Broken electronics while skiing

[mondeo]

I guess this is an equipment question...

Has anyone broken electronic equipment while skiing? I don't even take my cell phone out of the car, due to my fear of breaking it in the act of one of my frequent and sometimes nasty spills. In high school, mp3 players and digital cameras hadn't really come around yet, and I was shocked when I started skiing again last year that people would bring that kind of stuff with them on a regular basis.

That being said, I would like to take my phone with me as a safety precaution, and it would be nice to at least have the confidence to take a camera every once and a while.

 

[gmcunni]

any time i ski with my kids i have my camera in my jacket pocket. i've fallen on it really hard only once.. didn't seem to be a problem.

 

[Greg]

Cell phone always. I keep it in my chest pocket. Little chance of damaging it there. Small video camera most times. I go with the expectation that either or both might get damaged. Never had anything damaged yet.

 

[bvibert]

I've fallen hard on my camcorder with no problems. I always have my cell phone and usually either a still camera or the camcorder. Never had problems with any of them.

 

[Hawkshot99]

I took a real bad fall last year with my cell phone in my chest pocket. It was in a steep mogul field, and I kept launching off of all the moguls as I slid head first, repeatedly slamming the phone. I did break the LCD screen on the outside, but not the inside, and continued to use the phone for a long time. I also had a MP3 player in the other chest pocket that had no damage.

 

[tcharron]

I guess this is an equipment question...

Has anyone broken electronic equipment while skiing? I don't even take my cell phone out of the car, due to my fear of breaking it in the act of one of my frequent and sometimes nasty spills. In high school, mp3 players and digital cameras hadn't really come around yet, and I was shocked when I started skiing again last year that people would bring that kind of stuff with them on a regular basis.

That being said, I would like to take my phone with me as a safety precaution, and it would be nice to at least have the confidence to take a camera every once and a while.

Just keep them in areas where they are unlikely to experience a direct impact. Good example, front side of the upper torso, for instance. Bad example, pants pockets. Worst example, back pocket. :-D

 

[ed-drum]

I fell HARD a couple of years ago and broke the eyepiece off of my video camera. Cost me $30.00 to replace. Ed.

 

[MRGisevil]

Dude, get an i-phone. I'm the queen of mishaps and I can't friggin' kill this thing. 3G is coming out it June- nice.

 

[KevinF]

I've seriously shortened the lift of an i-Pod while skiing. I didn't fall directly on it (i.e., it was in a chest pocket), but it would still get knocked around when I fell. iPod's have struck me as being rather fragile -- i.e., that hard-drive isn't very well protected from knocks. The cold also killed the batteries on that thing in short order; it needed re-charges pretty often.

Now I carry a solid-state MP3 player if I need to ski to tunes. Easily replaceable batteries (cold and batteries don't mix), and no moving parts so it's pretty much immune to get whacked.

My digital camera has been the recipient of some "sudden stops" as well, but it keeps working.

 

[mondeo]

Dude, get an i-phone. I'm the queen of mishaps and I can't friggin' kill this thing. 3G is coming out it June- nice.

I hate Apple. All their anti-Windows FUD, and their other ads make me want their crap even though I know it isn't worth it. And those songs aren't any good either, until you see the ad for the 25th time and they all of a sudden get it stuck in your head. Their marketing department is just too damn good!

I figure I'm past 2 years with my RAZR, so even if I break it I'm up for a new free/cheap one. Come to think of it, I dropped it multiple times on pavement when I was getting used handling such a thin phone, and it didn't blink an eye. Any fall while skiing won't touch that kind of shock.

 

[dmc]

Dude, get an i-phone. I'm the queen of mishaps and I can't friggin' kill this thing. 3G is coming out it June- nice.

Actually picked up an IPhone after I smashed my Palm Treo while snowboarding..

Ride with it... Travel with it.. So far so good..

 

[MichaelJ]

I haven't managed to kill my BlackBerry Pearl 8130 despite several falls with it.
(yes, I'd have preferred the iPhone, especially being a Mac head, but I paid only $50 for the BB)

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I never damaged anything but I know somebody who lost one of the IPOD shuffles which is the size of a button..

 

[dmc]

(yes, I'd have preferred the iPhone, especially being a Mac head, but I paid only $50 for the BB)

I got mine for cheap when my Treo smashed... i had insurance from AT&T for the Treo...
I went to the shop to get the Treo replaced... they didn't have one... So i got the IPhone.. Not for free but for a discount..

 

[ckofer]

Since I'm adequately old and don't fear looking dorky, I keep my camera in a padded camera bag on a strap which goes over around my neck and under my jacket. I've got the camera clipped to the strap so there's no freakin way to drop it in the snow. The padding protects the gear and me.

 

[kbroderick]

I usually worry more about the gear hurting me than me hurting the gear, unless I'm running gates (in which case I usually try to empty my pockets as much as possible). A lot of times, I've got my phone in a pants pocket and my little camera (a Powershot G9) in a chest pocket; if I've got my 20D with me, it's usually in a Dakine backpack (not a camera-specific bag, not specially padded, etc). I have skied with my 20D under my jacket, on my chest, as welll; the biggest issue I had there was running into a tree and ending up with some nice bruising in the vicinity of my sternum (camera was fine). I generally don't ski with it in front of me anymore.

 

[Terry]

I dropped my camera last night when I was packing my pack at the bottom of Shawnee Peak and now it doesn't stay turned on. I will have to play with it when I have time to see if I can fix it.