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Your worst experience on the mountain.

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snowbombz
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What is your worst experience skiing?

there have been lots of threads about the best pow days, but what about the shittiest days? lets hear some stories!
Oct 13 2010 1:50PM
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snowbombz
Posts: 2456 - Karma: 96
oh and edit your stories so that this thread does not get banned.
Oct 13 2010 2:10PM
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willy_baller
Posts: 1622 - Karma: 693
overshot a 90 foot jump while over rotating a dun cork 12 to my face. my brain was bleeding and I hardly remember any of the day... pretty shitty
Oct 13 2010 2:11PM
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snowbombz
Posts: 2456 - Karma: 96
oh fuck thats shitty
Oct 13 2010 2:23PM
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Mike-O
Posts: 14593 - Karma: 1,089
Somehow almost got raped by my Salomon bindings, which had no cover on (sharp as hell). Couple inches the other way and I'd be singing in falsetto.
Oct 13 2010 2:27PM
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steezenskis
Posts: 1044 - Karma: 31
this one time i was skiing and then this pedophile slipped me roofies and then pulled me into the bushes and raped me. worst day ever.
Oct 13 2010 2:44PM
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Quinn69
Posts: 293 - Karma: 141
Went off this natural berm out in the pow.. on the other side of the berm was a deep hole into like a cave almost.. waist deep pow and lost my skis and had to dig an hour to get out :(
Oct 13 2010 2:54PM
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Flow_Tha_Rider
Posts: 13 - Karma: 10
Comin gin to slow on a pow road gap and landing on the edge of the road and then tomahawking for about 30 to 45 feet
Oct 13 2010 3:05PM
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Evilchris
Posts: 2090 - Karma: 44
probably being tuck out of bounds at wildcat for around 4 hours, and having to basically traverse down a riverbed. AND miss an epic day of pow skiing :(
Oct 13 2010 3:15PM
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Daydreaming
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 48
That's fucking insane! Where the did you go before getting lost? (what traverse, run, etc.)
Oct 13 2010 3:37PM
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.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799

I was pretty sick, but we ended up getting a snow day and I was feeling ok, so I went snowboarding with my friends (yes I snowboarded at the time), and about halfway through the day I felt so sick I could barely move.  I had my mom come pick me up from the hill and I was so dehydrated my vision started blurring and I was seeing weird things.  When I got home my temp was close to 105.  It was by far the worst I have ever felt.  I ended up missing the next 4 or 5 days of school.

