SnoWest: So there's two parts to this sled... The first build and then a crash and rebuild. What's the story to that?
Jared: Interesting story. Rocky and I were up in the mountains, testing. Rocky had never been on my sled yet. I was a little apprehensive to let anybody else on it, since it was my baby but I wanted him to feel what I was feeling with power and tuning. I swapped, I hopped on his Ski-Doo. He hopped on my Pro.
Rocky: I think I was trying to get to ride it because it was so awesome. So we're in Sheep Creek, and it's just me and Jared, and Jared is like this runs awesome. I got on it and I rode around just a little bit and it did, it ran really good. He was right, it was awesome.
I went to just make a little line up, kind of a spot through the trees, not really too steep but it was going to get steep. There was a branch hanging down, so I moved my right hand so that the branch wouldn't hit me in the hand. I knew it was going to hit the handlebar, and I was just going to grab the throttle after the branch went past the handlebar.
Jared: This isn't a bush branch. This is like a dead piece of pine tree.
Rock: Yeah, a big pine tree with all that junk hanging down. The handlebar hits the branch, and the sled just takes off. I'm only holding on with one hand, and I'm standing on the opposite side of the sled, really just standing there on the running boards with both feet.
When the sled goes to full throttle, it stands up, and I stepped off because I obviously couldn't hang on. The sled goes up and it just does this cool S-turn, through the trees, in a wheelie, full throttle, and then it hangs a right and it goes across the hillside. I can kind of see it through the trees. It was going like somebody's on it, and it's just full throttle across the hillside. Then it starts drifting down the hill, and disappears.
When we got to the sled, the throttle wasn't stuck, but the rest of it was in pieces. Just smacked a tree.