Selected by Ian Hylands - I'm not sure I really need to say anything about this shot. Pure unadulterated awesomeness, and you can barely even see the rider....
Although you can barely see the rider, the dust trail proves that he just did something epic. Its almost like a movie, as you can see everything from the start to where he is now. Such a great shot.
Yo, why are you all ^^^ replying to the top comment? What you're saying has little to do with what PookyLukey wrote. Are you just going for exposure? And yeah I realize this also has nothing to do with the original comment but this will get seen by you guys now.
@louiscritchie- Who gives a shit where they decide to put their comments? What did you plan on accomplishing by yours? You obviously had the same thought in your head 'i need someone to read, whats on my mind.'
I reply to the top comment for two reasons. 1) Might as well jump on the bandwagon and have your comment seen & 2) I'm a lazy American whom would rather not scroll to the bottom of the page to leave a comment.
Pretty epic riding and scenery but to be honest, why would you push up that if you could just get a helicopter ride to the top like the snowboarders and skiers. Just a suggestion, RIDE ON
I don't know why the description says defining the sport. Bearclaw shredded that spot a while back with a bunch of guys. Amazing picture though, looks like an amazing spot to ride and would be so fast.
this was filming for Freeride Ent. So they would have helicoptered it up. Tippie, Simmons and Schley were the ones back in the day that had to carry their bikes up this kind of stuff....gotta earn your turns!
The word "epic" is often overused in todays colloquial conversation, often referring to some sort of menial urban encounter such as "drinking one's face off last night" or "I got a flat tire last night and didn't know how to change it so I had to walk home" and so on. This photo of James Doerfling dropping a virgin mountain line in the middle of the Gobi desert swings that colloquial usage back towards the intended.
this pic reminds me of when Robbie Bourdon ripped down that gnarly mountain, in nwd 8 in the Gobi Desert ironically, amazing picture, when they say a picture is worth a thousand words, they were refering to this one, it tells you its story, what line he took more dust = more braking in that are where he turned, brilliant.
Man this is a BEAUTIFUL pic... My Fiance's parents just came home from China they went on a 4wd tour of this are... Their pictures were amazing, but all I could think while looking a thtem was "GOTTA GO THERE AND RIDE NAM NAM NAM NAM" hahahaha... then I saw this in the article in Decline and showed them... they didn't get it... they're old...