skiNEwhere
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I was in the Lake Chutes at Breck, I believe the specific trail was "Wacky's Chute". I'm not sure of the pitch, but I do know that the top of some of the chutes off of the Imperial Express are 50+ degree's, so yea, definitely "no fall" terrain.
I always critique myself and will admit if I screwed something up, but this is not the case, at least this time. I dropped in fine, but after I finished my next turn, my ski came off, which made me go down. I'm sure someone will tell me what I did wrong, but looking back, I still can't think of anything, other than not having good equipment. After the ski came off, well, I had an interesting ride. At 0:33 I see that I am heading toward rocks, and I desperately kicked the snow with my now free boot to try to steer away. Alpine replay clocked my tumble at 29.6 mph, so I might have had a bad day if I wasn't able to avoid them. I got turned around right before I passed them but I think I only cleared them by 1-2 feet, at which point I was able to experience what the inside of a clothes dryer feels like.
This happened a few days ago, and I've been debating posting it on here because this, combined with previous close calls I've had, might give off the impression of me being reckless, and I kind of felt weird posting this after another post I made. But I want to see people's opinions on what caused this. My bindings were maxed out at 10, although after this incident I am strongly suspecting they only have a resistance of around 7-8. I have Marker Jester's on my other ski's with a DIN of 11, and they never release unless I've torqued the ski the wrong way really hard.
Surprisingly, even with the somewhat firm snow, I only had a mildly sore left shoulder. I tried to stand up at the end, but I was pretty dizzy which I why I fell back down.
Thinking maybe I should learn how to self-arrest? Might work better than the "flailing" method
Thanks to Nick from Breck Ski patrol for grabbing my ski's so I didn't have to hike all the way back up. My other pole is still MIA though.
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I always critique myself and will admit if I screwed something up, but this is not the case, at least this time. I dropped in fine, but after I finished my next turn, my ski came off, which made me go down. I'm sure someone will tell me what I did wrong, but looking back, I still can't think of anything, other than not having good equipment. After the ski came off, well, I had an interesting ride. At 0:33 I see that I am heading toward rocks, and I desperately kicked the snow with my now free boot to try to steer away. Alpine replay clocked my tumble at 29.6 mph, so I might have had a bad day if I wasn't able to avoid them. I got turned around right before I passed them but I think I only cleared them by 1-2 feet, at which point I was able to experience what the inside of a clothes dryer feels like.
This happened a few days ago, and I've been debating posting it on here because this, combined with previous close calls I've had, might give off the impression of me being reckless, and I kind of felt weird posting this after another post I made. But I want to see people's opinions on what caused this. My bindings were maxed out at 10, although after this incident I am strongly suspecting they only have a resistance of around 7-8. I have Marker Jester's on my other ski's with a DIN of 11, and they never release unless I've torqued the ski the wrong way really hard.
Surprisingly, even with the somewhat firm snow, I only had a mildly sore left shoulder. I tried to stand up at the end, but I was pretty dizzy which I why I fell back down.
Thinking maybe I should learn how to self-arrest? Might work better than the "flailing" method
Thanks to Nick from Breck Ski patrol for grabbing my ski's so I didn't have to hike all the way back up. My other pole is still MIA though.
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