I finally made it to Alaska. I have been here for 2 days now and it is snowing heavily, which is good in our case. The mountains look incredible and ready to shred. There are also some funny people here, who seem to like roller skates and guitars. When it stopped snowing it was finally time to go out and ride. The Alarm goes off at 5.30am...my first riding day A.K again. I woke up in the town of Haines and from my window I could see dark and think clouds, not a very promising sight. But I am optimistic. I get in the car and drive 33 miles to the heli base, during the drive over there, there were windows of blue skies, I am getting amped and ready. This is what riding big lines is all about, mixed emotions inside. Feeling amazed, but also feeling nervous during the drive. Then the heli starts and excitement rushes in. You fly up and you get an amazing view of spectacular ranges. Than when the heli dropped you of, fear starts kicking in as you stand on top of a huge mountain. You drop in...concentration...focus throughout the run ...and finally a big adrenaline rush at the bottom. I got in 7 runs with cliffs, spines and chutes. I did 2 mellow ones (on Alaskan terms) just to get the feeling back. But every run here is long and sick. It was great to get back the sense of being in the heli, and also re regain my confidence to ride big lines. I went snowboarding in a region called the sorcerers bowl, wizards wand and porkispines. Offcourse I didn’t went riding alone, my shred buddies are Brodie Cook (New Zealand), Daniel Kundernatsch (Austria) and David Schicht (Sweden). They all ride solid and strong, they are still buzzing from their first runs in Alaska. Tomorrow they expect bad weather but we will head out either way, looking for patches of blue sky and insane snow. As the people say here “Alaskan weather is a bit like Las Vegas, you have got to get lucky”. But it is great to be back. Click the photo icon to view some pictures. All pictures are courtesy of Daniel Kundernatsch.