By Tyson Bolduc - tysonbolduc.com

Crested Butte, CO

“Taking a leap of faith can be portrayed in many ways. Today it was a leap of confidence and trust off a 100 ft cliff in the Colorado backcountry. I had been looking at the area for a few months, and yesterday set up the situation perfectly. I tried to jump another part of the cliff yesterday, but overshot my target by 20 to 30 feet and ended up taking the jump to about 80 to 90 feet down. Therefore, I felt confident in the conditions as well as my personal conditioning to be capable to take the impact of such a drop. However, the mountains in Colorado are much like Utah and do not yield very steep landings below such large cliffs like this so there was no possible way to as we say in the industry “stick” it, but with a controlled drop to the side of my body to disperse the impact I popped right out and skied down to my friends awaiting nervously below. To many this sounds crazy, but calculated risk is a better description. You will have to check out Two Plank Productions video this fall for coverage of the days antics, but take a look at the picture and you can see where I landed…. Good times!”

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm and is filed under TwoPlank Blog & News Archive.