i’m gettin fired up to do a nice longish trail ride on the Yuba trails in a week or so. may bring skis and/or some climbing gear. spring conditions are up on us- it’s multisport season!
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28
Mar
North Yuba Trail buzz
a cowboy, a gangster, and Chuck Norris were sitting around camp shit talking about who was tougher.
the cowboy says, “this bull was raising hell, stampeding right for me. i grabbed it by the horns, wrestled it to the ground, and slit it’s throat.”
“thas nothin,” the gansta says. “some punkass tried to run me down in the street. i dodged the fender, grabbed the wheel, an ran a shiv through his throat.”
Chuck Norris stood there, stirring the campfire coals with his dick, didn’t say anything.
I was thinking about that skiBASE jump I witnessed the other day and morbidly fascinating about plummeting to death at the bottom of the Silver Legacy. But that’s the worst case scenario there. Maybe the absolute worst is that you crash into a spectator and take him/her out too. That would be bad. Still the probable outcomes are such that Shane McConley et. al. still go for stuff like that because the general consequences are limited. That’s pretty much the same reason any of us do any of the seemingly risky things we do from hitting the jump @ the Radio towers to dropping a chute we know could avalanche.
Here’s a little video that illustrates that kind of thinking on, let’s say, a GLOBAL scale…
-M
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