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Gulch is on the other side of Mt Hood from the training I where Palmer Glacier's wide terrain funnels into a narrow gullet. At the top
of the gulch is a big cornice dropping into a steep slope. Halfway down that slope is a second cornice. To make the smallest of errors off the first drop is to fall and tumble off the second, landing on an even steeper slope and bouncing some 100 yards to the bottom. Which is exactly what Lauren did. She did this while warming up for a day's training with Nelson
Carmichael who has won more World Cup and Pro Mogul victories than any other American man. Now, Rainen doesn't ski at this level. She's just a kid from Kansas who gets about 25 days a year on the snow and wants more. She wants more so badly that each summer she goes to bump camp in Oregon. She wants it bad enough that she hopped the cornice and not just once. She did it nearly a dozen times, each time trxing for more speed A,n !flore air until, on that last trip, she soared more than .jU
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Teet, pinwheeled all the way to the bottom and shattered Her wrist. While Lauren began recovering, I got on a plane to
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