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  1. #1
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    Helmet saves my bacon.

    Damn was I glad for my RED Skycap II last week.

    Managed to ski off a 10ft high rock in flat light, spearing my ski tips in to a hardpack groomer. That's 16 feet that my head travelled straight into the ground. Rung my bell really good. Couldn't ski for a couple of hours, had motion sickness feeling and fell asleep on a chairlift afterwards. Right as rain after that. Had to fight the temptation to pass out when laying on ground right after the impact.

    It hurt.
    "Nothing is funnier than Hitler." - Smokey McPole

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    I did that the first time I skied at snowbasin a few years ago. Total white out, hauling arse, airbore, boom!!!
    This is the worst pain EVER!

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    Glad you made it back old man..
    happy birthday

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lonnie View Post
    I did that the first time I skied at snowbasin a few years ago. Total white out, hauling arse, airbore, boom!!!

    Now that is starting to explain a few things.

    Johnny's only sin was dispair

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    Cheers Fran.

    I am officially entering old fartage.
    "Nothing is funnier than Hitler." - Smokey McPole

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    Been there, done that, albeit off a 5 footer at magic. Death fog to head spear right under the chair and in front of Franz Klammer. It's fun to feel every vertebra pop at once. Glad you're still with us mentally (well, as much as you ever were anyway).

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    Remember to throw that domepiece away and get a new one.
    If you're a relatively moral, ethical person, there's no inherent drive to kiss ass and beg for forgiveness and promise to never do it again, which is what mostly goes on in church. -YetiMan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garrett View Post
    Remember to throw that domepiece away and get a new one.
    Yup. Glad you are okay, Roo.
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    I don't think I've ever seen mental illness so faithfully rendered in html.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roo View Post
    Cheers Fran.

    I am officially entering old fartage.
    Over thirty, now?!

    Glad you survived to fight another day. Always believed in helmets!
    Screw the net, Surf the backcountry!

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    DING!!

    Happy b'day.

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    Damn, your ruined a perfectly good helmet, those things are expensive.

    Been there done that, helmets are the only way to go. It still amazes me there are people here that don't wear one...fools.

    Glad you are okay. A few gray cells wont be missed. I am missing quite a few, and look at me. Okay, bad example, but you get my point.

    I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...
    iscariot

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    steamboat is all about jumping to flat. big ups for helmets. SAFETY FIRST! or second!

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    So glad your bacon survived to live another day

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    probably need an MRI, Roo to make sure there's no internal bleeding after a concussion like that

    I heard that somebody on Headwall died at Squaw last weekend after falling and hitting their head on a rock
    Squaw really, really really , really sucks! Stay away

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    I did something similar a few weeks ago at Snowbird, skiing off a lip and onto an unmarked cat track in complete milkbird conditions. Total head-whip, face to flat, one of those things that happens so fast you don't even know what happened until it's over. The brim of my helmet was cracked but saved me from a broken nose, broken teeth, and a premature end to my modeling career.

    Wear a helmet, wtf not.

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    It's at the very end of this POV movie. Happened really quick, didn't even know where/when I was landing. Evertything just white.

    "Nothing is funnier than Hitler." - Smokey McPole

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    Wow Roo. Glad you're ok.

    I did something not dissimilar in Bruson in December, but from half the height so I managed to land in spreadeagle style rather than overturned bowling pin style. Still left a sizable dent in the green run I landed on but head was ok. My left hand, which took some of the impact, is still hurting.

    Happy birthday!
    You really need to stop knowing WTF you're talking about. (Tippster)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roo View Post
    Damn was I glad for my RED Skycap II last week.

    Managed to ski off a 10ft high rock in flat light, spearing my ski tips in to a hardpack groomer. That's 16 feet that my head travelled straight into the ground. Rung my bell really good. Couldn't ski for a couple of hours, had motion sickness feeling and fell asleep on a chairlift afterwards. Right as rain after that. Had to fight the temptation to pass out when laying on ground right after the impact.

    It hurt.
    The title of this thread should be "Roo Gets Head"
    Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
    Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
    Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.


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    Happy birthday Andy.
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    Fackin OWCH,

    Didn't get a good look at the skis, I don't suppose that was another curse of the spatulas?

    Noice vid, what was the POV camera?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SquawMan View Post
    probably need an MRI, Roo to make sure there's no internal bleeding after a concussion like that
    In the National Health Service? You've got to be kidding!

    Don't worry, I've worked in brain injury in the past and did regular neuro obs on him. He's good.
    Monty Python's version of the cougar phenomenon:
    "This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenseless, fit young men".

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    wait a minute... you keep bacon in your helmet?
    fur bearing, drunk, prancing eurosnob

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    I split a giro 9 helmet into two pieces and was fine! I basically landed a hit under a submerged tree branch, double ejected, superman'ed, and my head met a tree stump. My helmet was actually in two pieces, but I got up with a sore back and a little bit of a headache, and skied the rest of the day! I'm convinced that helmets are a good thing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roo View Post
    I am officially entering old fartage.
    Welcome to the club, youngster!

    Glad you're o.k. Andy.

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    New helmets at disposable prices! Woohoo

    http://slickdeals.net/?sdtid=1069691...dp/B001EYUAZQ/

    http://slickdeals.net/?sdtid=1069691...dp/B001EYUB1O/

    For $25 a pop, I can afford to ski with my eyes closed. Sweet.

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