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Worst crash/injury you've witnessed?

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Superduploman
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So what's the worst crash you've seen while skiing? And have you been the the first to arrive at the crash?
Some dos and don'ts for first aid on the mountain is accepted

Yesterday I saw a guy faceplant pretty bad on an icy stepdown, I picked up his skis and went to him when I noticed he hadn't moved for a while, then he started shaking around and doing that sound like when you suffer lung impact. Had to hold his head still until ski patrol arrived like 10 minutes later..
Jan 9 2014 11:10AM
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SamtheEagle
Posts: 1658 - Karma: 713
I was on a lift at alta and saw a guy fall face first on a groomer but fairly steep face of it. He slid about 20 yards into the trees and hit a few head first and was still moving pretty quickly during the impact. Didn't move for the next 30 seconds i could see him from the lift. When I skid the run he was on a backboard.

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snowboarder slides a rail backwards (back facing downhill). He can't see where the rail ends do his board drops off and he slams his face into the rail. I ski down to check on him and he lifts up is head and spits out 2 or 3 teeth and tons of blood. I grabbed ski partol for him haha

Jan 10 2014 6:34PM
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caderobinson
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i have seen people knuckle to head/back
Jan 10 2014 6:46PM
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geosom
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/claim
Jan 11 2014 9:15AM
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Wizerd
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Last winter my friend attempted a front flip on a 30 ft jump, he landed on his head and neck and was out cold for 20 mins with a grade 2 concussion.

Pics of after crash

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It was scary because he was just laying there
Jan 11 2014 10:45AM
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gusestomp
Posts: 1377 - Karma: 746
Someone at the first or second years of the Dumont Cup, flew off the jump and missed the landing completely. It looked bad.. I will try and find a video
Jan 11 2014 11:18AM
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gusestomp
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sorry for double post but I found it.


Jan 11 2014 11:23AM
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jordangaebel
Posts: 365 - Karma: 92
Saw one of them renter kids bombed this jump and he went soo flat, he got knocked out on impact and broke his collar bone.
Jan 11 2014 12:51PM
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CJ_S
Posts: 543 - Karma: 312
To answer your question, that was LJ.
Jan 11 2014 2:07PM
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easiestEC
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i have a sequence photo on my computer of that crash haha. i'll see if i can find them
Jan 11 2014 2:25PM
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James.May
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Watch a kid from the lift over shoot a tiny kicker but it was like a hill landing so he fell about 35-40 ft to flat and broke both his femurs.

was behind my friend break his collar bone almost right through when he caught an edge riding to the lift in a dip...

then while recording got another buddy break his collar bone doing a cork seven. skip to 0:40

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200707422791620&set=vb.1342997660&type=3&theater
Jan 11 2014 2:36PM
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easiestEC
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here is it

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I had no idea he crashed so bad
Jan 11 2014 2:38PM
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easiestEC
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triple post!!

but scratch that, its a different skier, similar crash
Jan 11 2014 2:41PM
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FrenchFry
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a few years ago i was skiing in banff alberta in spring. was super super slushy. i caught really weird on a cork 7 and landed right on my upper right side. Got up after being own for like 30 seconds and skiied to the bottom in the most pain i had ever experienced. fell over because of the pain. thought it was my shoulder blade for some reason. i ended up breaking 3 ribs and puncturing and collapsing my lung. was in bed for the next 2 weeks.
Jan 11 2014 5:13PM
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snowbabeee
Posts: 44 - Karma: 136
I was hitting this field of wind lips all day & this snowboarder thought it looked fun so he joined.
He found one I hadn't seen before & hit it full speed... landed on ice...& Tried to stop but instead slammed into a tree.
The tree snapped his tibia & fibula like nothing. Like fucking nothing. His lower leg and femur were in different worlds.
To make it worse he had to hold onto the tree so he didn't slip down the steep. Looked like a fucked up koala on the real.
Feb 2 2014 3:09PM
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milk_man
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I've seen a gaper fall and break his ankle, and I've also seen my friend fall and get knocked out for 20 seconds
Feb 2 2014 4:20PM
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Morriski_
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I was behind someone that fell and shattered their pelvis so badly that it puncturedalot of their internals.. i could hear the bone crack when he fell, it was horrible
Feb 2 2014 5:02PM
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