Paysite
This cannot be a WaPo article. It did not blame Trump.
I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but I’d say Dallas jumped the shark in terms of his flying ability.
I did some really stupid crap in my youth, but dang.
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.
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.
Cue Forrest Gump.
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.
Another narcissist finding out karma always wins
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.
Darwin Award?
“When Valerie and Jason looked into his eyes that night, they saw a free spirit but also the reflection of what the ski industry had become for many young athletes like their son: an expensive, relentless chase to prove themselves in a social-media-driven world, where skiers often were emboldened to push their limits for the sake of views and clout.”
Yeah, industry forced their son to do stupid stunts to promote himself, rather than get a boring job. Maybe the parents should blame themselves for raising a shallow thrill-seeker.
I know this area very well, I-40 west of Berthoud Pass. I never tried that!
Having run a google image search on Dallas LeBeau, I have to say, I think that kid was born female. That’s a really female looking face. I don’t suppose it matters now, but if this was the case, this is someone who had never been told, “No.”
“The night before he would try to ski jump over a busy three-lane highway in the Colorado high country, Dallas LeBeau sat down with his parents for dinner in their log cabin home. Valerie and Jason served grilled cheese and soup to their 21-year-old son,”
Never mind this drivel, is there video?
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"Originally, the path was to begin above a cliff. He practiced coming off those rocks and into the runway of the jump, but his ski kept popping off as he landed. Eli told him to make sure it was fixed before he tried the jump. “If your ski is malfunctioning, this might not be the best thing to do,” Ziggy chimed in as Dallas tried to fix the bindings."
"The conditions were icy. He picked up speed. Within seconds, he made three turns and barreled toward the lip.
But just before he went airborne, the left ski popped off again. He lost speed as he launched into his planned double backflip with the right ski attached. The other ski fell down to the road.
Through their camera lenses, Eli and Ziggy could see Dallas suspended in the air without enough trajectory to make it to the other side. After he completed the first backflip, he aborted the second and appeared to open up his stance to brace for the fall.
He dropped from the sky. “Whoa!” he yelled as he hit the asphalt. He skidded across the road, and his back slammed into the guardrail. The sound cracked through the valley."
Paging Evil Knievel
Darwin wins a lot of the time.
“When Valerie and Jason looked into his eyes that night, they saw a free spirit…”
You see an adult who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. Most survive this phase..