broken off

   
(elephantitus of the knee)

   

    Today started off slow, mostly because it was windy and puking snow outside as well as Pat Moore, Nic Sauve and myself arriving late the night before. We decided to go out on our sleds and acclimate to the new terrain. Visibility was incredibly poor and our sense of direction was definitely affected by this factor.  I was in the process of leading our group out to some spots I had been to the last time I had been here. The ground seemed to be moving underneath my sled due to the snow blusterring around in such a way that it was beginning to give me vertigo. I was stoked because I started to recognize the area a little better and then it happened. The ground left and it felt like the snowmobile and myself were falling into the abyss. When the ground came, I took most of the impact in my chest against the snowmobile handles and the remainder to my right knee. Gasping for breath and screaming in the snow, I could hear my companions asking me if I was ok. I was screaming involuntarily. I was very lucid in this moment and was trying to tell myself to accept what had just happened and that I was ok. Then I stopped and just layed there. I thought to myself, "this is what the riders feel like when they case a rail or bail off a jump".
    It was the biggest polarity shift I've experienced since I can remember, moving from this is awesome to am I going to live. For several minutes I could'nt move my legs and thought I might be paralyzed. It turns out that I'm fine, just badly bruised. My heart hurts and my right leg is soooo freaking big at the moment, but it's all good. I'm alive and stoked to be that way.  My snomobile handles are thrashed, something I'll have to deal with tomorrow, but tomorrow is another day, for now, I'm icing my knee and keeping it elevated.

Comments

[andy]

holy crap dude that sucks. i just hurt myself on the trip i'm on and had the EXACT same thought about the riders. i'm gonna be fine, hit a tree in the back and bruised my kidney, but man every morning i get up i can't help but think how rough it is for them. the worst was maybe that feeling of "oh, no, my season is over". they have to deal with that so much, i'm suprised they're all not crazy, or at least MORE crazy. good luck with the knee, hope you it's a quick recovery.

--a n d y

[t mez]

Shit tbot, hope everything's intact in there! That shit is wicked!!! I'll have a beer for you tonight in hopes of a speedy recovery ;).

[Tim Peare]

Thanks guys, get better Andy!

[Marcos]

Tim, sorry for taking so long to make contact. Hope you´re already ok. Are you?