Attention "Ski Diving " Now Taking Volunteer* It seems ettreme skiers have Killed r their attempts lo tai(h and land 'big an “ Despite numerous attrmptv including the death las! sea son ol Lake labor s Pam Hut1 no skIrrs hare bettered the MO foot mail srt by |ohi i'remanr • oo: Th, solution aaoidmg to onr haidman. is to blrno the tethmqurs of slung and sir diving "If you srr all (he tliH ;umps people are doing todai they're not moiling too me says Robb Gaffney, m the nemfy released sli film. Me (dge ol [xnlfiht, produced by his brother, kott "These guys are getting (lose to terminal velonty. and in their tuck form there s so much «ind resistance or there ups it s |U!t flipping them r gnt up on their backs about three quarters ol the may domn Gaffney suggests they use free hened telemark sty e bindings and mom then sk tips to ride up near then armpits Then, about SO teet from the landing, the * mould get into a lannonba ponfor before hitting the snom “Tou can >ump (htfs up to 200 to J00 feet & . *a* Gaffney maintain’. “If you’re going to hit tffP’-na: **!ocify at ISO feet anywa» you a «*•• ,!o bigger And so when arp «» gomg to see you do this'" his brother asks "I'm 'p»'* go - j :1o : Robb dearly states Eggheads on Wheels fes, there are buyi'*- com muter < Antarctica US based Antarctic Support Assoc ates recently shipped three dozen bikes to scientists at McMurdo Research Station on Ross Island in order to rut do*r on vehicle use and reduce pollution The bikes ha*e gear shifters that an be operated by gloved hands and "paperboy" baskets to tarry research equipment Year of the Couch Potato? The nation's couch pota toes should be racking up some serious tube time this » rter According to a study by the Associated P^es> and Sports Marketing Group of Da ias. the W riter Oiymp . Games are second on » to tf»e taper Bow ■ * fmf popuU' ity Neit in p arp thp NIL Playoffs, Summer Olympic Game', and the World Ser-es The Winter Olympic, iff being held this rear m l : iehammer Norway, Iron feb'„j'» 12 through Hjf'h I and van be seen on (BS The “Tube” Top Ten 1 Super Bow 2 Ofympu W i?er Games J Nfl PUyotts ■I Ofymp . Sum-ner jj'»ie\ 5 World Senes 6 Mj|or League Basebi Playoffs / World F'gore Skating Championships 8 US hationa figure Skatmg Championships 9 NBA Championships 10 flavor league Basebi's Ail Star Game More on Tube* Speaking of tubes, a Parks Department crackdown is threatening a sportmg trad, non at California State University at Chico Inner tubmg on the nearby Sacramento liver can attract ever 10.000 people a day on a hot weekend Chat and Chico’s annua; Pioneer Days lestiva are parti? responsible lor Chico State s rating rw0 yean -.n 4 - j. Pijfbor top party schoo But 0*h ah Ur drinking on the nver has gotten out of hand Hernonjl Day weekend ■" 199' featured one shooting, one ’.tabbing and fi»e fights a * -r one afternoon, accord mg to State Pari Ranger R , HcGaugh, fcno» b> ocah a. "Ranger R .» M Uaugh's Department of Park, and Re 'ration ha* banned keg', on the water, hat instituted parking fees and s now con sidering an outright alcohol ban Biologists hare also proposed losing the takeout area, to protect two endan gered species "This ban would drastically affect things Students really like to drmk here, " argues Rara Ifib. a feporter for the Chico State Onon "This is another eiampie of the na/ification that’s going on m (aliform* now says Chris Mattson an alum nus who has responded by switching from tubing to wtmewater kayaking Attention Bat Student) Tou don't hare to dr »e to Carlsbad anymore to go car 'V fHf'f ■, pifnjy 'ip?iu"» :o bf do ' O'* lampuv h'i»f fTnifi 0* undffground tunr.f uonipiflfl i O'Tfi ,'f jr» pipr* Jnd o.thr U|■■•?:<•. j ••; . b,. .! / Ibf mdif MifflllVf 'yn' f mferct 'ipioffd (o djr<* .» ' ! , W ’<•,.* • j; v jrf j* Ml! Un »^f-; ( 'A ■ -vr i o .-•?• i R.-/ • ■ R . [Jr ,.*• Ur >f, of * •• UnivffMty of I n j- j!«! - • ti.Jt'r \pc': •> bt ,■ J ipf .-•» »>.*; {fj” !c Ilf,’ gjff fftf Unifff\it» of IcHOrado limpui fo» ij . . J t ll*! • m m’ Jf , j difiO»ff 0' *.’ i - k ... Defining the Next Cold War P c tufe this while to-.: ff driving past a sk a/ea, j ■,-'0"boardor iOmes fly ng o'* J i wbank . b qH the hood i)f roof (if ands then flipi you off before nd ng ba*« mto the «oods Of this a group of twenty snow boarders surrounds and bu-.es a ski patroima after hr blasts them tor swearing m (hr lift line Incidents like these ha»e prompted the ski industry to liumh a Mobei worthy effort to defuse the tension between boarders and skiers Resort operators attribute the growmg conflict to the mfiui of former surfers and skaters from urban areas fheir increased involvement »n snowboarding has brought strains of gang tike behavior to the resorts, officials claim Ihe effort at reconciliation. iibii»t> ! 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