| You haven't lived unless you were a beginner "back when" safety straps were the rule. Imagine this: two rank beginners getting on a chairlift. Tangled skis as the chair "lifts off" resulting in four skis hanging from four legs by their safety straps as the chair rumbles it's merry way up the hill.... for all to see and comment on.
What to do... what to do.
Manage to get the skis back on the feet in time ..... raise the safety bar and shoot down the offramp..... straight into a vertical wall of snow (failing miserably to turn OR stop).
Four more heel releases with skis stuck firmly into vertical wall and faces planted most solidly into very cold snow.
Ahhh, them were the days! (and embarrasment). Glad nobody had a camera close that day. |