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I would personally qualify almost the entirety of my snowboarding season as deep time. I’ll lay out each scenario so it’s easy to understand how. In the morning, getting up at around 5 a.m., warming up my jeep, loading up all my gear with my friends all auditioning for roles of zombies in the next big film. Taking the hour or so car ride up the frost-bitten west side of Mt. Baker in utter silence, omitting the sound of quiet rock music. Arriving to the slopes, riding the first chair for about ten minutes, slowly working our way up the mountain for a day of riding in the cold, quiet atmosphere that Mt. Baker provides. Then around 4 p.m., heading back to the car, taking the car ride home while everyone is in the same state of mind they were that morning because of the expenditure of energy that day took. Each part of that day provides a seemingly repetitive scenario, with plenty of time for contemplation on whatever is happening at that time. It fits Birkert’s definition because when the actual event is happening, it’s repetitive. It teaches you how to do it better because you do it so much over and over it engraves the memory of how to do it in your mind. Not only that, but when he uses a scenario for depth he describes it as “prison reading,” or like being stranded on an island. The picture I get from this is the repetitive nature in which you approach reading because it’s the only thing to do. Just like on the mountain, snowboarding is the only thing to do if that’s the activity you chose, so you do it over and over. Also, it provides solitude. Because you draw an image of being alone in the descriptions he provides. And when your on a mountain free-riding, it’s the same kind of concept.