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05-08-2023, 03:58 AM
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USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
"Last spring in May of 2022, M.R. took a 1,000 foot fall from the top of South Maroon Bell, one that he undoubtedly shouldn't have survived. He was solo ski mountaineering just outside of Aspen Colorado and M.R. somehow got lucky and walked away with zero injuries and one broken ski. He wants to share his experience because he believes it would be beneficial for others to hear since he’s convinced there are lots of other people out there with similar human traits. Listen to this episode to hear how someone can survive that long of a fall, and what he learned from his mistake."
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05-08-2023, 04:25 AM
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Re: USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
 Screamed like a baby the whole time. Extreme sports are just that, extreme. What a fuckin idiot. |
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05-08-2023, 03:40 PM
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Re: USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
luckiest bastard of the month
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05-09-2023, 01:27 PM
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Re: USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
Yah I went to Aspen but didn't do shit like this because I'm not a dumbass. Sometimes genius is in not knowing what you're good at.
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05-09-2023, 11:03 PM
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Re: USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
He had some serious momentum going. He really is lucky. The fuck are these people thinking?  |
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05-10-2023, 01:17 PM
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Re: USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
That's why I rode the train up the mountain. You can drink your cocoa with little marshmallows in it, and look out the window.  |
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06-03-2023, 10:45 PM
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Re: USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
I would have been easy to find me because of the brown trail I would have left on the white snow. |
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06-04-2023, 08:11 PM
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Re: USA - Aspen Skier Falls Down Side Of Mountain
Seems like he needed a lot more ski skills and confidence to be up there. At the beginning, he was very tentative and angled to high terrain to stall his momentum, as if he was afraid to ski. He appeared to have no skills for skiing or turning on hardpack/ice, and reverted to the parallel side turns for powder that provide no control in hardpack. If he had just used a basic snowplow, he could have chugged along the spine, maneuvered around rocks at will, and easily turned onto the left slope through that generous 15' wide pass. Instead of a snowplow, he did side turns, which catch the edges and change direction with no braking ability on hardpack. When he skied directly into that the last rock, his ski tip compressed and bounced him backwards down the ugly drop.   · |
