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Our group of 15 are just currently in debate on where to do our annual short break in January, we usually go away for 4/5 days. Mainly to keep cost down as not everyone would be able to afford it otherwise.... anyway, last season we all happily skipped off to Madesimo, we arrived about 12 noon, and due to great conditions/sunshine and general excitement some of our group decided to head off to the ski shop and get an afternoon's skiing in to get those ski legs working...... anyway, to cut a long story short by 2.30pm (yes TWO-AND-A-HALF HOURS into our arrival) one of the group broke thier ankle in two places....... classic.... anyone had similar?!! (she is adament not to repeat the experience this coming season)
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cbowls30, a couple of seasons ago, on the first day of our two weeks New Year holiday, my husband broke his neck. Two hours skiing, almost three months off work, and major surgery on his spine.
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| cbowls30, a couple of seasons ago, on the first day of our two weeks New Year holiday, my husband broke his neck. Two hours skiing, almost three months off work, and major surgery on his spine. |
Did he have a helmet?
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not comparable to Hells Bells, but my niece's 8 year old son broke his leg on his second run down an easy green slope, on his first ski holiday, in February. Spiral fracture of the tibia, weeks and weeks in plaster. He is determined to try again next season.
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Fracture and dislocation of the left shoulder at 11am on the first day of a one week holiday.
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Not a close friend, but someone I know skied into a piste marker pole in a whiteout, he must have been going pretty fast because he broke his leg, pelvis, several ribs and an arm, oh and concussed himself, fortunately they managed to get him to hospital quickly or things might have been worse
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| pam w wrote: |
| not comparable to Hells Bells, but my niece's 8 year old son broke his leg on his second run down an easy green slope, on his first ski holiday, in February. Spiral fracture of the tibia, weeks and weeks in plaster. He is determined to try again next season. |
Great that he is determined to try again.
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I've torn calf muscles on new year's eve at about the same time in in the same resort in two consectutive years. First I did the right and the following year, the left. At first I thought I'd torn the left calf twice but the doc corrected me as he produced the notes from the previous year. Missed 3 days skiing each time; not serious but an odd coincidence.
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cran
cran
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Close friend, borrowed our apartment for his first ever ski holiday. Toppled over gently while standing still, 1 HOUR into his first time on snow - put his hand out to break fall, hit rock - broke hand and thumb, still has pins in place 6 years on. Spent the week begin driven by taxi back and forth between Les Arcs and Grenoble A&E.
Mind you, he has form: he calculated that between various skiing accidents since, mountain biking mishaps and childhood adventures, has broken various bits of his right upper limb somewhere in the region of 20 times... and the hospitals reckon he hasn't got brittle bones. Yeah, OK, if you say so.
We now take him on boys' trips as our lightning rod - anything bad going to happen, it'll happen to him first (PS he's well aware of this role and accepts with with equanimity).
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Brother in law, straight out the hotel on the first day, fell getting on a chairlift in the village and broke two ribs. Couldn't ski all week. My, how we laughed. He didn't drink that day either as he was on strong pain killers but abandoned those and used alcohol to numb the pain instead. My wife fractured two bones in her knee, partially ruptured a medial ligament and completely ruptured her ACL. Two operations and four months off work. A mate being a bit gung ho on the last run of a holiday fractured ribs and had to spend three days in an Innsbruck hospital. As for mine I missed three days with damaged ankle ligaments but it doesn't really count as I did it in a pub.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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This thread is useless without x-rays......
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You know it makes sense.
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| cbowls30 wrote: |
| TWO-AND-A-HALF HOURS into our arrival |
A few years ago we had a trip to La Thuile (IIRC), and the group leader slipped getting off the transfer bus and BROKE his ankle.... So that was about 5 minutes after arrival.
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Not the saddest but a friend I was skiing with fell onto the end of his ski and managed to rip his scrotum. More seriously he broke the ski, talk about balls of steel. 
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| RobW wrote: |
| cbowls30 wrote: |
| TWO-AND-A-HALF HOURS into our arrival |
A few years ago we had a trip to La Thuile (IIRC), and the group leader slipped getting off the transfer bus and BROKE his ankle.... So that was about 5 minutes after arrival. |
I know someone who did the same and did his arm
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One of my friends, her first ever ski holiday, ACL on the second morning (during a lesson I think) - pivoted her knee when she ran into one of the divots that surround the lift posts - I believe it was very low speed. Stretchered off and not been back since 
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Years ago a large group of us descended on a small hotel in les Orres. Great first night with the FREE (yes FREE) bar was had by all. Everyone dressed timely the following morning ready for skiing to be told by the hotel management that someone had come down with meningitis and that the whole hotel and all those who sailed in her were quarantined. None of us ski'd for 3 days apart from in the hotel's garden !!!
Awful ! 
