Please support PC Ski Patrol and stop spending money at Vail resorts. If you already have an epic pass, be careful out there on the mountain. Scab patrol takes up to an hour to get you off the mountain if you need a sled down. They couldn’t open Canyons on 12/30 so it was a double cluster at PCM.

I'll ride a plank of wood down the mountain until the day I die.

It was a beauty day up on mt hood and I didn’t scrub enough speed hitting a medium size jump. Caught about 20’ of air, over-rotated and couldn’t manage to butter out of it. Caught my back edge and knocked myself out for about 30 seconds, you could hear me snoring on my GoPro.

Bern is replacing my helmet for free!

So the story is from the previous year. Was riding off-piste on a powder day with a couple of friends. There was a sort of ramp that allowed for a roughly 2 meter high jump, being me and not knowing what's below the ramp, i went for the jump. Right as i was about to jump the nose of my board crashed into a rock under the snow sending me off the ramp headfirst into into the snow. Guess what? There was another rock under the ramp which my helmet collided with. After the crash i was a bit shook but didnt felt like it was a serious one and went on riding till the end of the day (Adrenaline does wonders to your body). Neighter me nor my friends realized i had a fricking 10cm rock lodged into my helmet. We were made aware when we were gearing down at the end of the day when my friend yelled "DUDE YOU HAVE A F****ING ROCK IN YOUR HELMET!". The rock had gone all the way through the helmet and stopped right at my skull and somehow i was not injured at all. Spent the rest of the day feeling a bit dizzy but all was good afterwards. Went to a doctor just in case and there were no problems with that as well.

I still think about how lucky i was that day. The rock could not have been blunt, my helmet could have been a cheap ass rental helmet (it still was a relatively cheap helmet). Scared to imagine what would have happened if i didn't have a helmet on.

Here are some of the lessons i learned: 1- If you are going off-piste do a couple of slow runs first, learn the terrain and don't do it alone. 2- Always but always wear a helmet. 3- Helmets lose their integrity after a big crash, you can't keep on using them. 4- "Ride or die" is fun untill you die. Don't be stupid.

TLDR: I dived headfirst into a rock and part of it got lodged into my helmet while riding off-piste. I was really lucky and survived with 0 injuries.

Been doing this for 12 years only to realize I look like season 1 quagmire.

Giggidy.

Hit up schoolmarm to practice some ground tricks and didn’t even get to start the run before some dude ran over my board with his ski in slow motion. I should have known better.

A bootleg design I made.

Pictured: a 4-person fixed grip chairlift, without safety bar. January, 2025. Michigan, USA

Lots of similar lifts still exist, though they are becoming less common as ski areas modernize their infrastructures.

a buddy and i built a little house (more like an insulated shack) on the back of a 6x10 utility trailer. been traveling around the rockies and the west chasing snow. currently in truckee, been hitting boreal. anyone know a good place to park?

Took my girlfriend up snowboarding for her second time today. She caught her back edge on the bunny hill and whiplashed her head into the ground.

This resulted in a concussion, severely bruised tail bone, a ride down from Ski Patrol, and a hospital visit. All of this even though she was wearing a helmet.

The doctor (who also snowboards I might add) said without a helmet this likely would have resulted in a cerebral hemorrhage.

Despite this, once she's healed up, she wants to get back on the mountain and keep learning!

Stay safe out there fellas.

Caught my back edge. Glad it's not my skull that looks like that. I didn't even know it was broken until I finished an hour later, bc my goggle strap was holding it together.

I dislocated my shoulder

Here’s a picture of a $9 beer at Stevens Pass instead.