Two days into a high pressure and with stable conditions I am now in that world of butterflies and insomnia. When food and sleep become limited I know things are getting heavy. Yesterday night I hit a line with one of the gnarliest roll overs I have ever done. Sitting at the top of the line for over an hour my mind jumped back and forth from, “your on glue” to, ” its a 15 ft air into a clean ramp. ” The “15 ft air to a clean ramp” side of the brain won out.
I must have looked at this photo a hundred times on top. The line looks pretty simple from here but that little 5 foot air was more like 15 feet and that changed everything.
This photo makes me sick to my stomach. I looked down this thing for an hour getting my mind around the fact that I needed to follow these wind ridges to the left. The more left I went the smaller the air. My plan was to take it as far left as possible without bringing the exposure into play.
Look closely and you can see my track. I landed on the sun shadow line. it was exactly where I wanted to land but the spine was harder and sharper then I thought and it bounced me into the air. I picked up more speed then I wanted to and the crack on the spine was right where I wanted to shave some speed. I had to up weight and redirect my line toward the gut and shave some speed.
“With out risk there is no adventure. ” Bill Griggs

that makes my gut drop.
Comment by Tate April 29, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Now that’s a sweet line there Jeremy, I’m always living vicariously through your A.K. shred exploits, see ya at the beach !
Comment by Gareth in the Butte April 30, 2008 @ 1:57 am
you are on glue. that is so fucking gnarly!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by benny April 30, 2008 @ 6:04 am
Good to see excalibur ( sixty sick) works out just great.
keep on pushing the limit of what’s humanly ridable.
Matthieu
Comment by matt April 30, 2008 @ 10:34 pm
I wish I could put a few coins in my computer and watch the vid…photos never do justice for that kind of terrain. Nice !!
Comment by UtahJeremy May 1, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
wow
Comment by John Parker May 1, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
yea man!! sick to see that Valdez terrain!!! nice photos and sweet words my friend. -s
Comment by sage May 2, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
Wow that is one of the sickest entries I have ever seen. Your skills are so solid nice job making us all feel small.
Comment by Dustin Robertson May 6, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
HOLYFNSHIT. seriously, I mean are you kidding me?? You are the man Jeremy!
Comment by Jonny A May 6, 2008 @ 8:58 pm
Jeremy Jones you are a masochistic AK winter god.
My only thought about big mountain lines, “I wish I could quit you.” -BBM
Comment by JT May 6, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
This photo shows an amazing perspective of this line. Gut wrenching..
“I looked down this thing for an hour getting my mind around the fact that I needed to follow these wind ridges to the left. ”
Will I be able to see this in any of the videos?
Do you ever feel any pressure to drop these lines?
Comment by Johnny October 9, 2008 @ 12:25 am