Comments on: One Week to Determine the Course of an Entire Season http://spreadstoke.com/snow/snowbird-utah-broken-leg/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.23 By: Mark Weber http://spreadstoke.com/snow/snowbird-utah-broken-leg/#comment-1732 Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:19:50 +0000 http://spreadstoke.com/?p=1122#comment-1732 Hi Daniel, This story sounds familiar, I was at Snowbird shooting video the day of your accident. I ran into two young skiers that were waiting for ski patrol. I shot a ski patrol guy coming down to assist two people and I shot about two minutes of him helping the injured skier. This was before a toboggan arrived. If I can find the clip would you want to see if it was you?

]]> By: Daniel Eike http://spreadstoke.com/snow/snowbird-utah-broken-leg/#comment-80 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:29:27 +0000 http://spreadstoke.com/?p=1122#comment-80 Yeah! This one was about 2′-2 1/2′ deep. You can clearly see where it fractured through the new snow and the older snow straight down to the unstable base. It definitely shook me up a little bit afterward, but luckily didn’t bury me at all. I’m scared to think of how it would have gone had an inexperienced skier been the one caught up in it and not been able to ski with it.
I’m going to be spending a lot more time behind the computer now, so I’ll be sure to fine tune my editing skills by the end of this season! Can’t wait to get after it on the rock, dirt, pavement, and water this summer though, that’s for sure!

]]> By: Kevin Smith http://spreadstoke.com/snow/snowbird-utah-broken-leg/#comment-76 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:19:09 +0000 http://spreadstoke.com/?p=1122#comment-76 Holy crap dude. Such a crazy series of events.

That’s a pretty big crown on that slide! Way to keep your wits about you and ski out of it. I had a similar avy experience at the Bird about 5 years ago, in almost the same zone. I was the first one in the Last Frontier shot, just past the Tower 3 Chutes, and on my second turn it ripped out about 50′ wide and 12″ deep at the crown. I was carried the full length of the run, and ended up buried to my waist. Luckily there was a good base at that point, so all of the little pines in the runout were covered.

Stay stoked and spend this time making some sick edits!

]]> By: Casey Sowul http://spreadstoke.com/snow/snowbird-utah-broken-leg/#comment-75 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:44:52 +0000 http://spreadstoke.com/?p=1122#comment-75 Nooo!!! Damn, that’s one hell of a shitty week! Keep your chin up, you’ll be recovered in no time, just in time to crush some single track this summer.

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