awf170
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just curious, Am I the only one who never lets go of his poles when he falls? I have done tumbles and everything but for some reason i never let go of my poles :-?
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Your Worst and Funniest Wipeout
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JimG. said:
Indeed... I blew my shoulder out on the flats.. Now have a full blow AC sepration I live with..
Switching from switch back to reagular...
Hit so fast didn't even know what happened..
Dreaded front edge forward fall... :x
awf170
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At Jay peak yesterday I went off the little cliff under the HSQ(if you dont know what Im talking about its in Steve's video from the 11th) Well I went off it and thought I was going to land fine, but the snow was heavy and crusty because of snowmaking on the trail next door, so I landed in 2 ft deep snow and instantly released from my skis and did a perfect face plant, it was actually pretty fun besides being soaken wet :lol:
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HERE is a video with a couple of my friend's wipeouts. HILARIOUS! Look for the rolling goggles in the first crash, and the exploding skis in the second crash!
awf170
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redalienx11 said:
where is that second shot from?
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CBC at Tremblant in Canada, Feb 16th 2005. Apparently my friend wanted to ramp off the side of the trail and "stall" on a tree. Thigs didn't quite go as planned.
The first shot was the Terrain Park at Windham.[/quote]
ozskier
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Best Wipeout: when Phil(Dozer) clocked into me on Lower Smith Walton at Wachusett. Way to ski in control, jerkstore!
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Most memorable wipeout
I can't say this is the worst or the funnest but its the one I have remembered the longest. It happened at Sunday river on Cascades. Back before they had chairlifts. Back when every one used wood skis leather boots and cable bindings.
After another one of my famous caught an edge, rag doll tumbling in a dryer falls, I found my self pinned to the snow by my skis. both skis managed to stay on but the ski on one leg was lying parralel to the ground and the other some how managed to be completely vertical and with the tail driven into the snow up to my boot and over the top of the other leg, pining it to the ground.
I could not pull the ski out of the snow and could not move the leg that was pinned to the ground and because of the position I was pinned I could not reach the cable releases that were completely frozen up with ice snow.
I tried to use the tip of my poles to chip away the ice and poke them under the release lever but it was no go. Every time I saw that comercial "Help Ive fallen and I can't get up", it made me think of this day.
I had to wait till some very sweet snow bunny came along and rescued me. My ego went right into the toilet ah the joys of being in Jr. High
I can't say this is the worst or the funnest but its the one I have remembered the longest. It happened at Sunday river on Cascades. Back before they had chairlifts. Back when every one used wood skis leather boots and cable bindings.
After another one of my famous caught an edge, rag doll tumbling in a dryer falls, I found my self pinned to the snow by my skis. both skis managed to stay on but the ski on one leg was lying parralel to the ground and the other some how managed to be completely vertical and with the tail driven into the snow up to my boot and over the top of the other leg, pining it to the ground.
I could not pull the ski out of the snow and could not move the leg that was pinned to the ground and because of the position I was pinned I could not reach the cable releases that were completely frozen up with ice snow.
I tried to use the tip of my poles to chip away the ice and poke them under the release lever but it was no go. Every time I saw that comercial "Help Ive fallen and I can't get up", it made me think of this day.
I had to wait till some very sweet snow bunny came along and rescued me. My ego went right into the toilet ah the joys of being in Jr. High
RossiSkier
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dmc said:http://www.powderhound.org/VIDEO/2004/Hunter_12-18-04_Doug_lower_crossover_flatspin.AVI (8mb best to "save as" then run)
Not a bad wipe out but a funny one... Sorry this was shot at crowded Hunter Mountain on the Lower Crossover trail... I hope you can see me through the pack of obnoixious New Yorkers..
Gosh that wasn't even a funny one. I thought all snowboarders stopped like that. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Zand
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My cousin has been the fault of a few funny collisions at Wawa this season.
The first was on opening day on Conifer. We were just taking some nice GS turns right down the center of the trail. All of a sudden, I see him coming right at me, but it was too late and we both went right down.
The next was the day after opening day, also on Conifer. He was skiing the side, decided to stop quick, and got tangeled in a baby pine and fell. I stopped downhill of him and he handed me the other side of his pole so I could help him up. I pulled him up and he decides to just go. Went right over the front of my skis and tumbled on down the headwall.
The final was on December 8th, also on Conifer. We were up there with a buddy, Steve. Well, him and Steve decided they'd launch of a mound about 5 feet apart, but parallel. Something went wrong in mid-air apparently as they collided about 3 feet of the ground.
The first was on opening day on Conifer. We were just taking some nice GS turns right down the center of the trail. All of a sudden, I see him coming right at me, but it was too late and we both went right down.
