Skiing Etiquette

PCL

I hit a kicker in the park, a fair sized one by my standards carrying far too much speed and landed almost completely flat (ie, not on the down slope at the other side)

AllyG wrote:Caron,
That was pretty mean of everyone ski-ing past. Were you O.K. or had you hurt yourself? I always ask if I see someone fall over,even if they're not in my ski class.

to make a long story short I damaged the mcl in my left knee and tore the acl in my right knee [I don't do anything by halves :mrgreen:] and I had acl replacement surgery. first day of the holiday too, 2008 was a write off :evil:

Still, I played my first game of tennis post injury today :D. Left knee is a tad sore but it was great!

I was annoyed in Niederau to see experienced skiers and boarders using the nursery slope as a race track. Admittedly there weren't loads of them, but it's not funny as a nervous beginner to have people charging past inches away, especially as there were real slopes that better suited their abilities.

Also, in the boot room beside O'Malleys (where Thaler customers are allowed to store their gear) some 'kind' person saw fit to remove my daughter's boots from the heated rack and chuck them in a corner so they could put their own boots on the heated rack. I would never interfere with another skier's gear. Spaces on the heated rack were limited but it was first come first served, and we were there first! They probably assumed because the boots were small-ish they belonged to a young person. I doubt they would have risked messing with a large pair that might belong to a 6ft muscle-man!

On a positive note, I have met many helpful people (and I do tend to fall a lot LOL!). I dropped one of my poles at the top of one of the button lifts and the man in the wee cabin rushed out and retrieved it for me.

Allie

caron-a Still, I played my first game of tennis post injury today :D. Left knee is a tad sore but it was great![/quote wrote:

Good for you! A couple of brufen and a glass of wine tonight and you'll be grand :D

Pablo,
Thanks, but I still don't really understand what happened to you! Did you mean you went over a large natural jump too fast and damaged the ligament in your knee? Maybe I should have told you I fractured my GT, rather than simplifying Greater Tuberosity of the humerus to shoulder. I'm not up to date with the modern lingo, as my children will agree.

Caron - your injuries sound horrendous, but I'm glad you're back to playing tennis now.

Allie - I sympathise with you about the boot room episode. A similar thing happened to us on the train back, with our luggage. I made space for ours, and we only had one suitcase each, and when I went back to check on it someone had moved mine out into the corridor (where you're not allowed to put luggage) and put theirs in the rack (so I had to re-organize all the luggage again to make room for mine again). I felt really upset with whoever it was who chucked my luggage out of the rack, much as you did I expect.
And I believe they are now introducing speed limits in some resorts, to stop people racing through areas like beginners pistes, which will be patrolled. I hope they take the perpetrators lift passes off them. I've seen fast skiers, myself, using beginners like markers for a slalom run.

Ally

Instead of landing on the downslope like this skier has I landed after the 'downward sloping' landing when the piste started to flatten out. An experience I don't really want to repeat!

Thanks for the picture, Pablo.

I wouldn't like to be the guy underneath (he was really there was he?). I assume all those other people are just one person, with the photos taken with a very small time lag in between them all.

So, in other words, you jumped too far and landed in the wrong place, sort of like missing the air bag?

Ally

Yeh and it is just a sequence shot stitched together if that is the right 'terminology'.

Yeh, I missed the airbag :lol: