 Poster: A snowHead
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Interesting topic, more for the thinking behind it.
I've had a couple of high speed crashes in the last five years; one due to to getting caught out by flat light/fog, and one pushing waaay too hard on a dual slalom course.
I've managed to pitch over a lot more times than that though for a number of reasons: being tried, so weight goes too far back; getting in the back seat in bumps; not making a landing from a jump; catching an edge at the shovel; runnign out of space between a river and some trees; even falling when almost stood still due to getting disoriented in fog (losing my horizon).
The real question is so what? I like to tell people I ski with that if they're upright all day, they're probably skiing too far inside the edge of their comfort zone. How true that is, who can say. What I know is that I try to learn something from every time I fall, which is more than I can say for every time I don't.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Swirly, haha I haven't seen that one, post in FB
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Depends how hard I push myself. If I'm just cruising around for the days I'm skiing and just enjoying myself I will only fall if I'm tired.
But if by wipe out you mean high speed crash? Rarely anymore, I've learnt how to crash "safely" in the past 5 years or so.
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Fall or wipe out? Not too often, maybe once per season. A year or two back at a French resort called Ceillac on a steep black, at the end of the day on an almost deserted slope I came across a lady who had fallen in the classic "can't move" position i.e. face down, feet downhill, skis crossed with feet at right angles and poles uphill. It was impossible for her to move, it was hard packed and icy and I had to wait for my friend before we could release her with great difficulty. We had to wedge each other so that one of us could release her skis.
Eventually we got her upright with skis on and after grateful thanks, she skied away with enormous style and speed. C'est la vie! 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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handyman, I used to climb there.. could watch the skiing from the belays on the falls. What's the resort like for skiing as I may take some novice ice climbers to the location in the future?
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