Chase Hiller – Skateboarding down a mountain in Columbia
An evening pause: For the weekend, some recreational activity. There are two or three cuts, but in general he makes the whole run non-stop. If you want to get your palms sweating play some of this at 2x normal speed. The location is in San Felix, Columbia.
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Wow! What a rush! The cars, the dogs, jumping cow paddies! Oh to be young and bullet proof again for just one day, one hour.
Sorry, this is just plain craziness; taking risks for the sole purpose of taking risks. Far too many things that aren’t under his control, right down to a simple bearing freeze at a bad millisecond, will result in death (or worse yet, crippling injury).
This will be evolution in action at some point. The average survival skills of the human race will go up by a minute fraction when he finally bleaches his little portion of the gene pool..
Death Wish ?
I would commute from the CA Coast up and over the Sonora Pass, 120, elev ~9.600K ft, into Nevada for random work.
I got paid for the days commute. Loved it.
Did work in Reno, Go V.A., Bridgeport, Go Marines, and out in Fallon, Go Navy.
Then the next weeks commute was back to the coast over 120.
This one commute home, as I crawled back up 120 from 395 Nevada side, I reached the summit Pass, and paused.
There at the summit were 5 guys (no gender intended) all in fine leather racing suits with full helmets and cameras atop the helmets.
It was the long skateboards, and large gloves they wore which caught my attention.
I came to a slow stop.
Four of the guys took off down the pass. The fifth lagged and took of after them all,
I realized that the fifth was running as a sweeper, slowing / stopping following traffic, as if there were a lot of us. !
I followed them all the way down to the bottom, Kennedy Meadows.
Observing the wide slomon turns, gloves sparking, knees dragging on the asphalt, only to disaper agian around the next curve.
#5 doing his job. I lagged behind.
Down at the Meadows area, they had a “road block” type set up with three tourist cars waiting to climb the pass to Nevada, blocking the boarders descent.
The skate boarders were already collecting themselves, and marching back up to the large final turnout where their well labled Team Van and camera crew, filiming their arrival, waitied for them.
I waved as I passed.
Ah well, just a commute.
Astounding control…insane
Why skateboard down a mountain? Because it’s there.
The average survival skills of the human race will go up by a minute fraction when he finally bleaches his little portion of the gene pool..
I couldn’t disagree more – and that’s exactly why changing our own genes is so dangerous. Risk takers _like_ this (if not him in particular) are what drive humanity forward. Those same reflexes and situational awareness are what allow humans to fly jet fighters.
We also don’t see the prep work. I’d be very surprised if there was anything unexpected on that run other than the occasional vehicle. It was all scouted, mapped, and analyzed, first.
This is a triumph not a travesty.
I love the part where the dog comes out of nowhere (2:25) . . . absolutely classic, an amazing save.