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Another near death experience
This past weekend I took a brand new pair of classic racing skis out for a
run on our local trails. I will spare you the details of the first day. The skis performed well and I had a good time. The second day I went for a longer ski and was pushing a little harder. I was very impressed with the skis and how well they handled fast down hill curves. That was until I was coming around one particularly fast curve. I was out of the track and entered the curve wide, cut close to the inside and was heading out of the curve wide, near the left side. Just before the end of the curve I hit a place where sun had been on the trail earlier, but had now frozen hard. I almost recovered, but the left ski cut into the bank at the edge of the trail and stopped. I did not stop quite so fast and ended up doing a somersault or two and skidding to a stop. To my surprise the right ski was broken. The top surface was broken almost all the way across about half way between the boot and the tip. The ski was also delaminated from all most the tip to the front of the wax pocket. I managed to ski about another 5 km back to the parking lot with the right ski top flapping up and down. I didn't do any fast curves. The ski has now gone back to the distributor, hopefully for warranty replacement. Oh yes, the near death experience. That occurred when I told my wife what happened. Scott Elliot http://www3.telus.net/selliot/ |
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Another near death experience
Oh yes, the near death experience. That occurred when I told my wife what
happened. Scott Elliot http://www3.telus.net/selliot/ hahaha! 8-) |
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Another near death experience
"Scott Elliot" wrote in message news:m2z%b.2704$A12.1726@edtnps84...
Oh yes, the near death experience. That occurred when I told my wife what happened. Was made her madder, the thought that yet more $$$ would be spent on XC stuff or the emotion that you had (again) in your complete recklessness almost left her children without a father?:-) In a more somber mood, I had my near death XC experience on Sunday: coming down a hill I saw a small bunch of people beside the track at the bottom and I slowed down to have a look. A male skier, late 50s - early 60s, in typical "Sunday skier" outfit", was lying on the snow in the "recovery position" (which he presumably had been put in), so my immediate guess was it was an diabetic or epileptic case, and that since an ambulance had no doubt been called for, there´d be no point in my stopping. For some reason I revised my judgement and proceeded to take a look myself: the guy wasn´t breathing, his heart had stopped - and everyone was just standing around, waiting for the ET workers! To cut a short story even shorter: I stepped in until the ambulance arrived, and the tally now reads: Anders 0, Grim Reaper 2. (The first failed attempt had been *much* harder, especially as I knew the victim, and could blame myself for not being there a few minutes earlier, not being good enough or whatever.) The guy was in all likelihood past resuscitation by the time I began (and possibly dead of a massive cardiac arrest before he hit the ground or the first person arrived on the scene), but I think there is a moral to this story. Anders |
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