Scariest Experience On The Mountain

when keystone was building 4 and 5 early this season. i hit the last rail and didnt stop at the top of the drop and skip 4 going over the roller and hit 5 with a shit ton of speed overshoot to flat good. i landed but collapsed to my side safely. by far my biggest oh fuck of my life.
 
On lake chutes a couple weeks ago I dropped in and took a turn and it was ice, my dull park edge slid out and I fell off of a cliff, and then landed in the middle of one. I sat there for like 10 minutes trying to figure out what to do cause it was all ice around and I couldn't jump it cause there was another cliff right after. I was real close to telling my friend to go get patrol, but he climbed up and helped me off of the cliff from the side. Coulda been a lot worse.
 
launched a little natty jib off the side of the trail late last spring... didn't look before jumping and by the time i was about to jump i saw the landing was all rock and dirt so i popped as hard as I could but didn't clear it... skis landed on dirt and i double ejected and my knee landed on rocks and my body just barely on snow... bruised my knee pretty bad couldn't ski the following weekend... never really thought I would ever crash on rocks like that and thats why it was so scary haha
 
Sort of scary but more pissed me off. At my hill we had a whale tail like feature made completely of snow. You would ski up it and then there was a little lip that you'd hit and catch a tiny bit of air. It was big enough that you could huck 5s off but that was about it. Anyways, one day I was standing about ten feet from the bottom of the feature when this kid on rental skis comes up the lip and overshoots to face plant.He landed fucking hard, he looked limp, his ski flew off, there were like 15 people standing there and we were all worried as hell. His friend skied up behind him and everybody yelled, "Don't move him! Don't move him!" I thought he had broken something in his back because he was at a really awkward angle or was unconscious, so I clicked out of my bindings and ran up to him for some reason. I couldn't do anything to help, so I don't know why I did. Anyways, as soon as I get there, he starts to move and just sits up with a grimace on his face. Note that he was completely still for at least a minute before I went to help him. I say, "Are you okay?" and he's all, "Ya, but my wrist kind of hurts. I might have sprained it." Now I'm pissed because patrol was on it's way, there were people blocking the way to the lip of the feature to protect this kid who we thought was seriously hurt, and he was just chillin' for a couple minutes totally fine, minus the wrist.

Anyways, that kid pissed me off because he was basically milking an injury, whether intentionally or not, and making a bunch of people worry about him and try to help him when he didn't at all need it. It started out scary and just ended in me being pissed off that this kid took all of our time. Yep.
 
really? youve never gotten blown up and needed a minute to collect yourself, do an inventory of your body, and let your muscles unlock, from the impact induced full body spasm?

Cause i have on a couple occasions.
 
i was at powmow with my friend and we were sitting in the woods just getting ready to smoke and we hear someone barreling through the woods behind us so we look and then this kid becomes airborne for a solid 30 ft then smacks into a tree. there's no way he was okay but i got up and asked him, he seemed pretty dazed and was definitely concussed. told him he should take the rest of the day off then saw him get on the lift again. made me pretty mad
 
Watching a video of my friend tomahawking down a backcountry line towards some cliffs. I knew he was fine, but still. Shits scary.
 
When I patrolled we had a rescue that involved scaling a 10ft ice wall with no ice gear, climbing up through thick steep icy trees to get to a guy who had broken multiple ribs, his pelvis and had major impact injuries in his legs and sides. He was in a spot that was so freakin tight, pinned between trees and on such a steep exposed pitch I wasn't sure how we were going to get him out. Thank God I had my pull saw in my pack, I had to cut out about 12 saplings and small trees to even get a sled in there but while I was furiously sawing, he started going into shock. I have never sawed so frantically in my life. I thought my tricepts were going to fkn blow off from sawing as I watched him start convulsing and go from responsive to seizing and his wife started freaking out with like 3 trees to go for a path to get him out.

Most terifying minutes of my life. I thought we were going to run out of time trying to get him out of there. Saved him though, and he was totally cool too- ended up being a cop who donated like $1500 to patrol and sent us all a huge thank you for saving him. He even said he had no idea how we were going to get him out of there.

 
2 years ago i was booking it down a groomer and i came to the last drop before the lift. I was going to just shoot off the knuckle but some guy cut me off, i decided to swing wide last second to avoid hitting him. Flew off the side of the trail by only a couple feet but there was a giant boulder just sitting there. Landed just before it and bounced right around it. I swear i thought i wasn't going to make it that time.
 
Yah I will routinely lay down for a minute on the side of a hill after I take a gnarly fall from a 30 footer jump. I thought that was fairly common to make sure you are okay and assess the damage.

It's funny I usually wear both of my headphones so sometimes people on the lift ask me if I am okay or need ski patrol on really bad falls and I just if ore them because I can't hear them. They probably think I'm a huge dick :\
 
yeah i know but it was this year over february break when they got like 2 feet and we got like first tracks and my friend claimed he knew where to go but he didnt. so we went wayyy too far to skiers right like towards the backside of the mountain, and ended up closer to the house we stayed in near montgomery center than the mountain hahaha
 
I was at squaw visiting my cousin when they go dumped on with 60+ inches in like 2 days. My cousin had just given my brother and I a quick avalanche crash course on the lift (we live on the east coast) on what to avoid and what to do/what not to do etc. So on our first run i take my first turn then i see a slab break off right to my left and my heart sunk. I thought i had just triggered an avalanche, but it turns out it was just a small slab. But being form the east coast and having just listened to my cousin's avalanche advice i nearly shit my pants.
 