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harrisontherabbit there you go.
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Hells Bells, cool! 
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Hells Bells,  When you see it like that........
PS. I have an x ray of my wifes pins in her wrist how do you get it to show on here?
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boredsurfin, that was just a photo of the xray taken by holding it up to the window I think (Jules took it). I think they usually put the scans and x-rays on a disk now so it's just a case of posting an image.
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I think car parks and pavements are more likely to break wrists etc than pistes. I feel really wobbly and tentative and elderly on icy pavements - and generally try to use two poles if it's really bad. I also have "crampon" things in the bottom of my boots, which can be hinged in and out. I regularly spend a couple of hours clearing thick ice off our path, because I hate walking down it in ski boots.
Kelskii, cran, how did you tear calf muscles?
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| pam w wrote: |
Kelskii, cran, how did you tear calf muscles? |
In my case overcooking the speed on rapidly softening groomer, ski dug in a bit too hard, tumble over back of ski boot. Rear spoiler is just the right height to tear your muscle if you hit it hard enough. I couldn't walk but fortunately managed to get a snowboard boot on and snowboard the next day as it was a powder day  No toeside traverses mind.
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My mate broke his wrist or his thumb joint or something. Anyway it had to be set in a cast.
The chap doing the cast said " I'll set your hand in the right shape to hold a ski pole so you can get back on the slopes".
My mate said "set it in the right shape to hold a pint of beer and I'll get back to the bar".
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Alternatively the chalet assistant who got off the coach, slipped on ice, broke an ankle and went home on the same bus a day later.
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We had a guest break his leg getting ON the first chair lift on a sunday afternoon (ski didnt come off) - hadnt even opened the suitcase
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You know it makes sense.
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We seem to have covered the first/earliest injury.
Friend of mine squeezed in one last run down the last green slope to get the very last bus on the last day.
Fell and broke his arm about 1 meter from the end of the run.
As far as skiing (rather than travelling) goes that must be a record.
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Nadenoodlee, ah the ols Silver Ski sunday afternoon free hour and a half. My son lost a tooth in that period one year.
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Poster: A snowHead
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cbowls30, I would advise your friend not to go to those two places again.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lizzard, impressive metalwork.
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Zero-G, that one wins.
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God no, I'd say Mr Lizzard's injury wins by a mile!
Just to clarify - my disc was already in trouble, apparently; the wee jump was just the final straw.
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cran
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| pam w wrote: |
| Kelskii, cran, how did you tear calf muscles? |
I hit a bump/dip and spun round backwards and fell forwards on to my skis, unfortunately the boots allowed me to keep leaning forwards but didn't release my foot.
Not sure if the boots were not done up too loose or were too low at the front or just a bad design, once I could ski again (start of the next season) I got some better ones and they don't allow me to fall forwards.
If you straighten your leg and try and pull your toes all the way to your shin you should feel the back of the calf start to hurt a bit... Needless to say if you keep going and it rips it hurts a lot! and then swells up a lot...
I did manage to ski (well mostly bum slide and hop) back down and get to the car, and although I couldn't walk I was able to drive home by using my heel on the clutch, but that was the end of my ski season... which was also my first season...
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I did something similar both times. Firstly in a white out on a bumpy piste, ending up spinning around and falling forward facing up the hill with a straight leg. Calf got yanked a bit, tearing a few fibres. Second was an off-piste spill on some heavy snow with a similar result. There was a fair bit of swelling and inernal bleeding each time.
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| pam w wrote: |
| Kelskii, cran, how did you tear calf muscles? |
I hit a bump/dip and spun round backwards and fell forwards on to my skis, unfortunately the boots allowed me to keep leaning forwards but didn't release my foot.
Not sure if the boots were not done up too loose or were too low at the front or just a bad design, once I could ski again (start of the next season) I got some better ones and they don't allow me to fall forwards.
If you straighten your leg and try and pull your toes all the way to your shin you should feel the back of the calf start to hurt a bit... Needless to say if you keep going and it rips it hurts a lot! and then swells up a lot...
I did manage to ski (well mostly bum slide and hop) back down and get to the car, and although I couldn't walk I was able to drive home by using my heel on the clutch, but that was the end of my ski season... which was also my first season... |
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Zero-G,
Pic of new skis to go with same of very impressive spinal porn at all? It hurts just to look at that.
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| Big Paua wrote: |
| Zero-G, Pic of new skis to go with same of very impressive spinal porn at all? It hurts just to look at that. |
That would be shocking thread drift but of course I'll oblige!
Pic from the manufacturer's site (haven't taken my own pic yet, will do once the bindings are mounted):
09/10 Icelantic Pilgrim (got 'em for a paltry £275). These will be my new 'piste' skis. Have my eye on some WDF Directors for off piste, when they come out this season.
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Zero-G,
Sweeeeeet.
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