Pushed To The Edge: Part Two Jump!

March, 1978

Pushed to the Edge: Part two Jump!That Afternoon, we stood there in the woods near Lake Tahoe, looking down the inrun of a jump that was going to pitch each of us up into the air and then put us down 30 or 40 feet away on our skis or on our heads. I was pretty sure that Wild Bill O'Leary, a professional free-style skier and my coach, was going to land on his feet. He'd made a thousand jumps like this. In fact, he has a big color photo of himself in the upside-down part of a back layout off one o...