187SLEDHEADSRider: Jason Blair —Todd Williams
We were riding in a new location following our fearless
leader Dan (Gardiner) and he took us down into this nasty
creek bottom. The creek was starting to open, the walls
were getting steeper and the rocks were showing more.
With all of this you had to sidehill slowly and carefully
navigate. There were four of us and you couldn’t follow
in anyone else’s tracks in fear of hitting a rock. This was
also at the end of the day where everyone was tired.
Poor Anthony Oberti was struggling this day and found
himself at the bottom of the creek a couple of times up-
side down. In this picture he was using words that little
ones shouldn’t hear and Dan the Danimal walked back
to help him with his upside down sled. As I remember
,before the sled rolled into the creek you could hear his
turbo spooling up with great power then you hear An-
thony say, “oh boy” and the sled tumbling down into
the creek. This happened to be towards the beginning
of this creek bottom and as we moved down there was
no trail. And you couldn’t climb up to get out, the snow
was extremely thin if none existent in spots, there were
downed trees everywhere and the creek was completely
open. To say the least Anthony was not happy with Dan’s
shortcut. —Tracy “Smasher” Kaltenbacher