It levelled off with a hook around to the rightAs I was coming down towards the end having reached terminal velocity I saw that if I didn't turn to carry on with the levelled off bit, which then went into another slope, I would be heading up this 'snow dune' and behind it all I could see was solid rock, I'd passed high above these particular rocks on the chair lift ride up to the top with my feet dangling into the abyss, so I knew how perilious they looked.
I was going faster than i'd ever been before under my own steam so I had no idea about stopping distances or anything, or how to stop other than just waiting until I've slowed down enough to do some snow plough turns and come to a stop. I surmised that I was most likely heading up the dune and I was going to launch off it eddie the eagle style and go slamming into the cliff.
(I was going faster than i'd ever been before under my own steam so I had no idea about stopping distances or anything, or how to stop other than just waiting until I've slowed down enough to do some snow plough turns and come to a stop. I surmised that I was most likely heading up the dune and I was going to launch off it eddie the eagle style and go slamming into the cliff.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Sat 1 Feb 2003, 7:06,
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Still running on instincts...I just 'went for it' and tried to pull a parallel sliding stop a la Ski Sunday, only this was as I was starting to go up the dune, those people normally have a nice flat surface to do it on and loads of practice.
Anyway my subconscious is clearly quite staggering because it worked out all the physics and I actually did it. Spot on. Perfect decelleration curve, not a wobble or a shake - I just slidsideways up the dune and came to rest at the apex - seeing that in fact the cliff was a long way away and if I had flown off the top i'd have had a snowy landing.
I had the biggest grin on my face ever and I so wish someone had caught it on film. I didn;t even have to move my skis to balance to stand up properly. I just skidded to a stop, and I was facing pretty much straight up the Black slope now and could see how HUGE it was. And I couldn't make out where the others were at first because they were just little dots, I only recognised the snake shape of them and then I had to wait a good 15 minutes before the arrived at the bottom, and they all expected me to have crashed out somewhere. I did get a few appreciative 'woos' from some other skiiers who'd been further down the slope and passed while I was waiting for the rest of them to catch up.
The End.
(Anyway my subconscious is clearly quite staggering because it worked out all the physics and I actually did it. Spot on. Perfect decelleration curve, not a wobble or a shake - I just slidsideways up the dune and came to rest at the apex - seeing that in fact the cliff was a long way away and if I had flown off the top i'd have had a snowy landing.
I had the biggest grin on my face ever and I so wish someone had caught it on film. I didn;t even have to move my skis to balance to stand up properly. I just skidded to a stop, and I was facing pretty much straight up the Black slope now and could see how HUGE it was. And I couldn't make out where the others were at first because they were just little dots, I only recognised the snake shape of them and then I had to wait a good 15 minutes before the arrived at the bottom, and they all expected me to have crashed out somewhere. I did get a few appreciative 'woos' from some other skiiers who'd been further down the slope and passed while I was waiting for the rest of them to catch up.
The End.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Sat 1 Feb 2003, 7:17,
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that#s coolhe's come a long way from such humble beginnings
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Sat 1 Feb 2003, 7:25,
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just thinkat this very moment, he could be clawing his way through someone's sofa
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djol,
Sat 1 Feb 2003, 7:36,
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