{"id":155,"date":"2004-09-21T16:57:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T23:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/?p=155"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T22:45:13","slug":"feat-of-the-week-deep-facial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/2004\/09\/21\/feat-of-the-week-deep-facial\/","title":{"rendered":"Feat of the Week – Deep Facial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rider:<\/strong> Mehran Moghtader, a 37-year-old family-practice physician from Hollywood<\/p>\n

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Deep Facial<\/p><\/div>\n

The credentials:<\/strong> Primarily a street rider, he had cranked on a mountain bike about a dozen times.<\/p>\n

The feat:<\/strong> A run down Mammoth Mountain’s Bullet, a five-diamond chute in winter<\/p>\n

The hype:<\/strong> “Six-foot drops, huge boulders and tight turns have made the Bullet a legend. And so have the spectacular wipeouts along this demanding course.” — Description of “Bullet,” a video about the course<\/p>\n

Mistake No. 1:<\/strong> “I tried it once and didn’t make it. My friends [including the photographer] said, ‘You should try it again.’ I was silly enough to say, ‘OK.’ ”<\/p>\n

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Mistake No. 2:<\/strong> “It’s about a 6-foot drop from the place where you pull up, jump and land. Well, I jumped but when I landed, my front wheel dug in and I slipped.”<\/p>\n

What was he thinking? “I was pretty scared to be landing like that, face down. I was thinking: What am I going to look like when I get up? Amazingly, I didn’t get injured at all.”<\/p>\n

Source of this article<\/a> – Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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