Early Injury

joogOn break from school and went up with some friends to Tahoe for my first few days of the year. About two hours into the first day, I blew up in the fingers and broke my L1-4 vertebrae and a couple of ribs, as well as bruising my lung. Ski patrol sledded me down, spent the night in the hospital, and now I can hardly walk. Pretty sure im gonna miss the rest of the season, and trying to decide if I was being too aggressive or just got unlucky; it was my first day of the year, but the snow was great and I felt plenty warmed up. Regardless, I missed last spring due to a torn MCL and think I might start to chill a little.
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1023572/RPReplay-Final1640127237-mov

joogOn break from school and went up with some friends to Tahoe for my first few days of the year. About two hours into the first day, I blew up in the fingers and broke my L1-4 vertebrae and a couple of ribs, as well as bruising my lung. Ski patrol sledded me down, spent the night in the hospital, and now I can hardly walk. Pretty sure im gonna miss the rest of the season, and trying to decide if I was being too aggressive or just got unlucky; it was my first day of the year, but the snow was great and I felt plenty warmed up. Regardless, I missed last spring due to a torn MCL and think I might start to chill a little.
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1023572/RPReplay-Final1640127237-mov

HypeBeastI'd say you're lucky you didn't continue on and hit that tree. Could been way worse man. It's early enough, you might be OK. What did the doctor say for total recovery time?

DeadBI'm still confused from that video. Seems like a puffed out ledge right under a small drop just bucked you? knees compressed into ribs?
Fuck man always check your lines, hope u recover in time for spring.

joogUnfortunately I did hit that tree that’s what did me in my jacket has a pretty big hole through it and my shirt was a little bloody. Prob gonna be like 10-12 weeks, funny enough this is my second broken back :)

HypeBeastThat sucks but hey just be glad you didn't get a branch through the torso and bleed out before you reached the hospital.

joogtrying to decide if I was being too aggressive or just got unlucky; it was my first day of the year, but the snow was great and I felt plenty warmed up.

skiermanNo, you were just being a fucking moron skiing way above your skill level because you were showing off to your buddies. The fact that you thought you were "pretty warmed up" on the first day shows how skewed your perception of reality is.

skiermanNo, you were just being a fucking moron skiing way above your skill level because you were showing off to your buddies. The fact that you thought you were "pretty warmed up" on the first day shows how skewed your perception of reality is.

alpinepleaseDamn. My mom broke her neck exiting a chute in Whistler and hit a traverse track and got sent. The upper chute you had to hike to, the traverse came from people cutting in lower - similar to what people might have done here. Brutal. That’s a lot of compression. Good luck with recovery!

joogDamn, never thought I'd see the day when skierman replies to my thread! Ive skied this chute plenty of times, think I shoulda just taken a sec to realize I was getting very sloppy seconds

skiermanKeep breaking your back and I'll keep posting on your shitty threads about breaking your back.

Snowcaine_-U keep posting while u have ur broken balls skierman. I hope u catch a edge and it pulls the edge out, Bud. Jood

Hope you still have ski time left when ur back from hospital bro!

**This post was edited on Dec 23rd 2021 at 6:00:05pm

skiermanNo, you were just being a fucking moron skiing way above your skill level because you were showing off to your buddies. The fact that you thought you were "pretty warmed up" on the first day shows how skewed your perception of reality is.

cyphersyet another gaper game trail victim. people need to stop traversing under established cliffs and lines it ruins the runout for people who can actually ski.

there are so many chutes at crystal that would be sick if they didn't have a goat track the size of i5 cut right across the exit. maybe patrol could run rope lines along each side of landings/runouts so you could at least have 1-2 seconds after landing to get ready for the jerry staircase.

vibes for a quick recovery

**This post was edited on Dec 23rd 2021 at 7:44:41pm

skiermanWho the fuck gets drunk at 6 PM?

cyphersyet another gaper game trail victim. people need to stop traversing under established cliffs and lines it ruins the runout for people who can actually ski.

there are so many chutes at crystal that would be sick if they didn't have a goat track the size of i5 cut right across the exit. maybe patrol could run rope lines along each side of landings/runouts so you could at least have 1-2 seconds after landing to get ready for the jerry staircase.

vibes for a quick recovery

**This post was edited on Dec 23rd 2021 at 7:44:41pm

freestyler540Fuck, I had to learn about those the hard way too. Leaped before looking and saw my landing pad was a road gap due to the noob tracks and I was going to come up short.

It is fustrating as fuck to always look before hucking. The backcountry was a good solution, but now its become another resort.

skiermanNo, you were just being a fucking moron skiing way above your skill level because you were showing off to your buddies. The fact that you thought you were "pretty warmed up" on the first day shows how skewed your perception of reality is.

cyphersyet another gaper game trail victim. people need to stop traversing under established cliffs and lines it ruins the runout for people who can actually ski.

there are so many chutes at crystal that would be sick if they didn't have a goat track the size of i5 cut right across the exit. maybe patrol could run rope lines along each side of landings/runouts so you could at least have 1-2 seconds after landing to get ready for the jerry staircase.

vibes for a quick recovery

Cream_SauceBro it doesn't matter how many gapers fuck up "your" line, if you get fucked by a single small compression in your line you are skiing way the fuck out of control.

Watch the video again, homie basically just does a straightline into a compression and gets bucked, how fucking stupid is that? You either gotta know what you're skiing into or have to skill to make an uphill right turn or just absorb this hit.

I've gotten fucked up doing similar shit, so I got sympathy, but the fault clearly lies on OP for skiing above his level, not on gapers for doing gaper things.

DeadBLine looks pretty tame to me buddy, idk might be difficult for u tho. I won't judge.
It looks like some Jerry took a chunk out of that spot there and my man was misfortunate enough to get rocked by it.

Cream_SauceBro it doesn't matter how many gapers fuck up "your" line, if you get fucked by a single small compression in your line you are skiing way the fuck out of control.

Watch the video again, homie basically just does a straightline into a compression and gets bucked, how fucking stupid is that? You either gotta know what you're skiing into or have to skill to make an uphill right turn or just absorb this hit.

I've gotten fucked up doing similar shit, so I got sympathy, but the fault clearly lies on OP for skiing above his level, not on gapers for doing gaper things.

skiermanYour "man" is breaking bones on tame lines buddy.

"Oh uh man, naw I didn't crash cuz I don't have the skill, it was either bad luck or a gaper ruining the outrun!!"

Hahaha, yall a bunch of fucking clowns with inflated egos.

DeadBWanna say that too may face mr big man, ill knock u out.

skiermanWhere you at? Let's meet up on Grinder.

cyphersnot talking about a "small compression" i can moto through chop and bumps just fine. i'm talking about the sets of massive fucking traverses that people cut into the hill because they can't ski fall line for more than 3 turns.

i wouldn't have dropped into what OP did either but claiming that any amount of skill, control, or left turns would have kept him from casing that absolute wall of a traverse is delusional

fault lies on the gapers for making fun shit unskiable. the end

Cream_SauceYou can say it's jerrys fault all you want but at the end of the day who's back is broken?

joogMine 😔

Cream_SauceI blew my MCL doing a fuckin kfed, things could always get worse.

For real skiing is a massive fuckin luxury. I know it's sad getting fucked up but remember how lucky you are to be in the first place. You'll bounce back bro ✊✊✊