Well, sort of. A friend and I went snowboarding yesterday. We were kicking ass down that mountain, flying down the runs, hitting up the black diamonds, leaving others behind to eat our snow dust.

And then, I decided to take another black diamond. I had taken it before, and quickly realized that I didn’t like it. It went up hill for a bit, and I only made it about halfway. Mark didn’t even make it a quarter, and said he was gonna go down from where he was and hit another trail. I decided to go through the woods and hit up the trail near the bottom.

And that is where things went wrong. I came over a small hill, and saw a few small yet steep hills, hills that I would either not make it over, or if I did I would go flying in the air and come crashing down.

And then….I looked down to what was right in front of me: A deep-ass gulley. With a large water flow under the snow going on by, flowing into a nice man-sized caved that just reeked of deathtrap.

So, I sat down. Quickly. Very, very quickly. And grabbed a tree root. And then wedged my board into the snow for a firm footing, all the while staring down into deep ravine, imagining myself crashing down onto the rocks below and being swept into the inescapable underground creek.

After yelling out for some help, another snowboarder nearly flew into the gulley, barely avoiding his fate by purposefully wiping out just in time. I tried to yell and grab his attention, but to no avail. So, I did what any other survivalist would do.

I pulled out my Helio and called Mark. This was my phone call:

“Hey dude, I need a favor. Are you down by the lift? Good. Go tell a lift operator to get Ski Patrol to come and get me. I’m sitting on a cliff basically hanging over a ravine. Oh, and I’m holding on to a tree root and I can’t get out.”

So, after a few more calls with Mark and with ski patrol, another skier came by and gave me a better (perfectly accurate) idea of where I was, and Ski Patrol got there pretty quickly after that. So, they tossed me a rope and pulled me out. Yep, that was fun. Here are some crappy pics of it.

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