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Inverted by accident I tell it like it is. While on a trip to the majestic, yet overrated Squaw Valley USA, my third season snowboarding, I pulled the mightiest of tricks...on accident! My buddies and I were doing laps on a kicker underneath the Siberia chair. We kept trying to go bigger and bigger, as it was a glorious pow day and the crowds had amassed. It was a never ending cycle of riders lined up to hit the kicker. I gathered up my gonads of brass, and charged towards the hit.
With my heart in my throat, I gathered speed and launched off the ramp. "Houston, we have a problem!" I thought as I sailed, upside down through the air with the greatest of ease. As I looked down at the snow with my board above my head, I thought about trying to grab my ass so I could kiss it goodbye. But then the horizon righted itself and my board touched down, on snow, sweet snow! Never in my life would I have thought to try a backflip, but boy did I pull it off. As I shouted with glee at the amazement of my friends, on the hill behind and the chair above, I dug in the nose and landed flat on my face. Natures way of humbling the mighty ego!!
Jared Apperson, Mountain Zone Pubster [MountainZone.com Home] |