Most Extreme Thing...

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When she asked if those jeans made her backside look big, I said "a little bit."

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..snort...dumbass!!!
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Free climbed down Rattle Snake Point, Milton Ontario.
Young and foolish, no drugs, no alcohol, just pure young and fearless.
There's plenty more but me and my angel try to avoid reliving the past.

This will be an interesting thread.
 
Used to be Rallying for me.

Spend your week in the trees and your weekend "avoiding" them!

2 kids 15 months apart while running 2 businesses at once has put the handbrake on that for the moment though....

Car is still sitting here....gathering the wrong kind of dust!

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Free climbed the Flat Irons in Boulder, Co. Almost all of them, Young Dumb and full of well let's not go there. I have yet to try the jeans comment but now I'm always up for a challenge.
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White water Kayaking in new zealand, after heavy flooding due to rain :-) that was some serious extreme action.

Living for 18 days in the NZ bush without communication.

Rescue a woman from her car that flipped over, I was about 18 years old and she was in seriously bad shape.

Standing eye to eye with a Bear in the middle off a forrest in the shimmer of evening somewhere around baltimore together with my friend. We didn't know anything about bears and we both were afraid off being eaten ;-) we stood still for about 10 minutes before the bear decided to walk away......we started laughing because of stress and found out there was another bear right behind us.....I think my hartbeat was about dubbled and the whole forrest could have heard it :-)

Helping with the birth off my 2 sons.

and last but not least, posting on treebuzz :-)

climb safe
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Wow! Cool stuff here!

I hear ya on the bear. We have plenty. Grizzlies as well as blacks.

Can't imagine free climbing rock! Too much for me.

But I think the 'jeans' episode is the ballsiest of all so far!

I guess mine was flying a helicopter up north. Worked in the bush one summer as a student for the geological survey and pilot put the duals in and let me take it off, fly it around and land it a few times. Those things are tricky. Now that I'm older and wiser I see how iffy that was.

Helicopter was our daily pick up and drop off to do our surveying traverses. No roads. I worked alone. I guess that was not smart either but I preferred it.

Bit of edrenaline when the copter failed at quite some height and autorotated (that's just air through the rotors, no more power) into the lake - thankfully only about 3 feet of water. And no I wasn't flying it at time! I was passenger.
 
waterfall cliff jumping. there's a place here where once you jump the first falls you cant turn back and have to keep hiking to jump the next 2 falls down. if you mess up in any way and get hurt, there is no phone reception and help is a long ways away.
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1. Skydiving in early mid-'70's. The last time, I in landed in a grass field. The right foot went down into a woodchuck hole, and was screwed up for a year+. I quit that.

2. Camped out next to the "bog" at F-1 events at Watkins Glen, again in early to mid-'70's.
["People" were burning scrap magnesium engine blocks & then throwing perfectly good beer on it (blindingly white light !), some were "trying" to run vehicles (someone else???) thru the bog, way too much EtOH, ...]

I heard that they filled in the "bog" years ago.

I quit that too.
 
I gotta second the wildland firefighting. running for the black, huffing smoke with snot running down your face, 20' flames racing up your back. Never had to deploy my shelter but came close in a N TX grass fire.
 
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ok am I the only 1 thats gona say skydiveing?? jumping out of a perfectly good plane at 13,500 feet

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I just signed up for skydiving this Saturday.... should be interesting.
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+3 for wildland firefighting. Only problem was I started late. I loved it! If you ever saw the 2002 shelter video from the USFS with the camera focused on a bush as a fire front comes up, I stood in the middle of that exact scenario. AWESOME!!!
 
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2. Camped out next to the "bog" at F-1 events at Watkins Glen, again in early to mid-'70's.
["People" were burning scrap magnesium engine blocks & then throwing perfectly good beer on it (blindingly white light !), some were "trying" to run vehicles (someone else???) thru the bog, way too much EtOH, ...]


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I was there. I was watching a group of guys trying to tip over a Grayhound bus. I heard this was a tradition.

Later that night my buddy set the borrowed tent I was sleeping in on fire. He was trying to fill the lantern while it was lit. We got out safe but almost suffocated.
 
Got married...just kidding, even though it ended in a divorce
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For many years I was a volunteer leader with the American Lung Association Winter Wilderness Trek program in Minneapolis. We would train, provision and provide leaders and then head to the wilderness, typically the BWCAW on the MN/Ontario border for a week of camping. The coldest weather I was in was minus 35 F but typically the coldest was 'only' around minus 15F. Going into the wilderness with people who had little or now warm weather campground experience was a huge responsibility. The training was excellent so it wasn't like they got chucked off the dock and told to swim. I think that we brought everyone home...our goal every year was to leave no more than 10% behind...kidding.
 
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2. Camped out next to the "bog" at F-1 events at Watkins Glen, again in early to mid-'70's.
["People" were burning scrap magnesium engine blocks & then throwing perfectly good beer on it (blindingly white light !), some were "trying" to run vehicles (someone else???) thru the bog, way too much EtOH, ...]


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I was there. I was watching a group of guys trying to tip over a Grayhound bus. I heard this was a tradition.

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EVERY nite vehicles were stuck in the bog, turned over, & set on fire (particularly if they got stuck). Lots of guys partied all nite, and NEVER saw the race or practice sessions.
 
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