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Adventures in the 49th State

Snowing in September

Flying around the Cook Inlet

9-26-2009

The summer of 2008 was cold and wet, there was less than 5 days over 75 degrees. The first 17 days Tillman was in Alaska it rained every day. After a wet July and August, September began to clear up some but it was still cloudy almost every day. This Friday was the first sunny day of the summer.

A co-worker was going to fly in the afternoon and Tillman was able to invite himself along for the ride. They met at Lake Hood and took after a Tillman received a quick tutorial, they were out and about flying across the Cook Inlet. They flew towards the Beluga Glacier and around Sleeping Lady Mountain. At one point a Bald Eagle soared past the plane going the opposite direction, they were about 800 feet. After and hour they arrived at Mirror Lake and landed to check out a cabin.

After some exploring the two were back in the air and it was time for Tillman to get his wings, Craig let Tillman take the controls and fly for a while. With his heart pounding and palms sweating Tillman flew the plane, after a few minutes his nerves had settled and was flying with confidence.

They flew over another lake and headed back to Anchorage.

Ski Report 2009

January 25, 2009

Skied Saturday and Sunday. Saturday had 3 inches of fresh powder and good visibility. Sunday had 1 inch of new snow. Cool sunset on the way back. Have skied 13 days this season.

January 31, 2009

Skied Saturday. 4 inches of fresh snow plus windblown snow and blue bird skies. Tried doing a 180* and it wasn't pretty. Landed the jump but couldn't ski away, ending every jump on my backside. Now have skied 14 days this season.

January 7th and 8th of 2009

Went down to Girdwood for "Man's Weekend", Tillman finally found some people that he could shred with. First run they hiked to the top of Chilakoot Noel and then traversed through High Traverse. When they got to the bottom they decided to meet up with some buds and ski the North Face. Tillman skied with these guys for the rest of the day and when it was all said and done they had logged 20,000 vertical feet in the day.

The conditions were great with fresh snow and good visibility at the bottom and the top. The middle portion of the mountain had a cloud hovering and it was dense. Could not see more than 10 feet in front of you but as you headed to the top you would emerge from the cloud and have a blue bird sky and the sun shining.

Sunday was much more relaxed and a much shorter day.

16 days of shredding this season.