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    High pressure in Haines

    By Mary Fenton

    Published Friday June 11, 2010

    Curtis Ciszek scopes his next line.

    Blair Habenicht

    Blair HabenichtCurtis Ciszek scopes his next line.

    Lib and Volcom ripper-in-residence Blair Habenicht is back with his latest column -- a dispatch from Haines -- where he talks about heli-ing with Absinthe and Volcom for next year's flicks:

    Tangled currents of wind converge and buck against the A-star as we hover over the kitchen-table sized platform I have chosen as my entrance to a curtain of spines below. Rocking in the mangled rhythm and waiting for a skid to touch down, I hear Al Holzman -- Haines, Alaska's most recognized helicopter pilot -- over the headset telling me he will not be landing a skid this morning. The wind is too unpredictable and he would instead like me to jump ...

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