One for Ten Cabin Fever in Haines Alaska

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One for Ten: Cabin Fever in Haines Alaska by Adam Longnecker

05/05/2001

Mountains, massive piles of rock and earth shaped by glaciers, erosion, and weather; can conjure feelings of awe, enlightenment and fear in people. For millions of years weather systems have shed soft crystals of snow on these massive peaks, and now we stand as mere specs inrepparttar history of these giants, aloft on their high ridgelines. As we descend a sensation secretes from our brains pulsing throughout our bodies as adrenaline, sculpting our passion to return torepparttar 134030 top of these towering peaks over and over again.

Jason Shutz waited a long time for this turn. Photo: Longnecker

Pursuing their love forrepparttar 134031 mountains, Jason Shutz, Bill Buchbauer, Annie Fast, Chris Ankeny and Tom Routh headed for southeast Alaska in late April– Haines, Alaska to be exact. Haines has been moderately popular amongrepparttar 134032 ski and snowboard film crews for years, but still contains plenty of pristine wilderness only attainable by glacier plane and split board. The posse, made up of Montanans, headed to Haines for an affordable backcountry trip aboard Cessna ski planes. They were armed with split boards, mountaineering gear, and winter camping equipment. Duringrepparttar 134033 first two weeks of Aprilrepparttar 134034 group bagged a lot of great sunny days up onrepparttar 134035 glaciers, split boarding new lines and eying up lines for next year.

After a full day of Air Travel from Montana I arrived in Haines, Alaska aboard a single engine Cessna. Haines is positioned atrepparttar 134036 North end of Alaska's Inside Passage and atrepparttar 134037 Northern end of America's longest Fjord. The town shares its border with 20 million acres of protected wilderness: Glacier Bay National Park is 25 miles by air, and Canada's Kluane National Park and Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park are just uprepparttar 134038 road. A Bald Eagle Preserve is also just outside of Haines givingrepparttar 134039 area an amazing collection of dramatic scenery and plethora of wildlife. Day Two of my trip was like 99% of Alaska days: it rained. The Montana posse that I came to hook up with spentrepparttar 134040 day recuperating from a 4-day backcountry camping /split-boarding trip. I sat and listened to spook stories about new uncharted areas with sketchy snow pack, hairball plane flights onto glaciers, and allrepparttar 134041 great runs in between. Make no mistake; no matter where you ride at home, Alaska is bigger. Everything in AK is big:repparttar 134042 mountains,repparttar 134043 fish,repparttar 134044 wildlife,repparttar 134045 trees, everything is just so damn gigantic. The air was getting cold and it was snowing onrepparttar 134046 peaks; our conversations turned torepparttar 134047 next mission oncerepparttar 134048 sun broke again andrepparttar 134049 stoke began to build among us.

This would have been an action photos, but it's raining. Photo: Longnecker

The rain continued forrepparttar 134050 next eight days with little sign ofrepparttar 134051 sun. Chris, Annie, and Tom went home leaving Jason, Bill, and I to wait forrepparttar 134052 sun. Pool, darts, scrabble, ping-pong, eating, reading, beer, coffee, beer, coffee, fishing, hiking, and hacky sack becamerepparttar 134053 motion ofrepparttar 134054 days. Cabin fever can invoke some strangeness in people and after eight days of rain and no riding;repparttar 134055 walls were closing in – I can't take it, I can't take it. Freaking out and pounding your head onrepparttar 134056 wall is no way to deal with it, sowe ran around inrepparttar 134057 rain for a few hours. But that was a bad idea. We ate again even through we'd eaten an hour ago, and two hours before that. We were beginning to lose our minds and we only had two days left; The northern lights are out that evening and it was clear – would it be clear inrepparttar 134058 morning? That wasrepparttar 134059 question.

Las Vegas Trips: SIN CITY U.S.A or FAMILY PLAYGROUND

Written by Joan Ewart


Las Vegas Trips – Sin City U.S.A or Family Playground Las Vegas inrepparttar past was known forrepparttar 134029 3 G’s – glitz, glamour, gambling…and it hasn’t changed that much, except duringrepparttar 134030 90’s there wasrepparttar 134031 big push to get families to Las Vegas, but let’s face it how many Las Vegas trips offered hotels or attractions for families with kids! So Las Vegas catered torepparttar 134032 family trade for a while. The new motto for Vegas is “What Happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”! that’s called latitude!The pendulum has definitely swungrepparttar 134033 other way. A Las Vegas trip today is likerepparttar 134034 days of old! Sin City, here we come. Now atrepparttar 134035 former Treasure Island you’ll find The Sexy Sirens of TI at Siren’s Cove in front ofrepparttar 134036 famed newly named TI Hotel, with barley clothed sirens in a show billed as Song, Dance and Danger!At Rio Suites, their byline is Exotic, Uninhibited, Fun. Uninhibited.

A newly redesigned Shimmer Cabaret in The Las Vegas Hilton offers “Aussie Angels,” a hot new show that offers interaction ofrepparttar 134037 dancers withrepparttar 134038 audience. Hot, Hot, Hot.In fact these days you don’t even have to go torepparttar 134039 showrooms to view outrageously pretty gals, scantily clad, you can go to any ofrepparttar 134040 major hotel pools orrepparttar 134041 discos or lounges. Tryrepparttar 134042 pool atrepparttar 134043 Royal Palms. A trip torepparttar 134044 biggest party pool atrepparttar 134045 Hard Rock should do it. More stars and super models than most, so be sure in you're in good shape if you go. Caesar's Palace offersrepparttar 134046 Garden ofrepparttar 134047 Gods Pool andrepparttar 134048 Bellagio has an 85,000 square foot pool and holdsrepparttar 134049 title for "most luxurious". Many good looking girls here as well.Gentlemen’s Clubs have increased in number and offer stunning topless revues. The Golden Nugget is a case in point with its “Hot Stuff” late night show. The Gentlemen’s clubs have multiplied, because ofrepparttar 134050 lack of sexy shows in Vegas and lets face it’s what many visitors have always associated with Las VegasThere are of course “family shows and venues”. Excalibur offers a castle theme complete with kings, knights and fire-breathing dragon…Children under 12 can stay for F.R.E.E. and they even offer a F.R.E.E. buffet for children 4-10.  Circus Circus offer The World's Largest Permanent Circus, with world-renowned live circus acts performed F.R.E.E. every day. Children under 17 – no charge!

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