My first backcountry ski song. I went to Ruedi Berlinger’s Selkirk Mountain Experience in British Columbia Canada in 2001. We rose in the dark and climbed all morning, sometimes 4 or 5 hours before de-skinning and skiing down. As it says on Ruedi’s brochure “We ski from the top.” He means the very top regardless of if you can see your glove in front of your face. There is a whole lot of time to let rhythms and words float into your brain when you are marching along slowly uphill for that long. I had the song complete in the first few days. I’ve found this song to be a great climbing companion.