New jacket idea

[slopestar]

Check the avatar... pasted on my back. Getting one for Katie too.

[jburk]

As a precaution against domestic carnage, have you asked your wife how she would feel about wearing something like this before you get one made up?

[slopestar]

It doesn’t say wide load... we both got clipped this past weekend.

[Corey]

You could wear this and some idiot will still hit you: 

I haven't been hit in a while.  (If I believed in luck, I just jinxed myself)  Paranoid uphill glances help.  

[Aracan]

 

11 minutes ago, Corey said:

You could wear this and some idiot will still hit you.

Too true. There will always be a moron ready to bomb over an edge into the next slope at 50 mph or more because of course there won't be anyone in there. Except me.

[trailertrash]

People who get hit regularly tend to be oblivious in general. They tend to not wait for gaps in crowds nor look uphill enough.

 

These same people will quote me and say that they aren't oblivious and do look uphill.

 

We get this thread every year.

[slopestar]

Thank goodness I don’t get hit regularly. That would lead to a whole year of posts. I was hit the last time in 1993 when a “friend” following way too close split my legs as I transitioned from toe side to heel side. I would not call that regular

[big mario]

Trash,

Don't make assumptions and  generalizations about people you don't know or ride with, nor were you there. We tend to get a lot of neverevers and other clueless riders on terrain way over their head because it is the first I-70 resort that most flatlanders encounter. They tend to not take lessons, or the time to learn the skiers code, they just stay in their little obliviate world

mario

Edited December 19, 2017 by big mario

[Aracan]

I got hit for the first time two weeks ago. By a moron who bombed into a slope that was not visible from above. Not a chance, although I look uphill better than every second turn.

[Dan]

We used to ride at Mt. Hood with an alpine snowboarder who had a life-size stop sign patch -- a big red octagon with "STOP" -- stitched on the back of his jacket. Called him "Stop sign Mike," I wonder what he's up to these days, haven't seen him in forever. 

[ursle]

I got clipped last year at the bottom of Okemo, a slow area, by a schmuck that actually aimed at me to hit me, once he touched my board I reacted and he missed my body, came from my rear edge side, on the flat, I always wear full armor and am very aggressive when it comes to my personal being, the son of a bitch was laughing as he got up, I had to unclip and he slipped away and got on the lift, Khama will smile upon him someday.

Etiquette on the snow, must be old school.