Sliding Through Cancer

[HotTate]

I've been battling the ol' white dragon for the better part of a year. It felt so insanely good to get back in the powder! Regardless of the chemotherapy and ostomy, I pulled it off!
Well, just barely. Turns out I get super dehydrated due to those two things and got gnarly altitude sickness.
But that one day was EPIC!

[Fritz]

Great therapy!

[TBS]

Hell Ya!

[kathleenturneroverdrive]

That was awesome

[MakersTeleMark]

Solid FKNA!

[HotTate]

thanks guys! here's the song, just incase anyone wants to add it to their pre-shred mix.
https://soundcloud.com/death-cookie/choke-on-snow

[wyeaster]

way to go, man. i bet that was a near complete brain reset. good luck.

[TahoeJ]

Awesome. And good luck with the battle.

[hatchgreenchile]

Way to get after it. A+ stoke

[nutmegchoi]

You are one talented maggot.
Great video editing, great music and great story.
(skiing doesn't suck, either)
Keep fighting the good fight.
Can't wait to see what you can do at 100%.

[Bosco]

Nice. Live fast, forget the die shit for a long while.

[babybear]

Nice tate. Didn't know of your struggle but great video regardless.
Watching in denver airport bar and andrew even got teary eyed when i showed him the vid.
To more epic days!!

[yeahman]

Sweet skiing. Hoping for your full recovery and many more days on the mountain.

[HotTate]

Nice. Live fast, forget the die shit for a long while.

haha, i just realized thats still on my profile! Might need to change that up.

[Piggity]

👌

[Meadow Skipper]

Dude, that was great.

Strength and health to you.

[Mofro261]

Yeah that made me tear up just a little too. Props brotha, way to beat back that bitch.

[Primasativa]

Fucking awesome!

[hawkgt]

Thanks for sharing, snow has a special place in all pur hearts, very glad it is filling your

[gimpy]

laughing, crying, stoked
outfuckingstanding
now beat this motherfucker+++++

[Tri-Ungulate]

Good on ya, mang.

[wkd-rdr]

Show that shit who's boss. Nice work!

[HotTate]

Haha, wasn't trying to make people tear up! Maybe cringe a little. I kept thinking about making a sappy video about cancer, but I just couldn't do it. I'd rather try to make people smile and know that it's not all horrible.
The battle is going as good as possible. I'm a stage 2. I did chemo and radiation last summer to shrink the little fucker and it worked! They did surgery in October and got the tumor out clean with no signs of spreading and the tumor itself was diminished to nearly nothing. Now I'm doing 4 months of chemo pills and dealing with an osotmy. After Chemo ends in March i'll get my butt reconnected!
Funny story. the first day of chemo and radiation there was a picture at the end of a long hallway of The Grand Teton. I walked by it everyday for 6 weeks while taking my beat down. So I set my focus on climbing that thing! This summer I'm going to do with with a bunch of friends from my TGR days including Todd Jones. I'll keep everyone posted on how that's coming along.
Thanks for the support everyone! Keep getting after it and enjoy every damn day that you don't feel like shit!
here's my journal, but i've been bad at updating it lately. https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/t...dowell/journal

[BCMtnHound]

Fabulous edit, and great to hear a positive update on the prognosis!

Damn, but having a 4yr old myself makes my throat catch watching though...

[406]

Nice video-hope your recovery continues to go well.