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A couple times
1993 - Winter Park/Mary Jane, Colorado
Family and I went on ski trip with some other family and friends. Just learned how to ski although I was kinda a natural at it. Didn't take me long to become really good.
Or so I thought.....
Went to the highest peak and it was above the tree line, the mountain was bowl shaped at this peak. Well I just said screw it and went straight down, ducked down and got major speed, there was a huge rock and I had no time at all to swerve out of the way, hit the rock, tripped and tumbled all the way down this bowl of a moutain. I bet it was about 500 yards at least, kept tumbling and tumbling, hit my head on some rocks, then smacked head first into a tree at the bottom. Knocked me out for about 15min, woke up and I was being tied up to a sled to be escorted to their medical lodge or wherever they checked me out at.
They say the way I stopped (from a tree) I was extremely lucky to not have been killed. Because I was almost at full speed then was immediately stopped by the tree. But had a jammed finger and 3 huge knots on the dome. Nothing else, went back out skiing the next day.
2003: I-70, coming home from UPS Hub in KC (James St)
Working late one night, bad ice/snow storm came thru area, just completely dumped on the higways, trucks couldnt keep up with the salt etc, coming around Benton curve, spin out 3 times almost off the road, my car wouldnt turn the correct way, it was too icey, then a Semi is coming directly at me, he knows I'm stuck but he can't stop either, starts honking, finally was able to get traction and move out the way at the last second, drove off the road into a ditch just to get out of the way. This could have easily been a head on head collision with a Semi against me and my Jeep Cherokee. Needless to say I wouldnt have won that battle.
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