SteveInOregon

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- My REPLY: >>>> "DAM" <<<<<< A few questions; 1) Was it the same ankle> twice ? 2) Were you in a hard cast, and how long ? 3) How long till you could boot up again ? Thank You

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sorry to hear that man, pins & screws can be devastating. As for me, So I don't think this is "serious", I know for sure its not a Tib or Fib , its down in the articulating joint area. Again , sorry to hear she is gonna always set off metal detectors.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- MY REPLY: You broke Your ankle in hard boots !!!!!!!!! * sigh. You guys also say you have seen it happen, ohhhh geeeez, oh well, thanks for answering my question. Just before I did this trick, I was just a little tired and sore from chasing a looser with a laser on Thurs night, then 5 hours of riding Shasta today, I was being Mr Nice guy, not bombing the run and DAM, of all the things to happen, lol. By hook or crook I will "hobble" out to Bachelor for my 1st OES in ealry march. I am so000000 jones'ing to see a gang of real carvers, ride real groom ( not the death ride-ice ruts I always ride ), "and" take a private carving -coaching lesson. Do you guys know how bad I got it >>>> my p.c desk top is the trail map of Bachelor, that is how much I am want to be a OES. Thanks again answering my question, Im starting to smile again my 2nd T with Codine is kickin in , lol .:):p

I only ask because I think I did today at Shasta.:( I was just cruzing not doing anything, I was coming up on some Newb's, I did a typical lazy heel slide to slow down from about 15 mph to about 10 or less, the nose hooked a ski rut and slammed to a jerking stop , my lead foot also jammed to an abrupt stop the board and all jerked sideways and down I went in real pain. I felt a crunch in my ankle kind of like jumping off a high ladder into the pavement strait into the feet with the ankle being the weak link. I was in immediate real pain, I got my boot off ( no small feat ) writhed around in agony in 3ft off piste for a minuet then packed it down into the snow and sat there and tried to "look casual" ( I didn't work ) I tried to get up and put weight on it NO WAY feelt like the worst sprain I have ever had or a fracture ?????? I had to take the Red + slide ride out to the "break & snap shack", lol. So that's not a big deal, I'm already home a couple beers down, a pump up splint boot I picked up at a thrift store on the way back, a Tylenol-Codine and I'm ok, "BUT" what the hell gives , can you really break an ankle in a good fitting hard boot with no lateral bending . ?????? I thought I had all the bases covered, and one of them was hard boots Anyone experience a jammed, severe sprain or fracture wearing H-boots ?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are right on in what you said above. Also Your writing is very mature , you are very articulate for 16. Ok so the truth is, let me guess > your an eagle scout, member of Mensa, child prodigy or just a clean living kid with good parents ? Inquiring minds want to know ? Truth be known any kid who rides alpine is already mature and a cut above, ;)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOL, This is better than watching metro-sexual guys on skates in Vancouver bitch about who did a better quad jump...

WOW I didnt know there were so many so Cal hard booters on this site. The road up , Angele's Crest Hwy was one of my fav sport bike rides on a sunny spring-summer day on my old RD 400 Daytona 2stroker.:p

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The guys on the poster look like SnoGansta's,lol. "It must have been a good day, I didnt have to carve with my AK" , lol. So whats it like at Mnt High & Baldy is it a good groom for carving ? I lived up in Green Valley Lake about 30 miles strate east of mnt Baldy in the San Bernadino Mnt's and Big Air Green Valley board park ( single lift ) was literally the view out my front window about 500 ft away ( I walked to the lift ever morning , but I only did Big Air GV and Snow Valley & S-Summit and *Bear Mnt ( formerly *Gold Mine in the 70's / 80's) and they kind of suck when compared what these guys here have to play on in Aspen and Utah. So what about Baldy & High ?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- That came to mind many times while going back up the lift, each time I rode up I thought of that and also how ai cold of killed him and "I" would be the guy in handcuff's. But Your right, I thought the same thing > that he would get off with some parking ticket fine and I would have to spend a lot of lost work time in court. and re-hashing the anger, and if he would have copped and attitude in court , I would probably really loose it and lose my freedom for good. I don't want to die of brain cancer or high blood pressure from all this anger, so I want to save my own sanity and drop it, that was the internal conversation I had when I hit the bar for a beer after I was done that night. I think the long run up the hill and the bus full of kids keeping me from a really bad ending was a blessing, My vision in my good eye is fine today , my hip is sore, but I wear a padded under pants so I was prepped for falling. ( like I always do ) That is the 2nd time in a row I have been there when they bring almost a dozen school bus loads of kids to literally log jam the mountain. The next time I see a string of school buses I am getting a refund, I spend to much money to waist it baby sitting the mountain, in fact for awhile there I was the only adult on the run for a half dozen run's !!! I am cool now I can relay this to you guys to see if you have had any bizarre incidents like this with a level head today. :o

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think it was the 200 yard up hill snow jog in hard booots that took at lot of the steam & venom out, lol. Not to mention a bunch of high school athlete types who had a hold of me,lol. Ya Mnt Ash

