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Happy Halloween! What's the scariest thing you've witnessed on your ski hill?
I saw a dude throw a frontflip off a cliff, and he ended up not rotating enough. The dude landed on his head. Luckily the snow was soft enough and he was ok, but he seemed so out of it.
Saw a guy absolutely shatter his elbow trying a 360. He was cool as a cucumber after. The scar is gnarly.
Probably what sticks out most is people getting clocked and being out cold. That seemed to be very common when I was skiing at Remarkables resort in NZ. Thin piste + ice + people + lack of skill = collisions. Saw a few people get knocked out.
I actually saw a 50-60 year old double eject and get knocked out next to the lift line at A Basin Saturday. He was just laying there. Pretty sobering. Keep your head on a swivel.
Couple of seasons ago at Nubs Nob, standing at the top of the park before a jump line talking to the homies, all of a sudden a dude that has no business being in the park shoots right in-between us all and heads for the first jump. Probably a 40 footer. Dude is straightlining it, gets to the transition and gets thrown backseat. Goes off the lip and starts rotating back and goes absolutely huge. You can tell he is gonna land right on his neck/back. Dude ended up landing almost on the flat. Pretty sure he ended up real fucked up but don't remember the details. Easily the craziest thing I have ever seen.
Watched someone double eject on cascade off Killington peak and snap their colar bone. Women was probably middle aged but she also banged her head bad cause she didn't move and slid a good distance. For those that know its right at the top of the exit pitch where it reaches max pitch facing 90 degrees with canyon quad. Saw the whole thing happen.
I work in the operating rooms of a hospital in a small ski resort town and my goodness, everything from caved in skulls to compound fractures.
The worst was a young kid, I think he was 8(?) at the time and...
Nevermind. This isn't an opportunity to one up the next guy. I'll press F to pay respect all day. It's always tragic when someone gets hurt, especially doing something they love.
literally last year at bogus basin when they first built their medium/large jump line there were two people in the first couple days that got life flighted.
one paralyzed and one with like broken tailbone and femur i think?
QuaggyI work in the operating rooms of a hospital in a small ski resort town and my goodness, everything from caved in skulls to compound fractures.
The worst was a young kid, I think he was 8(?) at the time and...
Nevermind. This isn't an opportunity to one up the next guy. I'll press F to pay respect all day. It's always tragic when someone gets hurt, especially doing something they love.
you got to have guts to do that. i don't think i could. not the children!
Saw a dude who had no business in the terrain park hit a spine full on at like 30mph. He ragdolled in the air and landed on flat from prob 25ft up like a wet rag. Dude was probably wasted. Didn't stick around to see how fucked up he got
Missed being struck by lightning on the lift by a good 90 seconds.
I was on the lift on a rainy ass night with my friends and lightning started striking halfway up, something must have got hit and the lift lost power when we’re near the top and at the highest point. We were kinda freakin out, because we were sitting ducks, kept yellin to the station up top to start the fuckin thing up, dude comes out and yells “we’re gonna have to do a lift evacuation hold tight” which is a process in a half in itself. Shortly after somehow they got the generator to kick on , we get off, and as I’m skiing to my car I see out of the corner of my eye lightning strike the very lift tower we were sitting right underneath. Was probably a 90 second gap between us moving from that point and the bolt striking the tower. I was pretty shook up and ever since I’ve never fucked around with lightning.
Mr.WhatsittoyaI saw a dude throw a frontflip off a cliff, and he ended up not rotating enough. The dude landed on his head. Luckily the snow was soft enough and he was ok, but he seemed so out of it.
Saw my buddy fall into a mogul when I was like 12. When ski patrol we’re loading him onto the sled you could see he shoulder coming out the middle of his back, shit was fucked up
I was riding up the lift, probably with my seasonal group or something because I was young and idk why else I would have been alone, when I see ski patrol carrying my little brother down in a sled, my dad in tow holding one ski. He was fine (although we still haven't found his other ski to this day) but I was needless to say pretty worried. I'm lucky to have never seen anything too bad.
**This post was edited on Oct 31st 2022 at 11:08:09pm
Agate420Saw my buddy fall into a mogul when I was like 12. When ski patrol we’re loading him onto the sled you could see he shoulder coming out the middle of his back, shit was fucked up
There was a butter pad in the park that you hopped up to and then there was a mailbox rail at the end, I had the idea to come at it from the side and nose butter across the thing perpendicular to the rail. My snowboard buddy ended up coming to hit the feature at the same time (I was in the wrong) and we collided and it sent him flying at the rail backwards. He ended up basically slamming his back on the front of the feature and then ragdolling down the hill. We rushed down to him and he was out cold, it was so freaky. Luckily only ended up with a concussion and being extremely sore.
Prolly at copper when some old dude caught his front tips when he was getting off the lift (I think it was at the top of copper bowl) and he face planted And had a heart attack and died and we all were stuck like 4 chairs behind for almost an hour shit was crazy
Wasn't within a resort, however, I saw a wipeout at Tuckerman's that shook me pretty hard. Guy dropped in and lost his first ski at position 1. Tom-a-hawked down and ended his fall at spot 2.
2 Seasons ago at mt. bachelor they opened the summit when it was really icy/hard snow. Of course all the tourists want to go up as they don't run the lift often. Some kid goes up with his mom and falls, since it was icy he can't stop himself. He starts sliding down and picking up speed, slides into a rock going pretty fast and dies. Pretty sad, parents tried to sue bachelor for something like 50 million dollars.
you can guess what happened from the picture but here's the aftermath and i THINK the person was fine. also at the same hill i saw some boomer girl, absolutely wasted, plow into the mesh "slow" sign by the lift. the stokes were in the ground so deep she basically bungeed backwards and smacked her head pretty good into the snow, i checked on her and i think she had a dislocated shoulder.
my favorite one was when i tried to hockey stop last season and caught an edge, flew right into a ski patrol guy at like 15mph. very embarrassing but he was alright, i apologized profusely and bounced from the scene.
