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Travis took this idea about the hydrological cycle
and turned it into this epic journey.
This hydrological cycle, it's easy to just write it off as, well,
that's the weather.
We steal a lot of the magic from things that we give names to.
It's this beautiful, choreographed cycle of life.
If you were standing on the moon
looking back at Earth, at one point during the day,
you're looking at a blue planet.
The ocean traps the sun's heat energy and turns it into a solar engine.
A system of ocean currents called the North Pacific Gyre
moves in a clockwise direction, driven by wind and the rotation of the Earth,
distributing this heat energy around the planet.
This helps fuel the storms that drive our winters.
I realized, by combining my love of the ocean with my love of the mountains,
it might be possible to actually follow the flow around the North Pacific,
travel with the water that melts down from the Continental Divide,
sail with it as it sweeps across the ocean,
and turns into the snow that blankets Japan.
The cycle swings up and tears past the Kamchatka peninsula,
and then finally banks into the catcher's mitt that forms the Gulf of Alaska.
These charged weather systems coming off the ocean hit these coastal mountains,
which ring out precipitation like a sponge,
creating some of the most incredible snow formations on the planet.
The most extreme example of this is in the zone in AK we named, "So Far Gone."
I've never seen a place like this before.
The way this snow sticks to the mountains creates these pillowed spine lines
that are totally sci-fi.
Since the first time I saw it I haven't stopped thinking about it.
The whole area has ice up high that forms these natural kickers.
It's subtle, but this allows you to do tricks you couldn't pull off
in a normal AK style line.
I look at mountains and I ride them in my mind.
The possibilities for progression mother nature has provided here,
it's unparalleled.
This area is so remote, we have to camp,
and because it's protected wilderness, we can't use helis.
We have to hike.
It's a purely human-powered mission.
Once Travis has an idea in his head, it's really hard for him to let it go.
I think the only thing Travis is afraid of is failure.
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