Must see video

[patmoore]

The extreme boarders are pretty amazing at sticking landings in impossible conditions but I've never seen one "stick it" like the one at the end of this video:

http://www.punchbaby.com/media/latrz/clips/cool/Steiner.wmv

[astrokel]

Yikes... If only he had flapped his arms harder. He might have been able to fly out of that little problem... :eek: It really does look like he wanted to fly though :D .

Gotta have balls of steel to even stand on top of a hill like that much less actually go down it. I'm glad for the rider that there was plenty of powder on the bottom...

[jdgang]

he is going to need his FAA license after that jump

[NMU Alpine Boarder]

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:eek:

[carve4life]

seriously, "boarder five four, contact salt lake center on 123.4"

[D-Sub]

I'm glad for the rider that there was plenty of powder on the bottom...

you know what though? that powder was actually slide residue on top...see the fracture where he takes off? doesnt that stuff harden up a bit after releasing?

I dont think Ive ever seen anyone go so far in the air. that was crazy.

[dragonsword5]

Oh wow, that must have been exhilerating :-P I can't imagine doing something like that, but it reminds me of the First Descent trailer. That was insane.

[Randy T.]

Check out this one, it has got to be the biggest drop I have ever seen.
The link to the video is on Arbors home page.
Mike Basich Heli Drop (http://www.arborsports.com/)

[dragonsword5]

Check out this one, it has got to be the biggest drop I have ever seen.
The link to the video is on Arbors home page.
Mike Basich Heli Drop (http://www.arborsports.com/)

What I'm wondering is how he landed that without breaking something! :eek:

Just the drop reminds me of the feeling of going on the Dominator at Dorney Park. Wow...these guys must have no sense of pain when doing this stuff.

[astrokel]

you know what though? that powder was actually slide residue on top...see the fracture where he takes off? doesnt that stuff harden up a bit after releasing?

I dont think Ive ever seen anyone go so far in the air. that was crazy.

Yeah the stuff would've felt hard no matter how soft it looks and it probably gets hard at SOME point... ouch...

Pat, any word on what actually happened to the guy in the end?

[veector]

holy crap

[skipuppy]

:lol: I love watching them flap their wings. Honestly though, that takes mega guts that I doubt I will ever have. I think my neighbors in my dorm think I am weird- I keep reading your stuff and cracking up loudly and nobody is ever in the room. Just Tonja, in her room all by herself.. bursting out laughing. :lurk:

[D-Sub]

Yeah the stuff would've felt hard no matter how soft it looks and it probably gets hard at SOME point... ouch...

Pat, any word on what actually happened to the guy in the end?

yeah, even 8' of fresh woulda hurt at that velocity. I seriously dont think Ive ever seen a snowboarder in the air that long. Id be flappin my arms too. didnt look like the rider intended to even jump that. they cleared an entire BIG hill. just crazy

[Tim Tuthill]

OUCH!!! Ok everyone. Was he in control???

[Jack Michaud]

:eek:

Recalling my days of jumping off "the trestle" at UNH, I'd estimate that's at least 60 feet. at least.

[D-Sub]

you talkin the height or the distance? cuz the distance has to be way more than that. even the height I would say is much, much more than 60 feet.

off to watch again

and tim...he definitely wasnt obeying "the code!"

:)

[patmoore]

Pat, any word on what actually happened to the guy in the end?

No clue. The video came from http://www.punchbaby.com/ Check the entry marked "Steiner" from November 25th (Careful - rude language).

[CarvCanada]

you could see a thick hard slab just trying to release on the main face too, maybe that's why he got scared from all the releasing noises and just gunned it (and was probably on his toes from what looks like tons of small slabs all day long), it looks like if the big slab had come loose, it would have stopped right in the gully "terrain trap" and he would have been sooo buried

[CarvCanada]

on more looks i really can't tell if a big slab is starting to trigger, it could all just be his slough, and the slope looks so wind degraded but who knows, i thought i saw some fracture lines with spray comin out that wasn't his slough

Can anyone answer this question about avalanches, it would seem pretty important, in areas like Chugach (probably only chugach, maybe japan as well, but they're so maritime maybe not) are EARTHQUAKES a risk? I mean Chugach gets like hundreds of earthquakes that could be big enough to rip a windslab? Is it possible? Is it a concern!?

[FTA2R]

good find! the whole "flapping like bird" comparison hilarious. one GINORMOUS set of cojones! (or one real dumb mf'er who didn't realize what he was doin'!) either way, gotta love it!


