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Ski Sundown 12/29/2011 Every Gun On!
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planb420
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Facebook said "100% tomorrow"!!!!! Here is my only pic from the day, starring down the shotgun rail on Stinger!
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4 hours with the kids, w/ Brian and his kids. Then a race clinic tonight. Growing piles at the mighty Sundown today. Place is getting buried and I'm cooked. Whoot.
Split session... 2 hrs with both kids- conditions were nice, slick on trails they weren't blowing, and a little sticky in spots they were blowing as temps were marginal in afternoon, but good considering. Had to take daughter home after a scary collission where she was blindsided by someone doing mach 10-- checked her out in patrol- no apparent head injuries, but she had bloody nose and plenty of bruises and was really shaken- she has been up a lot over the night complaining of head/neck ache-- off to dr this morning. 
returned later in pm to get son, who stayed with friends, took a few more runs-- overall sking was good, but I was/am a little spooked by the collission. Hope my girl is able to shake it off and get back out there before too long.
returned later in pm to get son, who stayed with friends, took a few more runs-- overall sking was good, but I was/am a little spooked by the collission. Hope my girl is able to shake it off and get back out there before too long.
powhunter
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Split session... 2 hrs with both kids- conditions were nice, slick on trails they weren't blowing, and a little sticky in spots they were blowing as temps were marginal in afternoon, but good considering. Had to take daughter home after a scary collission where she was blindsided by someone doing mach 10-- checked her out in patrol- no apparent head injuries, but she had bloody nose and plenty of bruises and was really shaken- she has been up a lot over the night complaining of head/neck ache-- off to dr this morning.
returned later in pm to get son, who stayed with friends, took a few more runs-- overall sking was good, but I was/am a little spooked by the collission. Hope my girl is able to shake it off and get back out there before too long.
Sorry to hear that about your daughter...Glad shes ok. Did you catch the assailant and tune the effer up?
Steveo
He was hurt... back injury... his race team coach and team members were tending to him on hill... plus, while on hill, I was pretty focused on my daughter who was really upset. Took my daughter off the mtn after about 10 minutes of making sure nothing was broken and letting her get her composure and he was still being tended to. Saw him later in the patrol shack... don't know if he came down in a sled... he was quite apologetic. He was not out of control, but he was going way to fast for that trail (his team appeared to be training at the time) at that portion with the number of people and kids on it, and obviously practicing the technique of looking a gate ahead.
Mapnut
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Wait, race training and public skiing on the same trail?
o3jeff
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If she was standing still and he hit her I would say he wasn't in control.
Hope she is ok and gets back out there.
Warp Daddy
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Very sorry to hear about the accident -- that simply happens too much ou tthere . We had a similar incident with a friends daughter . He's a physician and was quick to check here out for concussion which was the result . My son a very good experienced skier with great technique was blindsided at a junction by an out of control race teamer too . As was the case with your daughter he too was coming into the junction from a trail below that of the racer and the result there was fugly . Huge impact my son also a medical professional was a hurtin turkey for several weeks as a result . Were he not a marathoner and a gym rat in very good condition i hate to think what may have resulted .
Hope your child recover well from the incident and continues to ski with enthusiasm
I think she will be physically fine... just sore for a while... I just hope she gets back out there. My sister was hit hard at Mount Snow (two trails open one horrendous x-mas week- 80000 people on each trail) in the early 80's by an out of control ski patroller from another mountain... broke her arm. Mount snow set it.. but here Dr here had to reset it the next day--- ouch! She continued to ski... but really lost her zeal.. went from avid developing skier who skied at every opportunity to casual once and a while hesitant skier. Hoping my girl snaps back....Funny, earlier that run I was really psyched as she was really getting em up on edge and letting the ski energy work for her...she told me last night something just clicked and she felt the rebound and energy... hope that feeling brings her back!
Gotta say one more thing... Knowing my kid was probably okay, I was somewhat both amused (at the obviousness) and saddened (understanding the need for such questions in today's world) at the list of questions patrol asked me after examining my daughter... it was like a checklist for the legal defenses of concurrent and/or contributory negligence.
planb420
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I hate the fact that we are forced to intermingle with the racers as much as we are. Not that I have a personal vendeta against them, its just that I dont see why they need to use/abuse all the steeps to race train. Like today for instance at one time there was a race course set up on Gunny, Stinger, AND Canyon. Can they not just stick to ONE trail, why is there a need for them to rut and scrape ALL the steeps? Gunny is plenty fast enough to keep em there and there alone, or at the least please keep them outta the park as a race course on the steeps of stinger stands in the way of the jump line and the bottom section creating a MASS of people waiting to get down to the jump and racers hikeing back up (lots of potential for more wrecks). I also hate how they scrape it down to bare ice and move on to destroy another trail, almost like that of the common locust!!!! Its not like the park rats or bump nuts can just pick up our features and bumps and move them around wherever we please. That said I understand its a small mountain and should be shared and the racers bring in money, but lets not overlook the others out there trying to have a good time in the midst of all that blazing spandex! Give me one dedicated park run w/o ANY RACE COURSES EVER and this will become a non issue IMO.
Hope your lil girl finds a way to get back out and keep her stoke alive!!!
Hope your lil girl finds a way to get back out and keep her stoke alive!!!
gmcunni
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hope she recovers quickly.
Her dr said mild concussion- no skiing until after a follow up tues- the good news- she was really bummed about not being able to ski sat or race nastar Sunday- so hopefully she'll keep her ski jones. he also said cognitive rest??? No Tv, video games, iPad, reading even, etc. Very odd.
It allows the shaken brain to heal. A friend's son had to go many weeks with those restrictions due to a serious concussion. I don't know who was in worse shape, him (a very active kid) or his Mom trying to deal with keeping him "quiet".
RISkier
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IMO, if you're going too fast to stop for someone down hill, you're out of control. We were at Gunstock a couple of years ago. They were racing on one of the blacks and had a cut across trail closed. Many racers were "warming up" on the trail next to the trail on which races were being run. A mother and young daughter got forced down the black "warm up" trail because of the closures. The daughter was just kind of zig zagging slowly down one of the head walls and was nailed by a racer who was warming up. On a closed trail he was in control and would have not caused any problems. But he can't see what's in front of him on an open trail and is going too fast to stop. I'd say that's out of control.