The next was the day after opening day, also on Conifer. He was skiing the side, decided to stop quick, and got tangeled in a baby pine and fell. I stopped downhill of him and he handed me the other side of his pole so I could help him up. I pulled him up and he decides to just go. Went right over the front of my skis and tumbled on down the headwall.
The final was on December 8th, also on Conifer. We were up there with a buddy, Steve. Well, him and Steve decided they'd launch of a mound about 5 feet apart, but parallel. Something went wrong in mid-air apparently as they collided about 3 feet of the ground.
subdude
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Took out a family of 4 at Wildcat in 1991 they were stopped on a trail that traveresed getting ready to ski down another trail and I came down the traverse hit a patch of ice went down and slid right into Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter. Like they were pins in a bowling alley. Mom's ski pole looked like an L.
NYDrew
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Worst (morally) - Early morning ski training at work. Goofing around, still havent even buckled the top of my boots. We're doing whilibirds and I catch an edge, going backwards, I cant stop right into another instructor. It was my ankle making the smap noise. SOmeone asked me if I was OK and I said "yeah, just turn my foot over and help me up", here you should note my foot was facing the wrong way. So I skiied for another hour until the bosses decided to ship me off to the ER and I broke that bone on the outside of my ankle. Skiied the next day and the rest of the season convinced the boot would protect it...still hurts years later.
Worst (Pain) - Tucking and flying over black diamond headwalls in the sunbowl at Stratton I caught a little wind in my loose jacket and inverted a nice amount in the air. Don't really know how high I was, but was long enough to yell "oh sh**" and kick off my right ski. My face broke my fall as I tried to kick off the left. Bloody mess...you betcha. Wiped myself off, counted my teeth, chapstiked the road rash and went on my merry way. Took ski patrol hours to find the victim of the radio call "Someone just broke their neck on black bear". Apperently I left a nice blood stain on the slope. NO hostpital although I'm sure my nose was broken.
Funnyest: Again, im trying to make up seconds in the olympic downhill on the Jet at Jay Peak when suddenly my binding released. I tumbled, skiis land crossed (as if signalling an injury) one tip down, one tip up in the snow. Still mad at my dad for not taking a picture of that, not a bruise on me.
Newest Funnyest- I was tired, 7 runs on castlerock at Sugarbush killed me. HOwever, stupid wend back down to the lift. No way I'm hiking, no way im taking another run. So i decide to try and cross the little stream. Choice one: use the fallen tree as a rail- not my style. Choice two, attempt to jump the water via an ice bridge. So the ice bridge gives out and I'm all wet. Water frozen to me, to my bases, frozen dirt stuck on my tips and one foreign liftie trying to help me out of the mess. Finally click out of my skiis (couldnt reach the button, i felt like i was playing twister) and I hike out of the hole. MOst of the debris on my skiis came off by the time i reached the lodge, the rest came off via pole stabbing. Neeless to say I used an entire stick of P-tex to repair that day.
Worst (Pain) - Tucking and flying over black diamond headwalls in the sunbowl at Stratton I caught a little wind in my loose jacket and inverted a nice amount in the air. Don't really know how high I was, but was long enough to yell "oh sh**" and kick off my right ski. My face broke my fall as I tried to kick off the left. Bloody mess...you betcha. Wiped myself off, counted my teeth, chapstiked the road rash and went on my merry way. Took ski patrol hours to find the victim of the radio call "Someone just broke their neck on black bear". Apperently I left a nice blood stain on the slope. NO hostpital although I'm sure my nose was broken.
Funnyest: Again, im trying to make up seconds in the olympic downhill on the Jet at Jay Peak when suddenly my binding released. I tumbled, skiis land crossed (as if signalling an injury) one tip down, one tip up in the snow. Still mad at my dad for not taking a picture of that, not a bruise on me.
Newest Funnyest- I was tired, 7 runs on castlerock at Sugarbush killed me. HOwever, stupid wend back down to the lift. No way I'm hiking, no way im taking another run. So i decide to try and cross the little stream. Choice one: use the fallen tree as a rail- not my style. Choice two, attempt to jump the water via an ice bridge. So the ice bridge gives out and I'm all wet. Water frozen to me, to my bases, frozen dirt stuck on my tips and one foreign liftie trying to help me out of the mess. Finally click out of my skiis (couldnt reach the button, i felt like i was playing twister) and I hike out of the hole. MOst of the debris on my skiis came off by the time i reached the lodge, the rest came off via pole stabbing. Neeless to say I used an entire stick of P-tex to repair that day.
never forget mine. most embarrasing. Skiing at Powder Ridge when i was in high school. Came down and was just trying to stop before the lift corral. Back then, in the 80's the corral was an old 2 bar wooden fence. Caught an edge and couldnt do anything but ski straight into it. Took down the top bar on the fence and had about 50 people just staring at me.
snowmaker4191
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riding sunapee (were else). In the park got huge air and when i landed, I caught the front side of my boad in the slushy snow. Did a few flips down the slope.