Oct 13 2010 3:41PM
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KLovelace
Posts: 2118 - Karma: 289
my friend flipped his car onto the passenger side (where I was) on an epic spring pow day on the way up. I was pissed and got glass in my arm and didn't get to shred pow.. we were about 10 minutes away too. awful.
Oct 13 2010 3:54PM
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steezyjibber
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Decided to try and do a little late season skiing with my 2 friends Dave and Schoepf (twinjibber77 & The_Rook). Drove an hour and a half to holiday valley, only to find that it was open for 40 MORE MINUTES. Me and dave had seasons passes and Schoepf only had to pay like 6 bucks. So we get on the slopes with about a half hour to ski and it's the downright worst skiing ever...skiing through puddles and dirt. Get back inside the lodge at 7:00 (closing time) and everyone is leaving and we're just chillin', till basically everyone is gone. Time to leave (around 7:15), so we go back to the car with all of our stuff. But Schoepf aka The_Rook lost his keys. At this point we figured he might've just lost them on the 2 minute trip from the lodge to the car, but after searching for 20 minutes in that area, they were nowhere to be found, and it was getting darker. Schoepf then decided to go search the bottom of the ski mountain, in the dark. Nobody was around. After an hour of searching, no luck. We found a guy sitting in the lodge who was a manager or something and he couldn't help, and he told us to go to the hotel lost and found, and no luck. So now it's like 9:15 and we are stranded in a dark parking lot, so we called up AAA (Triple A). They told us that it would cost $100 FOR A LOCKSMITH TO COME DELIVER A KEY, AND IT WOULD BE AN HOUR WAIT! So schoepf says screw that, and we call up our friend Lucas from college (who drove all day) to come drive 3 more hours total to deliver Schoepf's spare key from his dorm room for 60 dollars. It was quite the day, the end.
Oct 13 2010 3:59PM
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Chompo.
Posts: 4952 - Karma: 88
^that sounds like a shitty day
Oct 13 2010 4:03PM
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HippieLetuce420
Posts: 48 - Karma: 10
falling off a chairlift, from like 20 feet. ruined my day.
Oct 13 2010 4:05PM
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danbrown
Posts: 11939 - Karma: 21,826
A few years ago at Okemo, I got my pass pulled for riding switch in a "slow zone" which apparently also meant "ski forward zone"
Oct 13 2010 4:13PM
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willy_baller
Posts: 1622 - Karma: 693
hahaha that blows but is also very retarded
Oct 13 2010 4:54PM
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That_One_Dude
Posts: 1050 - Karma: 760
We got to 7 springs right after the best snow storm of the year where we got almost 3 feet of snow overnight. I skied all morning in pow and came in for lunch. I separated my skis far apart and everything and i went back out and someone jacked ONE of them. They were line chronics....not exactly typical looking graphics. I went into willis where i know the manager and he let me use one demo ski for the rest of the season so it wasnt the end of the world i guess...still never got my one ski back though.
Oct 13 2010 5:22PM
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Rob~
Posts: 143 - Karma: 16
Being stuck on a chair lift in -20 for a good hour and a half...
Oct 13 2010 5:34PM
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Daydreaming
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 48
I have had a similar experience, not fun. It was blowing so hard you could barely see the chairs coming the other way and then we stopped for wind for a good 20-30 minutes but it felt like days.
Oct 13 2010 6:26PM
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2_fadez
Posts: 7780 - Karma: 4,183
I was on vacation at Whiteface and went to drop my sister off at ski school. I came back and someone had stolen my shitty K2 poles in the 5 minutes I was gone.
That night after skiing I came in and my hip started hurting and soon I found out that I had also torn my left hip-flexor off the bone. FFFFUUUUUUUUUU
Oct 13 2010 6:31PM
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ReignMan
Posts: 1852 - Karma: 226
First day back form injury of shattered arm. Vail colorado. way back off the backside. my tib fib fucken exploded while i was skiing. took 4 hourse of trying to get off the mountain. Shit load of percaset and a bucket of candy was all i did for 2 weeks looking out at the beautful mountains of CO. FML
Oct 13 2010 6:39PM
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207
Posts: 8969 - Karma: 3,846
nutted myself on a down rail.

undershot and knuckled a 30 ft jump

on an aframe went face first into the rail and bit through my tounge lost two teeth.


Oct 13 2010 6:41PM
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Chubz.
Posts: 13918 - Karma: 25,661
holiday valley is the shit.... i love it there!
Oct 13 2010 6:44PM
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Elmo.
Posts: 4317 - Karma: 663
thats retarded... no warning??
Oct 13 2010 6:45PM
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MackJones
Posts: 691 - Karma: 1,199
not all bad!
Oct 13 2010 6:48PM
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GayWolf420
Posts: 37380 - Karma: 119,948
I took the last jump in Pick 'n Shovel at PCMR to the end of the landing where it planes out. Basically a 40ft gap to flat. My shins were on fire but I rode away all safe.
Oct 13 2010 6:48PM
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snowbombz
Posts: 2456 - Karma: 96
this sounds like a deer valley thing
Oct 13 2010 6:53PM
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AWALLRUS.
Posts: 5762 - Karma: 223

one time i was pissing in the woods and shat my pants a little bit

when i was learning to hit rails i fell backwards and cracked a rib, winded me for like 5 mins

