As if descending the Lariat Trail on a skateboard, at 40 mph, isn't gnarly enough (it's call 'the Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill Skateboard Classic'), watch this 'boarder get blind-sided by one of the local fauna...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwwbeXiyv4

Apart from some major road-rash and a few bruises, the skateboarder is OK, and the deer left the scene of the accident without being apprehended...

I have very fond memories of rides down that infamous road. Skateboards were not yet popular. For my birthday in 1972, while a senior at Golden High School, my dad bought me a high-performance Schwinn Super Sport road bike, which I fitted with the stickiest gum-rubber tires I could find. I lived on Lookout Mountain at the time, and I had attached a stopwatch to the bike so I could time myself on my rides to school in the mornings. I still have road-rash scars. What fond memories!