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crazy climbs......and the ride back down
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this doesnt look bad right now but theres longer and steeper hills and coming down them some times is pretty intense doing about 70 mph dodging snow boulders and ruts
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triple Black
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i turned around 5 feet from the top of monster at yamafest last year, that was one scary turn around but the ride down was not real bad. all the real big climbs are not usualy rutted up like hills like turbo or face of the sugar bowl. its the turn around and the off camber over cliffs you have to worry about.
haha how fast you get moving down that one?
I've used the reverse trick before with mixed results. Most of the time it works well. However, there was one time last year when my bud got trenched really really bad on a steep hillside. I would ride up alongside and past him, then turn out (away from him so I was never close to over-the-top of him... never ride over the top of someone else). In my turn-out, I'd peg the PERC button and try to get the track trenching backwards, but I'd have too much momentum and just slide right on past him and back to the bottom. Needless to say he was on his own to get out of that tombstone.
As for scary, I hate trees. My sleds always seem to be like tree-seeking missiles when they get going too fast on downhills.
As for scary, I hate trees. My sleds always seem to be like tree-seeking missiles when they get going too fast on downhills.
Several of us were at the base of a bowl in late spring debating a climb. The climb would be easy the decent not. I went up until I could go no further, spun in just enough to hold. However, not quite. Sled rolled on its side and we started the wild ride down with me leading the way. Managed to get enough boot traction to turn us around to be parallel. Man did we accelerate!! Further heel braking got me on the topside of the sled, it still on its side acting like a plow. Stopped just inches, and I mean a couple, from the first trees. Rolled the sled back onto its track, pulled the cord and rode back to my buddies. They all raved how stupid that stunt was. Iagree. But WOW, that was a hell of rush!!! Still makes for some stories, "But remember when....
you did not happen to be a mechanic at dick's suzuki in spokane at the time........I watched a show just like that about 10 years ago......
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flying pig
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how about doin a loop on a 11'000 foot mountain with some crazy old mountain goats on a sled 100lbs heavier than anything else there. Went up Sir Alexander last march with some friends, youngest one other than me was almost twice my age and probably 20 years riding over me, wow! What an eye opener that day was. Was AOK all the way up, over the glacier and headed to the look out, was still ok. Was intense being that high but was ok. headed down from the lookout(lookout is 9600 ft and you can see the cutblocks in prince george from there). Just down from it there's a down hill sidehill thats probably 20-25* to the downside and probably like 30* the other way. Way too much air below you and rock above. Keep in mind I'm on a 550-600lb 1200 watercraft gen 2 with a 41" front end on it. Couldn't just throttle up and sidehill it cuz she kept draggin me down. So I had to use the mtn bar, pull it into the hill, then brake before falling into oblivion. Had to do it like 3-4 time to clear that part. Then we go off the stairway to heaven to get to the bottom, 3 benches probably 1000 feet each, very near vertical, its a luge run to the bottom. Your skis touch but your track can't grab enough to slw you at all, and you can't see anyone come out the bottom from the top. Man that was a cool day, was very interesting to do it for the first time though. Now its my favorite riding spot.
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