Students prepare for airboarding trip

Lifestyle
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DECEMBER 6, 2011
Students prepare for airboarding trip
DAN SISCO
A&E/Lifestyle Assistant Editor
On Dec. 10 Outdoor Activities will
take a group of students to Targhee
Creek on the continental divide between
Montana and Idaho for an afternoon of
extreme airboarding.
According to their website,
airboarding is “a lot like sledding
except with more speed and better
aerodynamics. The Airboard is an
inflatable sled with the potential to hit
perma-smile speeds!”
They don’t have access to ski lifts, so
adventurers will snowshoe into remote
locations on the continental divide
where they will launch themselves
face-first down the side of a mountain,
clutching a small inflatable sled.
Airboarding found its way to BYUIdaho in 2005 when Scott Hurst, one of
the advisors for Outdoor Activities, was
“I saw Airboards at a snow
demo I was at and thought
they looked like a good idea.”
SCOTT HURST
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
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Logan Finlay, a junior studying sociology, prepares an airboard at the ORC. BYU-I students will
embark on an Airboarding trip during winter semester.
introduced to the idea.
“I saw Airboards at a snow demo I
was at and thought they looked like a
good idea,” Hurst said. “So we bought a
bunch and brought them in for rentals.”
There are many advantages to
airboarding over regular sledding,
namely speed and control.
“In the right conditions, they’re really
fast,” Hurst said. “And you can steer
them. They’re not hard plastic, you lay
on them face first. They’re fun.”
The trip this semester is sold out, but
Outdoor Activities already has two more
trips to the continental divide planned
for winter semester.
Tickets are $15 per person, which
includes transportation, Airboard rental
and snowshoe rental, as well as lunch.
Students interested in attending next
semester can visit the activities website,
www.byui.edu/activities.
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