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john18061806When you think the snow is slow so you straightline for a big jump. Only to realize mid-air that you have made the wrong decision and all you can do is wait for your knees to implode.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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
YoungDaphDude 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.
juicedrummer11anytime 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.
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.
