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From crashing really bad to getting your skis stolen what's the worst thing or the thing you fear the most when it comes to skiing? "Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself"-FDR
I'm planning on joining the Marines soon, and I am terrified of ANY injury from skiing. Skiing is like big game of minesweeper for me right now. Any muscle tear, concussion, or broken bone might disqualify me from service.
Always been my dream to be a Marine, but quitting skiing is never an option.
Landing straddled on a tall rail, Tomahawking down a steep run, and basically all jumps larger than 20ft because the majority of my skiing is on rails.
buried alive and suffocating under an avalanche is definitely my biggest fear. Also i'm really scared of knee injuries and hitting a tree or my head really hard also scared of driving up the mountain in bad conditions especially without guard rails and big ass cliffs or steep hills on the sides of me.
AnesteeziaI'm planning on joining the Marines soon, and I am terrified of ANY injury from skiing. Skiing is like big game of minesweeper for me right now. Any muscle tear, concussion, or broken bone might disqualify me from service.
Always been my dream to be a Marine, but quitting skiing is never an option.
Also chairlifts. I hate chairlifts.
Oorah! Enjoy the experience and I will thank you ahead of time for your upcoming service!
Causing an avalanche even though I deal with avy awarness everytime im up in the mountains, i've had a few to many close calls, but I have learned the lessons and been taught about handeling situations such as these.
Standing on top of massive cornices.
Cliff drops with bad run outs or landings in general.
Tearing my ACL. (Both my parents tore their acl's while skiing and my brother tore his mcl while skiing as well so the way I see it, I got it coming no matter what.
The chair itself falling off of the rope, landing in screamin-seamen and i heard about someones boots that just exploded upon impact so that terrifies me
It's not solely skiing related, it's always in the back of my mind whenever I do any sports, but I'm straight up and down petrified of being paralyzed. Not being able to use my legs would be the worst thing possible in my book, a fate worse than death. An ex of mine broke his back mountain biking (he's fine now) but since then I think about it even more. So scary.
Mr.BishopReally high Chairlifts going up cliffs with no safety bar.
Fuck that shit.
My worst fear would be doing a typo on a ski related website and not having admins update it......jk but if you wanted to do that that would be great!! My worst fear is probably Mt hood erupting and killing/encasing me in ash as im nutting a urban rail...I would probably end up in a pompeii like museum or something haha it would be a fail for forever
Im always super scared of getting hurt. It could be a few days off because of a rail crash or a season ruined because of a cliff huck; I always wait 3 seconds before dropping in to appreciate the time I am not suffering in case things go wrong. Death is easy.
High chairlifts with high winds...I remember the time an attendent had to constantly reset the cable trip on the tower because ou the high winds. scary times...and cold.
The last would be shitty patrol. Getting caught sucks, but when a ski patrol pulls your pass and lectures you on safety; thats worse than a meter maid giving you shit for a crappy park job while giving you the wrong ticket. I die of embarrassement. Got I love the west coast for their " whatever" policy to taking risks,
connecticuntIt's not solely skiing related, it's always in the back of my mind whenever I do any sports, but I'm straight up and down petrified of being paralyzed. Not being able to use my legs would be the worst thing possible in my book, a fate worse than death. An ex of mine broke his back mountain biking (he's fine now) but since then I think about it even more. So scary.
Yeah my dad broke his neck siing he is fine now and still skis a lot but I agree being paralysed is one the scariest things. Im already scared of knee or head injury let alone your entire body.
SteadySpaghetticompletely stop spinning on a big jump, back is downhill, overshot
Oh god. I did this exact fucking thing while upside down last year.
If anybody is aware of how massive the booter at granite peak was for awhile last year, I did it right when it was at its largest. Attempted a massive frontflip and the rotation just stopped halfway through and I landed backwards on my upper back in a heap like 70 feet away from the lip in the flats. Scariest shit ever and I'm lucky I didn't get fucked up.
Relatively unscathed, just some long-term shoulder pain and skiers thumb.
