What’s your craziest skiing memory?

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Anyone have any interesting stories to share as the ski season approaches? One that comes to mind for me is when I was probably around 11 years old, I went full throttle off of a natural jump (meriwether at big Sky) and unintentionally jumped over a snowboarder. Probably the peak of my skiing career right there. What about you guys?
 
Someone I heard about but obviously nobody I know got 12 people in an 8 person gondola and smoked a blunt. It either started with 12 or 13, lifties yanked 1 kid out. And then someone who isn't t3dizzle was adding up everyones weight to see how far over we were.

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Racers setting up gates in gore e gully park which ended with gates getting ripped down and going after racers with snowballs and mean words. I don't think anyone fought for realz. We were childrens.

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Same year friend poached big air comp and through a backflip(no inverts) and knocked himself out. I think it made the cover of the local paper.

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Pretty much everything from gore mountain 04-08 ish
 
One time I made the foolish choice to train off a snowboarder. He of course cased the jump, unbeknownst to me, and I landed with a ski on either one of his shoulders as he tried to get away
 
14066346:Robeeeeeeeeeerto said:
One time I made the foolish choice to train off a snowboarder. He of course cased the jump, unbeknownst to me, and I landed with a ski on either one of his shoulders as he tried to get away
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Oh my
 
Backflipped of a natural hit and caught my tips in the landing and some how managed to slice through my snow pants all the way to my thermal undies with my ski.. why the ski stopped there.. haha beats me!! I ain’t complaining !
 
14066363:Rike said:
Backflipped of a natural hit and caught my tips in the landing and some how managed to slice through my snow pants all the way to my thermal undies with my ski.. why the ski stopped there.. haha beats me!! I ain’t complaining !
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Holy shit hahaha
 
Purposely jumping off the chairlift at its lowest point and getting our passes revoked ("hotlisted") by patrol for a week. Getting a BJ by my then gf in the lift operators cabin one night shift
 
Planned a mammoth trip and the Airbnb we booked last minute turned out to be Danny Kass’ condo. He ended up stopping by while we were there. Chill dude for sure.
 
May Day at Big Boulder a few years ago. Towards the end it was getting super rowdy. I got to lead the final run down for the season. We were all training the first jump. I was really drunk and said fuck it and threw a huge backflip spread eagled out. I overshot and over-rotated and ate shit in front of everyone but it was still all hype.
 
My first ski run ever when I was either 4 or 5 a snowboarder hit my mom and broke her femur. Interesting introduction to the sport for sure.
 
Watched a friend take a digger about 50 yards up the run and I just laughed hysterically. When I realized he wasnt moving I ran up to check him out and found him in a puddle of blood. Ski had come off and smashed him in the face knocking 3 teeth out and the edge of the ski had sliced his face wide open. The laughing stopped and it turned to quick reaction of finding teeth, getting the bleeding controlled, him back on the lift to get back to the car and rushed to the hospital. He didnt want to ride in the sled over to the patrol shack. Wasnt able to save the teeth, he has 1 implant and 2 fake teeth on a retainer now along with a scare across his face(18 stitches).

Skiing Big Sky(run # 3) back in 1997, blew my ACL in my left knee on some bumps on Challenger. Wasnt going to let that stop me from skiing the rest of the day. Tightened my adjustable knee brace and skied the rest of the day with no control of my left foot pretty much. Made for a weird day of skiing but I didnt let a pass go to waste.lol Had surgery 3 weeks later.
 
Led my dad down a wooded cliff area when I was younger. Partway down he caught his edge on a stick or something and he started sliding down headfirst. While he was sliding his ski hooked a tree and stopped him, leaving him practically hanging from the tree. He ended up messing his arm up pretty badly but it could've been a lot worse. I thought he was gonna die at the time.

I always wonder what would've happened if he didn't hook on that tree.
 
10 years ago was in the park at my local mountain. Went to hit spin a 7 and right before I left the lip I saw a person in the standing in the middle of the landing. I spun a 3 instead and as I came around to spot my landing the person started skiing down the landing. The stayed right under me the whole time as I made my my way to the landing. I opened my legs just before landing right on their shoulders. My shins smashed into the back of their head and back and I went tumbling as did they. I quickly got up and ran to see if they were ok as it was a middle aged woman. They were ok but it could have been much worse. If I didnt open my legs I would have put my edges right into the back of their head and they were not wearing a helmet. Once I knew they were ok, I lectured them about how I could have seriously hurt them and how unsafe it is to stand on landings.
 
