A beloved skier, an audacious jump and the complex grief left behind

The Washington Post ^ | Roman Stubbs

[Az Joe]

Paysite

[Da Coyote]

This cannot be a WaPo article. It did not blame Trump.

[Az Joe]

https://www.skimag.com/news/skier-dallas-lebeau-dies-attempting-highway-jump/

[Responsibility2nd]

I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but I’d say Dallas jumped the shark in terms of his flying ability.

[waterhill]

I did some really stupid crap in my youth, but dang.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Our son had the same risky behavioral patterns at 18-20 years old. Before that he played a lot of risky sports including JV football QB in high school. He broke his back, broke a leg, dislocated shoulder, and broke a risk...and FINALLY stopped all that foolishness.

[dennisw]

Dallas LeBeau has been identified as the 21-year-old skier who died on April 9 on Colorado’s Highway 40 just west of the Berthoud Pass summit after attempting to clear the width of the highway on skis. According to the preliminary incident report from the Grand County Sheriff’s office, LeBeau lacked the necessary speed and distance to complete the jump and landed on the highway pavement.

[crusty old prospector]

Cue Forrest Gump.

[waterhill]

Thanks. I figured a semi in the scenario. He just went splat by himself then.

[cuban leaf]

You don’t hear about it much. but those guys that wear the “webbed” suits to “fly” through mountains and passes every now and then become a red splotch on the side of a big rock.

[hanamizu]

“...with the snowpack melting...”

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Climate change! And Trump and his policies are making it worse!
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Dallas had worked for years to make it to a top professional tour in skiing, only to stall in the standings last winter.

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I’ve had a few students who were very good at a sport, only to ‘stall in the standings’ and see their dreams disappear. Most have a plan B, but for those who don’t, it can be very sad.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You don’t hear about it much. but those guys that wear the “webbed” suits to “fly” through mountains and passes every now and then become a red splotch on the side of a big rock.

Keep rolling the dice and eventually you are going to hit the jackpot.

That's why I gave up motorcycles, much as I loved riding.

[bgill]

Thanks for the link. Five pop ups later and 3 more within the story and I still don’t know if he made it across and died on the other side or if he landed in the middle of the road killing himself or if a car hit him.

Bring back real reporters who include the who, what, where, when, why and how along with editors who check over the stories so they make sense. Journalists are 12 year old girls writing fantasies in their diaries like his parents looked into his eyes, blah, blah, blah, getting side tracked on some other unknown person and more blah, blah, blah.

[bgill]

Ah, the important tid bit of the story. He landed in the road and that’s what killed him.

[higgmeister]

I have to think back about Forrest Gump being right, “stupid is as stupid does.”

[catnipman]

https://archive.ph/uXuyr

thousands of words that can be summed as:

Stupid kid kills himself doing something stupid that people told him not to do because it would kill him ...

[llevrok]

Another narcissist finding out karma always wins

[cuban leaf]

That’s why I gave up motorcycles, much as I loved riding.

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Same here. As a friend once said, it’s not “if” you go down. It’s “when”.

And smart phones are what caused me to stop bicycle commuting, if you get my drift.

[Telepathic Intruder]

He landed on the road and died instantly. He claimed he would overshoot it but he had built the ramp earlier that year, and there was some snow melt in between. I’ve skied plenty of times and know that anything off the ski trail is dangerous. I guess some just live for the danger.