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Thanks for those! That's my neck of the woods, also moved here in '89 and ski'd Little Gap lol . That's a helluva story, glad you lived to tell the taleMoved to PA back in 89... The ski area formerly known as Little Gap... not a great name for a mountain... shortly after I moved to the area, they changed to Blue Mtn.
I remember when the Challenge chair first opened... it wasn't very reliable. I vaguely remember being there (not on the chair) for an evac. I think it was a Tuesday night. I was in a car accident on the way up to the mountain. I had just received my license a few weeks earlier. My car was rear ended. I was pushed in to the guard rail, so I had some front-end damage too. It was totaled, but still drivable... so I went skiing. The evac for the highlight of the night. I was the first time I had seen the process. It looked pretty terrifying.
The next week, a few days from getting a new ride, I went to Doe Mtn (now called Bear Creek). I lived in Macungie, so Doe was in my backyard. I was driving a vehicle that looked very much like it shouldn't be driven. It was a Sunday. On the way home, I drove past a girl's house that, at the time, I had a huge crush on (her name was Jess). I figured WTF... I'm rolling in a totaled 81 Rabbit... 203cm Blizzard V20 Hybrids strapped to the roof,,,. via a sweet Bic rack...maybe she'd take notice.
I was descending a dirt road in the middle of a cornfield. Some type of late 80's hip-hop is playing... ErikB and Rakim, I think. Too loud... it was a tape... pre Spotify. I was an obsessive adolescent. I had a huge crush on this chick. I'd been this way at least a hundred times in the past month. There is a railroad crossing. No gates. No Lights. Just a Stop sign. I never even thought about stopping. My memory ends here...
I woke up in the ICU at Lehigh Valley hospital 3 weeks later.
Seeing my father is my first persistent memory after the accident. There are a few transient memories. I vividly remember yanking out a catheter, but nothing else. That one will never go away. It still makes me recoil a bit.
My car had been broad-sided by a freight train. I had been in a drug-induced coma for 3 weeks. I had a wicked TBI. They had to drill a hole in my head.
Needless to say, I am super cautious around railroad crossings... we have a ton of them around here.
This is the Blue Mtn map from 91... it's another great aerial photo map.
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Here's Doe... another classic
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Holy crap!Moved to PA back in 89... The ski area formerly known as Little Gap... not a great name for a mountain... shortly after I moved to the area, they changed to Blue Mtn.
I remember when the Challenge chair first opened... it wasn't very reliable. I vaguely remember being there (not on the chair) for an evac. I think it was a Tuesday night. I was in a car accident on the way up to the mountain. I had just received my license a few weeks earlier. My car was rear ended. I was pushed in to the guard rail, so I had some front-end damage too. It was totaled, but still drivable... so I went skiing. The evac for the highlight of the night. I was the first time I had seen the process. It looked pretty terrifying.
The next week, a few days from getting a new ride, I went to Doe Mtn (now called Bear Creek). I lived in Macungie, so Doe was in my backyard. I was driving a vehicle that looked very much like it shouldn't be driven. It was a Sunday. On the way home, I drove past a girl's house that, at the time, I had a huge crush on (her name was Jess). I figured WTF... I'm rolling in a totaled 81 Rabbit... 203cm Blizzard V20 Hybrids strapped to the roof,,,. via a sweet Bic rack...maybe she'd take notice.
I was descending a dirt road in the middle of a cornfield. Some type of late 80's hip-hop is playing... ErikB and Rakim, I think. Too loud... it was a tape... pre Spotify. I was an obsessive adolescent. I had a huge crush on this chick. I'd been this way at least a hundred times in the past month. There is a railroad crossing. No gates. No Lights. Just a Stop sign. I never even thought about stopping. My memory ends here...
I woke up in the ICU at Lehigh Valley hospital 3 weeks later.
Seeing my father is my first persistent memory after the accident. There are a few transient memories. I vividly remember yanking out a catheter, but nothing else. That one will never go away. It still makes me recoil a bit.
My car had been broad-sided by a freight train. I had been in a drug-induced coma for 3 weeks. I had a wicked TBI. They had to drill a hole in my head.
Needless to say, I am super cautious around railroad crossings... we have a ton of them around here.
This is the Blue Mtn map from 91... it's another great aerial photo map.
View attachment 6289
Here's Doe... another classic
View attachment 6290
My poor mother! I actually went to church that day. (I'm a godless Jew raised Catholic) My parents were away playing bingo down in AC. It was long before cell phones... there was a message on the answering machine from the hospital when they got home. The message was something like "We can't say exactly what happened, but you need to get to the hospital ASAP"
