“I started to get pretty frickin’ excited and more nervous once we were cruising over the snowy peaks. We approached the run and told the pilot to circle it a couple times so we could get a good look. You’re staring out a small foggy window while the helicopter circles to drop you off on a peak you’ve never seen. It’s a total panic sometimes: You see a line for a second, the heli turns, and hopefully you get another peek at it before you’re sitting up on top going, “Is that it? That’s all I have to go on?”
—from Meteorite, Andy Hetzel’s story of conquering a long-desired Alaskan run

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