What is your worst ski day ever?

[powski3]

Everyone has had that day where it seems like everything goes wrong. What is the most disastrous day you've ever had?

Mine would be the day I tore my ACL by slipping in the lodge.

Followed closely by the day I spent 55 bucks to look for my ski the entire day in the rain (did find it though), took off all my soaking wet clothes except for a t-shirt when I got in the car. Only to realize the four wheel drive was broken and the car was stuck, and I had to get out and try to put chains on, which then flew off and wrapped around the axle. Meanwhile the wind was blowing 50mph and the temperature had then dropped to 15 degrees. I was very cold and pissed off.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

One being when I broke my ankle on a very nice pow day last april.

The other being when myself and a couple mags were skiing some north facing sugary goodness in the trees. I found the perfect open space and skied into it hard which created a mini sloughalanche that broke all the way down to the rocks and sent me on a 80-100 foot ride under the snow face first bouncing off the rocks into some trees. My dark under-snow ride was luckily halted by my face hitting a tree (luckily I had my full face on). That one was fucking scary/painful.

[thefrush]

Haven't had any major injuries skiing... yet. The two that stick out in my mind are the first day on my second trip to Whistler. -10 with an even lower wind chill, and absolutely bullet proof everywhere on the mountain. Could only do two rides up the chair before having to come in and thaw my hands, and it was so cold that I basically just skied down the groomer (if you can call it that) trying to hold an edge, hugging myself in a fetal position. California born and bred, anything under +10 is way too fucking cold. It ended up snowing the next couple days and I was waist deep for the remainder of the trip, so it all worked out.

The other horrible day was at Alpine Meadows a few years back. Summit was closed due to wind, and it was raining on the bottom of the mountain. So, we rode for about two hours on Roundhouse hoping Summit would open. Got soaked, really cold, decided to say fuck it and went in to lie by the giant fire place in the main lodge. Summit opened the next day, powder ensued.

Both my days had happy endings, so I guess they weren't all bad, just bad at the time.

[gone2alpine]

The day I went to work instead of skiing.

[inmate.001]

My worst day would have to be the day a broke a brand new set of poles and one of my bindings and blew out the edge in one of my skis on the third run of the day. about a quarter of the way down the run I did a small drop less than 10 feet and landed on a rock hidden under the snow blowing out the edge in on one of my skis, and sending my tomahawking for about 150 yards. Nothing worse than bruises though so in the grand scheme of things it wasn't to bad.

[powder_prophet]

February 06 - A bitter cold, windy day at Blowy Range, WYO. I dislocate my hip, which doesn't hurt much at first. But as I lie on the snow, waiting for Patrol to arrive and then to slowly, gingerly package me up, my muscles start to cramp, and the pain escalates exponentially. By the time I was ready to get skied down, I was starting to shiver. With ever shiver, a shock-wave of pain would travel from my hip throughout my entire body. I continued to shiver in the patrol shack, even with warm water bottles and blankets, and my hip continued to cramp more and more. By the time an ambulence arrived, my hip had been out of place for at least 45 minutes, and would stay out of place for another hour before an x-ray would allow them to pop it back in. When the EMT's came, the IV started and the morphene began to flow like wine, but even that wasn't enough to keep away the pain I felt everytime the ambulence would hit a bump or a pothole on that long ride back to town...

[ectreeskier11]

Two days stick out:
Junior year of hs I got pissed off because i skied out of our course that day. I made a hard poleplant (apparently I was pissed at the snow) and my already surgically repaired shoulder popped out. They almost had to cut my brand new GS suit off.
Second, there was an epic day at Stowe a few years back that my minuscule plug boots almost gave me frost bite. I still can't feel the tip of my toe (btw, I'm trying to sell (cheap) or trade those boots on swap, check it out!).
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...d.php?t=137767

[NorCascader]

18" blower...

thickest pea soup fog I've ever been in.......


at a resort I didn't know very well...........


sucked balls!

[Jer]

I'm trying, but I can't remember.

[noparking]

riding last season the night afternoon stated off well riding rails, the light changed and it started to snow. I miss judged the take off and landed short the front end up my board went under the front of the rail and my collarbone went right into the rail. The next thing I realize is I just snapped my clavicle right in half. Then I had to start the two hour car ride home to the ER.

[samthaman]

recoverd from mono just in time to go on a 14 day trip to jackson. first run first day, blown mcl. it then proceeded to snow 9 feet in 2 days while i watched from the comfort of my crutches.

sliding face first across rocks and re-breaking my partially healed rib was up there too, as was the time I got a 2nd concussion 5 days after the first.

[Imz]

We had some ridiculous powder days at the Kirkweed last year spent waiting around for them to get the power back on; probably the most irate I've ever been...

[MagnusL]

Ahh...that's easy
When i broke my right calf (Both bones that is in the calf area) this January, the whole season right in the toilet, i was in a cast for 3 weeks (from the tip of the toe to the hip) and had a support at the calf for 4 months and summed up 5 months on crutches... But the good thing with it that i didn't need metal inserted -.-

[volklpowdermaniac]

Mt. Snow: Northface.

Coming out of light pow in trees onto a notoriously icy run. Not wearing my helmet because it was early in the season wasn't skiing very hard, not crowded. Took a nice dive, smacked up head.....concussion. Not very serious but led to a bunch of bad nights of sleep, headaches, nausea. etc.