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Barry

[mirror70]

The video is from this year's Absinthe flick, Futureproof (http://www.absinthe-films.com/home.html). The linear distance was reportedly well beyond that of Chad's Gap (150ft from end of the kicker to the very front of the landing), so I'd guess the drop was well beyond 60ft. Yes, the rider suffered a season-ending injury from that.

Damn good flick though. Probably as good as Pop, but with a bit less jaw-dropping air time.

[NateW]

It ain't the big air that's dangerous, it's that sudden stop at the end...

I landed pretty much flat on my back from about 10-12 feet last year - no powder but thankfully no ice either - and couldn't breath right until the next day. Looks like he had a couple feet of powder, but he fell from WAY higher... I bet he felt it for a good long time. I wonder how long it took him to get the first little bit of air back into his lungs. :-)

Ever since then, I've been wondering if it would be practical to build a pocket-sized respirator. Something with a light spring to inflate itself as soon as you pull it from your pocket, so you can pump up your lungs right away after something like that. :D

[nils]

the guy is totally out of control from the top, and was lucky not to kill himself
i prefer this dude who is much impressive: (seth morisson, knees dead in a decade...)
80 foot backflip ! (http://www.extremecarving.com/attachments/backflip.wmv)

Nils

[Skwalleur]

http://freeride.nu/img/content/normal/795.jpg

Crazy. I'm glad I haven't followed in this guy's tracks in Engelberg, Switzerland.

[dragonsword5]

I would love to do that sometime in the course of my life but I'm to much of a chicken. :o

Though I think when I'm old and crinkly and on my death bed I'll ask someone to strap a snowboard to my feet and chuck me out of a helicopter.

Atleats I'd die happy :lol:

[tex1230]

the guy is totally out of control from the top, and was lucky not to kill himself
i prefer this dude who is much impressive: (seth morisson, knees dead in a decade...)
80 foot backflip ! (http://www.extremecarving.com/attachments/backflip.wmv)

Nils

Have you seen he pics of Jamie Pierre's 160ft Lincoln loop?
Not sure if there's video, but Powder mag had a big sequence on it back in the spring. Now THAT is big.

[Allee]

Yes, the rider suffered a season-ending injury from that.


I'm surprised he didn't suffer a life ending injury. I can't even imagine what it's like to drop that far, and try to stand up at the end.

[patmoore]

Crazy. I'm glad I haven't followed in this guy's tracks in Engelberg, Switzerland.

In an earlier life I logged a little over 2000 parachute jumps but never tried a base jump. That particular facet of the sport was just getting "off the ground" about the time I hung it up in 1976. I made my first jump in 1962 - the sport was really in its infancy back then.

This shot of me is from a movie called "The Endless Fall". I also appeared in a movie called "Masters of the Sky" back in the late sixties.


http://tinypic.com/i76ahh.jpg

Pat

[Skwalleur]

In an earlier life I logged a little over 2000 parachute jumps but never tried a base jump. That particular facet of the sport was just getting "off the ground" about the time I hung it up in 1976. I made my first jump in 1962 - the sport was really in its infancy back then.

This shot of me is from a movie called "The Endless Fall". I also appeared in a movie called "Masters of the Sky" back in the late sixties.


Pat


I just mean that sometimes backcountry you follow someones tracks and think you're going to be safe...

[patmoore]

I just mean that sometimes backcountry you follow someones tracks and think you're going to be safe...



Good point. I was in a group at Taos last February (obviously I was on skis - the Neanderthal attitude out there still bars snowboards) and we were cruising through the trees following someone else's tracks. I heard a shriek up ahead as the 63 year old women leading our group found herself sailing through space. Fortunately it was only about a ten foot fall into soft powder but it could have been worse. It certainly got her undivided attention.....

[nils]

nice frame grab pat!
Here in France/switzerland wingsuit is becoming kinda hype now, they like to follow the mountain's topography at its closest, but not just falling> flying!

Here is the craziest of them all: Loic Jean ALbert, he is now sponsored by Salomon.
http://web.lerelaisinternet.com/Paramag/archives/directlive/direct193/qt_hi.html

Nils ( too chicken to try jumping off a plane

[patmoore]

nice frame grab pat!
Here in France/switzerland wingsuit is becoming kinda hype now, they like to follow the mountain's topography at its closest, but not just falling> flying!

Here is the craziest of them all: Loic Jean ALbert, he is now sponsored by Salomon.


Nils, I stopped breathing watching that piece! I was a pretty fair tracker in a regular jumpsuit in my day (I did the max track - 60 mph laterally while falling) at all the air shows but what that guy did requires bigger cojones than I'll ever have! I get chills watching it replay.

