From White Out to Wipe Out...

True snow riding story...
Back in 78 aboard my street legal 250cc Husqvarna my friends and I were headed
towards Running Springs San Bernardino on a dirt road among patches of snow...
It was always a race to be the first to part the snow and cover your buddies in
an icy spray... Well I was going for a single white patch that looked to be all
of 1 inch deep... the only trouble was the patch was in a turn on the side of
the mountain... no problem... I thought... I'll just power slide through it at
60 per... unknown to me the innocent looking patch was actually covering a 2
foot dip in the road... the snow proved to 2 feet deep as well... all I
remember is the bike hitting with a shuddering force... the impact lifted the
whole bike up in the air... snow shot off both sides of the front tire raising
my feet off the pegs... a wall of white enveloped the handle bars... I was air
borne without a visual clue where to land... mayday mayday... as the I punched
through the wall of white the sight wasn't pretty... it was an aerial view of
the canyon below... mercy I ejected myself clean off the road... I had micro
seconds to set up for the best approach... I leveled the bike... stood on the
pegs and cringed hoping for no rocks... the crash proved to be uneventful as
the mud cushioned the landing to the point I was stuck... there I sat looking
eye level at the road surface I just departed... peering over my shoulder I
witnessed my buddies looking in all directions for my whereabouts... they
couldn't believe how I could have vanished right in before their eyes... white
out to wipe out that's how...

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Larry L
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