"Tinkerntom" wrote in news:1105919192.042039.143900
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:


John Fereira wrote:


BTW, to Tinkertom...where is the triple black diamond run at Keystone?
When I skied there they only had one black diamond run and it was
pretty marginal for that classification.

There you go getting me confused with the facts. That was 15 years ago
or so, and I thought it was Keystone, but then it might have been a
green run as well. All I remember was this human snowball slowly
rolling down the slope.

It's certainly not uncommon. If I remember correctly the only black diamond
run at Keystone was also just under one of the main chairs that went up the
mountain from the parking lot.

It couldn't have been very steep if he was slowly rolling. I've seen quite
a few people fall on steep slopes, start sliding, and then begin to gain
speed. There are a couple of runs at Squaw Valley (where I learned to ski)
that are notorius for that (west face of KT-22 is one of them). The biggest
problem is that once you've fallen you really have no control whatsoever
once you start sliding. I know of a couple of instances where people have
fallen, started sliding, and eventually hit a tree and died.


I will tell you another OT story, which is my favorite, and has to do
with the worlds greatest athelete (well at least IMHO)


This has to do when I was learning to ski, and I was playing the part
of the human snowball. I had taken 3 or 4 days of lessons, and the
instructor told me I just needed to go out and get time on the slopes.

It's good advice for kayaking too.

BTW, have you read "Deep Trouble"? Considering your safety concerns you
probably should. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the book.