This past weekend I was over at Happo on Saturday. I don't usually like going to busy places but we were in Hakuba and needed to get up high because of the rising temps.
Anyway, on two separate occassions that day I almost got hit by a wayward ski and snowboard. With the ski, we were half way up the hill waiting in line when it went bombing past and came to a stop not far away. It looked like the bottom of someone's boot had broken off and was still stuck in the binding which didn't allow the breaks to pop open. It happened so fast that we didn't really have time to get scared.
The second incident with the snowboard was totally ****ed up. We were actually at the bottom of the hill having pizza on the patio outside when out of the corner of my eye I noticed something coming towards us. I was able to jump up and warn the guy sitting next to me and it narrowly missed his head. My friend who I was having lunch with literally had to jump out of the way to avoid serious injury. The board sailed past and clattered into our boards that were in the ski rack. It ended up taking a knick out of my old bindings but didn't cause serious damage. As we were picking everything up the dude who let the board go came walking up as if nothing happened, didn't even apologise and then start making excuses as to what happened. The guy I was with, who isn't a hothead at all, almost ended up fighting him because he was so mad.
So how often does stuff like this happen? I don't spend much time at busy resorts and think it's the first time for something like this to happen to me.
Anyway, on two separate occassions that day I almost got hit by a wayward ski and snowboard. With the ski, we were half way up the hill waiting in line when it went bombing past and came to a stop not far away. It looked like the bottom of someone's boot had broken off and was still stuck in the binding which didn't allow the breaks to pop open. It happened so fast that we didn't really have time to get scared.
The second incident with the snowboard was totally ****ed up. We were actually at the bottom of the hill having pizza on the patio outside when out of the corner of my eye I noticed something coming towards us. I was able to jump up and warn the guy sitting next to me and it narrowly missed his head. My friend who I was having lunch with literally had to jump out of the way to avoid serious injury. The board sailed past and clattered into our boards that were in the ski rack. It ended up taking a knick out of my old bindings but didn't cause serious damage. As we were picking everything up the dude who let the board go came walking up as if nothing happened, didn't even apologise and then start making excuses as to what happened. The guy I was with, who isn't a hothead at all, almost ended up fighting him because he was so mad.
So how often does stuff like this happen? I don't spend much time at busy resorts and think it's the first time for something like this to happen to me.