I got a similar story to fries. I did a backflip over some lady off the wave at snowbird last year. The bowl had just opened up and there was a line of people hitting the wave with someone spotting at the take off. When it was my turn the spotter gave me the "all clear" and I couldn't see anybody skiing towards the landing so I started in. Halfway through my backflip I see this lady ski right under me.
 
2 years ago, tried dmt for the first time in squaw parking lot. Got offered it outa nowhere by two hippies. No one else in the crew wanted to. I was like fuck it free dmt and i didnt regret it.
 
Cased the pond skim going in switch last year at snowbird, probably got concussed in hindsight but I am okay.

Also my first landed backie. Was skiing that day with titus and others hitting a jump under little cloud. The boys were going big with cork 3s, and Mike had a huge cork 7. Told the guy I was riding the lift with if I didnt do a backie that time to call me a pussy for added peer pressure. Laid her out and stomped her to my surprise, awesome feeling, just pure elation.
 
I was exploring Ambassadors grove at Purgatory, came up on a well know cliff line, lined up the takeoff, and proceeded to crack both shins and tore both soleus muscles. Turned out I hit the wrong cliff, it had no landing and it was about twice the size of what i expected.
 
As long as the egoic value of your trip remained in a rather low awareness, I hope you discovered something about this experience we call life that you haven't discovered beforehand. I think psychedelics are tools of consciousness that require introspection upon expansion, they bring this feeling that we are way more than we perceive

14066505:percs said:
2 years ago, tried dmt for the first time in squaw parking lot. Got offered it outa nowhere by two hippies. No one else in the crew wanted to. I was like fuck it free dmt and i didnt regret it.
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14066489:RADAGAST said:
I got a similar story to fries. I did a backflip over some lady off the wave at snowbird last year. The bowl had just opened up and there was a line of people hitting the wave with someone spotting at the take off. When it was my turn the spotter gave me the "all clear" and I couldn't see anybody skiing towards the landing so I started in. Halfway through my backflip I see this lady ski right under me.
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Candide is that you?
 
I was on the lift once and heard the sound of a child screaming. I look down, and I see a five-sixish year old kid barreling down the hill, straight pizza, but this kid was hauling. He starts screaming in a beat, like "AAAH AAAH AAAH AAAH" and then slams into his instructor and entire ski school group who were stopped waiting for him. He takes out about five kids + the instructor, and all the people just flew into a wooden fence and broke that thing straight in half. Might not sound crazy but it was insane
 
14066489:RADAGAST said:
I got a similar story to fries. I did a backflip over some lady off the wave at snowbird last year. The bowl had just opened up and there was a line of people hitting the wave with someone spotting at the take off. When it was my turn the spotter gave me the "all clear" and I couldn't see anybody skiing towards the landing so I started in. Halfway through my backflip I see this lady ski right under me.
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Haha highkey the Wave is one of the sketchiest jumps out there, groms and jerry sniping the run in to your left , a mogul field for a run in In front of you, if you check your speed you’ll go 2 feet high.. if you lay aside the speed check you get a call from nasa for invading airspace... haha that being said it’s such a spring classic ??
 
Went skiing in Courchevel a couple years ago. Not sure the name of the exact area, but going down the main trail, if you turn left, and cut right at the last second, you can air really far downhill. Cleared over a bunch of skiers, and would have absolutely gotten my pass pulled if it was at a resort in the US lol. One time skiing on the back side of Livigno, I was cutting across a trail while going pretty fast and unintentionally gapped over pretty deep ditch, that would have ended my season if I didn't clear it.