Had mine today. Caught a ton of speed going into an empty gully. I saw there was a mogul field ahead. I had way too much speed to stop so I absorbed the moguls. My tip hit the mogul and I tomahawked about 20 ft down the hill
 
Not my experience but happened to a kid at my school this year. He doesn't ski very much and was at wintergreen for a weekend with his family in january. He bombed a black and slid out on a patch of ice. First and only thing that hit the ground was his head. He got knocked out and airlifted to the hospital. He broke 12 bones, 8 in his face. Had a swollen brain and was in a medically induced coma for about a week. He's been in the hospital for 2 months now. Suffered a ton of memory loss and has been having to relearn basic skills like eating and walking. He can't graduate with us now I feel so bad for him. Please wear a helmet people.
 
Damn that is fucked up. I'm glad I wised up and started wearing a helmet this year. I've had a number of close calls this year including having a snowboard land on my head after a 25 foot jump.
 
I was skiing pow with park skiis. And dropped this small dropp who i had droppep a couple of times before. So i dropped took a small shifthy and stuck my front tips int the snow. I tomahawked about 25-30 feet (it wasn't so deep pow). The scary thing about it is when you roll down knowing you don't have any controll of your body, and might hurt yourself if you land wrong or stab yourself with the poles. It turned out well, and it was pretty fun tought.
 
haha classic, how was it all the way off there though? i went a week after they got all that snow and the dip was pretty tracked out, i didn't ski far right though i went down to the access road
 
My two happened recently. I have been staying the week out at Steamboat with my family and just yesterday I was with my brother out on Pony Express and I was filming him and he fell completely off a 20 ft. cliff. Atleast it was pretty deep powder and he only got a pretty bad bloody nose but he was laying down for about 10 minutes and I thought he was knocked out.

Another time I was in Lower Mavericks and I way overshot the jump because it wasn't as soft as the other day I did it and landed on the flats and it hurt a lot, but I was still standing, so I was fine.
 
This year at Blue Mountain, I was going up the lift at the park, and see this random gaper going full speed towards the biggest jump in the park. Needless to say, the second his feet leave the jump shit hits the fan. It looks like he started going for a backie, but of course that wasn't his idea. He flying like Big Air Dave, but the only difference is he's upside down. When he hits the landing, he hits it in the perfect position to break his neck, and he kind of does a reverse scorpion (it might be hard to imagine, but believe me, it wasn't pretty). He lays there for around 30 seconds, and everyone on the lift is going nuts, but he finally moves and actually gets up. Turns out this dude is actually ok. Scariest thing i've ever seen, and most relieving thing to see him get up after what looked like a life-ending crash.
 
This isn't my experience, but a kid from my school (cool guy, but when it comes to skiing he was a total gaper) went to the top of the hill and proceeded to bomb the entire park and hit our 30(?) footer. He came off the jump totally backseat, overshot the landing, and landed on his upper back/neck. Flash forward 3 years, our park has abandoned its jumps, because of safety reasons/liability.
 
Skiing gracia ridge at Revy, buddy and I notice a dip to the left that hadnt been touched. Overwhelmed with stoke to slay some pow, we obviously follow the freshness. Everything is awesome until we just see nothingness, and trees on the flats about 200ft below. Shit. We stopped, looked over the edge, its atleast 60ft down and the runout is moguled to shit. Sending was not an option. So we unclick (very veeerry carefully) hike up to look for a place to drop in. We find a waterfall followed by a chute about 300ft above where we wound up. We were above and on the skiers left of the chute and had to air 10-15 ft into it then slam on the brakes to not hit the opposing wall. Defs the most I've scared myself skiing.

We learned, if a well skied area doesnt have tracks in one particular area, there's a damn good reason for that.
 
When i was like 10, going over the highest point on a lift....no safety bar, that shit scared anyone.
 
Well, today I was flying down Morningside in Steamboat and I saw powder and I was like OMG POWDER!!!!! And I hit it at really high speeds and completely tomahawked through about 20" of powder and fell into a tree well. It was scary tomahawking through powder....
 
Mines a little different.

A few months ago me my brother and a few friends were skiing fernie for the first time and we were traversing to try and find a spot that wasn't skied out (snowed nearly 80cm 5 days before) behind us was a closed off area that looked all we could see was steep snow into trees. having never been to that mountain before we stood at the top considering going down as we assumed it wouldnt be to bad. After a few minutes of debating going down we decided to continue traversing across to the area we originally intended to ski.

After that run we regretted not going down there as the snow had looked really good and had been untouched and where we got to wasn't that great. We ended up going to the bowl on the otherside of what we had skied and looked at the face we almost went down. I began to feel sick as I saw it was only about thirty feet of ski able terrain then massive cliff and disgusting rock faces that we likely would have died charging into or at least broken a few bones.

Sorry for bad grammar/spelling I'm on mobile

This isn't as much of a stranded on the mountain or bad crash story but it's the best I've got.
 
it was awful so flat we must have walked for 2 hours in waist deep snow through riverbeds and shit. then we got to the road and had to hitch hike back to the normal pick up spot and no one wanted to hook us up with a 5 minute ride. completely ruined what could have been the best pow day of the season haha
 
Did half a back flip off a roller coaster box and couldn't feel anything from the neck down. Laid on the ground for about five minutes and everything started to slowly come back on line. Got up and did my GS run shortly after that.
 
Holy shit. Also, this reminds me of the time I was bombing down a dimly lit trail at night and went left at a fork in the trail and there turned out to be a cable without a rope or sign on it across the trail. I got close lined across the thighs so hard I seriously thought I broke my legs at first. I shit you not I flew in the air back 20 ft. My friends saw it happen and told me. I was down for a solid 5 or 10 minutes but then got up and took my GS run as well. For the next week it felt like someone just hit me across the thighs with a bat as hard as they could.
 
I have also closed line a rope in pretty much the same situation. I was wearing the wrong goggles though. Was blue bird sky all day and decided to keep on skiing for another 5 hours.
 
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