I’d just like to say…

Git Yo Ass Up that Mountain!Alaska Chick’s

Sheep Hunting BookChisana, Alaska

Git Yo Ass Up that Mountain!

I have been asked a time or two over the last few years to share my own personal motivation for hauling my wore-out, getting old and damaged self up the next mountain, each and every time…

(^^shrugging ^^) … Ok! Why not…

“It's a helluva start, being able to

recognize what makes you happy.”

~Lucille Ball>~< It makes a HUGE difference! >~<

Don’t be afraid… the very thing you are looking for may be just around that bend, over that hill, behind

that rock …

“Whatever you do, do your best.

Do it with passion.Do it with heart.”

~ Stan Faryna

…I could add a few… but SOMEONE would be bound

to take offense! ~ You know I am right!

“Show up. Not just in person,

but spiritually, emotionally and

mentally. Be there.”~ Betsy Cross

A good Leader knows, there is ALWAYS a positive side…

Changing the Lead… this one has a lot of meaning, for myself. The world is so much brighter, so much

lighter now… that I have opened my eyes.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's

thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own

inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your

heart and intuition.” ~ Steve Jobs

Our deepest fear…

“If you have to do it every day,

for God's sake learn to do it well.” 

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

And sometimes, they beat you up the mountain, so get moving!

“Damaged people are dangerous.  They know they

can survive.”  ~Josephine Hart

~ This used to hurt, being called “damaged”. Now?

Not so much.

Sometimes, no matter how hard you climb, you come down empty handed.

Climb again tomorrow.

They are called “man-hours”

because a woman would finish that shit in

20 minutes.~ Just sayin’

All you need is love…and a horse!

And Tuesday And Wednesday And Thursday And Friday, And

Saturday And Sunday…

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do

not stop.” ~ Confucius

Really.

Just ask…

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” Henry J. Kaiser

~ Shhh… it is easier to climb without jabbering…

I’m moving it!

“If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it

right.” ~ Bob Basso

~ Try again!

Leaders don’t stop. Ever.

“In order to win, you must expect to win.”

~ Richard Bach

~ I only ever expect to climb one mountain, every ten days. Ever.

Sometimes, it even works!

Yes, this is my office.

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

Don’t be Stupid.It really is that simple.

“Bad things can happen, and often do ~ but they only take up a

few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”

~ James A. Owen

Now? It depends on how irritating you are.

You are not alone.…and neither am I…

Just be GREAT!~ No one can stop you!

“There’s always a way – if you’re

committed.” ~ Tony Robbins

~ Why? Because I love it!

Who says that? ~ I do! All the time!

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I

remember. Involve me and I learn.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

~ I am so blessed. Every day.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every

experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror.

I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Yeah. If only.At least they don’t hang out at the top of the mountains!

~ I can ride when we are done.

Climb.

“How to make God laugh: Tell Him

your future plans.” ~ Woody Allen

Be Determine

d~ Don’t quit. Be Determined. Don’t let anyone tell you that it is impossible.

Be Determined. If you fall, stand up. Be

Determined. If you fail, try again. Be Determined. If it

hurts, tend it, stretch it and try again. Be Determined. If it rains, get wet.

Be Determined.

“Only for today, I will seek to live the

livelong day positively without wishing to

solve the problems of my life all at once.”

~ Pope John XXIII (pope 1958- 1963), known as “The Good Pope,” from his Daily Decalogue

Keep Going. There is always a way. Go around it. Go through it.

Go over it. Just keep going.

~ Walk the Talk.

“Take your time. Especially when

you’re in a hurry.” ~ Gretchen Rubin

Believe in yourself.~ They do.

Climb.Lead the way.

“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it

interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is

interested in the group.” ~ Russell H. Ewing

You are NOT alone.~ Ever.

“It’s hard to beat a person who never

gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth

~ How absolutely COOL is that?

So Much!So, go make a difference!

“As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only

one in the room with balls.”

~ Rita Mae Brown

Just keep going.

~ Remember your WHY.

Be prepared…and keep climbing

“Learn to smile at every situation.  See

it as an opportunity to prove your strength

and ability.”  ~ Joe Brown

~ Keep Going.

“God grant me the courage not to give up

what I think is right even though I think it

is hopeless.”  ~ Chester W. Nimitz

Uh-huh.But it bound to be better at the

top of the mountain ~ So Go!

Be the strength.For you. For them.

“You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit.  It feels good to show some courage.” 

~Joe Namath

Climb.~ THEN, coffee.

“Always bear in mind that your own

resolution to succeed is more important than

any other” – Abraham Lincoln

~ Feel that?

YOU ARE ALIVE!

One step. Then another.Don’t be afraid, just take another step.

