Git Yo Ass Up that Mountain!

I‟d just like to say…
Git Yo Ass Up that Mountain!
Alaska Chick‟s
Sheep Hunting Book
Chisana, 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

“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

“When your work
speaks for itself, don‟t
interrupt.”
Henry J. Kaiser
~ Shhh… it is easier to climb without
jabbering…

“If it‟s not fun, you‟re
not doing it right.”
~ Bob Basso
~ Try again!

“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!

“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

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

"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
Determined
~ 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.

“Take your time.
Especially when
you‟re in a hurry.”
~ Gretchen Rubin

Believe in yourself.
~ They do.

“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

“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

Be prepared…
and keep climbing

“Learn to smile at every
situation. See it as an
opportunity to prove your
strength and ability.”
~ Joe Brown

“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

“Always bear in mind that
your own resolution to
succeed is more important
than any other”
– Abraham Lincoln

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)

"What you are doing is
not nearly as important
as 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

“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

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

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

“Don‟t let life
discourage you;
everyone who got
where he is had to
begin where he was.”
~ Richard L. Evans

“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 STOP
Until 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

~ 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
matters
MOST
today.

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

“We see things not
as they are, but as
we are.”
~ H. M. Tomlinson

“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

“I learn something
every time I go into
the mountains.”
~ Michael Kennedy

“That which doesn‟t
kill us makes us
stronger.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~ Hmphf.

~ 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

“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.

“Be steady
to your purposes
and firm as a rock.‟
~ Frakenstein.

~ 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

“..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

~ 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.

~ 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.

“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

~ 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

~ 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

“There will come a time
when you believe
everything
is finished.
That will be the
beginning.”
~ Louis L”Amour

~ 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

~ 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‟T
Expect 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.

~ The Mountain‟s Gift.
Forgiveness, Comfort, Strength,
Silence.

UNLESS you
PUKE, FAINT
Or Die …
KEEP GOING.

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!

Git Yo Ass Up that Mountain!

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