When I was 17 I went to Alaska and learned how to mountaineer in the back-country for just over a month through NOLS, the National Outdoor Leadership School. How I ever convinced my parents to let me do this, I’ll never know.
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6/20/2009 Today was such an exciting day! I love it here, and we’re not even in the field yet, haha. It started early with me and Ian waking up at 5:30am to get breakfast. It was good, and I ate a TON of bacon. Next, we packed everything up and headed to the train station where I met the rest
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6/23/09 Hello again! Well today we had oatmeal for breakfast and then hiked for 4.5 hours, and it’s the first time my morale got pretty low. About two hours in I had to put moleskin on both arches of my feet, and wrap my left foot in duct tape since I was getting some serious hot spots. It was SO
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6/19/2009 Wow, I can’t believe I’m actually here! My flights were good, Louisville to Cleveland was REALLY bumpy, while I slept most of the time on my other two flights. Also I got 150 pages of “Alaska” read, and that book is addicting haha. Finally once in Anchorage I got my bags and was picked up by the Alaska House
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The Running Yak 