 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not sure oldsters are a serious problem on the pistes. I've skied with some good 60+ skiers. I do remember being at the local resort once about 25 years ago and having a ski take off on a bump and just miss my head before carrying on downslope. It's owner followed a minute later, he was a retired chap dressed in army surplus gear. He'd not been skiing for years but as it was sunny weather he'd got his old gear out of the attic - but no ski brakes just straps, which had obviously perished.
My son got taken out by an 18 year old idiot skiing backwards on the pavement (yes a helmet wearer). He got all stroppy when I suggested he stick to going forwards on ski runs telling me he was "an expert skier". Doh!
Then I remember poor old Philippe Traynard. He was one of the driving forces behind the first French national park, the Vanoise. 88 years old and still skiing he got taken out by a young freerider while standing on the "front neige" at Chamrousse. He never skied again.
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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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| RattytheSnowRat wrote: |
| I just got taken out last week by a French woman of advanced years (well, she was older than me). She was part of a pack of older women - 6/7 - all skiing together tentatively down a crowded red slope. One of her pack abruptly turned in front of me and just as I took avoiding action my nemesis decided to turn in front of me from the other side. I shouted a warning but she just ploughed into me. None of these ladies seemed in any way aware of what was going on around them, having their gazes magnetically locked on the fronts of their skis. After I picked myself up 50 metres down the slope, I was surrounded by the rest of the pack, clearly uninterested in the fate of their companion but very keen to apportion blame to me for going too fast (I wasn't) and repeatedly asking me with a certain ghoulish glee where I had been injured and whether I required a helicopter. Their companion was in a small heap at the crash site but they didn't seem to bothered about her. Don't know what preventative measures could be adopted (short of leashing them together) but for the sake of us all, please think of something fast. |
It is the responsibility of the skier uphill to avoid accidents, even if skiing under control. In black and white on posters in Kitzbuhel last week. It's like driving; if there is a collision it's the car's behind fault.
Yes the old biddy probably shouldn't have done what she did, but in skiing law you took her out, not vice versa.
50 metres is a long way to travel after an accident occurring at slow speed on a crowded slope.
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Bit tragic to be profiling older skiers in this way.
Common sense would suggest that overall older skiers are more careful, take fewer risks and are more likely to ski within their envelope of skill.
Surely it is younger skiers who are more likely to take risks, test their boundaries and on occasion generally 4uck about on the slopes with less or no regard for others?
But then we have a smattering of anecdotal evidence the other way so it must be true!
For the record I have always been a n0b on the slopes young or old.
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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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Everyone who has ever taken me out on the slopes has been the uphill skier. I think they need separate slopes to keep them away from us downhill skiers.
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Most skiers don't look before making a change of direction, stopping or starting. Personally I dislike the skiers who speed so close to me that they inadvertently get poked by my sticks. 😁
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@ibexag, 
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