Our team recently finished an on-snow camp at the Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier outside of Girdwood, AK. Here are a couple of pictures and a quick review of the week:
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Lift off in the helicopter….
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Keith Essex of Alpine Air is one of the best pilots around. He gets us to the glacier quickly but more importantly, SAFELY. I highly recommend Alpine for anyone visiting AK who is looking for a cool sight-seeing opportunity…..
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Lifting up above the clouds…..
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Home sweet home
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Touch down on Eagle
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Unloading and waving goodbye to Keith
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Erik’s excited to be on the glacier for the first trip of the summer!
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Technique advice from an “AK style onesie”
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APU Girls: Holly, Fitz, Tax, Sadie, GA, Wrecka
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Most of the pictures are the glorious days but the majority of our sessions looked exactly like THIS. Glamorous huh?
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Then these are the days we live for…. and enjoy even more
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Becca and Fitz putting in their time
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Skiing into a glacier cloud
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Me 🙂
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Casey Fagerquist – our ski tech/glacier manager/all around good guy
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Our ever-enthusiastic leader, Erik Flora
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Our old teammate and new glacier assistant, Mikey Matteson!
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The staff 🙂
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Me putting in the Ks!
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One of the beautiful snow features on the glacier….. a really big hole you DON’T want to ski into.
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OMG. Is that a FOOT massage?
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Planks and core work up on the glacier
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A shameless plug for Swix – the best wax/ski pole brand!
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Fitz squatting it up!
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Reese!
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One of our new teammates, Erik Bjornsen
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Alpine flowers found at the beginning of the hike down
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Slightly picturesque
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Literally sliding back into reality and life off the glacier.
Until next time!
Thanks for reading,
Holly 🙂
