dlague
Active member
Lately, I got thinking about this. Why? Because, I had two situations that could have ended up bad but worked out OK in the end.
First, skiing at Attitash on Saturday, was cruising along at a good clip and cam across a group that was skiing rather slow - looked like experienced beginners. I was about to pass one of them while making consistent turns then all of a sudden he makes a left turn straight across the fall line towards his buddy. I did a stop turn where I basically sprayed him and then took a quick turn and split the two. The guy looked like a deer in headlights. That collision would have been real bad.
Yesterday, skiing at Cannon, I was cruising right along down Paulie's Folly having a great run. At the very bottom, I was maintaining speed to get to the lift and the turn at the bottom of the trail to the run out was scraped off so I ran the snow pile which collapsed, caught an edge and it spun me around and did a backwards snow plow stop right before the wood line there. Once I stopped I looked behind me and thought - that could have been bad. Know one was around me to I stood there like I was waiting for everyone I was skiing with. I was pissed at myself for being careless.
Anyone else have close calls that made you think about the possible carnage that could have been?
First, skiing at Attitash on Saturday, was cruising along at a good clip and cam across a group that was skiing rather slow - looked like experienced beginners. I was about to pass one of them while making consistent turns then all of a sudden he makes a left turn straight across the fall line towards his buddy. I did a stop turn where I basically sprayed him and then took a quick turn and split the two. The guy looked like a deer in headlights. That collision would have been real bad.
Yesterday, skiing at Cannon, I was cruising right along down Paulie's Folly having a great run. At the very bottom, I was maintaining speed to get to the lift and the turn at the bottom of the trail to the run out was scraped off so I ran the snow pile which collapsed, caught an edge and it spun me around and did a backwards snow plow stop right before the wood line there. Once I stopped I looked behind me and thought - that could have been bad. Know one was around me to I stood there like I was waiting for everyone I was skiing with. I was pissed at myself for being careless.
Anyone else have close calls that made you think about the possible carnage that could have been?
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