“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to

accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put

that passing time to the best possible use.”

~ Earl Nightingale

~ This is your life. Your choice.Be Happy!

~ Don’t listen to ANYTHING that makes you slow down.

Climb.

"The trouble with using experience as

a guide is that the final exam often comes

first and then the lesson."

~ Unknown (Laughing, uncontrollably)

Just do it. Climb.

Keep climbing.

 "What you are doing is not nearly as

importantas how you feel about what you are doing."

~ Clifton Burke

~ But what have you done, TODAY?

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes

from an indomitable will."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

So, since that Dall Ram wasn’t waiting for you in the creek,

best get climbing.

~ Every single step brings you closer. Keep going.

“It is a sign of an educated mind to be able to entertain a

thought without accepting it.”

~ Aristotle

So. I suppose we best begin.Climb!

~ They are there. Somewhere.Go find them.

“There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few that learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee

on the electric fence.”~ Unknown

~ It’s not easy.How cool is that?

Repeat After Me:“Fuck it. I am going to be

HAPPY!”~ Alaska Chick

Get moving!

“If you find a thing difficult, consider whether it would be possible for any person to do it. Because anything that is humanly possible, that falls within human

capabilities - you too can accomplish.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

That’s right. So keep climbing.

You ARE the guide.Be the Leader.

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are

right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end

requires courage.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go see! See what there is to see, at the top.

Who could dream of this?It must be real. And it is YOURS.

“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what

you're willing to give up in order to do the things you

really care about.” ~ Shauna Niequist

Wanna ride? Go hunt some monster-moose?

Then, CLIMB.

~ They said I would never walk again.

~ They said I would never ride again.

~ They said I would never be ABLE to climb.

~ They said I would never become a Professional Guide.

~ They said I would never be anything special.

THEY WERE WRONG

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”

~ Barry Finlay

This is my life. 😃

I started telling myself years ago, “If you live through it, you have bragging rights.”

Damn straight. ... and I have lived through a

lot.~ Alaska Chick

Don’t Suck. Climb.

Every time, there is a gift to be had… at the top of that Mountain.

“Courage is being scared to death but

saddling up anyway.”

~ John Wayne

YOU are the MOUNTAIN

And just climb.

“Don’t let life discourage you;

everyone who got where he is had to

begin where he was.”

~ Richard L. Evans

Keep climbing.

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The

more you sweat, the luckier you

get.” ~ Ray Kroc

~ Listen.You have to

do it anyways.Why not enjoy it?

Seriously.How AMAZING

is this?YOU ~ Climbing a

MOUNTAIN.WOW.

That ~ Really is Amazing.

Now, start climbing.And ~ Listen, now,

DON’T STOPUntil you reach

the top.

She Believes in me.

THAT. Is enough.

~ Climb.

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is

hard,’ I am always tempted to ask,

‘Compared to what?’” ~ Sydney Harris

Climb without relent.

~ One foot in front of the other… or any other way that works

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

~ Jimmy Johnson

~So have

an INCREDIBLE

One!~

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

~ Henry Ford

~ Reaching the top of

the mountain is what mattersMOST today.

~ Look around.~ Do you see?

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” ~ Richard Bach

~Me neither.

“We see things not as they are, but as we are.”

~ H. M. Tomlinson

So do it.Git!Go!

“Let’s all just take a moment, here on the side of the mountain, half way up and be

thankful that spiders can’t fly.”

~ Alaska Chick

~ Use your whole heart, and CLIMB!

“All our dreams can come true

~ if we have the COURAGE

to pursue them.” ~ Walt Disney

There it is, Go for it!

So can you!

“I learn something every time I go into the

mountains.”~ Michael Kennedy

Keep going.

“That which doesn’t kill us

makes us stronger.”  

~ Friedrich Nietzsche~ Hmphf.

~ So keep climbing.

~ I do believe I’ll go big!

~ you really are. You are ALL you need to be. All you have to do is

keep going.

“It doesn’t matter where you are coming from.

All that matters is where you are going.”

~ Brian Tracy

~ and if THAT isn’t ironic!What a hoot!

“It is not in the pursuit of happiness

that we find fulfillment, it is in the

happiness of pursuit.”

~ Denis Waitley

Be WHO you say YOU are.

“We’re afraid, it’s because we don’t

know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be

afraid.” ~ E. Nightingale

Go! See what’s there,waiting to be seen.

Each climb.Earns me this:

“Be steady to your purposes

and firm as a rock.’

~ Frakenstein.  

~ I will climb that mountain.

~ and I’ve been asked them ALL…

“Nothing will work unless

you do.” ~ Maya Angelou   

~ Sometimes, “Hell” looks just like a mountain.

