Your most spectacular fall ?

lilywhite wrote: Hi newbie here, be gentle :D More along the ridiculous than spectacular- following a mountain host thru the kiddy area in Are Sweden at literally 5mph followed him thru a gap in the tree's having missed the instruction to bear right as I lit a cigarette, found myself airborne, only a couple of feet but totally unexpected, landed in a heap on the back of his skis, red faced, uninjured and still with my poles under my armpit, fag in my mouth and butt tin in my hand. That will teach me for trying to to smoke on the move!

They say smoking can be bad for your health!
"Government health warning. smoking whilst skiing can be bad for you and your instructors health" :mrgreen:

Dave Mac wrote:I'm not going to mention my falls. They all happened early days, and even now, are too painful to think about.

There was a muffled cry for help.....

Right, Stu, just a moment......

That looks like father christmas :shock:
Seems like that would of been quite difficult to of extracted ones self from! good job you was there to help...and take a photo :D

Not really a fall as such, but more of a wipe-out.

I was skiing with my school many moons ago, and one of the rich kids had his own ski'. Turns out they were way to long and he had trouble turning with them. It was the last bit of a run before the chairlift back up and the group had split up. I was at the front, and a few others had fallen behind so they could go a bit quicker, and probably do some spectacular turn/stop at the end and impress the girls.

Anyway, matey boy with the long skis was going like the clappers, and failed to see the group all standing at the bottom waiting. When he finally did, it was all a bit to late, he managed to get on his edges, but was going way to fast, lost control, and proceeded to plough through me, and my ski pole. When I say through my ski pole, I mean literally; he snapped it in half. During the subsequent trip to the hospital for an x-ray and to get some blood drained from around my knee, the doc said the pole probably snapped instead of my leg! I still have it somewhere (the pole).

Surprisingly I only needed one day off, went back to the hospital and they said as long as I feel up to it, I can carry on skiing. I've never had any problems with the knee since either…

Les Arcs 2010, it was a white out with very poor visibility where by many of the slopes merged into one from the amount of fresh snow on the pistes. I thought I could straight line down to the chair lift and cut the corner but little did I know there was a small stream about 5 ft deep that had been covered up by the snow, before I knew what was going on I slammed into it at full speed snapping both poles and dislodging a binding. I was completely fine, snow in every piece of kit and a small dent in my helmet (thank god I was wearing one) the entire chairlift and the small cue were in fits of laughter and so was I when I realised what happened as I left behind a cartoon style body shape in the snow.

Not so much Spectacular as funny looking back on them.

1995 Sunshine Village (Banff): Teaching myself to snowboard. Went out by myself and then caught up with a mate who worked on the mountain during his lunch break. Coming down to the bottom of the chairlift a bit hot, caught a front-side edge plowed nose first into the wooden post supporting the rope to rope off the chair, spun around the post and smacked my shin. My mate and his friends were applauding and laughing while I sat in the snow. They were short of time and took off for another run after laughing some more. Came back in about 10 minutes time to find me still sitting at the base of the chairlift in a pool of my own blood with ski-patrol in attendance. Turns out I had broken my nose and badly bruised my shin. I got many miles out of that with my mate, claiming he had abandoned me in my hour of need.

2009 Perisher (Snowy Mountains Australia): I had put my noob skiing GF into morning lessons so I could get some free skiing in. Was making my way back towards the school pickup spot by coming down a black run and hit a big lip to clear a traverse. Landed in a pocket of blown powder and bit it big time. Just as I'm dragging myself out of the deep snow my GF's class all ski pass with the GF pissing herself laughing and saying to the instructor that is my BF and he supposedly can ski. Funny stuff.

My eldest daughter, on our first week's skiing did a hockey stick stop, or rather got it wrong, and as she fell the tips of her skis shot up - one passing through the crotch of my salopettes!
Missed a mountain vasectomy by the thickness of my y fronts!

NICE SHARP EDGES....

What's a hockey stick stop?