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More specifically heli-boarding.

Before spending the last 6 years taking care of a friend I use to snowboard 50-70 days a years.

I was in Chile at a place Valle Nevado and a friend convinced me to take a helicopter up to 15,000 feet and jump out onto a ledge.

From there we made our way back down to the lodge.

Loved it and got hooked. Not so much for danger but because I was doing something fun that most others won’t do.

Kewel factor.

Kinda like the time I rode the helicopter for avalanche patrol and the guy who was in charge of avaalanche, Bib(I guess that’s how it’s spelled) is some dude from France.

Well, in France they smoke, a lot and this guy is sitting next to a crate of dynamite smoking.

I’m nervous.

So he eyes a spot where he can create a controlled avalanche and he grabs a stick of dynamite and lights the damn thing with his cigarette.

^((*&)(&()*)((()!!!!!!!!

And he tosses it out at where this avalanche should be.

Boom! and sure enough a bunch of snow cascades down the side of the mountain.

So I start laughing really loud, because that was hilarious!

So we fly around to another spot and he hands me a stick of dynamite and says “Ear, you vunt to trrry?”.

I’m like...???

Well, I figured the pilot and he knew what they were doing so I asked him where it need to go, he points, I let him light it and I toss...Boom! Big grin and laughing.

He did one more and then we went and had breakfast with his very sexy wife and beautiful baby boy.

So I don’t want to go up skydiving and do anything stoopid, mostly just jump and land...safely.

If I start liking it I’ll take lessons from the really good guys on whatever advanced skydiving is suppose to be and I don’t know what that is but, it’ll probably be fun.