'Twas a work tool. Just a way to get to a job site. As I was usually the biggest one on the crew, I got to break trail into well sites etc. Muscling one of those ******* loaded with 50 kg of survey gear and such, was a pain in the ***, not a good time.
Tore the ski offa one jumping a road. Caught the left ski on the top strand of barb wire at about 70-80 kph... scattered me and all my gear for several hundred metres on the other side of the road. We were racing back to the truck at the end of the day and I didn't want to go down two klicks to the gate... oops.