Final day at Breckenridge today, time was winding down and my buddy called last lap(never call last lap). We were rolling through the park and i was going last of my 3 buddies. I went off jump 3 and as i was looking down at the landing and one of my buddies is lying there motionless with my other buddy holding him yelling at him to wake up. I pop the skies off go over and look at him, eyes are rolled back in his head cuts on his head and still not moving. Fortunately he wasn't bleeding to bad and he was still breathing. Ran to the top of the jump as he started to come around and with the help of some other kind bystanders got the jump blocked off and ski patrol called. He came around a couple minutes later and ski patrol took him to the bottom. No he wasn't wearing a helmet, and yes the landing was all icy today.

He got his ride down the hill from ski patrol, and we get to their little medical shack at the bottom and im talking to the medical staff. They had just finished sending a body to the morgue. Yep, that's right a girl just died at Breck today. They said she went head first into a tree, and yep you guessed it, no helmet.

Coincidentally we were already planning on going to the hospital because another guy i was riding with earlier today got tripped up and went face first and also had a bad concussion among other things. Get to the hospital and there ended up being 4 people i knew in there, 3 for concussions, one for a messed up finger(rooms right next to each other in the ER, it was convenient). All 3 with concussions were not wearing a helmet. Also like i said, the girl that died was also not wearing a helmet.

I wound up getting a bunch of TBell and going around the hospital handing it out to the people i knew, figured they were hungry after a long day riding and a nice long hospital visit. All of them are going to be ok, and passed their tests to get released. And all four people i knew in that hospital are very good snowboarders. Just wear a helmet guys, a hospital trip can be avoided and it also might just save your life.