Your Worst Ski Crash

[Harvey]

I pretty much laid my worst crash on the front page. For me something positive came out of it.

I HOPE your worst crashes were minor.

What was your worst crash? What if anything did you learn from it?

 

[sig]

I pretty much laid my worst crash on the front page. For me something positive came out of it.

I HOPE your worst crashes were minor.

What was your worst crash? What if anything did you learn from it?

you should update your helmet article and add your wipe out from plattekill last year. you hit that gak at end of snow gun line and went down hard. i had front row for that one. i whipped out at kmart a few years ago. was bombing the mountain waiting for the bumps to soften up. no helmet on, don't wear one in the spring. going to fast on skis that could not handle gs turns. was lucky not to hit a tree. speed kills. not for me anymore. just give me low angle glades.

 

[Harvey]

you should update your helmet article and add your wipe out from plattekill last year. you hit that gak at end of snow gun line and went down hard. i had front row for that one. i wiped out at kmart a few years ago. was bombing the mountain waiting for the bumps to soften up. no helmet on, don't wear one in the spring. going to fast on skis that could not handle gs turns. was lucky not to hit a tree. speed kills. not for me anymore. just give me low angle glades.

Ha I forgot about that. That only hurt for a few minutes, but the nail got purply.

I broke my thumb once at Gore maybe 15 years ago too. Never think of either of those two as "bad" or "worst." (I think) that was the only bone I ever broke. Doc told me it would be no big deal until I was old, then I would get arthritis there.

I dig the low angle glades too. Maybe not cool to go so far OT this early, but I found this old piece on my favorite lifts at Gore:

Favorite Gore Mountain Lifts

The three longest lifts are not in my favorites.

nyskiblog.com

At the time I listed BRQ at the bottom. So foolish.

 

[Peter Minde]

One km into a 30 km ski race, I lost it in a fast downhill turn at Craftsbury. Did a couple of cartwheels, ripped a binding off the ski. Thankfully there was no YouTube back then.

 

[raisingarizona]

Do we have to pick just one?

 

[Sbob]

Do we have to pick just one?

Do a top 10 . I’ll get my beer and pretzels ?

 

[Ripitz]

Across the pond. By myself. No helmet. Friends weren’t in town yet. High avalanche danger so I decide to “play it safe” by skiing the lowers. Was trying to get my legs in shape by racing the cable car back to town. Was running 2,000 ft laps and riding up in the same cabin. Did 4 laps and decided on one more. Had to air over some avalanche fences into a hidden couloir. Came in super hot. Too hot. Tips got jammed in the runnel and I flew over backwards. Did at least 10 back handsprings. Scary as fuck. Somehow managed to stay in the middle and not fly into the trees. Didn’t hurt myself but was extremely winded and shook up. Took a while to get my shit together. Managed to get down to the piste and back to the bottom. Took one more lap to face my fear before wine time. This time much slower.

Now that I have a family, I always wear a helmet.

 

[Zykamps]

End of the season carved over a roller and didn't decompress fast enough. Tip catches and suddenly I'm airborne and looking uphill. Cracked the back of my head hard enough to give me a massive nosebleed (was wearing a helmet). Knee was gone. Patrol dragged me off the hill and sent me home with a bag of ice. Blown acl, destroyed meniscus, and broke a chunk off the end of my femur. Surgery and recovery was not fun.

 

[Harvey]

End of the season carved over a roller and didn't decompress fast enough. Tip catches and suddenly I'm airborne and looking uphill. Cracked the back of my head hard enough to give me a massive nosebleed (was wearing a helmet). Knee was gone. Patrol dragged me off the hill and sent me home with a bag of ice. Blown acl, destroyed meniscus, and broke a chunk off the end of my femur. Surgery and recovery was not fun.

Ugh. That was this year?

 

[Zykamps]

No 2013. Took me out for over a year... 16 weeks non weight bearing and a year of PT. Now I like slower in the trees instead of faster on the groomers...one of the reasons I like Gore