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Go Fat Conditioning Program, Death Spiral Edition

Go Fat Conditioning Program, Death Spiral Edition
Paul Ferrel riding Mt. Baker, WA’s Easton Glacier circa 1990. Before splitboards were a common thing, and when bootpacking was the way. Photo: John Erben
Words John Erben

SEA-TAC Airport, July 7, 2021—12:35 a.m. 

I am 64 years old, broke, uninsured and alive in the Superunknown.

I am Gen Jones, and have identified as a snowboarder since 1989. I saw Mojo Nixon play at the Central Tavern in Seattle on my 30th birthday and started snowboarding six months later. These facts are related, but not easily related. 

I have lived in Pacific Ocean states my entire life and I am a pacifist 98.6 percent of the time. I tell people I own a gun because it has rights that I don’t, but mostly it’s because I always end up living around bears. I sequester carbon in my snowboards because I care. Progression to me means switching leads with my dogs when breaking trail uphill splitboarding. 

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