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Worst accidents at your home mountain

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meowmo
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tell some of the worst accidents you've seen at your home mountain
Nov 25 2011 11:44AM
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Inline.
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I ate shit once
Nov 25 2011 11:52AM
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Mag
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nah i'm messing, Nothing happens at my mountain really(as far as I'm aware) only thing i know of is my mate having to be heli'd off because he split his head open.
Nov 25 2011 12:28PM
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Drail
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i don't like this thread... just thinking about the shit that has happened at the hills I recreate - I'd rather not bring them up here.
Nov 25 2011 12:54PM
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Doug.Dimmadome
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from what I've seen it's just the odd broken arm or dislocated shoulder
Nov 25 2011 1:00PM
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*SNO*
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Not much really!

Well one of my friends lost control and went through 6 net fences that were by the lift line, he lost one ski at the 2nd fence and continued through the lift line until he hit the sixth fence.

Also we have glass panels at the bottom or our slope for spectators to watch the hill (it's indoor) someone crashed into one and smashed it?
Nov 25 2011 1:05PM
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malonius_funk
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i didn't see this one but a father and son were skiing in the woods and the dad hit a tree and died and the kid went down to the lift line and was waiting there for a while until they found his dad.
Nov 25 2011 1:11PM
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Mr.Gaga
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Gapers hit a tree and die. Happened 2-3 times.
Nov 25 2011 1:17PM
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S.C
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this. sad whenever something like that happens
Nov 25 2011 1:19PM
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Troy.
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Ever talk to your patrollers? Yeah, they've got great stories.

An hour and 4 minutes into the season at PCMR, someone mobbin down payday lost control and penguin slid into a snowblower giving him a mid-shaft femur fracture.
Nov 25 2011 1:23PM
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THAT-GUY
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lots of heart attacks killing 45-60 year olds

occasional running into a tree

there is also this 80 foot cliff to rocks that isn't marked off very well, a DU student hit it and died last year

There is another shoot where if you fall the fall line is off a sloping cliff starting at 45ft down to about 15. So depending on where you fall it can get ugly. Last year I was screaming at a Texan not to go down it, sure enough he did and I watched him plummet back first about 35 feet. Got up and laughed it off, I just skied away

Then There are these easy flat boxs at the top under a lift with a gaper magnet. They all try it fall. Take 3 minutes to get up and repeat
Nov 25 2011 1:28PM
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stevecuse1122
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Two years ago a gaper skied right into one of the ski lift poles.  He had a screwdriver in his pocket that pierced right through his sack.
Nov 25 2011 1:43PM
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squawshredder
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last season my brother shattered his tib fib and blew his acl in one crash. it was gnarly his leg turned 180 degrees below the break
Nov 25 2011 1:47PM
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rudager
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Death from people either accessing permanently closed avalanche areas, or going into the back country, with no knowledge and not talking anyone. Then Kicking Horse gets all the publicity hate
Nov 25 2011 1:51PM
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NinetyFour
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Aha I was locking up my gear to the ski stands once, and theres 2 sets of stands. The front row of stands sits at the bottom of the bunny hill and some snowboard gaper came wheeling in hard and yardsaled alll of this gear hard. Thats why you lean your skis on the back stands.

Other then that there was some snowboarder under the lift. Didn't see what happend but he was either sloshed or baked, and he was just laying there smiling, then got up skied 10 feet and then layed back down spread eagle smiling and laughing..... Ski patrol came and hauled him away
Nov 25 2011 1:57PM
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deepvoice
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Some dude died at mount at Louis last season. And I heard a story from a friend that some old dude popped his nut with a ski pole when he fell at alpine
Nov 25 2011 2:32PM
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californiagrown
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NARSID's, Tree deaths, Falling off big ol' cliffs

Back in the day a massive avi took out the main lodge and killed 7 people. Ive heard some gnarly stories from that.
Nov 25 2011 2:42PM
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Jibaholics
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a lift operator died while fixing something into t-bar engine. RIP
Nov 25 2011 2:42PM
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Jibaholics
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and a friend of mine is paralyzed waist down from overlanding a 15 ft jump.
Nov 25 2011 2:44PM
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mountainviper
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Yeah this is a terrible thread. I jus read through it and I would like to say thank you for the neurosis I will likely experience my next time out. Haha
Nov 25 2011 2:56PM
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james6345789
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A guy was bombing the black diamond and hit the lift tower once. He was in a coma for 2 weeks. He's okay now though. I don't think it was a gaper.
Nov 25 2011 3:09PM
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theabortionator
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Witnessed some intense stuff. Had other intense stuff happen in places on the mountain.



This thread is dildos. No point in bringing that shit up.
Nov 25 2011 3:11PM
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WestWoods
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Saw this snowboarder drop of a cliff, powder enveloped him. We saw him on the lift, we saw him flailing around and just laughed..


The end of the day we saw a man that looked similar being drug in a bag down the mountain.


Found out the man died from lack of oxygen.


I have that image stuck in my mind forever now.
Nov 25 2011 3:13PM
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theabortionator
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If he was in a bag how do you know what he looked like?
Nov 25 2011 3:16PM
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WestWoods
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Okay should of described it better, he like was slipped into a half bag thing just with his feet/legs being covered, his upper body and face were visible. Jacket was the same as the guy.


