Tanner and Wiley Injured-Official Release

On Friday May 15, Wiley Miller of Salt Lake City overshot a motocross-style jump at Stevens Pass, WA, while shooting for TGR and was injured upon impact. He was carried away in a ski patrol toboggan and ambulanced to the Leavenworth, WA, hospital. He was diagnosed with a fractured left eye socket, fractured left heel, a chipped right heel, and a concussion. Fortunately, he was up and around and smiling by the evening.

The following day, Saturday the 16th, Tanner Hall hit the same jump at around noon, and landed in the flats a bit further than where Wiley landed the day prior. He four-point landed to his skis and then his hip. Immediately upon impacting the hard, flat landing, he came to a stop. At the scene of the accident, Tanner experienced severe pain in his right knee with moderate pain in his left. He was airlifted from the jump to the Stevens Pass base area, where an ambulance transported him to the Wenatchee, WA, hospital. According to TGR’s Todd Jones who accompanied Hall to the hospital, Tanner fractured his tibial plateaus in each leg and might have possible ligament damage. He did not sustain injuries to his back or head. Currently, Hall's en route to Salt Lake City for an MRI and recovery.

Tanner's in remarkably good spirits and already talking about his plans post recovery,” says Tom Yaps, Tanner’s agent. “We'll know more regarding possible surgery and rehab after he consults with Salt Lake City doctors tomorrow. But as of now, Tanner and his family are all staying positive and looking towards the future.”

A crew of TGR athletes, filmers, and photographers has been at Stevens Pass for over a week filming for TGR’s new film, Re: Session. After a mix of rain and snow fell at Stevens Pass during the past week, the motocross-style jump was re-cut and shaped and the take-off and landings were salted for Friday’s shoot. In fact, both Tanner and Wiley hit the same jump on Thursday, the 14th, throwing back flips over the kicker in wet-snow conditions.

On a sunny, warm Friday, Wiley was the first to hit the newly shaped jump, and Tanner was the first to hit it since Wiley’s crash. Fellow skier Dash Longe speed-checked the jump with Tanner on Saturday, and he said they both expressed how they didn’t need too much speed to clear the 10-foot channel gap or the rounded knuckle, mindful of Wiley’s crash the day before. According to TGR athlete Dylan Hood, Tanner crept off the take-off and still soared well beyond the transition, landing in the flats before the transition to the next jump.

The Stevens Pass park crew, ski patrol and administration and the TGR crew acted professional, diligent, and timely in both cases. Moreover, TGR rehearsed and prepared for these specific situations earlier this winter during an avalanche workshop with their filmers, photographers, and athletes at Grand Targhee, WY.

Powder we’ll have more information on Tanner Hall’s status when available.
 
Ok, so the TGR takes over Rage's jump, reshapes it, and then 2 of their best guys get crushed on it. Hmm! They're may be a lesson in this. I could be wrong though.
 
hopefully he does better than i thought, get well soon, we need you both. tanner for the comps and wiley for keeping the backcountry buttery smooth.
 
that sucks...

but i cant help laughing to myself thinking about Tanner screaming MY LEGS ARE BROKEN...
 
Not Wiley! His photoplay segment is in my top five favorite segments hands down. I hope both of them get better soon! but way to suck tanners dick and hardly say anything about Wiley you fuckers.
 
Does anyone other than myself blame jump construction for the injuries of these two skiers? I don't know what's up with this obsession with motocross style jumps... I've seen a lot this year (Keystone was putting up something similar last I was there) and I don't really get it. They look dangerous, and not conducive to big, impressive tricks. Just my opinion. I hate when athletes get hurt, especially skiers. I wish you both the speediest of recoveries, I'm sure you'll both be out there ripping again in no time.
 
I'm wrong. Seriously, I'm sorry. Everything I've been reading makes it sound like it was the old Rage jump.

The official release is confusing. It sounds like Wiley overshot, they squeezed the jump and made it smaller and then Tanner overshot even more. That seems messed up, but you were there and I wasn't.
 
