Anyone else almost killed someone?

well, I have had a couple collisions on the hill, but nothing drastic enough to claim "almost kill" status. I have one story that I find funny that I will share with y'all.

Was skiing Whistler, well Blackcomb park to be exact and I was doing park & pipe laps. To those that don't know the mountain, the pipe is below the park chair so unless you wanna hike back up you gotta go down to the solar coaster chair to get back to the top of the park. This involves skiing along a cat track than down a blue groomer. So I was going at a pretty good speed along the cat track when this beginner chick makes an unexpected turn in front of me. I tried to slam on the breaks but my railed out skis didn't grip on the icy cat track and I went down. Managed to control myself while falling so I avoided hitting the chick and just slid to a stop beside her. The funny part is that she saw me and was all like "oh, are you ok?" and shit. I was like, yea lady, I almost took you out, you don't need to worry about me. it was pretty funny.

 
I am normally a pretty safe skier and like to make sure landing are clear and stuff but I did hit a little kid the other day and I have no idea what I could have done to prevent it other than not ski park. I stopped at the top of the jump and saw this kid fall over before even going down the landing which I have no idea how he managed to do. Anyways everybody up top waits a while and I never see him come out of the landing but I am pretty sure he is out since you can ski off were you can't be seen from the top. A snowboarder goes off the jump and I see him ride off no problem and then a second snowboarder goes off and again rides away no problem. This leads me to the obvious conclusion that the jump is not clear since one of these guys would have hit the kid or yelled at him or something I could notice. I ski down to the jump pop to set a one and right as I am turning my head out of the corner of my eye not ten feet in a straight line from where I am going to land is this kid at a dead stop. I hit the brakes as soon as I land but I never had a chance took the kid out of both skis and he was small enough that I just completed my stop and then helped him up and gave him a quick lesson on how to ski in a park and where you absolutely can't stop. I think the lesson stuck because I never saw him in the park the rest of the day.
 
i've had countless close calls but this was the closest.

me and my brother who is a snowboarder are bombing down this blue run which is not too crowded but relatively narrow. so ahead i see a group of little kids and their 2 ski instructors that are playing follow the leader. 1 instructor in the front, about 10 kids in the middle, other instructor in the back, all of them doing the pizza wedge, going VERY slow taking up the WHOLE trail. with me in the front still going quite fast, my bro and i go to make the pass on the right. SO the instructor in front decides to make a quick right turn and take the group directly where we're heading.....My bro and i both see this happening and he's riding directly behind me (still going VERY fast)......so she doesnt see us coming and starts her left turn about a foot from the edge of the trail....i barely sneek by and my bro has to ollie over her tails almost taking out the whole group.....VERY SCARY SHIT....

this bitch is supposed to be teaching these kids to ski the right way safely

but shes just turning them into even bigger gapers
 
Ski instructors are supposed to keep their lessons on either side of the trail. Not down the middle. Plus that's just the smart thing to do since you are taking care of peoples children.
 
first: a few weeks ago i was ripping a gromer as a warm up run and was pushing 50 pretty much straightlining when all of a sudden, from the slope parallel to the one im on comes this old dude way out of controll at a 45 angle onto the slope im on. i carved as hard as i could but still hit him pretty hard, spun around him into switch, (i thought i was going down hard) but managed to pull it off. i stopped and watched the old gaper slide 30 yards past me. he apologised and was able to get up. it was funny though because he had snow under his goggles and crammed under his glasses.

second: last week hitting the large jump line i spun a three on the 45 footer only to come around and see this little kid wedging across the landing. i landed no more than 2 feet away from him. would have killed him for sure if i hit him dead on, he was like 7 years old. i skied to the bottom and was told to be more responsible and watch where i was skiing by this 40ish guy and his wife. to which i replied maby you should keep your kid on the beginners slope. but mommy and daddy insisted that they had to take him through the park to go over the big jumps because the park was for everyone, not just you "punk kids in your baggy clothes". well mommy and daddy got told to get the fuck out of the park unless the want their kid schmeared across the landing. i saw them in the park again later that same day. some people just dont get it.
 
but regardless, the downhill skier has right of way.

I wish people wouldn't stop in such stupid places. There was a bunch of aussie snowboarders at my mtn one day, there is a little lip on the side of the trail that kickes you up about 1.5m I guess. They were sitting right on the side of the landing. I decided it was too sketch to hit it with them sitting there. As I rode past I stopped and yelled at them that they were sitting in a stupid place and they were gonna get hit sooner or later. The dumb ass girls thought they were awesome and told me to fuck off and 'don't think you can talk to us' hahaha I was just like 'ok, have a nice day'

as I ride away I catch a glimpse of a border dropping in. I stop and watch. Sure enough, he sails right into the middle of their group. Luckily he didn't actually hit any of them, but he scared the shit out of them. Screaming ensures, and the dumb bitches start accusing the boarder of everything under the sun. Stupid hoes haha
 
I was skiing through the trees not paying attention at all listening to my music and some dude comes from out of no where and I hit him dead on he goes flying and some how I am fine, I stop take off my skis hike up to him and ask how he is his reply was "its cool im drunk it didnt hurt" so I just shook my head and went back to skiing

 
Me and my friends were playing pond hockey, and the puck gets turned over rather suddenly, so I loop around my friend playing defense to see a different friend chasing the previous puck handler and we are rocketing at each other head on, with reflexes faster than i thought i had i pushed off with my right skate, and just layed out and twisted my shoulders in mid air to avoid the main impact and ended up just clipping each other before i landed on my back, it was scarey as fuck and my friends called me a pussy for 'getting laid out' even though my friend i almost hit was saying that i dove, i guess it looked sickkk though.
 
