I thought I was going to die....

SteveXs2

SteveXs2

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Today I went up to the mountain for the first day of the new season. I'd say a story of how the day kicked ass, but I'll just get to the point:

Myself and my friends Rich and Bryan met up at the bottom of a groomer and decided we'd go and ski the trees between 'Hangover' and 'A.O.T'... in other words, deep pow with steep lines and just plain sick skiing. I was rockin down the run on my ARVs, skiing nice pow for the first time on them, along with Rich on his Eric Pollard Pro's.

We cut over into 'A.O.T' when we got to the tracked over stuff, Rich tried to 180 a drop which looked super sick but ended up in an ejection. We kept on skiing down, Brian went first, I was second followed by Rich, I skied down, did some nice turns then saw a little drop, hit it which ended up with a little jump so i hit that too, with the speed i was carrying I hit a steep bump fast enough to eject me into a frontflip into a late 'fall into 8ft deep hole ass first'. The next thing I remembered I saw snow pile over my head, then I couldn't breathe, the snow knocked down my Touque and Goggles so I couldn't see, I panicked a bit.

With my right hand I put my glove in front of my mouth and pushed outwards quickly enough to get a small gasp of air but then snow fell down into the hole i'd created. At that time I thought that if I couldn't find the top of the snow I'd die, so I pushed my hand forward enough to get it out of the snow and shoveled the snow of my face. I called for my friend Rich to come over, I pulled my goggles off and tilted back my touque to see what the fuck happened.

All I could see were my boots, think of the time the big kid crammed the little kid into the garbage can, then piling a bunch of snow on top of him, that's me.

In the end, Rich called over some guys, I heard some 'Holy Fuck''s. AzadAdventures.com's Elite Team member Axel Somethingorother tried to pull me up with his poles but I couldn't grip, so Rich and an older guy grabbed my hands and pulled me out. Rich jumped in the hole after to see how deep it was, he was up to his head, and then some, the hole went down for... who knows how long. If I had broken through into the bottom.... I would've been fucked.

In the end I think all I got was a little frostbite and the shit scared outta me. But the guy that pulled me out brought to me an important thing... he said 'Good thing you were skiing with a buddy'.

So yeah, don't ski risky stuff alone, cause if you get into a situation where you can't save yourself you'll be fucked.

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g e t h y p e d . n e t

'I read this book, and the murderer/rapist was named Matt Harvey. It made me laugh while I read it.'

- shortskichick
 
that was a very compelling story.

if people dont like what ive created, fuck em, because somebody else does-TANNER

can you see what's down there? me either.-seth peering down a cliff before he drops it

ns army, whatever is right below the general

 
i got a wicked papercut earlier tonight

that was pretty bad...

im sorry, im just making up a story because ive had no near-death skiing experiences... CUZ OUR MOUTAIN ISNT OPENED!!

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fine, but if i die, im totally gonna kick your ass - me after being dared to jump off my friends house into his pool
 
That's pretty scary. Kind of scares me because I tend to ski alone a lot.

-Lauren

I'm not much of a man by the light of day

But by night I'm one hell of a lover

I'm just a sweet transvestite

From Transexual Transylvania...

 
thats prolly cuz u smell bad and your friends are just being nice and dont wanna tell you

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fine, but if i die, im totally gonna kick your ass - me after being dared to jump off my friends house into his pool
 
^Yeah that's my theory.

-Lauren

I'm not much of a man by the light of day

But by night I'm one hell of a lover

I'm just a sweet transvestite

From Transexual Transylvania...

 
happen to me at steamboat a few years back. I fell into the area underneath a big pine tree. Ya know how all the drift snow piles up around a tree and then right by the trunk its shallow. I fell into one of those deals. I screamed for a couple minutes and a lady saw me and got people to pull me out.

 
Word, skiing alone isn't fun, and it's dangerous.

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When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.(think about it)

'My knee hurts' (Jeff Merat after grinding a lunch table for an hour instead of sitting in the ski patrol shack for his torm mcl and acl which he got earlier that day.)

'I'm not asking for any help, just mabe for you to get off your ass.'(my dad)
 
I have been witness to 2 avalanches in the last 3 years not to mention having my sluff carry me down a chute and into a river. All those times I was skiing with a friend who I trust withmy life and wont ski any other way.

This post made possible by the SSC freeride crew.
 
I never really thought of an avalanche as that much of a threat to me, I though 'oh yeah, there's probably not really enough snow to make that much of a difference, i could just poke my hands out and dig myself out.

Ha, yah right. I didn't even have that much snow on me but it was fuckin scary, when I was pinned in that snow like that I was pretty much paralyzed, the feeling of all of a sudden not being able to breathe is awful, I was feeling it over an over today, remembering the moment and... fuck, that's scary shit.

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g e t h y p e d . n e t

'I read this book, and the murderer/rapist was named Matt Harvey. It made me laugh while I read it.'

- shortskichick
 
the scaryist shit happened to me the other day, i fell up my stairs into a blackhole and woke up in the neigbors yard an hour later pantsless and there was gash on my arm and some strange orange goo on left foot

 
couldve been worse, the goo couldve been on your ass.... ill let u all figure that one out

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fine, but if i die, im totally gonna kick your ass - me after being dared to jump off my friends house into his pool
 
thats crazy, man. luckily, ive never been in any situations like that. although, ud have to try to do that in ohio.

