Hitting Trees Really Freaking Hurts

[EWG]

It had been quite a while since I really pegged a tree. Came whipping around a spruce today, blind of course, to find some kinda big ass deciduous thing waiting on the blind side. Fucking 18” trunk. Drive my shoulder, arm and chest into it, hard. Really fucking hard.

Bounced off of that into another spruce, hard enough to snap a bunch of branches, mash my other hand and hip up, and leave a bunch of brown and green smear all over my coat and pants.

Pretty sure nothings broken. So that’s nice.

But goddamn it hurt to hit a tree that hard. Might have been the hardest I’ve ever hit one on a bike or skis. Very happy to walk away.

So that was fun.

[californiagrown]

Rule #1 of MTB: Don't be a tree hugger, aim for the ferns.

This rule also applies to skiing.

[Brownski]

Just reading that hurt

[skaredshtles]

Jeezus, man. You're gonna *really* be hurtin' mañana.

++vibes

[raisingarizona13]

Tree strikes can fucking kill you.

Every now and then I have nightmares about that.

Glad to hear that you are mostly ok.

Eat some weed and Ibuprofen.

[cravenmorhead]

I heard a nice piece of advice - probably around here - that you should only ski the trees at a speed at which you're willing to hit a tree.

[Core Shot]

Doinked a six inch tree years ago. Slid at low speed. Thought I fucked up my knee.
Turns out it was a double tib break.
Fuck trees.

[Buzzworthy]

Hope you aren’t too many shades of purple, that’s gotta wake you up. Glad you’re typing this all things considered.

[HappyCamper]

I whacked my head fairly hard ducking (not enough apparently) under a tree branch while skiing in the BC. Was wearing a helmet and it still stunned me a bit.

Sort of sealed it for helmets in the BC, which was only an occasional habit at that time.

Hope you heal quickly - guessing you'll feel that later.

[XXX-er]

don't look at the trees

look at the spaces between

[mcski]

This post triggered my ptree-sd

Years ago, right after getting my first ever ski helmet, I was skiing through some tree pow at Island Lake Lodge when I caught a tip on a submerged tree branch.

Somehow that tip catch launched me into a full on, otb Superman flight straight towards the 4-6” inch trunk of tree about 8’ downslope. I barely had time to yell fuck and to try to tuck my head a little. I didn’t hit it straight on but hard enough to put a huge dent in my helmet and set off a buzzer sound in my brain that sounded like a fire alarm that I will never forget. I didn’t think I was knocked out, but I probably was because the next thing that I remember was choking on snow and the tail gunner skiing up on me and telling me not to move.

I felt mostly ok in that weird state of concussion denial that I was in and we skied down to everyone waiting at the cat. I knew I most have scared the shit out of everyone because of how they were acting like i was back from the dead

Last run of the day, last day of the trip. No lasting effects, but when I get CTE, I’m definitely gonna blame that hit for it if I can remember anything

Fuck Trees

[hutash]

how do you think the tree felt...It breaking hurts to her hit by humans.

[Meadow Skipper]

Fuck Trees

Heh. My two most memorable tree incidents were 1) skiing while wearing sunglasses I caught a the point of a dead branch right under my eye, resulting in a legendary shiner which was kind of embarrassing because I was working on patrol at the time, and 2) this one time traversing thru trees, I put my downhill pole up for a plant to turn around a tree…except I planted the pole tip into a tree trunk which slammed the handle square into my sternum and put me flat on my back so fast that I found myself wondering why I was staring up at the tree crowns and sky and why my chest hurt so bad.

On a sadder note, two of the fatalities I was involved in when I patrolled were tree strikes.

[T-dub]

^that was funny. for those of us that can't take those hits anymore, we'll leave those 'delicate' trees alone. (mostly)

[Danno]

Damn, dude, glad you're only bruised!

[Djongo Unchained]

I coulda told you there was a deciduous motherfucker waiting there for you.
I have a longstanding grudge match with that sumbitch...


Funny when a tree leaves a mark. That's solid work.

Ski ya tomorrow? I'll bring the drugs.

[EWG]

I coulda told you there was a deciduous motherfucker waiting there for you.
I have a longstanding grudge match with that sumbitch...


Funny when a tree leaves a mark. That's solid work.

Ski ya tomorrow? I'll bring the drugs.

Hopefully ski ya there.

I’m feeling pretty fucking lucky. Aches, bruises and pains but everything seems to be connected like it’s supposed to be. Getting out of bed tomorrow will tell the final story I suppose.

But yeah, hurts to sit down right now. And to stand up. And to move either arm. And to twist. Haha. Good lesson, and thankful to have had it without a huge price.

[billyk]

Yeah, just ask Sonny Bono.

There was a side country run at Crystal that was unofficially called “Reynold’s Wrap” by the locals back in the day. Named for a guy named Reynold who wrapped himself around a tree on it. They found him a couple days later after noticing his car was still in the lot.

[gaijin]

Blew my acl avoiding a tree. Hard to explain, but my tail got hung up on something. That threw me forward about to kiss a tree. Instead, I threw myself backwards and twisting.

I stared at my toe piece as I was falling. “Fucking release!” It did, but only after my knee snapped.

Would have been a fatal crash, I think.

I tend to get carried away skiing too fast. Like you all do as well.

Stay safe, homies.


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[rideit]

Haha, you looked ok at the shop tonight!

[whipski]

Hit a 4" stump sticking about 5' above the snow in Temerity at Highlands. Completely plastered in fresh snow and absolutely invisible. Skis went left but crushed it with right ribs. Was sure I had shattered my liver cause all the pain was right upper abdomen. Big ass powder day and my pulse stayed around 112 so I did two laps in the bowl and went to the hospital a friend xray tech CT'd me under the radar. Liver fine 2 broken ribs. Funny thing stars shining in my GI tract from steel shot in the wild pheasant I'd eaten the night before.

[Name Redacted]

I heard a nice piece of advice - probably around here - that you should only ski the trees at a speed at which you're willing to hit a tree.

If that were the case, I'd never make it down the mountain. Ha!

[boltonoutlaw]

W20 hit a tree hard enough to jettison the lens out of my Anon M4 goggles and put me down two days

[farmguy]

A little know fact that those trees have been known to jump in your path when you least expect it. Sneaky bastards.

Heal soon.

[billyk]

Hit a 4" stump sticking about 5' above the snow in Temerity at Highlands. Completely plastered in fresh snow and absolutely invisible.

A buddy of mine wanted to jump off a small rock face in his quest for “big air”. It was maybe a 5 ft drop. The run in was a couple feet deep of untracked powder.

I went down around it to watch the carnage. He started his run and just before the drop suddenly stopped cold. Took a stump right in the nuts. That ended his quest for big air for the day.

He seemed to be OK after rolling around and crying in the snow for a few minutes. Guess he wasn’t going that fast.