By Diane Carman Roy Leckonby grew up ski-racing in the Northeast and joined the ski team when he came to the University of Colorado as a student in the 1990s. “I remember on that first day of training at Eldora, looking up at the mountains of the Indian Peaks Wilderness and thinking that I could be up there skiing in all that powder instead of doing the same run all day,” he said. What followed was a decade-long, adrenaline-fueled, sometimes insanely wild ride to the very edge of the sport’s limits. Leckonby survived. Barely. With the X Games beginning in…
