[Article] - Published in the Fall 2008 issue of 32 Degrees magazine, a publication of www.thesnowpros.org, Lakewood, CO
If I were to pick one term to describe my first run at the 2008 Rider Rally, held April 20-25 at Mammoth Mountain, California, scary is it. The last stretch of the Panorama gondola ride is breathtakingly high, and if that weren't enough to take one's breath away, the steep, impenetrable boiler plate on Cornice Bowl certainly was. Fortunate was the rider with a finely tuned edge; less fortunate were the rest of us.
Terrified to turn, I got on my heel edge, really low, and butt-checked my way down in a directional slide as I fought to maintain control of a falling leaf. And I like ice.
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