[San Francisco Chronicle]
Type “Josh Daiek” into Google, and the search engine will offer to complete your query with “road gap.”
That’s because the 36-year-old professional skier, who lives in South Lake Tahoe, pulled off a stunt that a certain sect of Tahoe skiers has been fantasizing about for decades: ski-jumping clear across Highway 50.
Daiek, known for his fearlessness in the mountains, launched himself from the edge of a 90-foot cliff above the roadway near Echo Summit, threw a backflip while clearing westbound semitrucks on the pavement below, then landed on his feet in the snowy embankment on the other side. “It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever done,” Daiek said recently.
He pulled off the jump a year ago, on Feb. 6, 2019, after...
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