Dangers

Dangers Skiing involves many more dangers than meet the eye, first and forth most is the danger of falling. This is more prudent to the beginner skier than to the extremist, but it is still a danger not to ignore. Falling can involve extremes such as breaking an arm or a leg, but most falls just result in bumps and bruises. Falling can occur because of weak snow, catching an edge, or just simply getting cut off by another skier, but no matter how you fall, there is nothing you can do about that, just tell yourself that practice makes perfect. Out of control snow boarders also pose a threat to the diligent skier, because some snow boards are known to loose control and crash, but skiers always have to be on the look out. Another danger that occurs not very often in skiing is the danger that and Avalanche may occur. Most ski resorts will try to prevent the occurrence of avalanches by sending teams of ski patrol up to start an avalanche on purpose before hours, so during hours it won't occur. Avalanches are dangerous because they will make you fall, then bury you in snow and trap you until you run out of air. The beginner skier will usually not run into an avalanche because avalanches only occur on the advanced or expert slopes. If a skier of any level does run into an avalanche, the best thing they can do is to try to ski out of it. The way to ski out of an avalanche is to stop skiing down the hill, because chances are the avalanche is traveling faster than you, so if you can travel to the side and traverse out of the avalanches way, you may be able to come out unscathed. If you do get caught in an avalanches wrath, try to take as much space up as possible, because the more space you take, the more air you will have. Once you are all covered in snow, if you have enough room to maneuver around in, take a pole and start shoving it up through the snow, to try to poke for air holes. If you can poke an air hole, try to dig your way out, if you are too deep to poke air holes, you have a tough job ahead of you. You need to conserve energy and make sure you keep warm. Try to take off your skis if they didn't fall off during the initial avalanche. Now with your skis off and your energy conserved, all you can do is wait or try digging. Waiting is probably less useful, because unless you have a radio or a phone or an avalanche beacon, some one would only have the slightest chance of finding you with the avalanche beacon, because that distress signal ski patrol personnel can receive. If you don't have a phone or radio or avalanche beacon, and you decide to try to dig your way out, you may run into some problems. There may be ice too hard for you to push through, or the snow may be too soft and you can't get a firm footstep, and then get stuck. Even if you don't have either of these challenges, there's more. There might be 10 feet of snow above you, and unless you have a latter, you're not going to survive long. With dangers like avalanches and falling, whether it be by a reckless skier or a soft snow bank, you can run into some real problems.