Life's to short to put off seeing the world. Year after year had gone by and the stories of all the snow and terrain Alaska had to offer only built up. It was time to check it out and experience it for myself. I'd booked my flight and I was on my way to one of the snowiest places in North American. We were Alaska bound departing from the Pacific Northwest.
Snowboarding the last 8 years all around Washington, Idaho, and Oregon I wanted to explore the backcountry scene more but wasn't sure what to expect from the Alaskan Mountains, but my hopes were high for a place that could see 10 inches of snowfall in the course of an hour. From the moment we touched down to the time we arrived in Valdez I saw nothing but a landscape blanketed in snow and peaks as far as the eye could see, just waiting to be explored.
There is something beautiful about the absolute silence you can experience. Its unlike any other place I have ever had the opportunity to snowboard, you are alone, you are out there experiencing what the land has to offer. The mountain gives you all the terrain and powder you could ask for, there are no limits to what you can find if you look. All the effort that goes into finding your own perfect line makes the experience all that more personal. You very well may be the first person to ever lay that particular line, you are an explorer in vast landscape that hides its best for those who venture to it. All that I have done in the days since being here with my cousin and friend I never would have guessed that every day it could be better... and different! The stories just did not match up to the experience it was more beautiful, more peaceful and more fun then I could have imagined. You just don't know till you go.