The day’s not over

yet.

>~<Keep

Climbing.

“Things are beautiful if you

love them.” ~ Jean Anouilh  

I’m here. That’s reason enough to keep climbing.

~ So just keep going.

~ Learn some more.

~ Practice some more.

~ Climb some more.

~ The Mountain may hurt

you. Sometimes,

they do.But!

You wont be bored.

“Absorb what is useful, reject what

is useless, add what is specifically

your own.“ ~ Bruce Lee

Danger ~ Opportunity

~ YOU are NOT alone.

“..a hunger that will drive your desire to be smarter, better, faster and more capable to do that one thing you

were born to do.” ~ Mark Harai

So what are you waiting for?~ Go!

~ What this means is, all you have to do is not stop. Keep going.

~ That is what

continuous effort is. Keep learning, keep practicing, keep climbing.

Don’t Quit.

~ Until Scotty arrives, you are gonna have to climb.

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-

to-itiveness, and Common sense.” ~

Thomas A. Edison

~ Nope.

~ It’s worth it. Whatever it takes, it’s worth it.

“I don’t need anger management. I need

people to stop pissing me off.”

~ Alaska Chick

~ Like when you get to

the top of the mountain and you realize it wasn’t really

the top.

There’s more.

A lot more.

~ Can you hear the music?

~ The Mountain is waiting.

GO climb it.

“I may look calm, but in my head I have killed you 3

times already.Violently.”~ Alaska Chick

Be Happy!~ It is a choice. Every

moment, every day. Are you going to be happy? It’s an easy question. Yes! Or

no.

You are exactly as happy as you choose to be. Nothing else matters, really. It may rain. The Sheep may run

off before we get half way there.

Either way, we are going to climb. We are going to

hunt.

~ Might as well be happy about it.

~ Just like that.

~ My number one reason.

~ Keep climbing.

“I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with

the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a

private man.”  ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1809

~ Stop. Breathe. Climb.

~ The mountain stands there.

Waiting for you.Waiting for you to understand

its point.

~ Its point?

~ To share its secrets, its gifts

and its blessings.

~ But you have to climb it, to

receive it.

“Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to

start a movement.” 

~ Max Lucado

~ Be Bold!

~ Really. It would be a lot of fun. Especially after I climb this

mountain!

“When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you

will command the attention

of the world.” ~ George Washington Carver

~ It’s supposed to be fun.

~ I love this shit.

“There will come a time when you believe

everything is finished.

That will be the beginning.” ~ Louis L”Amour

~ Luck counts too.

~ I don’t really have

to add anything,

right?

“If you want a happy ending, that

depends, of course, on where you stop

your story.” ~ Orson Welles

~ I’ve got this. Relax.

~ Chisana.

I woke up, so long ago, my first morning here; I knew I had come home.

Everything was new and different. A little scary and very hard.

It didn’t take long to understand that Chisana was inside of me.

A part of my soul.

It only took a little longer to understand another piece of my soul was actually Pioneer Outfitters.

This is Chisana.We are Pioneer Outfitters.

~ Be a Fruit Loop

In a world full of Cheerios.

~ It’ll make you feel special!

~ There is nothing that compares to looking out, As far as you can see;

Seeing the immenseness and beauty of the wilderness.

“Never will I leave you.

Never will I forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:5~ Talk about a promise.

Rainbows…~ The magic that surrounds us is visible sometimes.

The rainbow.

It is there to remind us to see what surrounds us, even when it isn’t obvious.

It is there to remind us that those precious fleeting moments may vanish without ever being loved if we cannot grasp the gift in front of us.

Open your eyes, open your heart to the world and it is yours.

~ Hey! I like it… I like it a lot!

DON’TExpect results from

EXCUSES~ Seriously.

No matter how long it takes,like Spring, you will get there.

~ You already know what your strengths are.

~ Now, work on your weaknesses.

~ Be More.

~ Be Better.

~ Be Cooler.

Is THATALL

You Got?CLIMB.

~ The Mountain’s Gift.Forgiveness, Comfort, Strength,

Silence.

UNLESS youPUKE, FAINT

Or Die …KEEP GOING.

Climb to Ride…

You are more important than you realize.

~ Remember:

It may suck getting there.

But.

The rewards are endless!

“George, George, George of the Jungle!Be as strong as you can be!”

~ My theme song, mumbled indecipherably as I climb!

Treat people as you would like to

be treated.Karma is only a bitch if you are.

The Mountain.

~ This is how other people see the top.

Not you. Go.

See it, where it’s heart is.

The top.Now, climb.

~ Yeah. That’s me. Happy to be here, thanks.

Not to spoil the ending for you,

but everything is going to be

WONDERFUL!