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RootsRuler

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That hurts just reading because I've been there. It is the single worst thing that can happen while boarding. Catch back edge and seemingly unknown forces literally slingshot/catapult your head straight towards either snow or ice. Incredible how quick it can happen and there just isn't enough time to protect your head. So thankful for your hair in a bun cause that could easily been a concussion or worse. I've found ice to be particularly unforgiving. Evil shit prolly gets off when hurts us 😡

I can totally see you flying through the air skii-less at top speed. Definitely one of those calgon get me out of here moments. When I was maybe 9 or 10, I had very little fear and I was night skiing by myself at night at wilmot mtn in Wisconsin. The mntn was so small it wasn't hard to shine lights on it and make it "night-ski" ready and I think it was open till 10 or 11. Anywho it was getting late and I was on a chair-lift with some kids I didn't know and we made a plan. Once off lift I would go right and they could go left down a back entrance to another run, and we would meet at where the 2 runs converge because there was a nice jump there. I would fly off from my way and they from theirs, and whalla it would be cool and we'd look like Olympic medalists or some shit. Well that was the plan 🤕 I don't know how this must have looked from a camera angle but from mine, I took my jump on time and was who knows how high in the air and somehow one of the kids that was jumping from the other direction was so far beneath me in the air that I clipped his head/helmet with my skiis 😆 and we both were thrown completely off course and crashed like whoa. I will never ever forget crashing, the complete yardsale and all my shit is everywhere, I'm skidding further and further down the mnth on my stomach and I'm thinkin "God I hope that guy is ok" and all I can see is stars. Was 1st experience ever with those tiny space ship super bright light "stars" you see when close to knocked the fk out. I looked and saw them and put face down in snow and closed eyes and then looked again and they were all still there. I was like shit am I blinded for life and forever plagued by these microscopic LED lights in my eyeballs 😂 or is this going to go away. Thankfully everyone ended up ok but sheesh those were the days. No fear. Go literally as fast as could go and shoot off a jump and hope it all works out. I absolutely loved skiing as a kid. Was some of the best times of my life for sure.
cOOOOOOOcOOOOO LoPEEEEEEzzz!!! 🤘 🤘 🤘
 
RootsRuler

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Ya I have seen those stars before a few times playing ice hockey in high school.only saw them once snow boarding.we were at Breckenridge in Colorado one year.they had a huge half pipe.i had never riden one but was over confident because had been pulling off sick jumps for years.my first time down it I got huge air off the wall and was going into a spin trying to do a 360. Didn't know those half pipes kinda give a little flip upon departure. Proceeded to spin from my 360 attempt but now I'm inverted upside down from the vert of the pipe. Came down directly on my head and neck.luckly I was like 17 and still made of rubber.it must have looked cooler than it felt because when I got on the lift with some younger kids to head back up they were like man that was amazing.one asked me if you call that a rodeo flip.of coarse trying to play it cool 😎 I was like ya been been trying to land those all week.lol it's amazing how much your neck can bend.
I kid you not I saw a little girl, couldn't have been older than 9, huck a dinner roll off of one of the park jumps........I just shook my head and pointed my skis towards the base lodge bar......I suck......😞
 
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cOOOOOOOcOOOOO LoPEEEEEEzzz!!! 🤘 🤘 🤘
I can totally 👀 you doin back-flips in my mind. The best thing to me ever about jumping was the sound. The rush that gets louder and louder and then POOF all you hear is wind and no longer your skiis/board on the snow. I only tried some backflips a couple times and it was basically into 5-10ft of fresh pow @ kirkwood in Tahoe so really couldn't get hurt. Just stuck for 20 minutes and complete exhaustion trying to get out. Did my fair share of crazy shit that's for sure. I think Flagstaff just couple hours north got dumped on last night. We have been getting some pretty wild late season storms here
 
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I can totally 👀 you doin back-flips in my mind. The best thing to me ever about jumping was the sound. The rush that gets louder and louder and then POOF all you hear is wind and no longer your skiis/board on the snow. I only tried some backflips a couple times and it was basically into 5-10ft of fresh pow @ kirkwood in Tahoe so really couldn't get hurt. Just stuck for 20 minutes and complete exhaustion trying to get out. Did my fair share of crazy shit that's for sure. I think Flagstaff just couple hours north got dumped on last night. We have been getting some pretty wild late season storms here
Have you ever ridden Angel Fire?
 
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Yeah that dude doesn't help Florida's rep AT ALL. 🤣
That Florida guy is alive and well. If you can find the humor in the idiosyncrasies of the people who live here, Tampa-ish is just like any other place and pretty entertaining. The most common thread is that people don't want to be told how to live their lives. Here's my short list of favorite reasons to live here.

Personally, I'm fascinated by the flora and fauna. Waking the dogs is an opportunity to birdwatch and see awesome landscaping plants every day. We have all of the song birds plus ibis, herons, Muscovy and whistler ducks, egrets and spoonbills just chillin around. And on my way home from work the other day I saw peacocks just walking around. Very random. Any subtropical plant is fair game to be in a yard.

Also, our neighbors have every type of vehicle short of a military tank and drive them around as their regular transportation. Literal monster trucks, golf carts, 4wheelers, regular cars, a sit down bike with Xmas lights, mopeds, electric scooters pulling a wheel chair? I don't know why that's a plus for me since I don't give a shit about cars. It just speaks to the variety of interests and lack of judgement/rules as long as you don't have an HOA. One neighbor has a monster truck, boat and hummer in his front yard currently.

We are an hour from a beach or a chill hot spring area to kayak around and maybe see manatees.

There's no income tax.

You can grow almost any fruit or vegetable in your garden.

I really like not being cold. Winter is the new fall. 50 degrees is puffy jacket weather and maybe a hat.
 
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@ flood stage around here today over six inches dropped in the past nine hours. Not calling for a let up until tomorrow.
Great day to pop some seeds, make some chili and have a nice long nap while the rain beats on my metal roof! 🥰
 
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