There's this trail at my home mountain with a really long head wall, then some knolls after, and you can easily clear about 150 feet of distance. Not super high off the ground, but you're going really fast. I've never crashed on it but a friend took an absolute digger catching an edge in the slushy landing (he was fine).
 
washed out on the waterfall cliff at tblant so hard that i got stuck in the powder it was pretty funny

snapping both femurs is a pretty big claim to fame for me

also chinese downhilling with like 12 of the boys on flying mile during the spring going like mach ten
 
14066678:finder said:
There's this trail at my home mountain with a really long head wall, then some knolls after, and you can easily clear about 150 feet of distance. Not super high off the ground, but you're going really fast.
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This sounds like a blast
 
14066754:CalumSKI said:
washed out on the waterfall cliff at tblant so hard that i got stuck in the powder it was pretty funny

snapping both femurs is a pretty big claim to fame for me

also chinese downhilling with like 12 of the boys on flying mile during the spring going like mach ten
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Jesus... both femurs. How long ago was this? Are you back to skiing again? Damn.
 
14066758:fries said:
Jesus... both femurs. How long ago was this? Are you back to skiing again? Damn.
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one when i was 6 and one when i was 14 and hell yea i never stopped i was back the szn after and i dont wanna stop ever
 
14066760:CalumSKI said:
one when i was 6 and one when i was 14 and hell yea i never stopped i was back the szn after and i dont wanna stop ever
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Wow. I really thought breaking a femur would pretty much knock down your to ski permanently. Nice.
 
14066765:fries said:
Wow. I really thought breaking a femur would pretty much knock down your to ski permanently. Nice.
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naw i cant stop cause its my source of income half the year

and cause i love skiing man

cant stop till i cant walk
 
14066765:fries said:
Wow. I really thought breaking a femur would pretty much knock down your to ski permanently. Nice.
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My mom has broken both of her's skiing as well. (Separate instances) Its been decades but neither really slowed her down. More mentally than physically is what she told me. Sticks to nice wide blues and greens now.
 
14066403:DIRTYBUBBLE said:
May Day at Big Boulder a few years ago. Towards the end it was getting super rowdy. I got to lead the final run down for the season. We were all training the first jump. I was really drunk and said fuck it and threw a huge backflip spread eagled out. I overshot and over-rotated and ate shit in front of everyone but it was still all hype.
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Last few weeks and mayday at big boulder always is so rowdy. I've seen so many sends
 
Skiing woods at sugarbush after a particularly heavy (for the east coast at least) dump of snow and misjudged my speed coming off a cliff and overshot the landing and got hung up in a tree. Landed on some branches and got stuck upside down 6-7 feet in the air. Friends laughed and threw snowballs at me while I was stuck. My skis were jammed in the branch so when I unclipped I just went face first to the ground. Good times
 
Just remember, obtaining personal debt for an institutionalized education isn't worth it for the next 10 to 15 years of paying back that loan plus interest

14066893:CalumSKI said:
High school dude

One more year then I think I'm going to ubc
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14066973:11010110 said:
Just remember, obtaining personal debt for an institutionalized education isn't worth it for the next 10 to 15 years of paying back that loan plus interest
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Sounds wonderful but also a ticket to a life of hard work and job insecurity, as much as I hate to say.
 
Please elaborate more on how Cindy would spend $20grand on a 4yr degree/bachelor's,while Thomas spent $3grand on personal certificates for a 1yr apprenticeship program? The trades will always be hiring and looking to obtain "skilled" workers

14066974:fries said:
Sounds wonderful but also a ticket to a life of hard work and job insecurity, as much as I hate to say.
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I was at Snowbird a few years ago in a massive blizzard. It was basically whiteout conditions and dumping snow and I was lapping the Mineral Basin lift as long as I could before it closed. I was the only guy still out there and even the liftie was kind of giving me looks after a few laps. I knew the run by heart and was just poking my way down from cliff band to cliff band in the pow and ended up on top of Hamilton Cliffs. I was taking a breather and suddenly I see a giant snow 'dust devil' come ripping up the mountain like a mini tornado. It swirled around the shoulder of the cliff band and came up right to me and the snow suddenly swirled all around with me standing in the middle of it. Then after about 5 seconds it dissipated. I kinda got this weird feeling and a chill up my spine and to this day think there is some kind of mountain spirits or something out there.

Other memorable moments:

Watching my buddy's dad break his collar bone in the park because he suddenly thought he could do a 360 despite never skiing park before.

My brother took a fat dip of chew at the bottom of a double lift to try to be cool then proceeded to puke brown shit the entire way up.

