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15% |
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| Minor scrapes and bruises |
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29% |
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| Minor twists/sprains |
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14% |
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| Torn ligaments |
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8% |
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| Back injuries |
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1% |
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| Head injuries |
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1% |
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| Several of the above! |
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D G Orf, I don't know, surely there's room for both plastered snowHeads and snowHeads in plaster pages on your site?! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hey Karve, do you still race? What club?
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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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PG yes there is if the pic is suitably humerous and not too graphic 
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I specialise in huge, long bruises from landing on my ski pole when I fall over. Bit tame compared to all of the above, though (I'm glad to say).
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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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A friend of mine slipped on ice on her way to the shop shortly after arriving at her chalet this year.
She was whisked off to hospital who diagnosed a broken shoulder and put her in an upper body cast but as she was with her daughter she decided to stay in the resort until the end of the holiday.
On return to the UK she reported to our local casualty department as instructed who found no break and immediately removed the cast but as it had not been put on correctly she had lost the use of her arm (its better now).
She was understandably pretty p####d off as this was her only ski holiday this year.
I managed to damage knee ligaments a couple of years ago in Italy when I got my salopettes stuck on a poma just as I was abount to dismount.
Unfortunately in my panic to disentangle myself before the end of the poma I allowed one of my skiis to turn and as I was still being dragged forward and at a low speed I actualy heard my knee pop a few seconds before my binding released.
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Blimey, remind me never to come out on snow with any of you lot  (especially Masque - although could be quite entertaining........maybe I should consider the JWAZ tour after all)
The only skiing injuries I ever seem to get are whacking great big bruises on my shins from walking into rock hard bed posts in hotel rooms.
OH has a gorgeous black bruise from mid thigh to mid shin after a wipe-out (on camera) last week. It's very impressive
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Lucie do you mean you have the accident on video or a still photo of it, if the latter would be quite happy to post it as an example of what not to do 
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Lucy: I’ll save the one when I was found tied to a gas bottle trolley and sucking on a drip bag full of lager in the nurse’s home at Blackpool Victoria, until I’ve more time. Injuries and mountains were involved (cross my heart). 
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Come on Masque you can't just leave it like that !
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Masque, where are you posting from really, down under? And I don't mean Australia... 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Bruises to arm and chest earlier this year when I rather stupidly allowed my downhill poll to get trapped under my ski as I came to a sliding stop. Net result: take off whilst simultaneously pulling my strapped hand downwards and then collapsing on top of loose ski and poles. Tw@t!
Pride hurt more!
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You know it makes sense.
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Two ski-stopping injuries: A torn MCL resulting from a slow, twisting fall in deep snow, and a separated shoulder caused by a moronic snowboarder not looking where he was going (see posts, passim).
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Lucie if you can get a copy of the relavent section of tape to me I'll happily extract a still or more for you 
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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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Lucie unlikely to be able to get it to poster sized, but you might be able to get it to postcard sized, or maybe a sequence of frames leading up to the crash the video resolution is just not there for big enlargements
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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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I started climbing in the mid sixties, mostly fell walking and scrambling, but I got interested in the steeper stuff and joined a local club. The Xmas week after my 16th birthday I was on Scout Crag just above the pub at the end of the Langdale valley. Being a cocky little prat I was using alternate fixed belay points and so doubling the fall distance between checks, guess what? With the grace of well flung chicken I fell off, dropped a couple of meters, hit a grass ledge with my feet and still falling, launched out away from the face. My ropeman caught me just after but by this time I’m way out in the air and as I swing back I’m twisting on the rope and I slam back into the crag with most of the impact on my mid spine. *********in’ painful!
I was lowered down and apart from being very sore and very bollocked by my instructor leader felt ok. I was sent down (with a couple of other miscreants) to the car park to wait at the van. I lay down in the van and kipped for a couple of hours till everyone returned and woke me, then the panic set in, I couldn’t feel or move my legs! Took a while to persuade the team leader I wasn’t taking the p*ss then things got freaky. Call box to 999, strapped to a stretcher, the worst ambulance trip in my life (at that point) with the guy in the back with me sharing a roll up with my mate Clive and calling me a clumsy bug, me crying my soul out.