That jump just plain looks retarded and id say its a little more than coincidence that both of them got totally wrecked, looking at the 5th picture down it looks like if you come in with any sort of speed then you are gonna overshoot, I'm just speculating I know but it just does not look right.
 
I couldn't agree more. That overhead shot of it that now seals it for me. It looks like the tranny is really mellow and isn't really steep at the top, then the landing hill is way steep. That means that your margin for error is really small. Toss in that channel gap and you have an disaster waiting to happen. For them to safely hit the landing hill they would have felt like they were just creeping along.

They built a few jumps like that at Vail in the past and everyone was overshooting including me with a shovel in my hand, but that was only falling from about 15 feet. These guys were dropping from about 45 feet or more I'd wager. Sorry, that's just dumbass jump construction.
 
ohhhhh sorry but yeah i see what you mean, it looks like a pretty pointless jump, its not like they're gonna do any good tricks off it, plus easy to overshoot
 
word, what a supid jump. The proportions are just retarded, i mean its gonna take a fair amount of speed to make it up that long ass take off, but not much more speed to clear that tiny gap, makin it real hard to judge speed. With the angles its built with, it needs twice the gap atleast. How is it moto?
 
OWWWWW TIBIAS!!!! MY TIBIAS ARE BROKEN!!!!!! MY TIBIAS ARE BROKEN!!!!
HIS TIBIAS ARE BROKEN!!!! WE'RE COMING

I imagine that's how it played out.
 
When I first heard the way it was put made it sound possibly career ending, so it's good to read the post-hospital stuff. It sounds bad, and painful obviously, but Tanner will certainly recover. I hope there's no serious ligament damage. Wiley also should be back in no time.
 
+ vibes to both of them. Never fun news to hear
With all due respect (it may just be the picture) but that jump doesnt look like it would have made a killer movie feature anyways?
 
The picture of the jump makes it look like a 10 foot gap, I can clearly see why people are repeatedly overshooting.... just dumb
and on another note...
steveyp is my new most hated member on this site. seriously dude, you've made 10 of the lamest comments i've ever seen in a matter of like, 2 days. go fuck yourself
 
Like what they build for the X-games moto x best trick. Big ramp or dirt kicker over gap to landing. They're not new, but usually they have a longer landing hill. Also, the jumps that are built right have about the same take off and landing angle unless it is a super huge gap.

The slower you're going, the more you are going to fly in a rainbow arc. It's hard to describe without a diagram, but if the take off is shallow and the landing is steep and short like it was here, your speed has to be almost perfect to hit the landing. There is a very thin margin between knuckling and going long.

Building a jump? If your take off is going to be about 35 degrees, make sure your landing is about 35 degrees. If you are building something with a huge gap, which I hope no one's doing unless they have built a shit load of jumps; make the take off closer to 30 degrees. The farther out you travel in the air, the more your forward momentum slows. You then start dropping faster, so on bigger gaps, good jump builders shallow the takeoff a bit. Otherwise skiers will stall out and won't be able to make it to the landing.

The builders for this jump, shallowed the takeoff on a jump where you didn't need much speed and only needed about 15 feet of distance to clear the knuckle. Also there was a big penalty for coming up short, which was at least in the back of the skiers' minds.

I'm not saying that we need any kind of jump code inforcement, but digital laser angle measures are about $500. If anybody is building a big jump for the GP or for a shoot like this and they don't have one of those tools; they are idiots. Sorry to call those guys out, but Tanner at least is lucky his spine didn't shatter. Toby Dawson did the same thing and he almost bled out internally before they could fly him to Denver.

I'd say JO is on the short list of the best and smartest jump builders. He would be a good guy to copy.
 
yeah i guess i'm speculating too, but just from my knowledge i figure pros have a pretty good sense of speed, despite snow conditions, when it comes to hitting jumps. if tanner and wiley both overshot that bad it's gotta be a poorly built jump. i mean if you build a jump right you shouldn't be able to overshoot it to flat i always thought, unless its just a super unlucky event, but two people??
 
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