"You'll make the biggest mistake of your life if you don't make it here."
July 1, 2009, 1:35 PM
By: Tracy Anderson
Here is the 10th and final episode of Tailgate Alaska—an event that if you've been following the series, you know is no small tribute to the lifestyle and type of riding that the area offers. It's a theme that's been constant: Alaska, a place all unto its own, a proving ground, where the journey becomes the destination, and other never-ending platitudes of praise.
You might think, man, this is excessive. This is the most brazen brown-nosing a region has ever seen.
Year after year we hear it and see it, in mags, in movies, here on the web. You think it would get tired. You would think. But then you see the turns you could be having, the blower pow, the wide-open bowls, the tight couloirs, chutes, natural halfpipes and windlips; all of it is there, and on such a grand scale.
So you let the dream continue one more year. And for those who have already made the trek, for those who have experienced the mountains of Alaska. Well, of course they're coming back.
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Contributors
Tracy Anderson
Drinks coffee. Writes about snowboarding. Enjoys a strong snus. Appreciates a good back lip.
Mary Fenton
Would rather be riding pow, sucking at skateboarding or thinking up new names for her deaf dog and fake band.
Colin Whyte
Below the Fold. Beyond the Pale. Between the Lines. Beneath the Rose. He's a Secret Society of One.
Jesse Huffman
Loves a cold a.m. shred and late day skate. Thinks green is the new black, but should really be the new normal.
Brad Farmer
Grows seasonal crops. Where there's powder and shred news, a Farmer will follow.
Blair Habenicht
A Northwest-grown snow slider with a tendency to blow off any obligations if the snow is falling.
Nate Deschenes
Blessed with the attention span of a gnat. Prefers a #2 Ticonderoga and Trapper Keeper to a MacBook.
Tim Brodhagen
Tim Brodhagen shreds the ice coast on the reg, speaks Portuguese and almost never eats breakfast.
Melissa Larsen
Melissa Larsen likes slashing, sleeping, and talking smack. Not necessarily in that order.
