A giant rooster on teles with leather boots on the right at 1:46.
A small dinosaur on alpine gear on the left at 2:00, wishing he were on tele gear.
A snowboarder ahead on the left at 2:32 (when I shout in surprise - - advance at a single frame at a time to see him fall in) trying to end it all because he is not on tele gear. Glad he was OK.
I towed it using a breakable line (so that I would not get entagled), to where the paddler and I met up to continue our run. The paddler was safe on shore before I went after his boat.
Nah, that was just a path that connects runs, and the speed was fairly slow – it just looks fast due to the narrowness of the run. The runs themselves are usually wide enough that it is easy to stay clear of other skiers, but if there are some doddering about, I just slow down. Everyone – fast or slow – is out there to have a nice day.
To a very high degree, the problem of speed differential is mostly self-limiting (or at least it is here in the mid-west USA / Northern Ontario), for the folks who mill about, turn erratically, or just plain sit down in the middle of a run, tend not to ski on the runs that are suited to fast skiing, which are steep and often very hard packed or icy (as odd as it sounds, nice soft snow that is easy to ski on slows you down a lot).
I have to wonder, however, why some folks eat their young. That fellow did a header off a bridge into shallow water, so I was very concerned that he might have injured himself (thus my stopping rather than cruising on past). His pals, however, didn’t make a move toward him to see if he needed assistance. WTF?
That’s a cat track back to the lifts. Sometimes you have to stay on long feeder runs that bring everyone back to the front of the ski area. It’s much better on telemark gear than on a snowboard. Those parts of the run are endured, not really enjoyed.
His snowboard was still on the bridge, so my guess is that he fell in while he was taking off his snowboard so that he could start walking up the gentle rise in the cat track.
Listen. My son left a party in his car to go buy beer, came back later on foot with a busted head and stab wound to the back of his neck. His buddies’ response? Gave him a beer and said “Dude. Yer bleedin’”. :rolleyes:
