Don't let your skis play in the road

Dr. T. Elemark · Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 921 Location: 802

One of my XCD skis (which I fish scaled myself) mounted with 3pins was blown out of my pick up truck yesterday.
A very nice motorist sped up to get my attention and mimed the message
"Your skis!" while pointing back down the road.
Dumb story short: ski ok, binding is toast.
Two bus fulls of tourists ran it over, along with some other vehicles during the three minute ordeal.

So was is the stupidest thing you've ever done to ruin a ski or binding?
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Grant · Last edited by Grant on Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:54 pm; edited 1 time in total

Paul Lutes · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 3395

How about boots? End of the day exhaustion after a big fresh snow day, remove boots and leave sitting on the ground outside the driver-side door while I finish changing clothes, drive off over a large "clump of ice" obviously the result of just plowing the parking lot (!!), get home and realize that something's missing ......

That's damned impressive that you only lost the bindings, not the skis after two fully loaded bus stomps ......

J · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 3023 Location: Cdv-PWS

Am sure the soon to be required Back-up camera would have saved a pair of Dynafits. Embarassed

Bet the PlumGuides would of survived.

Tele Till You're Smelly · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject:

vtadrian · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 133 Location: Vermont

I had a pair of orange Karhu Jaks in the back of my pickup. When I got home there was only one! I panicked and thought that there could only be one place they could have come out of the bed of the truck. I had to make a hard 90 degree turn off of the main road (Route 30 - southern VT - a heavily traveled road) and figured that the ski bounced out of the truck when I did. I had snow in the back so I figured it had "ramped out" on the snow and cleared the side of the bed. It was dark and I had to backtrack 2.5 miles to get to where I had turned. I didn't see the ski at first. But then - there it was - aligned perfectly with the double yellow line, laying right on top and nearly the same color - unscathed!!!

edgeworker · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 3289

My motor(3hp) on my sailboat vibrated off the boat while trailering it to Lake George. It had a safety cable which allowed it to drag on its side on the Thruway. Basically wore it in half before someone pulled up and told us we were dragging our anchor - which became a running joke for the last 30 years.

rsireland3 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:10 pm Post subject:

I skied a half mile or so of slushy brown snowbank on my Atomic Chugachs instead of taking off my skis and walking on the slushy blacktop. Embarassed

There was no skiable white snow due to the treeline, ditch, etc. The bases got oxidized bad. Hot waxing fixes them for a while, but then they go back to white. And then they get sticky.

And then there's the time I backed over my poles...
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cesare · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:52 pm Post subject:

Trusted my friend to latch the ski rack on the passenger side. His skis sent up a fireworks display of sparks when they hit I-70. I saw them in my rear view mirror. Amazingly, they were relatively unscathed.

Stuffed the tip of one of James' 120s while loading a lift. Snapped it in two and pulled TeleBear off the chair on top of me. Embarassed

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that sounds like a sure-fire way to get bitch-slapped by devil's club -- dschane

dschane · Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 423 Location: Juneau, AK

Rolled my Subaru on an icy morning . . . Yakima ski rack was shaped like a half moon, heal piece to one of the Switchback bindings was bent beyond repair, BD Aspect skis flexed and survived perfectly.

stevesliva · Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 10157 Location: SEA

Frontier filed two inches off the end of my EHPs last week. Think they were dragged from one end of DIA to the other, and DIA is big. Ordered replacements-- think they'll stand by footing that bill.

aqua_toque · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:19 pm Post subject:

Once I thought I had just driven into the garage with a couple bikes still on the roof rack, but no, it was winter, they were skis, and everything was OK.

Brenda · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 4417 Location: Ice Coast

Yad hit a pair of skis while driving my car on the way home from Loon on Superbowl Sunday--came right up on them, no time to swerve or anything. No car damage.

Fast forward one year, sitting on the double at MRG for telefest, look down at my friend's skis and ask how the heck she got tire tracks on her skis, "Well, we were driving home from Loon on Superbowl Sunday last year, and the skis flew off the rack..."

Shocked

Yes, I might have been looking at my very own tire tracks. Laughing

rsireland3 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:16 pm Post subject:

gdaut · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 2075 Location: Utah