Zand
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BUMP:
New Funniest, not involving me: I was headed down Drifter at Smuggs with a group of about 4 or 5 people that happened to start down at the same time as me. All of these people were excellent skiers and we all blasted down to that long flat before the crossunder of the double. There was a pair of bamboo sticks blocking off a small section (that I looked at earlier in the day and there was a 3 foot hole there, with a foot deep puddle of water at the bottom) and one of the guys deciced hes gonna duck under them. Tips went down into the hole, and with a splash of water from the lower half of his body and a splash of powder from the upper half, he face planted a foot away with both skis sticking straight down into the hole. I couldn't even stand I was laughing so hard.
New Funniest, not involving me: I was headed down Drifter at Smuggs with a group of about 4 or 5 people that happened to start down at the same time as me. All of these people were excellent skiers and we all blasted down to that long flat before the crossunder of the double. There was a pair of bamboo sticks blocking off a small section (that I looked at earlier in the day and there was a 3 foot hole there, with a foot deep puddle of water at the bottom) and one of the guys deciced hes gonna duck under them. Tips went down into the hole, and with a splash of water from the lower half of his body and a splash of powder from the upper half, he face planted a foot away with both skis sticking straight down into the hole. I couldn't even stand I was laughing so hard.
January '06 Mohawk - We were heading to Killington the next week so we hit Mohawk for a little tune up. I was feeling good on those treacherous CT slopes so I decided to mess around with my wife a bit. As I skied towards the lift line at the base I decided to hockey stop just shy of my wife. Well, I hit a patch of ice, tried to grab her to gain my balance and missed, and ended up on my back in front of everyone on line. Good times....
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Oh, man - embarrasing.......at the AZ Cannon event last year I got sick of waiting for a bunch of people on Banshee and decided to shoot the rest of the trail and take the hard right-hand turn to the tram and just be done with it. So I headed down the right side of the trail, passed all the slowpokes and picked up a bunch of speed. I could see the hard right coming up fast and decided I couldn't make that, but saw what appeared to be an out-run of clear snow just over a little "bump" at the bottom of the trail, so I headed for that. Unfortunately, that out-run turned out to be a an ungroomed field of about 4" of powder with rocks, stumps, grass, etc sticking up thru it. But I had waaaaaay too much momentum going and didn't have much choice but to go into it to lose my speed. I flew off the little bump (which turned out to be the summer maintenance road) and had about a 4-foot drop off on the other side. As I went off it, my skis flew out in front of me and I sailed about 30 yards down into all that powder and junk, sending up a HUGE plume of snow. The good news is that it was as soft as it looked, and I skidded to a stop with only bruised pride. I liked TrailBoss's assessment that I "almost made it to the southbound lanes of I-93". Makes it sound epic......
roark
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Man I wished I'd seen that!:razz:ChileMass said:Oh, man - embarrasing.......at the AZ Cannon event last year I got sick of waiting for a bunch of people on Banshee and decided to shoot the rest of the trail and take the hard right-hand turn to the tram and just be done with it. So I headed down the right side of the trail, passed all the slowpokes and picked up a bunch of speed. I could see the hard right coming up fast and decided I couldn't make that, but saw what appeared to be an out-run of clear snow just over a little "bump" at the bottom of the trail, so I headed for that. Unfortunately, that out-run turned out to be a an ungroomed field of about 4" of powder with rocks, stumps, grass, etc sticking up thru it. But I had waaaaaay too much momentum going and didn't have much choice but to go into it to lose my speed. I flew off the little bump (which turned out to be the summer maintenance road) and had about a 4-foot drop off on the other side. As I went off it, my skis flew out in front of me and I sailed about 30 yards down into all that powder and junk, sending up a HUGE plume of snow. The good news is that it was as soft as it looked, and I skidded to a stop with only bruised pride. I liked TrailBoss's assessment that I "almost made it to the southbound lanes of I-93". Makes it sound epic......
Sparky
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It was a cold, windy and very icy night at Jiminy Peak. However it was back in the days when I was doing their night adult program and this was one of only 8 times out I would get for the season so I stayed and skied. I got out so seldom in those days I did not waste a moment, I skied to last chair every one of those nights. On this particular night I was standing at the top of The Foxes with the other 8 or 9 skiers that were there that miserable night, trying to decide if it was worth doing. What the hell, I got about 20 feet before I lost a ski in the ruts and that was all she wrote. I hit very chunk of ice, bump and death cookie on that trail. By the time I came to a stop at the bottom I had lost very piece of equipment I had including my hat. As I was sitting there at the bottom of Upper Fox, trying to remember my name and figure out where I was and the other 8 or 9 people were all skiing down with various pieces of my equipment, I heard one of them say that until he got to see my fall it was a party lousy night, but that made it worth the price of the ticket.
