What is your biggest skiing fear

[seanahue.]

some poor, innocent gaper pizza-ing in a blind jump landing as i come over the knuckle... seriously have had multiple nightmares of accidentally killing someone in the park

and motherfucking sw tails onto rails

 

[juicedrummer11]

skiing in shorts/tank tops/topless.... i have never lost more skin crashing on anything like i have crashed on snow without a jacket or ski pants on

 

[Dig.]

Avalanches

Fällung in a steep line and tomahawking down the Rest of the line

 

[xnickGT]

Getting old and my body not letting me ski how I want to.

 

[Mrworm10]

2:25

Wow that was BRUTAL! Holy moly now I'm scared of that too. Seriously though, why so many people afraid of rails over jumps? Big jumps are infinitely more terrifying for the first couple hits.

 

[krobs05]

torn an acl once so yeah not finna do it again

 

[skiersupreme]

forgetting everything and not being able to ski that day, or hitting a tree, knocking myself out, and then waking up in the middle of the night because nobody found me, and having to wait until morning

 

[cameron_taylor]

Setting off an avalanche above my friends or family

 

[milk_man]

Catching a tip when I nollie..

Only had that happen once and it was awful

 

[StokeFactor]

Jumps, I hate jumps,fuck 'em jumps.

 

[icetre]

When Waka Flaka starts playing on my i pod. always go way too big. always regret it.

 

[Anathema]

gaps onto rails are a little sketchy for me. i always think about people catching their skis or boots after failing to clear.

im pretty fearless when it comes to jumps, though i know if i whack my head again it might be lights out. i cant lay 90 degree to horizontal 5 times fast without feeling like im gonna barf.

 

[spaceghostpurp]

straddling rails. It happened one too many times and now Im intimidated by over-ball-height rails.

 

[Ric.]

Fucking lip 2s

 

[bedin]

Not having anyone to ski with.

 

[frickindarn]

Murder.

 

[gerbear]

Dying via asphyxiation after getting buried in an avalanche would be a pretty shitty way to go. There's gotta be at least a minute of serious panic and horror before you start to slowly lose consciousness. That always scared the shit out of me.

 

[milk_man]

Actually my biggest skiing fear is that I will die.

 

[HORK]

becoming an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone

 

[@nonymous]

landing

 

[last_tango]

having the lift rollback

or having a chair grip failure

Being a liftie that knows the mechanical side of lifts a ton more than your average liftie dose not help.

 

[BungHole.]

Exams during ski season, god damn. Also moving out and getting a job.

 

[FabseM]

Catching a tip when I nollie..

Only had that happen once and it was awful

Know that feel bro... knocked myself out for like 20seconds

 

[BBurt]

Falling off the lift at the spot where you aways think "shit I'd be so fucked here"

Catching an edge on a super steep and icy trail

Falling down White Nitro (for all you Sugarloafers)

Disastering to flat

 

[BBurt]

Falling off the lift at the spot where you aways think "shit I'd be so fucked here"

Catching an edge on a super steep and icy trail

Falling down White Nitro (for all you Sugarloafers)

Disastering to flat

 

[fuckwathever]

overshooting hard is awesome till you hit the ground and break your bones...

 

[last_tango]

Falling down White Nitro (for all you Sugarloafers)

Don't worry bro that net at the bottom will get you.......

 

[Thebrandyman]

Swapping on a waterfall rail and nutting it, and nutting it, and nutting it again

 

[Daph]

having the lift rollback

or having a chair grip failure

Being a liftie that knows the mechanical side of lifts a ton more than your average liftie dose not help.

Dude yes. I work lift maintenance now and after doing our grip inspection on one of the detachable quads and failing multiple grips during NDT, I have realized its a damn good thing the general public has no fucking clue how chairlifts work

 

[cheener12]

landing on my back/head hitting big jumps because of force due to crouch tucking into it

not being able to clear gap rails

 

[Nate_Dawg]

the switch

not skiing the same after blowing my ACL last year

 

[Bittner]

crashing and getting stabbed/jabbed by my own pole. Hasnt happened yet, but damn i feel like that would hurt.

 

[frickindarn]

crashing and getting stabbed/jabbed by my own pole. Hasnt happened yet, but damn i feel like that would hurt.

Timmy hit a nooter and knocked his ass out with his pole.

 

[NoGogs]

fucking rocks, side country ate it and tumbled down a bunch of loose hidden rocks an inch deep under snow.

 

[juicedrummer11]

having the lift rollback

or having a chair grip failure

Being a liftie that knows the mechanical side of lifts a ton more than your average liftie dose not help.

anytime the lift stops suddenly and you get the chair sway and sometimes the lift will creep back a couple inches, thats about when i start to freak the fuck out for this very reason. i start thinking of my switch landing zone

 

[RubberSoul]

the idea that there might be someone out there that's better than me

 

[freeballer]

snow sharks, snow snakes, snow crocodiles and avalanches. in that exact order.

 

[HORK]

reading all these replies makes me cry

 

[-Robert]

corrugated pipes man they scare me

I hate them!

Also, switch front flips and most rails in general.

And unmarked terrain that people shouldn't be skiing on, I coulda got hurt real bad if I didn't somehow keep my feet under me through an ice field from the results of cats pushing one side of the hill for a race course. Terrifying experience.

 

[esotericjive]

Trees

Don't get me wrong, trees are homies, but on the hill i'm terrified of them.

After waking up in the woods with broken bones and a brain injury i try to avoid chylling with trees as much

 

[last_tango]

Dude yes. I work lift maintenance now and after doing our grip inspection on one of the detachable quads and failing multiple grips during NDT, I have realized its a damn good thing the general public has no fucking clue how chairlifts work

Your going to have fun repositioning the bottom of the lift terminal for the tram if you are still working at big sky. At least you guys got mostly doppelmayer which running wise I trust to be the most reliable over poma and anything yan.

anytime the lift stops suddenly and you get the chair sway and sometimes the lift will creep back a couple inches, thats about when i start to freak the fuck out for this very reason. i start thinking of my switch landing zone

I think of a 180 and back slapping big air dave style. Most of the time its a lot of cable sag and play in the transmission.

 

[milk_man]

Know that feel bro...

Yeah, that feel is not fun

 

[GrahamGould]

Premature release when Im hauling dick or in a no fall zone

 

[last_tango]

Premature release when Im hauling dick or in a no fall zone

Have had it happen right before I hit a cliff out on the ice coast and the landing was of course icy and sketchy. Fuck non driver toe sth bindings.

 

[Swaggermager]

having the lift rollback

or having a chair grip failure

Being a liftie that knows the mechanical side of lifts a ton more than your average liftie dose not help.

Holy shit thats terrifying. Now I know to get off that shit before getting to the bottom or the top.

 

[last_tango]

If anyone is interested in more sketchy lift stuff here is the full video of that rollback footage. The lift catching on fire is just as impressive as rollback and is more likely than a rollback.

 

[BBurt]

Don't worry bro that net at the bottom will get you.......

True but who wants to be the guy who needs help getting out of the net?

 

[freestyler540]

I always worry about:

ICE!

Noobs behind jumps

Avalanches

 

[Such_Doge]

Doing inverted tricks off jumps and breaking my neck is my biggest and only fear in skiing. I'm so comfortable with rails and very scared of jumps

 

[Basil91]

Falling and all my spaghetti falling out of my pockets