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Ever lost a ski? Like lost lost?

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gusbus432
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Story time.

Friday was a great day at my local resort, 5 inches on top of some stiffer packed stuff. There is this one run under the lift that is steep, then a flatter spot then steep again. Steep enough to be a double black(barely). My plan from the lift was to huck off the flatter part into the second steep part, nothing crazy. So I was hauling ass, hucked it not massive like maybe 15 feet, and on landing my right ski got stuck and spun me around and I tomahawked 5 times ~100 yards to the bottom of the hill. I sat up, was seeing stars(which spooked me even though I didn't hit my head hard) and found one ski and one pole. Dude on the lift yelled "that was youtube worthy!" and I asked everyone that went by on the lift to keep their eye out for the ski.

2 ski patrol had nothing better to do and helped, my brother helped, and 3 friends helped. an hour and fifteen minutes later, we were walking back to my first ski about to head out and give up when I stepped waste deep in pow and barely felt it.

I got lucky and found it. I was about to lose my shit because I just got these skis and they're my only skis. What would I have done if I didn't find it? The plan was to go down and give patrol my number but then I would have no clue what to do. Anyone else lost a ski before?
Feb 28 2021 4:59PM
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powpatrol
Posts: 1713 - Karma: 11,077
many a time i’ve jabbed my tails into the snow and become increasingly worried as i struggle to get them out. not lost a ski yet though
Feb 28 2021 5:10PM
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Biffbarf
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I've have to spend like 45mins looking for a ski once. It somehow submarined like 15-20 feet sideways of my bombhole. Such a shit feeling especially on a deep day
Feb 28 2021 5:23PM
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Charles_Grant
Posts: 428 - Karma: 206
@quebecfreestyler lost his ski behind our chalet and never found it :(
Feb 28 2021 5:27PM
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MaimHelp
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I feel like if this happened maybe once the snow all melts you would be able to find it at the end of the season or someshit. If not maybe get demos for the rest of the season or find a friend with another pair of skis
Feb 28 2021 6:36PM
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gusbus432
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Geez that sucks!
Feb 28 2021 6:44PM
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profa_212
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My homie lost a single brand new ON3P Jeffrey years ago after exploding on a double. Searched for a while and then skied 1 footed to the base. Reported it as lost. Got a call from the resort in like june saying that they had found it. Full tune later and it was as good as new
Feb 28 2021 6:48PM
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snowfinder
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Lost a ski in some deep pow looked for it for a long time and couldn't find it. Skied down on one ski and decided to go back and take a look for it again. As I'm skiing back down on one ski I look over to the area I was skiing and see it standing upright on the side of the trail. Someone must have hit it and was kind enough to make it very visible.
Feb 28 2021 6:54PM
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Icant_kfed
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i’ve never lost lost a ski but once i overshot a 45’, broke the rear binding off my ski, i smacked my head pretty hard and didn’t see the ski head down the mountain, and i spent about an hour looking for it
Feb 28 2021 7:12PM
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joog
Posts: 62 - Karma: 632
Lost a ski in the fingers after I clipped a rock. Had snowed a few feet and spent a pretty long time looking for it and getting heckled. I went to the lost and found office and filled out a report saying what its dims were and what it looked like. Ski patrol found it in late September in some slide debris and there was hardly any rust or scratches!
Feb 28 2021 7:28PM
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poofartpee
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Have had two friends lose skis and have to go for a hike in the summer to find them, pretty funny to look back on.
Feb 28 2021 7:48PM
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Salad20
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Saw a beginner lose a ski on a blue run. It slid down the run, took out another skier and went into some trees.
Feb 28 2021 7:51PM
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Bended_Toenail
Posts: 1417 - Karma: 10,220
I've had to spend about an hour looking for mine before. Also had my brakes on my shifts not work and my ski start rocketing down the hill. It hit a fence thing on the side of a groomer and took the entire thing out.
Feb 28 2021 8:32PM
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koolkale
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Had a banger pair of Rossi mogul skis with naked chicks on them. They were orange and looked like an intro to a Bond movie. The apples of my eyes. I landed back seat on a front flip and heard a crack. Next thing I know, I am rushing my pair to my work bench at home. I tried epoxy, clamps, fiberglass, everything, but there was nothing I could do. I lost them there on that table. Still choke up thinking about them.
Feb 28 2021 8:43PM
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ModMommy
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Lost a ski at Northstar once, the brake popped off and the ski went shooting down the hill. I hiked all summer looking for it, RIP K2 Silencer. Lost a Nordica off a chute at Mt. Rose, found it resting at a tree in the summer.
Feb 28 2021 9:10PM
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Bushdid9_11
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Lost one ski crashing into some deep pow and spent 2 hours looking for it with my brother. It start to get dark, so we head home, me on one ski with tears in my eyes cause these were the first skis I bought on my own at like 16 (the 2014 bacons btw, best ski line ever made) and I spend the next 2 days in the deepest blue funk cause I am so bummed and can't afford a new pair of sticks. My dad said I could use his 196(ish) S7s with demo bindings. Whatever, dad.

Next morning I got a call from my buddy who found it while building a jump like 400 meters downhill from where I lost it. I have no idea how it submarined that far, but I was the happiest kid on the hill that day. Seriously considered getting ski straps to never have to go through that again.

