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EDITORIAL
12 THE LOOK BOOK 2008
BY PETER KRAY
EVEL KNIEVEL’S A WEENIE
“Jump,” shouted the posse waiting below the rock.
“No,” said the kid standing above it.
“Why not?” the kids called back.
The kid above the rock, separated from his friends and everlasting glory
by six feet of red-rock cliff that they had just jumped, looked up at the
chair and the endless blue sky, then back at his friends to put the question
to rest for all eternity.
“Because I’m a weenie.”
Maybe he would have jumped if it weren’t for the chair. But that seems
like the only reason some folks jump at all — for those Motion Picture
Moments when they fl oat across the sky or explode like a spring-loaded
pinwheel.
Every day, on every hill, there’s a chance to play Evel Knievel. There’s an
outcrop or a rock that you’ve never really popped with your hand on the
throttle.
Or, there’s the chance to walk away, and wonder forever if you were meant
to splat or soar.
There’ve been a lot of days where I’ve been the weenie. But there are
also some great days when I put my skis together, pointed down the hill
and launched a screaming spread eagle across a bare blue sky.
And when I landed, I thought, “Take that, Mister Motorcycle Hero.”
I’d like to think that I’ll get my Evel Knievel on a few times this year. And
that all of you will be jumping your own Snake River Canyon before this
ski season is over.
See you out there.
Photo: Stéphane Godin
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