The avalanche risk is part of the thrill in this macho sport where men drag-race up the mountains and ‘want to have the baddest sled in the land’
Quintin Raasch’s snowmobile bucks like an unbroken stallion, its nose and skis leaping out of the deep snow on a steep mountain slope. Snow flies as the deep paddles on the snowmobile’s track thrash the powder.
Mr. Raasch cracks the throttle, and his machine wails like a chainsaw, lunging forward into a brief moment of flight before landing back on level ground … Details
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