A Wild Vid for the Sledheadz...

[Guest ThisPlaceSucks]

Alpine Snowmobiling

[mike rousseau]

oh so close....

[woodenboater]

Soooo lucky he didn't have face to face with million year old rocks or get munched by his Maytagging sled.

[carll2]

went out west last year to sled the rocky mountains and HOLY CRAP!!! i can relate to this guy just on a smaller scale, made it 3/4 of the way up a steep chute and it was iced at the top, track started spinning and down i go with the sled..cost me new handlebars,steering post and side panels...i was lucky further down wast soft waist deep snow so the damage was minimal

 

awesome vid

[DRIFTER_016]

That was expensive.

 

When I watched that I was thinking about this video the whole time.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGWsQbyOwM&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Edited December 21, 2011 by DRIFTER_016

[Pigeontroller]

Wow, a good name for that would be, "Here comes my Snowmobile!"

[dhickey]

INSAIN

20YRS ago maby probably

 

 

That was cool

[BillM]

I love the fact that GoPro camera also catch idiots like this along with other cool things

[GBW]

I love the fact that GoPro camera also catch idiots like this along with other cool things

just wait till after Christmas, so many more out there...

[johnnyb]

That was awesome! Lucky he didn't get hurt (I love the term "Maytagging" !!) and the footage from his camera was great, Nice find, doc

[manitoubass2]

If I worked for GoPro, I'd be making an offer on this footage to run as a superbowl commercial.

 

This video was insane, and man was he lucky!

 

Can't wait to get my camera for next season!!!

[ecmilley]

looking foward to going out to the mountains and try highmarking, but wanna use this sled

[DRIFTER_016]

looking foward to going out to the mountains and try highmarking, but wanna use this sled

 

 

Thanks!!!

That made me all warm and tingly inside.

[steelhedrmatt]

More crazy ppl doing crazy things.

 

[woodenboater]

That was awesome! Lucky he didn't get hurt (I love the term "Maytagging" !!) and the footage from his camera was great, Nice find, doc

 

Would have been great to see his expression when all this was going down (literally ha ha). I also couldn't quite make out what he was yelling at the end when things slowed down...anyone able to decypher it ?

 

Maytagging is a term used in whitewater paddling when a boat or paddler gets stuck in a reversal/souse hole/hydraulic, on the downstream side of a ledge or pour over, and can't get out. They end up going round and round, under water and up etc etc ad nauseum. We look for smiley holes (as seen from upstream) as it allows paddlers to work their way to the edge and out whereas if we see a frown, it's bad as the outside of the hole just feeds you back to the middle. Rinse and repeat.

 

I give hydraulics the proper respect when paddling a line that skirts or goes through them as they're not fun and can be killers and have in fact taken lives.

[NAW]

That's a crazy video. He dodged a few bullets...

 

As i was watching this video, my wife was in the other room, yelling "what the hell are you yelling about"...