Getting stuck on Snowghost double for 45 min in a storm with two drunk ass snowboarders behind us yelling "WE WANT REPARATIONS!" the whole time.

Once my buddy and I were stoned off our minds at night at Schweitzer hanging out in the village. This random guy came up and we talked to him then suddenly he said, "You wanna ride in a groomer?". We were stoked and he walked us over to the Piston Bully and we got to ride to the top and back and hear his stories. It was pretty sweet to be ripped and chilling in the machine as it tanked over snow berms etc.

Another time I was at Snowbird and hiking the traverse at Baldy's bowl. I had my chillum and was taking a break on a rocky area and took a pretty big hit while sitting there. Suddenly this 12 yr old kid appears from around the corner and just starts staring at me while I panicked thinking his Dad was going to come around any second. I just kind of stared back at him holding this fat hit in trying to figure out what the hell to do. Finally I turned and put my face into a snow patch and blew it all into the snow which actually worked pretty well. Then I coughed a bunch and quietly put my skis back on and just kind of skied off while this kid looked at me.

We were bombing groomers one day and my Brother caught an edge and yardsaled really bad with all his gear strewn around the slope for at least 100 yards. Then this stuffy Gaper lady literally skied through all his stuff while he was yelling for her to help grab his goggles etc then gave him a look and kept skiing.

**This post was edited on Oct 16th 2019 at 2:52:01pm
 
14067129:SuspiciousFish said:
I was at Snowbird a few years ago in a massive blizzard. It was basically whiteout conditions and dumping snow and I was lapping the Mineral Basin lift as long as I could before it closed. I was the only guy still out there and even the liftie was kind of giving me looks after a few laps. I knew the run by heart and was just poking my way down from cliff band to cliff band in the pow and ended up on top of Hamilton Cliffs. I was taking a breather and suddenly I see a giant snow 'dust devil' come ripping up the mountain like a mini tornado. It swirled around the shoulder of the cliff band and came up right to me and the snow suddenly swirled all around with me standing in the middle of it. Then after about 5 seconds it dissipated. I kinda got this weird feeling and a chill up my spine and to this day think there is some kind of mountain spirits or something out there.

Other memorable moments:

Watching my buddy's dad break his collar bone in the park because he suddenly thought he could do a 360 despite never skiing park before.

My brother took a fat dip of chew at the bottom of a double lift to try to be cool then proceeded to puke brown shit the entire way up.

Getting stuck on Snowghost double for 45 min in a storm with two drunk ass snowboarders behind us yelling "WE WANT REPARATIONS!" the whole time.

Once my buddy and I were stoned off our minds at night at Schweitzer hanging out in the village. This random guy came up and we talked to him then suddenly he said, "You wanna ride in a groomer?". We were stoked and he walked us over to the Piston Bully and we got to ride to the top and back and hear his stories. It was pretty sweet to be ripped and chilling in the machine as it tanked over snow berms etc.

We were bombing groomers one day and my Brother caught an edge and yardsaled really bad with all his gear strewn around the slope for at least 100 yards. Then this stuffy Gaper lady literally skied through all his stuff while he was yelling for her to help grab his goggles etc then gave him a look and kept skiing.
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Now I wanna ride in a snowcat while baked.....
 
14067129:SuspiciousFish said:
I was at Snowbird a few years ago in a massive blizzard. It was basically whiteout conditions and dumping snow and I was lapping the Mineral Basin lift as long as I could before it closed. I was the only guy still out there and even the liftie was kind of giving me looks after a few laps. I knew the run by heart and was just poking my way down from cliff band to cliff band in the pow and ended up on top of Hamilton Cliffs. I was taking a breather and suddenly I see a giant snow 'dust devil' come ripping up the mountain like a mini tornado. It swirled around the shoulder of the cliff band and came up right to me and the snow suddenly swirled all around with me standing in the middle of it. Then after about 5 seconds it dissipated. I kinda got this weird feeling and a chill up my spine and to this day think there is some kind of mountain spirits or something out there.

Other memorable moments:

Watching my buddy's dad break his collar bone in the park because he suddenly thought he could do a 360 despite never skiing park before.

