As I spread eagle face-planted into the snow today I couldn’t help but think about how all these winter athletes do it.
People watch Shaun Miller get 15 feet consistently above the superpipe and think ; ‘oh its no thing’. But they have absolutely no perspective. This ain’t no bunny hill, the pipe is literally straight down the hill. They go 720 to a backside McTwist (McDonald’s hidden advertisement)over a 12 foot wall of rock hard ice-snow mix down a hill that even Evil Kanevil himself gets goosebumps just looking at. These guys deserve some respect.
And the downhill skiers, they have some cajones. What takes me 35 minutes to down a slope takes Bode Miller and his boys a sliver under 2 minutes to complete. I get nauseas just sitting on the chair lift and they just boogy down the mountain as fast as possible because every millisecond counts. They carve on sheets of ice on the fettucini noodles they call skis. Major props.
A kid no taller than my knee on a leash in front of his mom sprayed me with some fresh powder said as he rode away, “Narly Crash Dude, Totally Awesome”. Yep.
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