2025-04-11
26 分钟So I grew up skiing in Lake Tahoe, California, and I was a competitive ski racer.
So all throughout my childhood and teenage years, I skied six days a week, 10 months a year, all over the world.
And it was great.
There were about 12 of us on the Squavallis ski team.
We had grown up together and we'd spent our entire lives together.
And when I was 17, this is in 2001, I was skiing with my two, two of my best friends, Brennan Allen and Brian Richmond.
And we would ski at a balance, which is illegal.
You're not supposed to do it.
We would duck under the rope that says do not cross and we'd ski out of bounds
because that's where a lot of the good skiing is.
And when we would do this, it would spit us out on this back country road where we'd have to hitchhike back.
There's no chairlift when you ski out of bounds.
You have to hitchhike your way back.
So we did it one morning in February 2001.
The three of us did it.
And when we did it, we triggered a very small avalanche.
And I remembered it so clearly.
Like I can still feel it 21 years, 22 years later.
I can still feel what it's like.
It's the weirdest sensation that I've had in my life because when you get hit by an avalanche,