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Agent-G
Pre Gunbarrel
April 5, 2008
Okay, so every year, Glen Plake has this competition at Heavenly. The rules are simple: twenty-five laps down Gunbarrel, which is Heavenly’s face run. The task not so easy.
You see, Gunbarrel is three-quarters of a mile long trail of strait tore up moguls. None of the moguls are even, and it is strait abuse by any standards.
So….I called up my brother the day before the competition and told him to get his ass over here and do it with me. He tells me that he is not a mogul skier and doesnt want to do it. So I tell him Im not a mogul boarder and I am doing it. I finally convince him to go, and he drives over here.
My girlfriend, Alexis had mostly dislocated her shoulder at Big Sky, Montana, and had her arm in a sling, and I am still injured from my trip from the top of the half pipe to the flats, but she wants to do this with me, and I said screw it, lets do it.
Moguls where not ment for snowboards, I’ll tell you what. There is no fast way to do it on a snowboard, but I kept going for it. Out of the 200 people that entered that competition, only ten of them were snowboarders.
Alexis, carring only one ski pole, and one arm in the sling, was right there with me the whole time. She did a few interviews for TV because everyone wanted to interview the gimp.
The competition was ruthless and became more like repetition than anything else. We had our line, and we kept taking it every time. It started at 10 o clock, and we didnt finish it until 4. Thats six hours of riding. We didnt take any breaks, and we didnt stop. It was strait though. The winner of the competition was a Slovanian who has raced his whole life. He did it in a little over 3 hours.
We finished the competition and Alexis and I had to go strait to work. We could hardly stand and had to work. I suppose it is a good thing we have a kick back job.
Note Sorry about the poor quality of the pictures, I took them from the Heavenly photograhers site.
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rockafella said about 5 months ago:
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) sounds like a lot of fun and a lot of pain on the next day :)Pav said about 5 months ago:
I think I wouldn’t be able to walk after the FIRST run. Bowing down to both of you :D
Agent-G said about 5 months ago:
hahaha…yeah, it was pretty rough.
I added two more pictures. They are of the full Gunbarrel run taken from half way up the chairlift. It gives you a feel for what the run is like
cheshirefoxxx said about 5 months ago:
why’s it so bumpy? lol
Pav said about 5 months ago:
ouch..my knees hurt just by looking at those pics:(