Almost one year ago I was pledging to be less competitive and instead, focus on the quality and technical finesse of my personal skiing, but somewhere, somehow, I forgot that pledge and ended up breaking up three personal records this past season. This was of course until this past Monday, when the victim from bad personal judgment and error – no third party fault at all!
For the occasion, I had taken my pair of Head Monsters that don’t ski particularly well and on which I slid the binding to far forward, making the ski over-steering beyond reason There where huge moguls on the top steep section and on the third turn my shovel dove into the rotten powder snow causing me to fall downhill and begin a slide on the very steep slope.
I was lucky enough not to kill myself or become paralyzed or even worst. I fell head first, was wearing a slick down parka that gave me a boost on the 40 degree plus slope and I couldn’t turn my skis around to arrest my slide. As I picked up speed, seconds felt like minutes. I’ll pass on the details to what happened next, no one needs to know!
I felt totally beat-up, but with the adrenaline flooding my body, it was hard to establish what was wrong with my body, so still stirred up and warm, I rode the McConkey lift a second time to exorcise the shock, as I always do in similar circumstances. I worked my way down to the parking lot, happy to get there, but suffering the martyr in taking out my stiff boots.
Then I went to the ski patrol station, talked to a patrolman out of personal reassurance, from my butt down, all was fine, just my upper body was badly bruised and I couldn’t feel anything broken, so I drove home to tell my wife what had happened to me and swearing to me that this season, I would finally switch my focus from Quantity to Quality skiing!
Jan 9, 2023
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