Just Borrowing a Little Highway . . .

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Maybe I should start the Highway Hopper Journal?

Nick
BR
:-)

From the AP

Officers Not pleased with Students Jumping over Highway

February 26, 2000
SILVERPLUME, Colorado (AP) -- Deputies say as long as stupidity is not a crime they won't charge college students who use skis and snowboards to jump over traffic on mountain passes.

Jonathon Soquet, 20, of Boulder, this week suffered minor injuries when he crashed into a snow embankment while jumping Highway 6. He and other students had built a jump along a slope about 40 feet above the highway.

They have to fly 60 feet to clear the road.

"I don't know exactly what we'd charge them with -- other than stupidity -- but I'm sure there's a chargeable offense in there," said sheriff's Capt. Derek Woodman. "The sheriff says we could charge them for not having a pilot's license."

The Colorado State Patrol, which has jurisdiction over traffic issues, doesn't plan to file charges.

"If it would have involved a vehicle, all of them would have been cited, more than likely, for reckless endangerment," said trooper Jason Manspeaker.

"We'll let it be a learning experience and hope that other people would learn from the mishap." Manspeaker said Thursday's injury was the second time troopers had been called to the same spot.

"They said at one point in time, there were almost 50 people watching," Manspeaker said. "They said they had watchouts for taffic,but either way, as we found out, it's real dangerous."

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There is a small ski area in the Angeles Nat'l Forest called Mt Waterman. There is a longstanding tradition of jumping the road below the ski area when the snow is good enough. (ETREEEMELY RARE) It is a small group of locals that have had the luck to get the jump cleanly. There are a few face plant stories.
Moral?... learn to scrape up your casualties before the cops get there.