Take care of your gear homies.
Feb 28 2021 9:47PM
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Treegrabber
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put a military grade gps on each ski
you will never lose either
Feb 28 2021 10:53PM
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elm.
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I didn't lose lose it, but it's a great story. Was skiing at alpental under chair 2 during spring. All day there was this pretty old ski patroller just ripping down on tele skis under the lift. Zipping by everyone and dolphin diving between moguls. Anyways, there's a slot with cliffs on right and left side that's maybe 20ft wide where I was getting through. Because it was spring the sun had melted a perfect ski sized crack between the cliff and snow. I messed up and my ski came off and slid right in the crack. So I was sitting there like a dumbass looking into the crack for my ski. Then the old guy tele patroller came down and asked what was going on. I told him I lost my ski in this crack. He said, "alright hold my boots I'm going in." So he dived into this crack and I'm hanging onto just his boots. I was only like 14 at the time so I wasn't that strong. He yells, "pull me up." And I yank him up to see my glorious line invader in his hand. Then he teles off like the boss he is.
Feb 28 2021 10:57PM
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retersonskis
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Not ski related but I work in the rental shop at my home mountain and this chick comes in and says her snowboard fell in the creek. So me and my coworker had to spend about an hour in the creek looking for a damn rental snowboard. Thank god I've never lost a ski before, I'd probably cry
Feb 28 2021 11:23PM
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gusbus432
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this is the funniest thing ive ever heard. But yeah, would have been a lot of tears on the way home if i didnt find it.
Mar 1 2021 12:03AM
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Grom
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dude my friend has lost two skis in the past two seasons and ive been there both times
Mar 1 2021 12:51AM
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Pilgore
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Lost one in some pillows out of bounds. It was a deep year. Had to come back in the summer. I did find it though
Mar 1 2021 1:18AM
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TheMoostafian
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You don't lose skis, you just leave them at the mountain until summer.


I've only ever lost a pole, never went back to find it
Mar 1 2021 2:46AM
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partyandBS
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The other day I shipped one ski back to a guest. They had a similar story. Actually amazed it showed up before spring and didn’t get ran over by a cat or anything
Mar 1 2021 8:40AM
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jprene8
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So my takeaway from this thread is you haven’t lived as a skier until you’re searching for at least 45 minutes to a hour for a runaway ski, and feeling the pain and heart palpitations that come with that.
Mar 1 2021 9:54AM
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gusbus432
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Lol yep looks like it
Mar 1 2021 10:51AM
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SuspiciousFish
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BiffbarfI've have to spend like 45mins looking for a ski once. It somehow submarined like 15-20 feet sideways of my bombhole. Such a shit feeling especially on a deep day


I came so close to giving up on on of my CRJs at Snowbird in a deep pow day way back. It just sucks to have to swim around in the snow for 60 min trying to keep your hope up. Pretty much everyone that skis by just kind of says, "Damn that sucks bro." too which doesnt help morale at all.
Mar 1 2021 11:43AM
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gusbus432
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yeah lots of lift dudes said the same thing. The rest of the day skiing though i got lots of "ayyyyy you found it!"
Mar 1 2021 1:47PM
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acbiggs
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Lost a ski during a week stay in Portillo, Chile back in 2008. It was dumping and about 3 feet had fallen the previous couple of days. Lost one Fischer Big Stick and searched for at least 3 hours cause my other pair of skis were an old pair of Line Assassins. Ended up not being able to find it and left the other ski with a Ski Patrol buddy who did the meteorology for them before I fly back to the States. He ended up finding it during the summer and used them for a long time. He would send photos of the places he went with them haha
Mar 1 2021 1:53PM
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skiP.E.I.
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In Europe you can get ski insurance for pretty reasonable rates. A friend from Germany lost a ski in pow and the insurance company replaced the pair. Pretty sweet success story for him. Not a bad idea to wear leashes when you are skiing really deep snow!
Mar 1 2021 2:24PM
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colbysaunders
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never lost a ski but had to spend 30 minutes on a powder day looking for one. Luckily it was bright green.
Mar 1 2021 5:04PM
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belden...
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Lost one of my brand new Moment PB&Js with the bright green pivots on Great Scott at snowbird on a storm day after ~18 inches of fresh over night in January 219. Hit a snow snake (given it was January), double ejected, tomahawked once or twice, came up to see one of the skis sticking out vertical 20 yards up and the other taking off like a rocket right by me. Hiked up to get the ski above me and then skied down to where I thought the other might have gone (it was storming so I lost sight of it after 100 yards or so). Took off the ski I had and started scything through the snow hoping to hit something for about 45 minutes or an hour but wasn't positive I was even in the right place.

Skied down to the based on one ski and went into ski patrol, who I must say weren't very helpful. I had to ask them to take down my information incase someone found it or if it popped up in the spring.

As I was walking out of the ski patrol office I had some guy ask if he heard me right and that I had lost a ski on Great Scott. I confirmed and he told me "one of my guys got it, they're coming down right now with it." I was pumped, fully prepared to buy this guy a beer and then like a 12 year old from the freeride team skied into the plaza with my ski on his shoulder.... Still gave him like $20 or something.

If you were that kid and your reading this thanks again!

Powder straps might look stupid but I certainly wish I had some that day.
Mar 1 2021 6:13PM
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Floppyweener
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Not me but I was skiing with this girl for the first time and all her friends. One of these kids has on like brand new dps skis of some kind with shifts (maybe like 2days after they came out). No fresh snow, some pretty soft bumps. Dude with the dps just absolutely goes over the handlebars lol and loses everything. Eventually finds his one ski and poles but can’t find his left ski. We have ~7 people looking. Like full on deep search skis off. People on their stomachs sliding around full on arm searching. Kid is rattled beyond belief because his “multi thousand dollar setup is gone”. No joke we search for 2.5 / 3 hours. Turns out the ski went down mountain a few hundred yards and got hung up in some trees. Have not skied with that group of people since haha
Mar 1 2021 8:33PM
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