When was your last yard sale?

[Brownski]

Probably about 8-9 years ago for a full-on yard sale ... Cloudspin at Whiteface ... Came in from the Paron's Run entrance and was moving along nicely in some deep snow hard to skier's right ... I started to venture towards the middle a little too far and drove my left ski tip into something (rock, stump, ???) ... Immediately ejected from that ski and superman'd ... Lost the other ski ... did a couple of somersaults ... lost both poles ... and finally came to a stop ... It's one of those that you wish you had on video!!!

This sounds like a yard sale. Did your gloves fly off? One glove even?

 

[Face4Me]

This sounds like a yard sale. Did your gloves fly off? One glove even?

No ... I didn't lose the gloves or helmet ... I do recall having a ton of snow inside my jacket if that counts for anything!

 

[Campgottagopee]

Few years back on the last day of the year at GP, we had a Chinese downhill. It was low light, foggy, with a drizzle but no matter the weather our crew always skied the last day of the year. There was maybe 10 people skiing that morning, our crew was 6 of them. There were only 2 ways down the hill, one of the ways had a very narrow goat path to get to a bigger section of the trail. Physics being what it is I knew I would win so I let some guys go ahead, it was a green circle trail. We were 4 wide going around a turn and I was on the outside gaining speed bigly. As we made the turn, I on the outside, I ran out of snow! Holy fuck, I knew I was going to crash. The had those orange lollypops marking the side of the trail, my body took those things out as if they were dandelions and a mowing day. Lost my hat, goggles, both skis, and one pole. Mud all over my gortex. We laughed our asses off. #14 says I need tearoffs now when I ski.
Good times

 

[64ER]

Sunshine @ Banff April 2004. Traversing from bottom of Delirium Dive over to Goat's Eye at speed when I hit a conehead one inch under the skiing surface. Supermanned a good ten yards, three to four feet in the air, thank god for helmets. A Patroller who witnessed it, swooped down in a minute to check on me, Said "Holy Shit, man, you okay?" He loaned me his knife so I could cut the 2" chunk of P-Tex hanging off the bottom of my right ski coreshot.

 

[JTG]

Witnessed a good one today headed up the Platty triple. Kid, maybe 7 or so, starts straight lining at the top of Upper Face. He was French Fry all the way, doubt he even knew Pizza existed. No attempts to turn, check speed, nothing. This isn’t going to end well, I thought as I turned my head to watch. Faster he goes, steadily picking up more and more speed, headed straight toward an orange slow skiing sign stretched between two poles. Blam-o! The slow skiing signed slowed him down alright, although not quite as intended!

We get off the lift and head down. Find the kid’s poles 50 feet upslope from where dad is reassembling his kid, orange slow skiing sign in a heap next to them, the kid’s helmet another 50 feet down from there. Dad is asking the kid “why were you going so fast”...and the kid outright lies and feeds his father some bs about some guy hitting him, which definitely didn’t happen.

Kid was fine, but that whole thing could have ended badly. Glad it didn’t.

 

[Brownski]

Sounds like Danger Boy but I know for a fact he was at Campgaw today.

 

[sig]

about 7-10 years ago had a double ejection under High Peaks Quad. thankfully someone was above me and could throw my skis down to me. got a standing ovation from chairlift crowd.

 

[Ripitz]

the kid’s helmet another 50 feet down from there.

Saw a kid skiing without his helmet buckled the other day

 

[snoloco]

I didn't yard sale, but my most recent significant crash was on Sagamore a couple weeks ago. Had a sore knee for more than a week after, but I could still ski on it, so it wasn't that bad.

 

[Peter Minde]

Yard sale from ~ 1990. A kilometer into a 30 k race, a big downhill where I lost it. Did a cartwheel and pulled a binding out of a ski. No serious injury fortunately.