Having a snowmobile is one of the necessary evils in snowboarding. It is needed to reach the vast powder fields, but it’s a fragile, fickle beast, always in need of maintenance and attention. For as many amazing shots that come out of the sled-accessed backcountry, there are more headaches created from the sleds. Jussi lines up 13 ways to quickly ruin a snowmobile, but there are certainly more than this.
- Not putting oil in.
- Crashing into a tree
- Tumble the sled down the hill
- Send it into a crevasse
- Send if off a cliff
- Get run over by an avalanche
- Hit a rock or stump under the snow
- The engine blows up
- The clutch fails
- Sled lights on fire
- It drops off your truck onto a freeway
- Attempt a river crossing or a lake and sink the sled
- Trying a back flip
