Went skiing last weekend with a friend from week. My friend is from New York, big mountain powder skier, I'm from SoCal, groomed packed man made snow. We work in SoCal so I asked him if he wanted to come with me. Well, he usually rides with his gramps who's an old school tree skier never been to the park I.e. hates snowboarders. So we go to big bear my local mountain and my buddy decides to hit a jump for the first time, on heavy powder skis... He gained so much speed on the ice shoot of a mountain probably 30+ mph as me and my other friend look up the mountain after hitting the jump. My buddy goes straight up and put, gaping the landing.. I can still see him panicking as he realizes how much he overshot it. He slams on his skis, compound fracture bone sticking out of his leg after they cut his new 686 snow pants off of him in the ambulance ... poor guy would be dope if I could replace his pants for him although it'll be a while before he's on the slopes again
Here he is getting heli lifted to a bigger hospital