Skiing is, under normal circumstances, a risky business. But quite aside from having to dodge snowboarders trying to ride into your bindings and beginners weaving their unpredictable way in front of you, it seems there is yet another threat to your safety, coming from a most unexepected angle. The other day while skiing under a chairlift, around 20 metres from the line of the lift, a ski fell out of the sky and crashed down in the snow in front of me, following by what, on closer inspection, I found to be the front end of someone's ski boot. I stopped by said ski, and then looked skywards to see a 4 people turned backwards on the chair looking aghast. I did the decent thing, and dropped it off at the lift station. before going on my way. Had I have taken a different route under the chair, it could have been nasty.
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