Adventure 232
Winter issue of Adventure magazine
Winter issue of Adventure magazine
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all physical laws save gravity. Whether<br />
blistering sun or bitter cold, I skied. I<br />
hiked last lines while sun set. The ‘Plata’<br />
no longer mattered.<br />
Then a big daddy storm came to call.<br />
Vicious wind coupled by low visibility<br />
closed Lagunillas for three days, sending<br />
Nelson (and the mule) scurrying to the<br />
valley below. I was forgotten, lightless<br />
and isolated within La Francesca. But<br />
rather than shiver, I made a date with<br />
said storm. Battening all hatches, and<br />
touching wood for an absent beacon,<br />
I set a boot pack into void. It was a<br />
scenario I’d never imagined for myself<br />
yet somehow felt drawn to all the same;<br />
navigating by inner compass, seeking to<br />
carve my own line leading home.<br />
Years have passed, yet skiing remains<br />
the source. For it I’ve risked frostbite,<br />
suffered crooks, lied to bosses, bailed<br />
on girlfriends, crashed in bathtubs, and<br />
accepted without reservation that this,<br />
to me, is a lifelong romance, simply<br />
because Eetz-Eem-Por-Tant. Sometimes<br />
that’s all there is to say.<br />
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