Don't let your skis play in the road

Scoop · Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 1028 Location: Donner Lake

I had mountain bikes fly off a yakima rack in the early 90's on I-5 and a pair of Trucker BC skis (with Ramer bindings!) in the early 80's blow out of the back of a pick-up on I-84 on the way home from the Wallowas. Never saw them again. My next ski was the Rossi "Randonee" with a tele set-up (brown ski with a lot of camber. Maybe 50 underfoot.)

I thank the gods for stealing my BC Trucker's out of the truck.

granpa · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:26 pm Post subject:

skifreek

dakotakid · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 702 Location: Thalt Lake Thity

Failed to adequately secure the hay rake to the pickup. It detatched while pulling it down a gravel road, crossed the on-coming lane, and coasted to a stop in the ditch on the other side of the road. Being west, central North Dakota, there was no on-coming traffic. Ended work day with a 6 of Bud.

bmiller · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1174 Location: BV CO

Breakin' Trail · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 749 Location: Golden, CO

robrox · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:04 pm Post subject:

Forgetting to take the skis? Check

Can't get the skis out of the box begause the locks are buggered? Check

Remembering the skis, boots and poles but forgetting the wallet? Check

Having all my toys (K2s, Boots, Poles, Bicycle and a carton full of my novels and poetry*) stolen from the Driveaway Car in Salt Lake City? Check

So far, the only things I have dropped off the roof have been coffee mugs. Knock wood Shocked

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* the Novels sucked but out of all the poems maybe ten showed up in songs I heard later on the radio..... Confused

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IronCowgirl · Joined: 20 Jan 2011 Posts: 81 Location: the 'boat

It's one thing to run over equipment, and another thing to take off on a 30 mile traverse knowing you're using run-over equipment...

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My mother and two of her friends found this out the hard way in the '80's. Fortunately, the two engineers were able to doctor up the ski pole well enough to finish the trip, and my mother lived to write about the experience:

rsireland3 · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject:

When I was 12 I did the XC ski trip with the Boston AMC chapter into Zealand Falls Hut. One of my bamboo poles was damaged goods. It didn't last very long... That was a long slog. My Uncle was a sport though and lent me one of his poles for a while. There was some of the group food in my pack. Cool

However, I didn't deserve the loaner. Being a 12 year old, well, the damage to the pole was because of something silly I did before we left dry land. Embarassed

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fogey · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:46 am Post subject:

A little OT (no skis and no vehicle), but here's my dropped and damaged story.

Late summer of 2010, my wife, 21-yr-old son and I climbed Middle Palisade, a California 14er which has a steep and direct, but class 3 (unless you stray 100+ feet to the left, but that's another story) route to the summit. The standard approach is across the Middle Pal glacier. By the end of August there was one obvious bergschrund crossing to get off the glacier and onto the route.

On the way down, my wife noticed some black plastic specks on the glacier right at the bergschrund crossing. One of them was a camera SD card. I put it in my pocket.

Got home, put the card in the computer. There were 3 years of outdoor photos, alternating winter and summer, mostly from Southern California. What do do?

I tried a post on the California thread at summitpost--my first time on the site. After hearing about my post from a friend, the camera owner also went onto summitpost for the first time. He had dropped his G9 off the summit of Middle Pal. It fell 1200 feet, shattered as it bounced off the rock along the way, and deposited the featherweight SD card right at the one place where it had a chance to be found. That probably defied the odds even more than the the summitpost connection between two first posters. A happy ending, except for the poor camera.

Rebob · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 2435 Location: Whistler, BC

Kona on the roofrack. Backed out of sister's side driveway and was just past the corner of the house when crack, bike swung off the rack.

Roof overhang just grazed the bike and the forks in the quick-draw fractured at the crown with the sideways force. No damage to house. New forks required. Embarassed

jbf · Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Leadville

I cut my knee open, being rolled off the roof rack on a VW bus on Marthas Vineyard.

(Definitely a failure to properly secure the load.)

I had one too many drinks at a party and decided I would go sleep in the bus until buddies were ready to leave.

Ground was too wet with dew, so the obvious answer was to go to sleep on the roof. (Never mind that it was of course wet too.)

Fell hard asleep.

Friends didn't quite do a great job rolling me off. I guess I'm glad they didn't just strap me down and drive off.

Best part is we got pulled over for speeding on the way home, and the policeman was very unimpressed with the passed out bloody person in the back.

PeterK · Joined: 01 Apr 2011 Posts: 92 Location: North Tahoe

why, just this season...

After an end-of-the-day avy practice scenario, I decided to test out the feature on my beacon where it switches back to transmit after a few minutes of not moving. So, I set it on the roof of the car while taking off boots and packing up gear.

... and then we drive off. I got about 5 miles down a winding mountain road (mercifully, not a busy one), before hearing a thump on the roof, and I look in the mirror to see my beacon summersaulting down the road behind me.

Pull a u-turn and scoop it up. The case is scuffed, the carrying pouch torn, but the beacon is transmitting away! Guess it works...