[LivinCO]

7 years ago, heading mach chicken into the Copper 1/2 pipe, didn't "pop" enough, slammed from 7 feet above coping, to the coping, broken collar bone, still broken today, fun.

[MagnusL]

Mt. Snow: Northface.

Coming out of light pow in trees onto a notoriously icy run. Not wearing my helmet because it was early in the season wasn't skiing very hard, not crowded. Took a nice dive, smacked up head.....concussion. Not very serious but led to a bunch of bad nights of sleep, headaches, nausea. etc.

Lesson:
Always bring you're protection gear ^^

[Little Big Lost]

Didn't know there was such a thing as a bad ski day!

No, sorry, not to make light of some pretty serious shit that happens on occasion. I have seen, (and even helped out a time or two), some pretty nasty shit on the hill. Usually due to inexperience.

I have been fortunate, nothing of note...other than when I fell off the rainbow box last year and knocked the wind out of me....I was told that men my age shouldn't be doing that sort of stuff....Screw That!

[Mannix]

48" inches new at Snowbird, managed to get up the canyon, bus got stuck, jumped off, walked through avy debris over the road, the snow opened to our right, some other people got out of the snow (err, their car which was now 50' below the road), a cat came down with an Alta sheriff, he yelled at us, we got on the back of the cat, it drove us to the plaza, ran up the stairs, interlodge, could not get to the shop (worked at the Stalker at the time, now Christy's), wound up in the cafeteria on the 2nd floor, waiting.

and waiting.

Waiting some more.

Sleeping on a pool table in the Cliff Lodge's game room.

Waiting.

That day sucked.

I'm surprised I remember that day, though, because when Peruvian and Wilbere opened, it did not suck. In significant quantities.



Iain (then everything else opened, and it was stupid)

[JJUDGE]

Last year, great storm rolled through the front range, closing I70 from Lookout Mountain past Eisenhower tunnel for two days, so really the worst day skiing was actually not skiing one of the best days we had. I need to get out of Denver

[MuleSkinner]

Two winters ago in JH - I had the perfect winter set up that year waiting tables at a very popular restaurant at night and planned to ski all day every day. Jan 10th started out as the perfect ski day - great snow, great friends. Then we headed into Rock Springs and I totally blew a landing. Cartwheeled a lot and ski stuck in the snow - body went the other way.

I skied out which might have been the worst hour of my life and was in a cast for the rest of the season. I spent the rest of the winter sitting on a couch or in the bar watching it dump. I wasn't very fun to be around for 4 months

[grubbers]

wasn't really a bad day as a whole, but i'd have to say my first day of the season last year at mount snow. fairly early in the day i was straightlining one of the few runs that was open and somehow caught my heelside edge. i went from full speed to flat on my back in the blink of an eye, i felt like i got hit by a bus the next day. somehow i didn't get a concussion and my helmet didn't seem to have any damage since i ate shit in a bulletproof section, but i did pull some muscles in my neck and around my ribs from whipping back so suddenly. being cramped in a school bus full of people and ski gear for 4 hours each way was not that pleasant either.

[Hal-I-Ski]

Every day I'm not skiing.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

About 13 years ago towards the end of the first day of an 8 day trip in Utah (at Alta that day), I followed some guy off what I thought was a small jump. He veered towards the right. No Problem. I went left and landed in the midst of large moguls. I remember being surprised by how high I was in the air, how fast I was going, and that I had no chance in hell in pulling out a landing, but I wasn't worried somehow. I had fallen in far more precarious situations, from higher places, while going faster, but this crash ended up being the most violent I've ever experienced. I did six or so front layouts, smashing my face on the snow on the last few. I was shaken, and dizzy but felt basically ok. A woman skied over to check on me, and when I looked at her she said something like, "Holy shit! are you ok?" I shrugged and skied down to try to catch the last lift. I was too late.

As I walked toward the bathroom I had a funny feeling everybody was looking at me. After I pissed, and saw myself in the mirror, I realized why. My face was covered in blood. I had small cuts all over my face. Later in the evening, my wrists and thumbs started to ache. I had sprained both thumbs and wrists. The next morning I couldn't close my hands. I had to tape my poles to my gloves for the rest of the week. And I looked like I'd been shot in the face with a rock-salt loaded shotgun.

I've always felt lucky I haven't been hurt worse. When I was younger I skied a few lines I wasn't qualified to ski. Now I'm a pussy, in a good way.

[Dug]

A couple bloody noses, rain, a bitten tongue, tweaked knees, a couple other "inconveniences", but I wouldn't write those days off as bad since they were sorta fun in a masochistic way.

Worst days are probably when I have to deal with shitty people. Either other employees or pissy clients or assholes in general.

[mc_roon]

this is an easy one

fractured eyesocket. did it out of bounds, by the time i got inbounds to ski patrol i was going into shock. Every time my eye moved(like glancing left and right) it was like someone shoving a knife in my eye. Since eye movements are partially involuntary i was in a severe amount of pain. Several hours later the docs tell me im fine, even though i have double vision/am heavily medicated but still fucking hurting. the next day i see a specialist who tells me that i need to be rushed into surgery or my eye could die from lack of blood flow; i had fractured my orbital floor and a nerve and a blood vessel were caught in the crack. I get the sugery and spend the next month with double vision, then another month before im allowed to ski again. My vision in my left eye is permanently degraded due to the time with out oxygen.

that day really really sucked