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Death in Breckenridge Park
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Apparently some gaper cased one of the big jumps there and died on his way to the hospital. Anyone hear anything about this?
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yea, he was from charlotte, i head he was skiing on a blue groomer and caught an edge....
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it was under peak 8 chair, hit a tree, died of massive internal injuries.
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wow people are dying a lot this season
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That was the day before. Another person died on one of the big jumps in the park. Such a sad year again.
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WHAT, 2 people died in Breck in the same week?
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Call me whatever you want for saying this but... Natural Selection wins again for the dude hitting the jump. I mean, how stupid could he be if he truely was a gaper... whatever. RIP.
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harshe way of looking at it. unfortunetly true. most people get off with some bruised heels, or maybe a broken leg.
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my teachers husband is on ski patrol and he was on scene for the crash were the kid hit the tree...apparently he never skied before and straighlined the whole run and hit a tree and broke his neck and cut his leg straight off and died on impact
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i was in summit county when the first one happened, i dont understand why gappers have the need to get so out of control when they ski
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holy shit, wow, that is awful
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honestly dude.. shits not even funny. Somebody fucking died. Have a little respect, even if he was new to skiing, its somebodies fucking life thats now gone. What the hell.
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At this NZ resort, some kid straight lined into a big boulder and died, apparently there was blood everywhere and shit cause its a big volcanic rock, all sharp and shit. Too bad people die doing stuff for fun like skiing. It's classified as an extreme sport for a reason, and people have to understand that there is a risk.
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i don't understand why he hit that jump. I am an experienced skier and I would never hit those 50-80 ft monsters. Just not willing to progress that far
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HIS LEG WAS CUT STRAIGHT OFF BY A TREE.
thats awesome.
and yes, if it ever happens to me you can say that same thing.
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how did the guy die off a jump? did he land on his head off the 80 or what?
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If you go off a big jump and are going to case it but have no concept on how to fall, it's like falling 15-20ft. onto cement. He probably had all kinds of internal injuries.
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yea, you femur could shoot up inside yuo as well, its happened to a kid at my hill
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i thought he seriously over shot it?? thats what i heard from thie girl who is currently in brec
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We had a guy die last year trying to gap a set of tables. He took off on the first one after bombing it and was trying to clear the landing of the first, the flat between the tables and then land on the second sets downslope. He didnt make it.
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Oh maybe it was. Either way though it really sucks.
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hence the reason we need to get park passes everywhere now..i dont mind them unless im at a mountain that i dont go to a lot and i have to waste a half hour of my morning getting the freakin thing that im probly only gonna use one time
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shit dude kids leg got taken off thats nuts rip
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i live and charlotte so this is all over the news and the one of the guys who died at breck was on his senior class trip and his friends said he skiied at high rates of speed or something weird like that.
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yea i was at breck when this happened i saw a cross next to a tree afterward idk if it was for him or what, but ti was crazy
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Now THAT is natural selection.
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thats horrible!!
dang, it really makes ya appreciate everything in life and bein able to ski good when somethin like that happens
i prolly just sounded really emo... and no i dont ride surface skis!!! i wouldnt degrade myself like that haha just kiddin
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we had a kid hit a tree and die of internal bleeding at a real local mtn, its like 500 ft vertical max, tiny ass hill. it was a very quiet day in the lodge the next day, work sucked
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in the cascade mt range area a lot of people have died from falling in volcanic gas holes and the fall usually doesn't kill them but the gas in the hole does. and the weird thing is like half of them have been ski patrols
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thats really sad man but honestly people have got to learn to know thier limits
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we had a chick at my home mountain about 5 years ago die she was chewing gum while she was snowboarding choked on it and smoke her ehad on a tree it was sad cause he bro was in the freestyle club with me
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