haha pretty shitty how many of us newschoolers have had these near hurting somebody experiences maybe we need to chill out some on crowded trails.....but that said i saw the funniest shit happen once haha......my two friends were hauling down this trail in front of me and as they cruised past this sketchy lookin boarder they came together at a turn and almost hit eachother high speed which caused the snowboard dude to do a wicked sketch speed check then proceed to wipe the fuck out as my friends cruise away......the snowboard dude proceeds to slide out of control down the hill and take out this mother daughter duo hahaaa. they had time to scream and then get dominoed down. didnt look too bad but a double eject and some bruises maybe but still couldnt hlep but laughing
 
One time I was skiing decently fast, in total control and out of nowhere my brakes on my right ski got caught in a hole in my pants on my left left. This completely restricted my movement and I look downhill, see a kid right in my line and since my legs our caught I couldnt turn away so I had jump sideways at full speed, didnt hurt the kid at all luckily, hurt like hell for me though
 
this one time i was haulin down the side of a groomer and the trail i was on merged with another and like 20ft before i got to the merge point this gaper dad and two daughters come out of no where and i try stop i spray the entire family with this giant tidal wave of snow(not intentionally) and i still end up clipping one of the girls and i go flying off the trail into the fencing both my skis are off and one of my poles is bent and when i finnaly climb out the dad bitches me out for like 5 minutes about how it was completely my fault. i didnt say anything i just kept getting my stuff back together but yah it was my fault for going so fast at a merge but it was also his fault for not looking uphill. but yah i could have murdered that little girl. all i did was make her fall over but i think she was alright she didnt seem to care
 
one of my friends was following me too closely and i fell and his neck hit the edge of my ski and cut his neck in half basically almost decapitation him, luckily we got ski patrol really quick and he's fine now.... we still ski together
 
it seems like a lot of people just arent safe on the hill. some of these, for example the near deaths in the park are the other persons fault. but a lot of these are just avoidable by not being a total douche.
 
so i was hauling ass out of the park in NZ going back to the lift, it was a straight line to the lift

as i get closer, out of the corner of my eye i see someone cutting across towards the lift, kinda at a merger. Mind you, im going tits into the wind all out tuck down a hill into the flats where the lift is

so as i see him come up, i have a second to react, i can't stop, going way to fast. So i turn right, i merge with him, instead of plowing him over, i kinda turned and meet up with him, like i bummed into him but neither of us fell. it was actaully a great decision by me. I'm still not sure who was wrong, i mean i was going really fast towards a lift which wasn't smart, but the guy cut across a trail without looking or anything...
 
i was a witness once of a kid that slid off the chair and grabbed his dads leg and was dangling for like a second then the dad finally fell off the chair and they both fell the 7 feet to the ground....funniest shit ever cause i was blunted and they were madd gapers
 
Going fast on shitty days last year, I was bombing this trail hauling right along when all of a sudden this 6 yr old kid or something starts cutting across the trail all beginer style. I had to cut between him and the edge of the trail and a bunch of trees, and a snowgun in a space about 5 feet wide. 20 feet behind I would have killed him for sure.

 
well i guess that i have luckily avoided a few big crashes like the one you mentioned, but i never got in a situation where i think i would have killed someone.

skiing fast is fun, and for me (maybe i am a good skier, maybe its just not as hard even on twins) i feel like its a "free adrenaline kick". in the park, i feel like every real adrenaline kick is related directly with immediate danger (huge kickers, new flip or whatever). but on the groomers, i just go as fast i can get (we have a huge mountain in the alps, so these are "real" slopes) and it kicks me, but i feel very comfortable
 
is that even a question? If your skiing well you almost do that on a daily basis. At least on the east coast.
 
so i was going in to hit a jump switch and everything was clear before i dropped. did a switch 3 and right as i was at 270 my tips clipped this guy who my friends said had cut from the side of the halfpipe then went pretty much beside me as i was going up the lip and decided to air off the knuckle. i still cant believe that neither of us ate shit haha
 
I know someone who threw a legal elbow in a Rugby game, caught a kid in the eye socket, pushed it back into his brain and he died in the hospital.

Kid who killed him isn't the same person anymore.
 
That is the gapper motto and the only part of the code they seem to know, numbers 3 and 4 are the real important ones if you ask me

[*]Ski under control and in such a manner so that you can stop at any time or

avoid other skiers or objects.

[*]When passing or overtaking another skier you must avoid the skier below

you.

[*]You should not stop where you obstruct a trail or are not visible from

above.

[*]When entering a trail or starting a descent yield to other skiers.

[*]Please observe all posted "slow skiing areas".

[*]Do not ski slopes too difficult for your ability.

 
they should add a point to that list:

- don't make rapid turns without looking up the hill.

That's what really pisses me off, when im going down totally in control but fast and gapers make those quick sharp turns that come out of nowhere... like they'll be turning small then they'll just make like one big one. i've never hit one yet but i swear, one day a gaper is gonna die.
 
my good buddy was ripping down the right site of a run.. the right side has like a steep down grade like 20 ft down into trees. So some idiot gaper dosnt shoulder check and turns right into where hes going, my buddy flew off the cat track into trees and rocks (early season) had to get heli'd off the hill. Somehow he only managed a concussion and sore body/knee. Ski patrol cut all his tall hoddies and tees off which sucks. But yeah for ppl who know whistler it was on Zig Zag this year
 
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