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I was wondering if anyone knew if the lift operators would have a problem with me walking up to the lift and holding my board to go ride?The probem is that a couple of weeks ago I tore the medial minicus in my left knee (the soft gushy part that keeps your bones from rubbing together) in a near miss motorcycle accident. (Walking out with only a torn cartiledge I was pretty lucky). I am going to have surgery to repair or take out the damaged part of the miniscus in late April after the season ends, cause it doesn't hurt when I actually ride, and I have a 5-Mountain season pass and am not going to waste $450. But when I skate in the lift lines or after getting off the lift I am in severe pain because of the twisting. Gondolas are obviously easy but I don't want to be limited to the front side of the mountains at just the vail resorts. I know that some placesSorry to hear about your knee bro, but at least you're still kickin and are able to snowboard. Life without snowboarding is no life at all!I think most resorts would definitely have a problem. If you drop your snowboard while the lift is over a run (a real possibility), it could hit some poor skier/snowboarder and kill them or injure them permanently (I'm sure you love snowboarding, but not enough to kill for!). Plus resorts nowadays are all about avoiding liability and not getting sued, so I wouldn't hold out much hope on that.Fortunately, there's always the gondola to get up to the mountain. But if you must have an alternative, try the x-edge. Its something I found over the internet to help keep your board stable on the lift. Its supposed to reduce knee strain. Check it out: http://x-edge.com/index.html. I haven't tried it out myself
Hey man, bummer about the torn minicus, but I see your positive side as well as it definately could have been WORSE!I say get there early and chat with the lift operator for each individual lift. They are the ultimate decision makers for matters like this. If they are new and personally don't know, they can radio to management and give the yay or nay on holding the board.As an alternative, you could see if they allow both feet in the bindings as an exception for you. They might agree to that if they slow the lift on load/unload or something.
i dont know if this helps, but have you tried doing it switch? i know its awkward, butit beats loosing $450 if they wont let you do it! riding switch might help becauseyou would keep your injured knee straight and the good one can flop around asneeded to load in the lift line.my home resort, you can not under any circumstances ride the lift without ski's ora snowboard. one of the operators i met last year doesnt even ski or snowboardand they make him carry one so he can load and unload safely. but its moreof an ice issue down here. theres no way you could get off a lift in indiana withboots, you'd automatically fall. its hardpack ice ahhaha. god i love indiana.
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, I am probably best just going riding on my “good days” and just skate my board normally. Cause on those days it doesn't feel like anything is wrong with my knee. On “bad days” I can barely walk. I am not that good at switch, I can ride a little bit but after a couple hundred yards I need to go back to my normal stance.travz//, your from Indiana? I used to live in Northern Indiana. I didn't know there was any place to ski/ride there except for Swiss Ditch up in K-Zoo?
im from tennessee 😀 i usedto date girl from lafayette, thats about as north as ive gotten haha. paoli and perfect northare both in the south on the boarder of kentucky for paoli and ohio for perfect north.that sucks about your knee man. hopefully you'll get enough good days to make a seasonout of it 🙂
After a couple of weeks with dealing with general knee pain and hearing horror stories about the long term effects of having part of the meniscus removed, I had my doctor schedule an MRI of my knee to find out what sort of deal I was looking at. And I got “good” news.No ligament damage, no soft tissue damage, and all the cartiledge is intact. GREAT! However I have a small impact fracture on the base of my femur. So technically I have been walking around with a broken knee this past month. Which at this point, all I do is wait since the break is mostly healed. But that means no long term side effects. And I can do what I ever I am comfortable with at this point. Yippy! Still gotta see why I had remote pain in my knee and swelling in different areas then where the fracture actually is. But I get to go ride next week with my cousins, I am so stokeI can only imagine the looks I am going to get rolling up in a big SUV with 4 boards strapped to the roof and Colorado license plates They are going to look at me like I am crazy!
no, the snowboarder kiddies are going to back off cause us east coast people get a tad bit intimidated when someone from 'rado shows up with multiple boards ;)but they're also gonna expect double back flip rodeo 1260's strapless. ;)im so glad it was nothing major. your season is saved, and thats good news all around!
but they're also gonna expect double back flip rodeo 1260's strapless. 😉
Yeah, then I will surely put myself in the hospital :shock:….think I'll just stick with the medium/small features. Because my ex was even a semi-pro snowboarder and busted her face on a rail. Maybe it will be a good idea for a newb like me to bring my helmet. If I am expected to be awesome just because I live in Colorado. 8)
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