Powersports racing as a spectator is much like viewing bison at Yellowstone National Park; you want to keep your distance. As much as I'd love to be up close and personal with these machines, breathing in their two-stroke fumes, listening to their turbocharged engines scream like pissed-off squirrels, and watching their riders do the impossible, I ain't getting anywhere close enough for things to go wrong.
Because, in fact, things can and do go wrong all the time when riders are on the absolute limit.
So when I saw the video linked below of a snowmobile hillclimb event that took place in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and saw how close the spectators were to the furious two-stroke sleds making their way up some gnarly course designed to throw riders off, the following crash was always inevitable.