Anyway diagnosis was a cracked vertebrae T6 and a lot of swelling. Treatment (this in the days before Velcro, lycra, and carbon-fibre bracing) was a long torso plaster cast for isolation plus extension. After 3 days in Lancaster Royal I was transferred to my local at B’pool Victoria but since my family was on holiday in the states there was no one to notify. Being just 16 I was put in the kids ward surrounded by a bunch of noisy ‘brats’ (of course I was ALL grown up). The next day was New Years Eve, I spent it winging to the nurses about my predicament, I was feeling very low lonely and p*ssed off till about 10:30 when three nurses came into the ward pushing a tall gas bottle trolley, one of the third wheel tripod type, pulled the curtains and got me onto this thing and taped my cast to it. God knows how ‘cos they were severely pissed and kept having to go and quiet all the little ones. They got me, my cathyter bag and this contraption out of the ward and into the nurses home (connected at this time, but not now) and into their party . . . better shorten this a bit to protect what’s left of my modesty. . .
Couldn’t hold a glass to my mouth because of the cast, so a drip was taped to the trolley and a saline bag filled with rum an coke then lager when the rum ran out. When the other bag was full it was replaced with the fire sand bucket. Things eventually got very hazy and that’s the way they found me, Jan 1, in the nurses common room I can’t remember or feeling the catheter being removed or why . . . worst luck!
I know there was a lot of trouble because of it (I was technically a minor) but of ‘course’ I remembered nothing and nobody got fired. Two days later I was out of plaster into a chest brace and in physio and home the next week. Just in time for my mother to have a brain fart when she came home and saw me on crutches.
Best party EVER, the bits I remember and hopefully the bits I don’t.
Love and Kisses to nurse F**d, who’s now fat, happy and married to a doctor in Texas. 
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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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Thanks Masque we would have never doubted you but that story certainly made for an entertaining read 
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Masque - are you perhaps related to Evil Knievel ?? You seem to be as accident prone - but much funnier. Great stuff. 
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Regrettably there is more; I have a long and inglorious history of being a prat! Only ever hurt someone else once and taught me a very salutary lesson, so perhaps not as bad as I seem or look.
Maybe another time, when I’ve more time to waste and you wastrels have done more work!
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Bet you weren't dressed as one of charlie's angels when you had your accident though... the zebra print skirt and hypertight crop top took some explaining at the hospital...
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dolphingirl, tell us more and I might recount how a 'mate' got both his forhead and his willy stuck to a sighpost in Livigno whist dressed as a schoolgirl. Now those are scars to be proud of! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Loved it. Another one who should get his adventures in print. Just make sure you live long enough to do it!!!
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Come on Masque, your story sounds much more exciting than mine!!!
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You know it makes sense.
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Thursday; I’ve got to draw a pig and get on with finishing someone’s web-site. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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oooooooooooooh kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...... 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I think he means it will have to wait, either that or the brain's gone the same way as the body
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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dolphingirl, As well as repairing french chalets, my background is in graphics and design. Once had to draw a 'sexy' carp! These people had 'issues'.
Got to go now, nite nite 
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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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Well he's described injuries to just about every other part of the body, it'll all make sense when he gets around to the stories about the bangs on the head 
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Well I'm off to draw my curtains and get on with finishing someone's web-site!
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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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For me, fifteen years of skiing and only one 2" scar on my head (deep snow face plant - own ski hit head) and one torn ligament (botched landing).
Two days snowboarding and broken thumb, cracked rib, concusion, whiplash and a lower back so bruised I literally couldn't walk for half a week. 
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Well marc that explains why some insurance companies charge higher premiums for snowboarders I guess
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Is this you Masque?
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Oh Betty !
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Masque,
Glad you haven't given up the climbing after all those years ........
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I'll have you know that I still have a pair of tweed breeks! Though have been told my back bottom looks better in Lycra?
I really should stop popping in here
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