{"id":317,"date":"2012-11-28T04:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-11-28T04:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:50:22","slug":"so-you-want-to-be-a-heli-ski-guide-freeskier-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/so-you-want-to-be-a-heli-ski-guide-freeskier-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want to be a heli ski guide? &#8211; Freeskier Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freeskier.com\/stories\/so-you-want-be-heli-ski-guide\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/new300_aaronkaritisguiding_ashleybarker_valdezak.jpg?w=640\" alt='So you want to be a heli ski guide? - Freeskier Magazine' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I got to Valdez in November. I woke up the first morning and it was fucking cold. It was negative temps, windy and dark. They asked me if I was a \u201cturn a wrench guy \u201cor an \u201cemail guy\u201d. I looked out the window and saw a full-size dumpster getting blown 30mph down the street and said, \u201cI\u2019m more of a computer guy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/freeskier.com\/stories\/so-you-want-be-heli-ski-guide\">So you want to be a heli ski guide? &#8211; Freeskier Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This made me smile.\u00a0 You haven&#8217;t lived until you see the Giant Eagle Supermarket dumpsters getting blown around the parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to Valdez in November. I woke up the first morning and it was fucking cold. It was negative temps, windy and dark. They asked me if I was a \u201cturn a wrench guy \u201cor an \u201cemail guy\u201d. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/so-you-want-to-be-a-heli-ski-guide-freeskier-magazine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[44,32,67],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-love","tag-chugach","tag-heliski","tag-snow"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}