Snowbiking
Posted by Paul Allyn Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:07 GMT
I came across snowbiking for the first time on this website…
http://www.adventuresportsjournal.com/html/Articles/24/24_snowbiking.htm
and sent the link along to a number of my kids who are crazy adventurous enough to have a go at snowbiking. When younger, I would have tripped over my own feet to get my hands on one of these things. But nowadays, you know, the body just doesn’t heal as fast as it used to, and I am not as graceful as I used to be – honest, I broke a rib on a walking trip in Scotland – so I pass the crazy stuff along to the kids and live vicariously through them.
Kate has seen snowbiking live and writes…
Dad,
last spring when I was out in Colorado skiing, actually in the back bowls of Copper having my ass handed to me. I’m halfway down the mountain, outright sobbing, ‘cause I bit off way more advanced terrain than I could chew on this time, and I sat there hating life and preparing to meet my maker in a place that suprisingly oozed just as much breathtaking beauty as it did vindictive hostility (obviously I was going to die right there on the mountain, I was not just having a dramasode). I look over, like, 100-200 yards and see these wackjobs on bikes with skis on the bottom, and theyre jumping off these 20 ft overhangs. It was insane. I watched them for about ten minutes while I had a good cry. So, I figured if they can get down this thing on a freakin’ SNOWBIKE, my stupid ass can make it happen on skiis. Needless to say, I gracefully descended the rest of the mountain. HA, yea right. But those bikers were pretty crazy to watch, can you imagine going over the handle bars on one of those things down a 12,000 ft snow cliff.
God give you joy,
Paul+