I was doing my usual surf & turf, ( turning hard then sliding out ) basically charging it hard trying to keep it tite and on edge last night on my local extremely hard packed ice encrusted steep and then I noticed a bright green flash zip across my line of site in the steepest-fastest part of my run were I practice "the norm" between falls ( Im getting better I fall ever 3rd run , lol ) I knew immediately "LASER" I thought to myself because it was just zig zagging across my fall line that it was someone trying to get my attention, I thought "hummm this must be a new tool for the ski patrol to get people to slow down" , but there was no one around me, I had the run completely to myself and I was not even close to the "slow zone". I had a flash back my heart raced and then I settled down and blew it off. (I watched a helicopter go down years when a laser blinded the pilot) So I come back up the lift and then sat on the bench to wait patiently for a new crop of teen sliders to mush while silently saying in my mind "just go away" , then verbally to one of them "no its NOT a mono ski". I told the liftie at the top about it, he said he they dont use lasers at all , and that would look for it. I pop up, take off and do my thing, this time I clear my view then hard heel side when I get max speed while looking way in front of were I am going looking back over my blind side ( literally my right side I am blind in that eye) and POW I am blinded by a brilliant flash of green white light, like a flash bulb going off in the face, I am immediately blinded and now I must stop , so I just lean back and plow the heel side I entered and fall back on my hip bone point as fast as I can so as to not skid the 20 or so yards of the trail then down a cliff and into the trees. I am going fast and it takes a long time to come to a stop. I am now blind, I cant see a dam thing, only a bright throbbing vibrating light inside my head, I just sit there and try to wait it out, it took a minuet or two just to see !!! I know it came from up hill up at or near the lodge, so I bail out of my bindings , leave the board off to the side and half jog the 200 or so yards up hill, I was furious to me this is a weapon and a felony , its not a $5 dollar dime store red laser, this is a much more powerful weapon or signal laser. I crest the hill-slope gasping for air ( try jogging in hard boots at 7,500ft asl ) I spot it, it is coming from a big yellow school bus, from the 3rd to the last window, I half, clop, skid, jog my way to the school bus , I jump into it, it is full of high school age boys, some sort of athletic team , all I can say whikle gasping and yelling is "who has the F'ing laser the green laser, I see the kid who is sitting in the seat it is coming from , I say "you blinded me with that F'ing laser". I push and jump between the full isles of standing boy's almost right on top of the kid who blinded me, a bunch of the "team" grabbed me and are pleading with me while pulling me backwards and telling me at the same time "stop dude stop" "back off dude". All I could do was keep venting my anger and telling him that he committed felony and to give me that F'ing laser, by then the whole team is blocking this kid. One nice level headed smaller kid stood out and got my attention and he chilled me out. I mellowed a bit and then caught my breath, they let go of me, then I gave the kid who pointed the laser & blinded me a lecture on how that is considered a weapon in war and if you point that at the wrong guy you will get killed. I told him about the pilot who got killed and how I can call the cops over and have you arrested for assault and how lucky you have a dozen guys between you and I and left the bus. I took the brave young man who placed himself between me and the crowd who talked me down and had him step outside and make him promise to get that laser and report him to the coach or who ever is in charge . I went back , did a few more run's. I am not proud of snapping, I only have one eye left and I will not loose it to a teenager who thinks its fun to ruin someone life for fun. I think the only thing that kept me from real damage instead of the temp blindness was the full tint goggles I wear because I didn't have my clear night time replacements with me.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 > why not ?????

( In jest ) > I was googl'ing up "Bongs on line" and got this site,and I said woah dude this is better than pot , and I haven't smoked any weed since, lol. :p I have only been here since about Xmas, I ignored alpine for 20 + years ( ya I'm ignorant ) , and now that I hard boot 100%`of the time I am "enlightened" ( even tho I still spend most of my time carving on my ass )

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Ancient Chinese) Confucius say ; "Virus board so good, make you take back something you never even stole"

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Olympic BX finals: She fell right before the finish line , even tho she had a huge lead, she hot dogged the last jump and bounced out of 1st place !!! WHAT so why is everyone looking at me like that > . Ok, It must be my dial up its a little slow , but at least I didn't spoil it for those of you just getting home to watch it , it is 06 right , LOL

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- WOW You must be a hard charger in the turns to put enough pressure on them to snap them. Say, come closer, don't let you dad hear this ( as I whisper in your ear ) "you weren't riding the terrain park jumping and railing with your race boards when you dad wasn't looking were you , and so that is why they broke" ,lol.:p

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- "NICE" You put me to shame,

( Said in a stuffy British accent ) > " I say ol chap, one mite as well tell the wife that you discovered the women down the street is just as sporty in the sheets as she.:p

Let me guess , ( these are only a guesses ) Your over 35 ? Your not in "pretty good" shape in fact your kind of "out of shape" ? You like to surf the net and work on the p.c sitting for hours at a time in one position ? You don't "eat clean" ? You tend to get your exorcise in hard short spurts and heavy sessions i.e carving all day a few days a week ? You like carb's, and more carbs ? You like coffee, more than 1 cup a day ? You get pissed easily and stressed, ....or....you are under duress ( could be internal hidden stress that no one can see but you ) Most everyone does or is doing some of the above If you ad up most of them you will get the "spurious signals" of a body electrical out of sync buzzing, an over feed , under nourished and under exorcised restless leg and muscle switch syndrome ( suggestion ) try sitting behind the desk in "intervals" get a small in door 3ft circular trampoline / re-bounder and bounce around on it after each 1/2 to 1 hour hour behind the computer, it couldn't hurt :)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's cool, that old video reminds me of an acoustic version of Rage Against The Machine without the over driven amps.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nice rap . It took 2 home made beers for me to lay da ryme down , ;) LOL How about you ,lol.

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CORRECTION its in "OFF TOPIC" section , its all about going overboard with your "quiver", I just posted it in the off topic its a "Video" about collecting

He is actually normal for a high level athlete, He thinks like everyone who is committed to excellence into maximum performance and personalizing a perfect fit.