**This post was edited on Nov 1st 2022 at 2:12:59pm
Worst I've personally seen at the bird was this woman who had accidentally skied into the solid wall of snow on the inside part of a cat track and clearly broken her leg/ankle badly since her whole lower shin was out of place and pointing more than 90 degrees in the wrong direction outward. Booked it down to the lift and told patrol exactly where she was at and then saw them carting her down on my next lap. Seen some bad crashes too, but mostly little freeride kids who are made of rubber and always seem to get up just fine.
From the summit triple at Waterville during MA school vacation week last year I saw a kid who was 10 or 11 following some bigger kids onto True Grit where he had no business being. Wiped out at the top and it was a boilerplate day so he just bombed the length of the run on his back while me and another dude a chair up were yelling at him to self arrest with his poles. He ended up sliding off a cat track and stopping after pinballing off some chunks of ice on the side of the trail. He was sitting on a mogul when I got down to him, the kids he was with had hiked back up to him after realizing what happened and luckily he was just knocked around and able to ski off on his own.
Lots of chaos in the last few seasons. Utah in a way is a spectacle of carnage which is kinda fun but also not. I've seen too much shit at ski resorts last year
I didn’t see this happen but some dude at a local mountain hit a tree going like mach 5 and died on impact then launched of a cliff and his dead body hit some kid in my schools dad which caused him to break a few bones or something.
less crazy but last year I saw some 8 year old kid fall 30ft off the lift into a sheet of solid ice.
Dude prolly like 55 at snowbowl take way too much speed through the park into a pyramid, missed the landing and hit the flat from probably 12 feet. Hit his head so hard he started throwing up and then went unconscious. Patrol was doing breathing resuscitation on him and quickly stopped, put him on the sled and he got choppered to the hospital.
Definitely seen a few people get their faces sliced open in a collision with another ski/board
It's always really funny to me to watch the ski patrol bury the bloody snow as fast as possible for some reason. Like they're covering up a crime or something
couple years ago at my local hill it was a quiet night, my old man was on patrol with I believe 3 or 4 other patrollers. Snow was super granular and slick, but not many people on the mountain. my brother and I were cruising down one oof the mountains little "black diamonds" and we passed by a lady in maybe her 60s who was slowly working her way down trail with a good lack of edge control. This trail has a few headwalls, creating blind spots for those uphill of the people under the headwall. Anyways, a snowboarder came flying up and over one of these headwalls, hit the lady who was struggling to make it down, and his board caught her right in the back of the neck. With the lack of help on hill, my dad called and asked for me and my brother to come back to the accident to help with scene safety. We watched the lady's eyes roll back into her head after 10-15 min of CPR, later to find out that her brain stem had snapped. To this day the most rattling experience Ive ever been a part of
Was skiing by when beech had a snowmaking line burst making a -4 degree bidet right under the chairlift line, just blasting one chair when the lift stopped because people were jumping off to avoid the bidet. Also saw some chick bombing a black and wrap around a light post. Never seen someone stop instantly like that in my life
rojo.grandecouple years ago at my local hill it was a quiet night, my old man was on patrol with I believe 3 or 4 other patrollers. Snow was super granular and slick, but not many people on the mountain. my brother and I were cruising down one oof the mountains little "black diamonds" and we passed by a lady in maybe her 60s who was slowly working her way down trail with a good lack of edge control. This trail has a few headwalls, creating blind spots for those uphill of the people under the headwall. Anyways, a snowboarder came flying up and over one of these headwalls, hit the lady who was struggling to make it down, and his board caught her right in the back of the neck. With the lack of help on hill, my dad called and asked for me and my brother to come back to the accident to help with scene safety. We watched the lady's eyes roll back into her head after 10-15 min of CPR, later to find out that her brain stem had snapped. To this day the most rattling experience Ive ever been a part of
Mr.WhatsittoyaI saw a dude throw a frontflip off a cliff, and he ended up not rotating enough. The dude landed on his head. Luckily the snow was soft enough and he was ok, but he seemed so out of it.
I wasn’t there to see it happen, but friend of mine caught an edge on skis going off a massive jump, ended up somehow fainting mid-air and completely clapped his collarbone, the clip ended up going viral on a skier Dan post
weatcoastMissed being struck by lightning on the lift by a good 90 seconds.
I was on the lift on a rainy ass night with my friends and lightning started striking halfway up, something must have got hit and the lift lost power when we’re near the top and at the highest point. We were kinda freakin out, because we were sitting ducks, kept yellin to the station up top to start the fuckin thing up, dude comes out and yells “we’re gonna have to do a lift evacuation hold tight” which is a process in a half in itself. Shortly after somehow they got the generator to kick on , we get off, and as I’m skiing to my car I see out of the corner of my eye lightning strike the very lift tower we were sitting right underneath. Was probably a 90 second gap between us moving from that point and the bolt striking the tower. I was pretty shook up and ever since I’ve never fucked around with lightning.
if it makes you feel better most metal parts of a lift are either grounded or isolated from each other with rubber. telluride even puts cages over their lifting frames to keep their texans from getting crisped
ThegenericskierWas skiing by when beech had a snowmaking line burst making a -4 degree bidet right under the chairlift line, just blasting one chair when the lift stopped because people were jumping off to avoid the bidet.
was this last season? I think I remember seeing a video of this
That’s awful. Great way to die super fast from hypothermia let alone the force of that and / or falling. I’m curious how much they’re suing the resort for.
