Hill Climbing is for the BIRDS

[alrevedup]

Maybe it is because I'm 40 with Wife, kids and a mortgage
I'm not skilled (enough)
the turbo likes to run


Yesterday I let myself get peep pressured into climbing a big ol' hill. It was clear at the bottom and middle, but full of trees at the top. Anyway it scared the pi$$ out of me. I had no business up there. All my buddies were watching from the bottom. Only one of them followed.

Turbos give hill climbing a hole new dimension.

Props to all you guys that climb those monsters.

 

[Snoboner]

Thank-You, Thank-You very much!! 45 with kids and mortgage, no wife.

 

[Nate]

no wife.

LOL that dont surprise me in the leaste

also, you come to find yourself going to the dealer on mondays alot if you hillclimb occasionally for parts or sled every other weekend

 

[snowmobiler]

manlaw#?........ never admit you were scared.

 

[Nate]

manlaw#?........ never admit you were scared.

LMAO

 

[Snoboner]

LOL that dont surprise me in the leaste

also, you come to find yourself going to the dealer on mondays alot if you hillclimb occasionally for parts or sled every other weekend

That's why it's nice to have a B!tching backup

 

[alrevedup]

manlaw#?........ never admit you were scared.

10-4


I meant to say........ "It gave me a moderate amount of concern"

Better?

 

[minie me]

cant be that scary... haha i guess im still too young to care

 

[snowmobiler]

Better?

 

[msled162]

50 years old and know I have scared the crap out of myself more than once. Everytime I do I say no more big climbs then all of the sudden I see one just around the corner. It drives my wife nuts.

 

[Nate]

Just remember, if your riding a mod sled or one with a turbo, there going to expect some pretty amazing shhit to be done dude ya should have known that going into this

 

[alrevedup]

Just remember, if your riding a mod sled or one with a turbo, there going to expect some pretty amazing shhit to be done dude ya should have known that going into this

I do ride the thing ( when Im not rubbing it with a diaper )

 

[MtnDoo]

Um...someone grew a pair of brass turbo clinkers.

What did you climb that was sooooo.... scary?

 

[snow_knight]

climbn big azz shoots.. thats why i bought a turbo.. .. however i'm 24 w/ no kids or worries.. but I will admit.. there are always some pucker moments

 

[R J]

Hill climbing as probably caught more people out then just about everything else out there. I still do it on occasion but it's not to the the highmark it's to see if I can make it over the other side or up to a new area type of deal.

I shy away from the straight out hill climbs that are a who can go highest contest. I still get suckered in once in a while but it's less and less now days as I'm just thinking the whole time I doing it what the ride down is going to be like and that usually makes me think other wise about doing more the rest of the day.

Now make it a fresh hill with some obstacles in it but a nice meadow at the top or a jeep trail or something, then I'm all for it.

 

[XC700116]

Bring on the crazy!!! I'm not really that young but still single and stupid

 

[plumnuts]

don't tell this 40+ grandma of three... that hill climbing isn't where it is at

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i129/plumnuts/WhitePass027.jpg

 

[MtnDoo]

Plumnuts - he's on a Yami Turbo with one hand on the boost and the other on the diaper. It's scary riding a turbo one-handed - kind of makes some hills seem bigger than they are.

 

[Kevco]

All reved, SCREW them. It all seemed light hearted but NEVER let anyone goat you into doing stuff you dont want to...I eat the worm once WOW I wish I could remember what happened next. Seriously its good to push yourself but dont bust you or your stuff up.

 

[Clarke673]

i was climbing a bad shoot last weekend and i was high marking my own tracks from a week before that were wind blown and they were so hard and deep that when i crossed them doing about 30 mph, it launched me strait up into the air so the only thing i could think to do was to whip the sled down hill and hope that when i land the sled doesn't land on me. Well the tree that WAS along ways away suddenly came really close and i ended up taking out a HUGE branch while i was landing. Then i found my self doing 50+ going down hill with the wind knocked out of me and some how i missed all the rocks at the bottom.

It scared me so bad i was shaking and i had the butterflies all day and felt sick to my stomach every time i had to climb a hill.

pucker level maxed out. I can take drops, jumps, I have started a few avalanches, all small, i can even do a few stunts wile in the air, but catching 20 feet of strait up and down air on a very steep windblown slop surrounded by large trees and huge rocks is not fun. I am not changing my ways, but i doubt i will be climbing that hill anytime soon, how I still have a sled I don’t know. If I would have done one thing different, I am sure it would have been a definite bone breaker.