The biggest crowd pleaser I used to get was the intentional cutaway. I'd wear three chutes and jump from a helicopter opening one right away. I'd then streamer that one down to 2500 feet and open a second chute. You could hear the audience screams all the way up at that altitude. I took a few risks when younger but that guy is crazy!

In this shot I was fooling around on the strut of Cessna 172 over Palatka, FL in 1965.

http://tinypic.com/i77xvc.jpg

[NateW]

About a year ago I read that someone was going to try to land a wingsuit without a parachute last summer. Anyone know if that actually happened?

[NateW]

http://www.wetasschronicles.com/SkiJumpPlant.wmv

No idea who, no idea where...

[DrCR]

http://web.lerelaisinternet.com/Paramag/archives/directlive/direct193/qt_hi.html

Anyone got a direct link to that? I'd really like to have that one on my hard drive ...the traditional tools->page source->media isn't doing the trick this time nor a yahoo video search.


http://www.wetasschronicles.com/SkiJumpPlant.wmv

No idea who, no idea where...
Looks "photoshopped" if I can use that expression for a vid

[NateW]

http://web.lerelaisinternet.com/Paramag/archives/directlive/direct193/images/THE_DOM2.MOV

It's quicktime, so you have to search for ".mov" in the page source. 8.5mb

[dantheman0177]

Clip #1 "F**************K!"

Clip #2 "That's f*****g MAD!"

(Apologies for the rude language, but there just was no other more appropriate comment that could be made)

[astrokel]

http://www.wetasschronicles.com/SkiJumpPlant.wmv

No idea who, no idea where...

Real or imagined it's hilarious :lol:

It's like Wile E. Coyote landing from a fall!

[patmoore]

I rewatched Loic Jean ALbert's tracking video a few more times and came to the conclusion that he must have had the capability of an even better glide ratio so that he could give himself a little more clearance if things got dicey. In other words, he was hugging the slope when he could have been higher. Nevertheless, that took a pair of brass ones that I don't have.

Way back in 1965, a guy named Rod Pack did something that still gives me chills. I even have the article from Saga Magazine back then. He jumped from 14,600 wearing only a harness with D rings. Another jumper carried a reserve chute. They maneuvered together and Rod retrieved the reserve from the other guy and opened. Just the idea of jumping with a single chute scared me, much less starting out with none! (I had to go to my reserve 5 times in 2000 jumps)


http://tinypic.com/ibidqe.jpg

The stunt was repeated in 1972 by Canadian Bill Cole. It was filmed by Mike Swain, the same cinematographer who shot the movie "The Endless Fall" I mentioned earlier. I remember thinking "What's the point? It's already been done".

I realize I've gotten way off topic - starting with an insane snowboard leap and ending with a treatise on the early days of skydiving but I haven't thought much about the sport in a few years and this stirred up some memories. My first wife was an alternate on the US Team in 1973 (World Championships were in Yugoslavia that year) and she was notified by her Doctor that participation was ill-advised. It turns out that our oldest daughter (now 31) had 46 jumps before she was born. Our youngest daughter (now 26) did a tandem jump a few years ago but they've shown no further interest in the sport. Sky diving was a huge part of my life from 1962-1976 but I don't have any desire to get back into it.

Forty years ago I still had hair....

http://tinypic.com/ibigqd.jpg

[Gleb]

About a year ago I read that someone was going to try to land a wingsuit without a parachute last summer. Anyone know if that actually happened?


ya, i read an articel about it. here it is:

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3582/

also, this seems much safer and just as cool:

http://www.dropzone.com/content/Detailed/613.html



So far, I have one jump under my belt and when the time comes, as well as the money, I will get much more into it.

[Tim Tuthill]

More: Your NUTS!! and I get crap for still surfing Sunset and Pipe on a long board!! Jumping out of an airplane while it's still running ok???

[scotts.Scheinman]

what a idiot for him to do that!

[D-Sub]

yes indeed, what a moran ;)

[surfinsmiley]

WoooooW!

All those videos are like OMFG.

My love of life won`t even let me think about doing stuff like that.:o

[Gleb]

WoooooW!

All those videos are like OMFG.

My love of life won`t even let me think about doing stuff like that.:o

thats why you do it, video tape it, THEN ask if you can do it. Thats what I did:biggthump

[TrenchDigger]

That Is One Of The Gnarlist Things I Have Ever Seen!!!!!!!!!!!