And now for a few sketchy details.
I had put away my axxes for a few runs on my big f2, it is a nice smooth, board and things were getting a little chopped up. It was the last run on an easier slope, and I suspect I put the hammer down to grab a clean window on a slope that was starting to get really crowded. Dan is right, I am not a "petite flower" but built more like a middle linebacker that likes beer too much, and I tend to push it a bit at times. As I said earlier I don't remember much of the run, but from a "forensic bruise and ache analasys" I have come up with the following scenario: I was in a toeside turn coming across the trail heading for the trees like we all do everytime we are out. I loaded the nose, then buried it, and got catapulted over the bars and into the trees. I hit my left elbow on something hard, putting a verry small fracture in it( no cast needed) and hit my chest, driving my ZUNE into my sturnum and right pec. That left a mark. The thing still works!! From there I smacked the back of my head on something immoveable and out went the lights. I vaugely remember hearing Iggy Pop singing "Punkrocker" in the distance, and then I woke up on a gurney in ski patrol. I then got chauffererd down I-70 to a hospital a mile or two from home, so that was kind of nice, traffic was pretty bad. Bryan, ther is no real damage to show, other than the goggle clip being broken, but I have never been knocked that silly in my life (though a few people I know might debate that) so I know that brain bucket is done. I have used up a few mtb lids in my time, and this one replaced one that had three seasons on it, I wont ride without one
Dan, I don't think we will ever know what happend to that tree, but I will try to avoid all of them in the future.
see you on the hill fairly soon,
mario