What is the craziest thing you have ever seen on the slopes???

some old man snowboarder decided to lay down on a box and take a nap. he was probably drunk or on shrooms or something
 
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Our park is really tiny, so you can see pretty much everything from the lift. Anyways we had this corrugated pipe jib, little incline to the pipe jib so you can stall and then a little decline for the landing. Anyways some girl gaper, goes flying into this thing, hits it, pops a solid 10 feet in the air lands straight flat on her back. Prob one of the worst falls I have seen.
During practice for a big air comp at my hill, guess some snowboarder had hit the smaller of the two hits landed weird and was just lying there at the bottom of the jump. Friend of mine goes the bigger hit, lands switch, and as he is after banging towards the lift looking uphill, drills the snowboarder lying on the ground full contact at at least 20 mph. Honestly thought, the snowboarder was dead.
 
This girl fell of the lift I was on, and as I was skiing down, I had to stop and wait for a helicopter to land in front of me. It was one of the coolest things ive seen. And this was in austria at the top of a mountain, such a cool sight.

 
haha that's ridiculous.

back in high school, on race day....there is a mound of snow that comes up pretty close to the chair, about 20 feet after you get on the lift. a girl had her tips down. it was a really slow lift. pretty much every skier at my school was at the bottom of lift and watched as she slowly rolled off.
 
at night they close trials one by one at my mountain to they can groom them. A guy came off the lift and didnt notice the crowd of people or the rope in front of the run and took him self out on the rope. Major lolz
 
me and a buddy were riding bumps, he was just killin it, i kinda lost control and ended up straightling the fucker. scary as shit on the way down, but i have never laughed so hard in my life.
 
Skiing at stowe last February. Some guy in a baseball jacket, one of those puffy ones they wear when its cold, camo snowpants, shitty blue persimmon goggle with a massive gaper gap and some gay ass old smith helmet wanders into the intermediate park. Everyones like "wow". I think he was a ginger so it could have been skiierman but anyways, first jump backflip, straight airs the second jump and on the third does a cork 10. Everyone was like "holy fuck". Very unexpected.
 
saw a loose ski fly down the hilll narrowly avoiding skiers and shooting into the trees, pain, and of course, boyne mountain crazy days. those under 18 need not apply
 
at hunter in ny there was a bear in the middle of the trail... we were all standing on top watching when a dude without looking skis right down past us

luckily he outran the bear
 
I was buttering around at abasin and was really looking and took a rope in the upper lip. I didnt really see it but i bet it was funny. I saw a gaper go into like a 15 foot jump at keystone without half the speed he needed. He flated then yardsaled and did like a dub frontflip of the knuckle. I felt pretty bad for the guy.
 
i love when people that look they have have no business in the park absolutely shred. because every single person that witnesses it just looks around at each other thinking, "damn ..."
 
standing at the top of the dropin for a jump. this dude holding a half empty handle turns to me and says,"we as men have no wings, but I can fly" and pushes off. He hauls ass at the jump, never speed checks and launches. this was a 5 foot gap jump lololoolol. he couldnt have even landed on the landing. I bet he missed it by a good 10 feet
 
Seeing Pep, Mahre, and Benchetler getting food at the lower lodge of Baker and then seeing them later that day doing a Lincoln Loop or some crazy shit.
 
The Seattle Mariner's Moose mascot was at the hill snowboarding for the special olympics race, and i was going over him on the chair when i saw him catch toe edge, eat shit real hard, and proceeded for his head to fall off and roll down the hill while all of the special olympians were screaming in horror. pretty crazy shit.
 
A bear. And on one of my friend's first days he crashed into 3 ski patrol sleds (they were out practicing all day) and managed to gash his girlfriend's leg with his snowboard edge and she had to get mad stitches.
 
many, many, MANY gapers run into each other. funny shit. oh and seeing a hole in the snow (dug by coyotes or some sort o mammal) exactly where my dad shot his elk that fall..that was pretty sweet
 
right beside the lift, its a very steep rockery, and a little boy lost one of his skis and it slipped down and it bounced several times on the rocks and it wouldnt stop, it was maybe 200 ft down.
 
When I was on a school trip my mate dug a hole right the middle of the piste. He took a shit in it, covered it up and skied off. I don't think he even wiped.
 
a couple of years ago the mountain division came and trained at my local mountain. they still used standard issue gaper skis, it was pretty funny. they did ice climbing and such under the lift, which was fun to watch
 
at breck one day riding the t-bar with my homie...as we're standing in line we see this snowboarder couple in front of us. The girl is very reluctant to ride the t-bar as it's obvious that she's pretty new to the sport.
He finally convinces her to go up. (I'm assuming that all of you know how you have to ride a t-bar on a snowboard - the T between your legs and you ride one at a time.) He goes first to show her how it's done. She goes to get on the t-bar and crashes her first time, so she catches the next one. I see the difficulty she's having and realize that we should probably put some space between her and us because she's probably going to crash again - space allows us to not immediately run over her when she falls mid-mountain.
Right about mid-mountain she starts tracking all over the place. Next thing I know, she tracks right in to one of the lift support beams. She gets stuck on the downhill side of it with the bar still stuck between her legs. Obviously lift ops can't see what's happening, so they don't stop the lift resulting in the line building more and more tension. Finally, the tension became too great and she got "unstuck".
BAM - the t-bar sling shots her a good 30-40 feet in to the air. She was higher than the lift cables themselves....arms flailing...and BOOM - lands right on her back. This happens right in front of us thanks to my decision to leave a little bit of space between her and us. We yell at her and ask if she's OK to which she responds in a wind-knocked-out of her voice "Noooooo".
Best part is that her BF didn't see any of this happen as he was in front of her, so he just keeps going. A few minutes later the lift finally stops and we yell at him that he might want to go check on her because she just got FUCKED UP. I'm pretty sure they aren't together after that one....
the end.
 
you never ride the t-bar at breck between your legs, on a snowboard you stand sideways with two people on the bar.

I dont believe your story, I worked as a liftie at breck and the tbar has shear pins that break if there is too much tension. Plus there is really only one bar that you can hit and you would have to know what you are doing to get even close to it.
 
i don't really give a fuck where you worked, or what you believe. i saw the shit with my own eyes. we even filed a report with lift ops at the top and ended up getting free lift tickets out of the deal since we missed the last ride up the imperial because of it. go look it up if you care that much. second week of january 08.
she was standing sideways so she could still slide on her snowboard. the part that a skier would normally put behind his/her legs was between her legs. she tracked right in to the fucking post and the rest is history.
 
scratch that - it was march of 07. i remember the vouchers they gave us expired at the end of the season and we weren't coming back until the following season, so we talked them in to writing it for the next season. january of 08 was when I used the voucher.
 
That is crazy, I believe you now. I could see how that would happen. (not being sarcastic, I really do, just wanted to test your story.)
 
yeah dude, shit was nuts. the only thing that I could think of that would explain the shear pins thing would be that they have to be strong enough to support the weight of a couple of 200+ pound dudes and this chick was maybe 120 lbs, so while the tension was enough to fling her tiny ass in to the air, it wasn't enough to pop the pins?
and i couldn't make that shit up even if I tried....i don't have a creative bone in my body. haha.
 
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