Your most spectacular fall ?

I know we have all had one, that moment you catch an edge just as you go past a big group of people or ski past the cafe!
In my excitement at my looming ski trip,(she, as a non skier just doesnt understand my excitement and why im awake at this time, 5am of a morning checking webcams even though its too early!) i was telling my girlfriend about the time when in canada, skiing the goats eye run (very steep wide run) i caught an edge and fell. as it was under the lift everyone was watching, so i thought i could at least slide down with some grace, lifting my edges so not to catch, i must of slipped about a hundred yards and just as i reached the bottom, going quite slow by now, i literally put my edges down and stood with my momentum and skied slowly away to applause from the chairlift above! and one of my other more memorable ones, in canada again, skiing with the ski hosts, there was a professional nigel mansell lookalike(it was in the 90's afterall) in our group. Skiing our way through some gnarly snow at quite a speed he came straight across in front of me, in avoiding him i lost an edge and down i went, but sort of bounced back up off a hump and carried on as if nothing had happened. he was amazed at how i had managed such a manouvre. he thought i had done it intentionally!! who am i to spoil his day :wink:
As with all our stories when we recite them to others..."I suppose you had to be there" applies here too, but you guys must have some cracking "falling with grace" stories :mrgreen:

I have not had a spectacular fall but Mrs W did many years ago in Bormio, we both came out the cable car right at the top then you turn left down a narrow stretch I skied ahead and we agreed to meet at an agreed spot futher down the mountain. I reached the spot and she is not behind me I was starting to get a tad worried then I noticed her in the middle of this steep snow field she had caught an edge on the narrow run and went under the orange netting and must have fell about a hundred meters down this steep snow field.
I was too far down the mountain to get to her quickley but her Italian knight in shining armour as she calls him went under the netting and managed to find both skis and rescued her.
We still laugh about it today ..... but I was slightly worried. :wink:

OK - here goes, maybe not specatacular in the sense of great waves of snow, sliding for miles, head first etc etc etc

But the effect was pretty good.
Son and I pootling down a green road, getting from A to B. Ski school in front, tiddly ones :D
They were taking a little jump at the side of a piste, by a pole. One kid got a ski on either side of pole - crash! Upside down etc etc.
Knight in shiny red ski gear - me :roll: - stops checks she's OK, picks her up to untangle skis, legs, arms etc from the pole .....
And promptly falls over, backwards, with small child on top!
Both stuck - son laughing head off, shuffles over to help, profers ski pole, I grab it and pull ...
He falls over!
By this time the ski instructor has shuffled back up the slope to rescue her kid - and is having clear hysterics, crying with laughter.
Eventually untangle everything and everybody to receive a round of applause from an audience that had gathered to watch.
Most embarassing :oops:

Verbier, April 2008. Fresh dump of overnight snow, we took the Jumbo cable car up to Col des Gentianes just under Mont Fort. Brilliant sunshine, beautiful snow. We skied off the top part and suddenly hit fog as the clouds came up from the valley. It was literally 10m visability at best so I was skiing from one bright red piste marker to the next, my daughter skiing behind me.
Next thing I know I'm in mid air and falling fast; between the last and next piste marker the piste took a sharp right, I didn't and my daughter said she watched in horror as I literally went straight over the edge and disappeared.
I fell about 15m into piles of fresh snow luckily, down a steep bank. Realising where I was with my daughter shouting from above, I saw the funny side. I located my skis, but getting up that bank back onto the piste was one of the hardest things I've ever done and took 20 minutes as I kept sinking in had to spread my weight and literally crawl back up. I was knackered!!!

Was that the last time you fell over Tony? :roll:

I think kine was Chamonixa few years back. On the edge of a red slope, got ski stuck in a bit of random deep snow. Fell off the edge of the slope.....into VERY deep snow. Could not stand up so my ski buddies had to lie on their bellies and drag me out!! That was after they had stopped laughing and taking pics! :lol:

Iceman wrote:Was that the last time you fell over Tony? :roll:

No I've had a couple of off piste tumbles more recently but pretty unspectacular and all because I'm trying too hard.

Serre chevalier 2007 last week of the season. We had a massive dump of snow overnight and this was to be my first time in what I would class as 'deep powder'. So up early we headed out and it was great fun, by the time it reached mid afternoon the sun was out and we were all pretty tired from keeping the front of the boards out of the powder but having great fun. Anyway we came off the lift (Can't remember which) and instead of taking the marked run turned to go off piste. At the bottom of the stretch (It was only about 100m or so) there was a massive group of people so I set off first, full of confidence in my new found powder skiing skills. I got half way down and started to scream with delight causing people to turn and look. About 10m from the bottom my tired legs gave way and the front of my board dug in sending me into a front flip. I landed on my head causing stars, when I came to I was surrounded by about 10 people making sure I was ok.

Wouldn't of been so bad if I hadn't screamed, very embarrassing.