Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Crash landing

Above is another penquin and below is Jonathan at the top of the hill.  On our last ride up the 4 man chair before coming down Andy was thinking to take the big jump, but we all decided NO on the last run it is best to take it easy or it might be the Last RUn.  Anyway coming down, Andy led, Jon followed and Jack and I skied behind watching the guys go over the small jumps.  Almost at the bottom, we watched Andy go over the last two little jumps and then head down the hill, Jonathan went over those two and then headed off to the right right to the big jump!  Jack and I watched him go up, sail out and then we didn't see the landing as the jump was too high for our vision.  Andy below saw him land on his shoulder.  We all skied over to him and he lay in the snow in shock.  He was dissoriented for awhile but nothing was broken.  In the lodge the ski patrol checked his shoulder mussles and thought he was lucky as it seemed his shoulder was close to being dislocated.  It has been over 4 days since the flight without a parachute, and he is still sore, but seems better every day now.

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