My brother took a fat dip of chew at the bottom of a double lift to try to be cool then proceeded to puke brown shit the entire way up.

Getting stuck on Snowghost double for 45 min in a storm with two drunk ass snowboarders behind us yelling "WE WANT REPARATIONS!" the whole time.

Once my buddy and I were stoned off our minds at night at Schweitzer hanging out in the village. This random guy came up and we talked to him then suddenly he said, "You wanna ride in a groomer?". We were stoked and he walked us over to the Piston Bully and we got to ride to the top and back and hear his stories. It was pretty sweet to be ripped and chilling in the machine as it tanked over snow berms etc.

Another time I was at Snowbird and hiking the traverse at Baldy's bowl. I had my chillum and was taking a break on a rocky area and took a pretty big hit while sitting there. Suddenly this 12 yr old kid appears from around the corner and just starts staring at me while I panicked thinking his Dad was going to come around any second. I just kind of stared back at him holding this fat hit in trying to figure out what the hell to do. Finally I turned and put my face into a snow patch and blew it all into the snow which actually worked pretty well. Then I coughed a bunch and quietly put my skis back on and just kind of skied off while this kid looked at me.

We were bombing groomers one day and my Brother caught an edge and yardsaled really bad with all his gear strewn around the slope for at least 100 yards. Then this stuffy Gaper lady literally skied through all his stuff while he was yelling for her to help grab his goggles etc then gave him a look and kept skiing.

**This post was edited on Oct 16th 2019 at 2:52:01pm
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Wow (last paragraph) what a bitch
 
Was working at a ski shop in Maine a few years back. Got a call on my cell that my girlfriend was being helicoptered out of the Austrian backcountry but that it was precautionary and the dude didn’t have much info.

I spent the rest of my shift freaking out. Boss - also a good friend - wanted me to go home but that would have been worse. It was the loneliest few five to six hours of my life.

Ended up with a fractured C2 vertebrae and TBI.
 
I sliced a squirrel during a race once. It ran out in the course and I ran right through it. I had no idea it happened until someone told me after the run. They stopped the race to get the body off the course.
 
I was really young and my family went out to Heavenly and my dad took a wrong turn and we were on top of a smaller cliff. We just through our skis down and all jumped into the snow. It snowed about 3ft that day so the jump was quite fun.
 
got a bad concussion and at the time of the injury, PCMR was pre-vail takeover so they had a volunteer patroller program. Anyways there were a bunch of really inexperienced and unprepared rookies handling my injury and doing everything pretty wrong but luckily had one of my best friends skiing with me who has had concussions/been around people who have had them so he kinda stepped in and helped me which is a bad look (the volunteer program is no more obviously).

Then they loaded me into an SUV to drive me down to base patrol clinic to get an eval and the suv was parked on an incline so they loaded me in the back and one patroller lost their grip and i slid head first on the backboard to the front of the vehicle and kinda crashed into the drivers seat/passenger seat. A total shitshow

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14089644:DeebieSkeebies said:
got a bad concussion and at the time of the injury, PCMR was pre-vail takeover so they had a volunteer patroller program. Anyways there were a bunch of really inexperienced and unprepared rookies handling my injury and doing everything pretty wrong but luckily had one of my best friends skiing with me who has had concussions/been around people who have had them so he kinda stepped in and helped me which is a bad look (the volunteer program is no more obviously).

Then they loaded me into an SUV to drive me down to base patrol clinic to get an eval and the suv was parked on an incline so they loaded me in the back and one patroller lost their grip and i slid head first on the backboard to the front of the vehicle and kinda crashed into the drivers seat/passenger seat. A total shitshow

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Holy shit dude, thats like a scene from a slapstick comedy film. When they pulled away did you slide back out the other direction onto the ground?LOL
 
The craziest memory I had from skiing was when my dad and I climbed Tuckermans Ravine when I was a teenager. Long before I knew anything about backcountry skiing. And we saw a dude get hit with an avalanche going off the head wall. There is actually a video on YouTube of it, dated 2011-03-19 skier triggered avalanche Tuckermans ravine. Luckily the guy wasn’t fully buried and came out okay. But 8 years later I’ve (thankfully) never seen anything like that again.
 
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