i lost my balance hitting a jump on a snowboard and landed on my neck

Oct 13 2010 6:57PM
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Chubz.
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i hit my face off the front of a box... it hurt so soooo bad
Oct 13 2010 6:57PM
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snowbombz
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4 years ago i was a gaper. I was a 13 year old who had just got his first twin tips and had never been in the park. After a few runs i felt that i could pull off a 360. So i did tried it and overshot it, then i landed on my really tall poles and broke my wrist. and it was early in the season
Oct 13 2010 7:00PM
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Sir.Steezealot
Posts: 1156 - Karma: 677
Got up to the mountain late, I was chillin waiting for some friends and decided to hike a rail. So about 5 minutes into the sesh some gaper dude and his kid side jumped the lip of the rail and almost crashed into me. He was fine and his kid was ok. But I asked if he was ok just cause I thought hey we were all gapers once and I didn't want any trouble. Next thing I know this guy is trying to rip me a new asshole, yelling his fucking ass off. He told me that the mountain was for going down the hill not up it. I was pissed we exchanged some nasty words and he left. Later ski patrol roles up and asked what the commotion was about. Long story short almost got my pass pulled.bullshit
Oct 13 2010 7:15PM
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blackoutbill
Posts: 2918 - Karma: 282
My worst experience is having to leave the mountain

Oh and breaking my clavicle and scapula. That sort of hurt
Oct 13 2010 7:26PM
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hoodratz47
Posts: 12020 - Karma: 9,475

where to start.....   cork three and concussion,,,, bloody nose as fuck.  locked my key in the trunk and then i took a knife to the ski sock in the audi and got my keys.. all concussed i go down west leg road hauling ass and hit another car comming up...  LAME...   she tryed to sue me 3 years later and she lost.  Bitch

back in my snowblade days at mt hood medows. mw and buddy are pissing in th woods. we pop out and are just carving it up. and next thing i know 4 speed nazis are on us like.. we got them got them right here.. and go on to tell us that we are intemadading the more novice riders and to stop turing so much.... no joke

chair rollback at skibowl.. like it went back 15 feet and the dog break stopped it.. fucking scary shit.

Oct 13 2010 8:01PM
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tuna.
Posts: 2627 - Karma: 111
not me, but a good friend of mine and his group of buddies came across a kid that fell into a tree well up at schweitzer, unfortunately he had already passed. it was a sad day.
Oct 13 2010 8:06PM
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FoxRiderAR77
Posts: 231 - Karma: 12
Tree Wells are so dangerous.

My worse day has to be waking up on the last day out in Tahoe, and after a week of crunchy snow to see a nice little snow shower.  When we got to the mountain though it was raining, starts pouring while I'm on the chair.  I took one run that was so slow and my clothes were soaked.
Oct 13 2010 8:17PM
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butteredpretzel
Posts: 1485 - Karma: 866
man i hate it when that happens
Oct 13 2010 8:17PM
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pomme-de-terre
Posts: 3915 - Karma: 703
ive had some not so great days at the hill, but i was still snowboarding. so they were better than most bad days.

Oct 13 2010 8:29PM
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jason...
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5th day of the season, it was a pow day so I skipped last block of school so I could get up to the mountain and shred while it was still daylight. Like I said it was early season so not much was open, but my friends and I were of course ducking ropes all day because the unopened runs were not tracked out. I had the most fun run of my life, skiing pillow lines that would soon be snowed in and not been seen till next season. Right near the end of it I stomped a solid 15 foot cliff to a pretty flat landing. Skiing out back to the chair it maybe 200 meters down the run it got to be pretty bad flat light so I didn't notice a creak bed (this was probably why this run was not open) till the last second, I tried to hop it but pretty much stomped into the other side right underfoot.

The impact knocked my ski off and when I was trying to put it back on, and couldn't push down on my foot without terrible pain I figured something might be wrong. First I tried to walk it off but that didn't exactly work as I couldn't walk. So I got my buddy to help me get to the bottom of the lift and call ski patrol. The first thing the patroller did was give me this option: pull my boot off now or cut it off at the hospital. Obviously I chose the first option. As soon as my boot was off my foot all the blood rushed back and I was in the most pain I'd ever been in. So much so that I couldn't even pull my sock off. My foot/ankle also swelled to the size of a watermelon, the thing was huge.

