Originally Posted by
itsnowjoke
What do you know? A lot. I used to ski with my daughter about 30 days per year. When she was 8 a 250 pound snowboarder skidding straight down the hill on his heels nailed her going about 30. I saw the whole thing and didn't think she'd come away without injury. But she did. It was so traumatic though that she no longer wanted to ski and gave the sport up. She couldn't enjoy herself any longer with the sound of boards scraping behind her. It's really sad because at 8 she was quite the ripper, and begged to get out of school on powder days.
More recently I was skiing in a slow area conversing with friends going about 5 mph. A boarder hit me from behind so hard that it knocked me out of my bindings and knocked him out.
Do these Neanderthals need to take the last bastion of skiing greatness and ruin it too? Being snowboarders, it seems that they'd realize that they move differently, have less visibility when making heel side turns, and generally don't fit into the flow of skiers. I've been skiing 40-some years, and have yet to be nailed by a skier.