There were two fairly serious injuries this weekend at the Blackcomb highest level park. There may have been many mitigating circumstances but most notable were the extremely recent major changes to the terrain features.
Most notably the shape and position of the booter lips.
Yes, we all know that you are supposed to 'ski through first' and inspect everything, but this was an event weekend and the competitors felt the pressure of making every run through count towards practice for the Sprite slopestyle.
There was significant enough change to the Hut Jump that people were overshooting it badly. Most notably Austin Ross, (local phenom) who dropped in on his very first run through, to warm up with a misty 7, which he can do with absolutely no problem, hit the new, flattened down lip with far too much speed.
His trajectory took him well into the flat bottom past the jump.
He suffered a concussion, broken Ulna, broken radia, and I believe broken Scaphoid. He had to have surgery last night to put his arms back together.
Something has to be done about making major changes on such a grand scale throughout the park.
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