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weatcoastThat’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.
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
SteezyYeeterfucking snowboarders
was he caught? should go to jail for that
Goretex_VidalFrom 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.
cyphersif 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
jompcockThe best thing about that trail is it's the fall line is pretty direct. You can eat shit pretty hard and not go into the trees, especially if you're near the left side of the trail. Fun thing to do is to bomb into the cat track at the top and gap as far down as possible. Best spot on the lip is on the cat track right under the chair and cutting a bit to the right. Would be basically impossible to overshoot. Good idea to have a spotter cause you're semi blind.
SivvyPeople fucking on a chairlift and Amish
SteezyYeeterthat's pretty epic (amish). did you see what they were using for skis? lol
SteezyYeeterThat's cool. I'll have to try the next time I get out there (whenever that is).
Yeah I can't think of any trails with mesh netting on the sides in NH or VT. I'm sure there are some but it's not coming to mind. There will be ropes sometimes, at the top of a run or something but no mesh. Can't see myself liking it though, makes the trail feel more restricted. Haven't noticed anything about the padding on towers but I agree that's pretty messed up.
jompcockHave you hit the Camel gap before? It's the big roller under the chute, usually with two humps. Some years it's better than others depending on snow making and at its best you can straightline the chute and land right in the sweet spot. They're gonna put a T bar that goes up to the roller so this is probably the last season it will be doable. Sad to see the Camel go but at least it gives us the option to lap a longer park.
FranklinTheSkierI 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.
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
