B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for August 29, 2024

Yeah. ’Cause plants in the cold icy stuff is more fun..Right?

“The agony of defeat…”

Maybe not for the participants, but for the spectators they certainly are.

still… sand is way better than a rock field so this is not so bad.. ..?

I’ve seen people snowboarding on sand and when I was a kid we used to use a waxed surfboard to ride down the dunes at White Sands (White Sands National Park which isn’t far from where I grew up) it was a blast!

Plus that sand gets everywhere……

The trick is not to fall.

Does it take a grain of sand to understand that?

Eddie the Eagle??

When I was working for a few years driving a forklift at a shipper, and in the winter when we got FREEZING RAIN overnight – and forklifts don’t really have very much tread on the tires for traction – we used a couple of shovels of sand on the ground to to get moving.

Sand is much better traction than snowboarding on snow and ice!

That has to hurt.

I like this one a lot. Congratulations!

“Quick stop” landing…..and he “stuck” it!!!!!

but it looks more comical this way. :}

Look at the bright side; you just invented skis!

Oh was he ski jumping??? I thought it was just another Breaking contestant at the Olympics.

I seem to remember a ski jump in Northern Illinois where people could practice in the summer. Can’t remember the details.

The jumping is OK; it’s the landings that are hard to stick.

Well!

It does seem that it should be possible to slide on a sand dune (although it’s now forbidden to mess with sand dunes in a lot of places). The primary question should be: do you want snow or sand up your loincloth?

He’s using the wrong kind of wax … klister’s just wrong on sand.

Modified Wiley Coyote scale , high points for launch good points for form and distance , blew it on the landing. ! 0.2

“Can’t wait til dune buggies are invented.”

“Ski jumps aren’t as much fun without the snow” Or the snowbunnies.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics…we had to truck in snow.

In British Columbia.

In February.