The 100% Perfect Skiing Run Ernest Hemingway asserted that all he had to do was write One True Sentence. Well, sure – easy I suppose. He did it a bunch of times though. There was something about going out too far to catch a fish. And knowing that he was headed to the snowy summit of Kilamanjaro…that one never made any sense to me, how was he going to recover from his infected thorn scratch at that altitude? But his truest sentence (most true?) he ever wrote was about skiing from his greatest masterpiece, the six-page short Cross-Country Snow : “There’s nothing really can touch skiing…It’s too swell to talk about.” That sentence is true enough, but it didn’t prevent him from talking about skiing on several more occasions and mostly getting it right, both the skiing powder part and the social part (and the, um, alcohol part). And this was in 1924, when it would seem the sport of skiing barely resembles what we do today. The story begins with two friends, Nick and Georg...
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Stumbling The Pacific Crest Trail: Non-poetic recollections of hiking from Mexico to Canada I have always had much difficulty deciding upon life's little questions. Choices between regular or "perfume and dye free" laundry detergent, or between catsup and ketchup never fail to drive me just short of insanity. The question, "What should I do tonight?" is usually more difficult than "What should I do with my life?" Not to imply that I know what I want to do with my life, it is just that the question does not unnerve me. The decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) was an easy one to make. It actually wasn't much of a decision. It just changed from something I could do into something I was going to do. This happened at some point in 1997. In fourth grade I found a 1971 article ab...