crazy, out there, gone.
Argument:
This past week I've dawn patrolled 4 times. 3 of them solo, 3 of them to Mount Aire (Parley's Canyon). Friends I dawn patrol with one day are not ready to roll the next day. Fact of the matter is, neither am I but like the coke addict, I just cannot say no to the powder. My wife thinks I've lost it.
This morning my dawn patrol partner didn't show. He overslept (we're even now). So I'm sitting there in my car, it's 10 degrees out, pitch black, 6 am, and I'm only 15 minutes from a warm bed with Mrs. Powstash...BUT I CAN'T START THE CAR. I know that although my body needs the rest, there are turns to be had, powder to be slayed. So out I go.
Evidence:
Last Friday - solo on Mt. Aire
Today - solo on Mt. Aire
Is it me, or does anyone see a dramatic change? Yea, I thought so.
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02-19-2005, 06:55 PM #8
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the madness continues
yep, another day, another dawn patrol. I couldn't wait for the lifts to open so I had Mrs. Powstash drive me over the the resort and drop me off at 7 and I started to skin up up and away.
Some was gotten today, lots actually. Must sleep now."In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair." -Emerson
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02-19-2005, 07:31 PM #9
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Wives are good for transport.
My wife picked Stoy and I up the other day after our up and over adventure.
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02-24-2005, 12:25 PM #10
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Any recent Dawn Patrol reports to share powstash?
ps. sleep is for teh weak.
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02-24-2005, 12:58 PM #11
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Pstash--
How was Mt. Aire? I've looked at that many a time and wanted to ski it. How did you go about skinning up? Which route did you take? Sweet bro.The Griz
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02-24-2005, 01:03 PM #12
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Powstash: With skins on my skis and boots on my feet lil biaaaaaaatch. Originally Posted by grizzle6
Powstash: The one that goes down wanker. Originally Posted by grizzle6
"... she'll never need a doctor; 'cause I check her out all day"
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02-24-2005, 01:05 PM #13
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Wheyeeyeoutta!!!! Originally Posted by Xover
Powstash: With skins on my skis and boots on my feet lil biaaaaaaatch.
Powstash: The one that goes down wanker.
The Griz
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02-25-2005, 11:44 AM #14
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Solos are a whole nother level, my man.
I love the dawn patrols being an office monkey...but can only handle about 1 a week. Sometimes 2. Youdaman fo sure!
Now get better so we can get the goods next week!
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02-25-2005, 11:49 AM #15
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Do you guys pack the kids up in the car for this? Originally Posted by powstash
Wow I am impressed, you are a very lucky man!Points on their own sitting way up high
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03-01-2005, 07:49 PM #16
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Tomorrow I'm back at it on Mount Aire. Originally Posted by bcrider
Any recent Dawn Patrol reports to share powstash?
Actually I've got an article in the making about last Saturday's fun - a 7 am car drop-off by Mrs. Powstash, skin up The Canyons, ski to Solitude, bus to Brighton, hiked Millicent Peak, ski lifts for 4 hours, boot pack Clayton Peak, ski, skin to 10,420 Peak, ski, snowmobile hitch hiking, skiing Park City, poaching lift rides at PC, bus ride to near my house, walk home with my sticks on my shoulder kind of day."In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair." -Emerson
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03-01-2005, 08:00 PM #17
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Ahh, I love it. That makes me grin Originally Posted by powstash
Too bad I wasn't still managing that place with all the cool hot tubs- you coulda stopped by for a soak on yer way to the bus stop home!
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03-01-2005, 08:03 PM #18
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Save some energy poncho, your not twenty anymore. On second thought, go burn some off. That way, if I fall ill, I might be able to keep up. Originally Posted by powstash
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03-02-2005, 05:51 AM #19
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Now that sounds like much more fun that siting at a desk staring at a computer all day. Originally Posted by powstash
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03-02-2005, 07:47 AM #20
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when ullr giveth, you taketh...
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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