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Our thoughts must go out to their parents, crashing into the rear of a grooming machine doesn't bear thinking about .
Report from Morznet
http://www.morznet.com/reports/news/two-children-injured-in-sledge-accident
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| In all French ski resorts it is a by-law to be on the pistes after 17:55, the time at which piste grooming normally starts |
Anyone know if this is correct?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
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| In all French ski resorts it is a by-law to be on the pistes after 17:55, the time at which piste grooming normally starts |
Anyone know if this is correct? |
I've broken that law almost every ski trip (I know the original typo is Morznet not yours).
Not quite sure what the parents were doing letting their kids sledge on a slope being bashed.
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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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It's the law in our neck of the French woods, for sure - there are signs in all the mountain restaurants. Have to be off the slopes long before 1755. Sounds a horrendous accident - but doesn't actually say the piste basher was grooming - even if it was stationary, it's a huge thing to bash into.
Sledging is pretty dangerous - I reckon. Only serious injury in our family was sledging - badly smashed ankle needed expert surgery and ironmongery insertion in Innsbruck Hospital (where they did a fine job, though son said conditions were a little Third World.  ).
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Children aged 5 and 7? where were the parents?
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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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I only learnt about this today but we had heard the helicopter at about 8 p.m. on Saturday evening and thought it was unusual as it was dark and commented that it must have been something serious - just through some trees and not far from us - during the day we can see the slopes at La Turche.
Heard more but really not keen on repeating hearsay.
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Pamski, Can't you just gis a little clue? go on......
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The Morznet report has been updated now by Chris Thompson (who I think is Ski Famille boss) who says:
Pleased to be able to report that one child
is now out of hospital and the other is off the critical list. Horrible
accident.
which is much better news and heaps better than what I had heard yesterday.
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skimom, Probably near by, what's your point? I never actually sit on the sledge with ours at that age
Our kids, along with half the village, sledge on the bottom of the piste up to around 6 many evenings, there are the occasional piste bashes go past. Pleased to hear the positive report, this was obviously just an accident, they happen.
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Talking to a surgeon in Switzerland recently, having watched the helivac arrive with monotonous regularity, a comment of "skiers?" was greeted with, "heavens no!, sledgers, much more seriously messed up. Skiing's safe!"
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Boredsurfing, On the Morzine / Les Gets piste map it specifically says in English and French "The ski area is out of bounds outside of ski lift opening hours".
As other have said - glad to hear that the kids are on the mend.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Pamski, gosh yes, heaps better.
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