# Death @ Windham **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 16, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/death-windham/256465 "2011-01-16T16:51:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/death-windham/256465/11 "2011-01-20T04:25:39Z")
> [@FS: Crx rear seat conversion \*Complete\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-crx-rear-seat-conversion-complete/38799/9): > > Helmet had nothing to do with it, she shouldn’t have been there. > > It’s very hard to die on a mountain which is why there are so few deaths. > > You can always fall and stop if you are out of control. > > No reason to hit something full speed. > > Whoever she was with who wasn’t teaching her and taking care of her properly is responsible. Not true. Unless your out west in a bowl, every mt has trees. Trees dont move when you hit them. I have been skiing for 23 years, and could drop out of a heli and ski shit you see on tv and think they are going to die. About 5 years ago I had a very close call on an easy trail, HawkEye at Gore. At the topish part of it it comes down a slight hill and bends to the right then hard to the left. I have made about 100 runs down that before and some lady blew a turn out of control infront of me and I just caught an edge trying to avoid her the wrong way which hooked me to the left and sent me back first, blind into the woods at about 35mph. I knew I was going in and just tucked up like a little ball and waited for the hit. I landed in about 3 feet of powder, like I laid down in a bed. cleared the snow from my goggles and looked up the hill and saw that somehow I managed to fly through the only clear path into the trees, right behind me about 2 feet from my head was a tree. I am actually shaking right now from typing. The you can allways fall and stop thing… I dont think so. I also took a single turn on Rumor and somehow single ejected a ski and slid down the entire run and ended up a few feet from trees towards the end… sometimes you have no control, and gravity is a bitch.Its no joke, no matter how good a skiier you are, or if your a total newbie… it can happen. Another side note about hitting a tree skiing. You dont realize it but just cruising down a regular trail your doing around 25mph. Aggressive skiiers rip around at about 40mph. A few trails like Essixs (or how ever you spell it) at whiteface we rip down and hit 60 or so. Mt Run, we straightline sometimes and hit a bit over that. When i crashed on my street bike and hit the tree I was doing 45mph, and the impact KO’d me wearing a $600 HJC carbonfiber helmet. A $100 skii helmet ISNT going to really help wacking a tree at 40. I know I am sorta contradicting my self above, but I am just sharing some insight… and for those that don’t think the speeds I mentioned are real… I have a pic of my friend on the family trip out west last year GPS in hand showing 98Mph after bombing a bowl. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/death-windham/256465)._