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From crashing really bad to getting your skis stolen what's the worst thing or the thing you fear the most when it comes to skiing? "Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself"-FDR
Losing a ski in the deep stuff and spending a lot of time looking for it
Getting another concussion
Re-breaking my ribs
Anything that might prevent me from skiing the rest of the season
Runs like Big Emma at snowbird or that one that goes down to the gondola at keystone that every gaper and their mom ends up on.
The snowbird tram derailing.
I'm afraid that I'm going to fall wrong one day and get paralyzed or some crazy shit. I wear a poc helmet because I'm deathly afraid brain damage. The only thing I want damaging my brain is all the weedz
AnesteeziaOh god. I did this exact fucking thing while upside down last year.
If anybody is aware of how massive the booter at granite peak was for awhile last year, I did it right when it was at its largest. Attempted a massive frontflip and the rotation just stopped halfway through and I landed backwards on my upper back in a heap like 70 feet away from the lip in the flats. Scariest shit ever and I'm lucky I didn't get fucked up.
Relatively unscathed, just some long-term shoulder pain and skiers thumb.
You are on lucky guy. Last year was my first year trying to hit jumps and my brother decided to say that I wouldn't try to hit that booter. I did.
I got messed up. My biggest fear is probably breaking a bone. I'm getting into park skiing this year and I just really don't want to break anything.
dyerbreaking my neck on an invert i have yet to try
Failed about 20 inverts on skis before and never got hurt becides a Bruise. I broke my neck cliff diving and it sucks haha just make sure you get the flip around and you will be fine when your doing inverts off jumps.
I am always afraid when scissoring for a 270 in pretzel 2 out that my ski comes off because i set the edge for the pretzel too hard. Then dropping directly to my shins on the rail. Its happened alot and it sucks.
Taking a ride or loosing it skiing at zuma. Don't wanna tumble down a bunch of rocks because of sluff or loosing an edge. Also hucking a cornice where you think it's going to be like 10 or 15 feet but you know if your like 30 feet to far on way or the other can be more like 40.
Fuck an avalanche. We were skiing a few days ago, powder was stupid deep we could hardly hike so my gf and I tried to get back inbounds while my roommate and his bro/my friend kept on going. Eventually my gf and I got funneled into the same valley as where the other two went. There we saw a group of people yelling my friends name. His brother was still there and he was the one who triggered the avalanche and had dug himself out before I got there and this group of randoms was helping him search. His brother was nowhere to be found. By the time I got there, they had been searching for 10 minutes. We were digging for 10-20 more minutes, no gear, my friend is definitely dead---is what we were all thinking.
Well idk what the fuck happened but my friend was already halfway down the mountain apparently. idk if my roommate stopped to smoke a cig or what and didn't realize his brother had already skied down, cause he didn't know that his brother was gone so we all assumed he was dead. If any of that makes sense
Anyways, still. Very traumatic and sobering. I used to be stupid when I was in college in MN and would go on spring break trips to Jackson Hole and be an idiot and ski out of bounds (even with gear, it's still fucking retarded). Ever since moving to CO, I've been over the whole powder skiing thing. Too easy way to die. And for what, some fucking pow turns? Going 170MPH on a crotch rocket is a lot more exhilarating than making turns in pow, and probably just about the same amount of danger..