The final result, my heel bone was broken into 3 pieces along with the bottom of my tibia having a fracture, and 1 other bone in my foot being fractured. Compressed it real good.
Oct 13 2010 8:34PM
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jason...
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Oh and I was on crutches for 10 weeks after that, missed 12 weeks of skiing, but I couldn't do anything but cruise for 2 weeks once I got on skis, and I couldn't jump for 6 weeks from the day I was on skis.
Oct 13 2010 8:36PM
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.Midwest
Posts: 493 - Karma: 22
After a great morning in the park, we went to the chalet for lunch, dumped my helmet and stuff down at a table and went to go buy lunch. When i came back, someone had stolen my jacket. After running around checking under tables, asking people, going to the lost and found, i just gave up. It was frickin cold that day too.
Oct 13 2010 8:38PM
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Tha_Wizard
Posts: 836 - Karma: 1,249
my experience: broke 2 vertebras on an overshoot, then had to drive 2 hours home.

worst experience: guy casing a 60 footer hitting his face on the snow biting his tongue off.
Oct 13 2010 8:44PM
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infuser
Posts: 1220 - Karma: 241

at hunter mountain my first day back on the slopes last season

I was sooo stoked, on the first run of the day the lift broke and we got stuck in the 5 or 10 degree weather for 2 hours.

Oct 13 2010 8:52PM
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MatsoFatso
Posts: 71 - Karma: 18
At telluride last season, under-rotated an underflip/japan grab in the park. Landed on my left side of my body. separated my collarbone from my shoulder, cracked my sternum, bruised from hip down, and cracked my brand new smith maze helmet. Always rock a helmet in the park! Shitty part was, I paid for a four day lift ticket! So I sucked it up took 1500mgs of tylenol, drank, and ski'd the rest of the week. Probably not my worst story but its the only one I could think of.
Oct 13 2010 8:53PM
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Fritz_Wetherbee
Posts: 302 - Karma: 30
i was running a super g back in 2005 and slid out on an extra icy east coast rutted out turn and double ejected. Then kept sliding right into a tree. Broke my helmet, was bleeding from my brain. sprained my neck bad enough to have to wear a brace for like 3 months. and still have to go to the chiropractor to this day for the back damage it did to me.
Oct 13 2010 9:10PM
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.jesus.
Posts: 2288 - Karma: 22
shit you found Will? damn man...
Oct 13 2010 9:21PM
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cultrara
Posts: 5147 - Karma: 46,850

not my experience but i took this vid at mount snow

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/content/viewvideo/id/325156/

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com
Oct 13 2010 9:25PM
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McFellon
Posts: 1841 - Karma: 2,005
last winter we got the biggest storm of the year- it snowed about 2.5 ft
so i went up the next day expecting amazing pow, but when we get there there's an inch of ice on top. apparently it rained right after it snowed so the conditions blew. even the groomers were terrible
Oct 13 2010 9:36PM
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50in07
Posts: 3070 - Karma: 1,471
I just got off a long day of work and was super stoked to ski so first hit I did a back flip but I didn't know they had shaved the lip and I underotated and ended up breaking the base of my thumb. I got surgery and had three pins put in and then a cast for 8 weeks. Thankfully I only missed 6 days of skiing.
Oct 13 2010 11:06PM
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Sleet
Posts: 327 - Karma: 13
Kid cut me off, went flying off a cliff and landed on ice. Fractured two of my vertebrae and cracked 4 ribs. The worst part was that it was the first day of a 6 day long ski trip. Fuck that kid
Oct 13 2010 11:13PM
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Captain_Slow
Posts: 1677 - Karma: 24
whats shitty is that you can do absolutely nothing in these situations.. One time our chair was a foot away from the top, and after 30 min my dad tried being cool and jumping the gap, only to miss it and fall to the ground.
Oct 13 2010 11:15PM
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