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The only way to prevent rape is to say yes.

'. . . thou shalt eat the herb of the field ' (Genesis 3:18)

'. . . eat every herb of the land ' (Exodus 10:12)

'Better is a dinner of herb where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith' (Proverbs 15:17)

“He Causeth the Grass to Grow for the Cattle, and Herb for the Service of Man” (Psalm 104:14)

 
True. Kinda dismisses the belief that resorts aren't dangerous and the only real way you can die is from an avalanche in the BC.

 
I was skiing with a guy on weekend who told us about one of his friend's that almost died 10 years ago.

He was boarding down the same run I fell on but he caught an edge and flew out of control and onto his stomach, it really messed him up, one of his lungs filled with blood and he started to bleed from the mouth and couldn't move because of the pain and shock.

2 hours later a guy was going down the run (A.O.T) when he saw a snowboard, though 'hey, free board'. Went down to it and grabbed the board and realised it came with a pair of legs... and the rest of a human body. He had found a board AND a man two hurt to move, blood pouring from his mouth. The guy was taken to hospital where he eventually recovered... I doubt he boards alone anymore though.

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g e t h y p e d . n e t

'I read this book, and the murderer/rapist was named Matt Harvey. It made me laugh while I read it.'

- shortskichick
 
whoah imagine that. sounds like that run has some bad luck eh

...For I have dined on honey dew and drunk the milk of paradise! --------------------I like to jam
 
Dude that freakin sucks. How log were you in the little pit for that you got frostbite?

im and anti-whore trend-whore pro-trend anti-prowhore
 
definately points out the importance of skiing with someone, especially when you are off the groomers. The only thing that pisses me off is when people you are skiing with do not realize the importance of skiing with a ''buddy'' for safety reasons and they just assume that you'll be fine.

My friggin brother is a perfect example of this.

 
wow. Good thing your okay, what would we do without GH!?! Anyways, that's pretty crazy. Unfortunantely, we dont have anything fun like that around here to ski on, but it's a very imporant lesson.. (skiing with buddies)

-Jason
 
Yeah man shit like that is scary as fuck

I fell down this chute at empire freeride this summer and tumbeled down the whole thing, there was some huge as fucken rocks to both sides.. I really thought I was going to die or get seriously injuured..... when I stopped rolling i looked back at the top and couldnt believe what just happened... I fell right onto the top of the lift, and the lift dude was like 'holy shit man, u are one lucky fuck' 'my daughter fell down a chute like that and broke a shitload of bones.'

Anyways when u are in situations like that, you just gotta learn from them, but damn man being out of control like that just suckkkksss

'I'm far from broke, got enough bread and mad hoes, ask Beavis I get nuttin Butt-head' - Big L

* Empire Freeride, Session 3*

 
Ive heard a lot of storys of how people have died from falling in a manhole, your lucky man!

Posted By GT: 'we all have shit, some people it comes out of their ass, some people it comes out their mouth'

HEAD MAD TRIXXX

Posted by Rossi900- Easy my lad dont bust a nut

 
anyone remember jamile kahn pro snowboarder? he went to my high school...i think he died in an avalanche right? or suntin like that

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'What Would Harvey DO?'

SRMC

-kevan

 
Last year, I was going like mach 10 and I ripped around a tight corner and got clotheslined on one of those 'end of ski boundary' ropes.....

 
I was reading some avalanche stats yesterday. and falling in a tree well, getting buried and suffocating happens surprisingly often.

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'Dude, check out this nasty gouge.'

'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

im just gonna sling crystal meth so i dont have to get a real job and can afford to ski, with the way my senior year is goin though thats probably one of my few options

-switchskier88
 
Avalanches can happen anywhere. My uncle died in an avalanche in my back yard 10 years ago and he was only 19. I saw the whole thing. My brother was with him and he was lucky enough to get washed out at the bottem. My uncle wasnt so lucky - he got stuck in a tree well and was buried. There were around 50+ people searching within 10 minutes, but they wernt able to find him in time.

'I should put my camera on a tripod - its easier to drink beer that way' - dirty steve

NS royal gangstar

 
sorry man...im not exactly sure what a tree well is..

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'What Would Harvey DO?'

SRMC

-kevan

 
man mammothpunk wouldnt something like that haunt u?

Posted By GT: 'we all have shit, some people it comes out of their ass, some people it comes out their mouth'

HEAD MAD TRIXXX

Posted by Rossi900- Easy my lad dont bust a nut

 
yeah thats rough man..... your backyard must be pretty huge, how far r u from the actual resort?

'I'm far from broke, got enough bread and mad hoes, ask Beavis I get nuttin Butt-head' - Big L

* Empire Freeride, Session 3*

 
i was skiing solo in julio last run of the day at killy and i somehow fell into a hole full of cement snow. it was so heavy that i couldnt move. i was freakin out cuz i was stuck but then some random hippie telegaper poked out of the woods and dug me out with his ski.

the moral of the story:

never apply mustard to the left side of a cheetah.

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-Steve

'honesty is the best policy. just tell your boss his daughter is one fine piece of ace and she wants your boneware and you feel its only proper that you take her cherry. but not to worry, you'll lube it up and ease it in. like a gentleman.' ~ 221

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