Patagonia has just launched a podcast, Patagonia Stories. In each episode,

host our Chana Rom will explore how we gather knowledge and ask questions about our relationship

to each other in the natural world. Questions like, how are lessons passed down through generations

to help us feel at home? What barriers prevent us from acquiring natural wisdom? How can we adapt

in the face for rapidly changing climate? There's so much more to come. You can find the first season

of Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts.

You're listening to The Derback Dary, a production of Duck Tape Then Beer, with additional support from

Kuat Racks because you love your bike, athletic greens, the daily drink for healthier you,

and kicking horse coffee, wake up and kick ass.

You ready? My partner, Mike, ask me. I exhale sharply and nod. Ready, I answer.

Even though I'm quite certain, I'm not. Mike steps gingerly onto the steep face of the

aptly named ribbon, the rope trailing behind him. Disturbed by Mike's skis, the frozen snow

shatters into pieces which roll down the steep face, pick up speed, and then skip over the cliff,

just 20 feet to our left. I count the seconds in my head until I hear it, those same ice chunks

shattering on the rock some 600 feet below. It is May 2nd, 2019. We're about to spend the next

four hours attempting to not fall off that cliff. If everything goes right, I will finally be done

with a project more than two years in the making. But if something goes wrong, well, then we will share

the same fate as those chunks of ice. I remind myself the reason I'm standing on this menacing

ledge, scared out of my wits. I set a goal in December of 2016 to ski all 90 lines and

Andrew McClean's iconic ski guidebook, The Shooting Gallery, a guide to steep skiing in the

Wasatch. Published in 1998, The Shooting Gallery was the first guidebook to ignore the powder

seeking skier and focus solely on the world of steep, high consequence slopes. In 2016,

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