Thread: Helmets - have you stopped wearing them as much as in the past?

Now, I know that nobody really wore helmets up until a certain point, but it seem like people aren't wearing helmets as much anymore.

Any thoughts on this?

I always wear mine and think your an idiot if you don't. I ski trees like 50-75% of the time. Had a buddy pass away recently and the lack of helmet may have been the reason. Always wear it, just put some funny stickers on it.

Helmets are for sucks.

I haven't worn mine at all this summer.

Feel uncomfortable in a beanie. Always wear it now. And for the last 15+ years. Have you ever had to wake someone up every couple of hours to make sure there isn't some sort of worse brain injury? He was wearing a helmet and things would be way worse without.

Originally Posted by whyturn

I always wear mine and think your an idiot if you don't.

Wow, that didn't take long - first reply. /thread I guess.

I would say I wear one more than ever. As anybody who has had a head injury can tell you, they are a horrible experience and have miserable effects for a long time.

Skiing or biking....I always wear the brain bucket. I fell damn hard biking the other day and if I didn't have my full face on there would've problems.

Originally Posted by camlax

I would say I wear one more than ever. As anybody who has had a head injury can tell you, they are a horrible experience and have miserable effects for a long time.

I had 3 pretty severe concussions within the last 10 years - and I will agree that they are no fun. The initial pain is bad - yes, but the long term effects are worse. Light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, poor short term memory are the three things that I notice almost daily.

I wear a helmet every day on the hill, skiing or biking.

I wear one in bounds or skiing sidecountry - without question. But not always in the bc (depends on objective for the day). FWIW, I don't ski as aggressively off the hill. My choice and others can make their own.

Watched a friend of mine eat shit on her road bike the other day. She came away with a cracked helmet and a banged-up elbow. Would have been very bad without the helmet.

I consider skiing at least as risky as bicycling and usually wear a helmet.

i ski better than i walk, i don't fall when i walk. no helmet for me ever before or now. my choice. ski on yer skis, no need for helmet, ski on yer head, you better wear one. ski not using yer head you may need one.

biking, i crash, i wear a helmet.

rog

Helmets are for people just showing off that they have something to lose.

I probably shouldn't even leave the house without a helmet on.

I can't believe I didn't have a helmet for years. I hate to think of what could have happened. I hate to see pro snowboarders and skiers in movies not wearing one because young kids think it rad to try and shred like them and not wear a lid. Can be a way bad combination.

Skied up to the lift after a great run through the trees at Alpine Meadows. My partners were laughing at me because a dead branch had pierced my helmet and stuck along for the ride. Think I will be wearing.

after years of no helmet, i have started wearing one a bit now on the hill,
mostly for protection from

DRENCHING OVERHEAD FACESHOTS!!!

get the priorities straight fellas

Always wear mine. They're comfortable and so much lighter now so that helps. Never understood the whole "I can ski without falling argument" because I've seen great skiers taken out by some idiot who's out of control.

Originally Posted by marcusling

Skied up to the lift after a great run through the trees at Alpine Meadows. My partners were laughing at me because a dead branch had pierced my helmet and stuck along for the ride. Think I will be wearing.

My helmet has been invaluable for bushwhacking for that very reason. I always crack up at all the twigs stuck in my wife's and my helmets after a good tree run. Even if I didn't get thwacked a few times, I definitely would've lost a few beanies had I been wearing those instead.

Resorts: Yes, too many kooks

BC: No, what could possibly go wrong?

So I find in my bag a dozen of these "med alert" packages for cycling helmets that were handed out at Beaver Creek USAProCC Stage 4 finish. Sorta the RoadID in concept, but has you fill out your data onto a small form that you fold up into this tiny plastic sleeve that adhears to the inside of your helmet. Along with this goes a little round sticker that has a reflective medical emergency "branding" that you place on the outside of the helmet that notifies EMT's that your brain bucket contains all this stuff. I slapped this on all my cycling and ski helmets because of that sticker. A new reason to wear my lids. I look even more awesome with that sticker. Patrol will let me go anywhere because of that sticker. I can fly the flight for life heli because of that sticker.

wrong forum, and there are other threads on this subject....JONG

Also like wearing the helmet at all times in-bounds. Just nicer, ob it depends. Mellow meadow cruising then prob wont wear it but if the days activities requires the axe and crampons then it comes along as well.

Got knocked out cold snowboarding in high school with a helmet on, at a period of time when I didn't always wear one. Thankfully I had it that day. Wear it every day now. Injuries are part of skiing/snowboarding, but I enjoy the (fairly small)mental capability I have

Originally Posted by DonDenver

So I find in my bag a dozen of these "med alert" packages for cycling helmets that were handed out at Beaver Creek USAProCC Stage 4 finish. Sorta the RoadID in concept, but has you fill out your data onto a small form that you fold up into this tiny plastic sleeve that adhears to the inside of your helmet. Along with this goes a little round sticker that has a reflective medical emergency "branding" that you place on the outside of the helmet that notifies EMT's that your brain bucket contains all this stuff. I slapped this on all my cycling and ski helmets because of that sticker. A new reason to wear my lids. I look even more awesome with that sticker. Patrol will let me go anywhere because of that sticker. I can fly the flight for life heli because of that sticker.

I wonder about having that info inside the helmet. If you wipe out, no emergency personal is going to take your helmet off to get something inside of it, and possibly aggravate any head/neck injury. road id on your wrist/ankle seems to make more sense.