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wilks
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Amazing. Taking notes over here.
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Awesome adventure. Great photos.
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As always, pure awesomesauce.
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Awesome work Porter. Great pictures
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I finally read this. I knew it would take time. This takes trip reports to a new level, adventurous, literate, and graphical. Obviously been working on the photo skills, wow. I feel the same about finally turning around, you just don't know what you might be missing if you just cross that next pass, go over that next dune, or whatever. However, I don't think I am up for a 12 day solo. At least I can say I have been to Kootenay, Louise, the icefields, and Jasper, which is probably the most beautiful place I have ever been though I might have been hypoxic from driving from the 300 mile stretches you find out there. I was excited when I read Porter was only 2.5 hours from Alaska, then I looked at the map. That is not the Alaska that I saw. Stewart is a Canadian village at the southern tip of Alaska that has one road which leaks into US territory for some long stretch returning to BC even before getting anywhere close to Yukon. Fairbanks would have still been a 3 or more day drive. There is a lot of empty up there.
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Also I was sorry to see that Porter lost a leg on this trip. The cold can do that. Pretty impressive how he was able to carry on.
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Adaptive skiers are amazing.
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