Might not have been the same dude, It still made me sick though.
Nov 25 2011 3:19PM
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Ribss.
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thats some fucked up shit.
Nov 25 2011 3:20PM
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Saintlysteeze
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really just gapers trying to hit jumps 30 footers at 5mph. and just completely landing in the flat. then 5 mins later it happens again. My mountain can blow because of this
Nov 25 2011 3:23PM
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Abc567def
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Some girl fell, some guy tripped behind her and peed in her butt
Nov 25 2011 3:29PM
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Mr.Gaga
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BRUTAL

Nov 25 2011 3:37PM
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theabortionator
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I'm not doubting this at all
Nov 25 2011 3:40PM
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Rosbif
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This year in Chile a 10 year old girl died getting caught up in a lift, she was in ski school, was really terrible, felt so bad for the instructor. Personally going back to work that afternoon was so tough, we only have 30 instructors, so everyone felt it hard.
Nov 25 2011 4:05PM
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DayMan
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Well I shattered my kneecap...
Nov 25 2011 4:24PM
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Njens.
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me too ;)
Nov 25 2011 4:27PM
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Enstrut
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my home mountain is an accident.
Nov 25 2011 4:33PM
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Ski_Alot
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i saw a kid i know break his leg, also when the lift fell down at sugarloaf
Nov 25 2011 4:34PM
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monkatizer
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someone dies at least once a year by hitting a tree.

most recently, when i was there, this dud and his kids were skiing, father didnt have a hemet, went into the woods, hit a tree and died. not a gaper at all, and his kids were waiting down in the lodge for an hour for him.....shits sad. and it was at night
Nov 25 2011 5:16PM
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dispatchQ_main
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A famous actor died at tremblant. Not quite home mountain but 2nd home mountain?
Nov 25 2011 5:25PM
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Chubz.
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aww :( that's terrible




I saw a guy break his back a few years back. He hit a jump going wayyy to fast and landed right on his back/neck. Shit was scary..i heard he ended up being paralized...but not sure about it.
Nov 25 2011 5:35PM
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Dr.Newschoolers
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if hes not a gaper why did he hit a lift tower?
Nov 25 2011 5:40PM
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ski-nodak
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a buddy of mine ate it off a jump and landed on his ski.. slid the edge of his ski down the length of his back.. cutting it wide open, blood everywhere.. the ski patrol came up and was telling him its not that bad, then looked up at me and mouthed "oh my god"
Nov 25 2011 5:42PM
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NEEDMOSNOW
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when was this
Nov 25 2011 5:44PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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inb4 joes big fall.


and my brother had a gnarly crash a few years ago when one of his skis prereleased when he was going realy quick, and he flew off into the woods. with his body he cut a 2" thick sapling in half, pulled a foot wide, 100 pound stump out of the ground (roots and all), then got wedged between 2 big ass oak trees. he had a broken / dislocated shoulder, fucked up his knee, and a real bad concussion. he still cant lift his left arm over his head and has trouble walking sometimes because of his knee. hes lucky to be alive, he didnt even have a helmet on.
Nov 25 2011 5:48PM
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joshua
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Well the worst accident to ever happen would probably have been two years ago when a father/son were working on the roof of the lodge. The son was on the ladder and the dad was steadying it from the ground, the ladder shifted into the power line, the son got fried and died on the scene I believe, the dad's feet and hands got blown off (according to rumor anyway) and he later died in the hospital.
DON"T MESS WITH WIRES IF YOU WORK CONSTRUCTION

Not sure if it is true or not, but I heard that two guys (or mabeye it was just one dude) died taking a canoe down the steepest run.
Nov 25 2011 5:59PM
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ebon_hawk
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two girls I new from school were near the park and one was doing snow angles the other one crahsed into the other one and they both were knocked out
Nov 25 2011 6:06PM
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Where-am-I
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I was up at a-basin this summer when a paraplegic guy died. although i think that might have been cardiac arrest, and abay isn't really my home mountain. but still, was  scary to see the guy getting cpr for something like 25 min straight before they gave up

Nov 25 2011 6:08PM
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JRM36
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my ski coach jumped of a cliff lost control, he hit a tree and twisted his leg 360 degrees, 3 years later he has gone through 11 surgerys and had to amputate this year

Nov 25 2011 6:12PM
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cdragon
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Some Asian guy overshot the Big Air Bag and broke his back
Nov 25 2011 6:16PM
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TheGnarwhal
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kid got his rucksack caught up in a chair lift and got choked to death last year
Nov 25 2011 6:37PM
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ItsRoche
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some guy overshot his landing, and the top side of his tips hit first and he ripped his ankles in half.

picture a ballerina on her tippy toes and then dropping onto the tops of her feet.

fucking gross.
Nov 25 2011 6:45PM
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jeremy.g
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just as i was about to take the lift up and rake out the park last year the chairlift at my mountain derailed. definitely the scariest thing i have ever seen. saw some people got tossed off the chair, broken legs and whatnot, surprised people didnt get more injured though. chairs slammed into the ground and some were about 20 ft above the lift towers. soo glad i wasnt on the chair when that happened.
Nov 25 2011 6:52PM
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gpitcher
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a few years ago a 7 y/o kid got hit by a snowmobile and died at my mtn. sad story
Nov 25 2011 6:56PM
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