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Last year at Alyeska in the Spring I was lapping Max's and then bombing the groomer back to Chair 4 to hurry and get another run. All morning my right ski felt squirrely but things looked okay. In hindsight, I should looked harder. Apparently after a couple years of abuse the screws holding the binders spalled the holes and were coming out.
I ended up tomahawking on a groomer after my heel piece just ripped completely out of my ski. I didn't think Oh Shit until I had come to a stop because it happened fast. No injuries luckily.
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Another good one was long boarding late night in SLC. We'd go to this one parking garage downtown that never had a lot of cars in it and had an elevator to boot. Perfect to just cruise without pumping or slowing down. So there's three of us and my cousins dog this one night. On one lap, our buddy loses control and the board bangs the curb pretty loud. Then Baxter (the dog) is lagging so we're yelling his name for him to catch up. No big deal.
As we get to the bottom, we see a cop walking up, gun drawn. We stop and chat (as if we had a choice). He asks what we were doing and if we had seen anyone else. "Nope just us," we say. "We've had reports of gun shots and screaming coming from here, you all just need to get the hell out of here" he says. "Yessir mr officer sir" we quickly utter. We quickly exit the garage and run into the guy who called the cops. We chat for a second and then we see three cops in full assault gear running into the garage, one loading shells into his shotgun and the other two with some big ass assault rifles. We say "Oh shit" and get back to my place asap and turn on the local news to see if we made some headlines. :D
The "gunshots" was the board hitting the curb and yelling was us yelling for Baxter.
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That was burly Telegasm...
Anyway, not to cross post one of my old posts, but there were some pretty sweet stories in the following thread from this summer:
[ame="http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142616"]"Near Death" experiences from your past. - Teton Gravity Research Forums[/ame]
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up at mt washington, when i was a kid, there was a jump called the 'oh shitter' right under the orange chair. looking back, it wasnt too big or gnarly, but the run-in was steep and the lip poppy and too much speed meant 40 feet to flats...exactly what happened the first time i hit it. Pretty much everyone let out an 'oh shit' of that thing. There's been scarier stuff since then, but the oh shitter seems to fit the definition perfectly...
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At least one person here knows this story... ;)
I was skiing a tower pad down Link's Line, and a gust of wind whipped it around and tripped me up, I managed to promptly land right on top of it, with my hand tangled in the strap. 0.05s later I am going Mach stupid on a tower pad down the hill, backwards towards the forest. Finally managed to get the pad out from under me and disengaged. Now suddenly I am flying off the first air, which tells me I am somwhere near the first of the large trees. Realizing I should be able to miss the trees I start fighting to stop, but it ain't working because I have picked up way too much spped, and anytime I get a ski edge near the snow, I start to tumble again. Finally I lose one ski, as I fly off the second air...
Now I manage to come up with a plan - yes I was sliding for long enough to plan... Next time my feet are above my head, I manage to aim one well placed kick with my free foot, and divest myself of the second ski. The slope is starting to ease off now, and I finally manage to stop. I check myself over, and I hear from the lift an tentative "Are you OK???!!!" No cheers for that one!
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Top of the Dome de Premacou in Tignes - couloir to drop. My brother goes down, disappears out of sight, then calls back up "it's fine, send her". I foolishly trust his advice, straight line the chute send the drop, and then see my brother on his ass, skis halfway down the mountain, having stacked on the mogul field that is the landing, he's grinning like a bastard, clearly relishing the prospect of me wiping out big time, and all I'm thinking is 'OH SHIT', as well as possibly 'I'm going to kill my brother when this is over!'
