The next Lindsey Vonn!

Try to get her back on skis asap...I have vivid memories of similar incidents with my daughter when we was just staring (now 20).

Edit to add, if she got hurt I understand it may not be the right thing for her to ski the next day.

That sounds like a really rough ski slope. Any of the kids ones here are basically flat.

I'm glad she's ok.

Was she wearing a helmet?

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

Legend is that I started the same way into a chain link fence. Now I live in Colorado mainly for the skiing.

When my daughter was that age I screamed Turn or we are going strainght back to the lodge more times that I can count.

At 9 she can out ski me on double blacks. It’s a weird feeling when your kiddo schools you down hole in the wall.

My daughter used to go straight down. She got over that and isn't nearly as fast as she used to be

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

Sounds like you watched your kid having fun and wiping out like kids do.

My first time down the ski hill, I ended up going through the parking lot and crashing into the side of car. Safety netting, LOL

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Tethers. And don't let her off until she proves she has speed control.

Or don't watch and pray for the best. Kids are pretty resilient.
- Jeff

^^^^^THIS^^^^^ I see a lot of these on Utah ski slopes.

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DFL > DNF > DNS

We use tethers all the time (I volunteer for an Adaptive sports program), for everything from actively creating a turn shape with them to simply as a back-up speed control.

Quite frankly, if someone is on the slope that simply will/does not show that they have control, you need to do something, not just to protect them but to protect everyone else on the slope. It's just proper etiquette.
- Jeff

She had tethers. The problem was that she was in the lift in front and did not stop.........

Anyway. Back at it today........

Good luck!! Skiing with tiny kids can at times be terrifying. If I could find it, I’d post the video of my then 4 year old skiing perfectly down the slope, and at his last turn slamming into a pole (a permanently placed metal pole with a pad on it) right at the lift line. He was fine, but sometimes they just crash. (And he could control his speed and turn, just turned at the exact wrong time).

My now 4 year old is riding the big lifts and the instructor told us we need to work on him not trying to lean forward on the chairlift. That’s terrifying!! It’s bad enough they needed to talk to us about it - Grandpa is coming tomorrow and we will be working with him the rest of the week on chairlift safety more than anything before next weeks lesson. Kids!!!

Have fun - before you know it they are 9 and telling you about the 10 ft cliff they daffied off of or the chest deep powder they hit on the XX rope drop in the Extremes!😂😂

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Harry: "I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this."
Loyd: "I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of shit, man."

Ah, yes... I need tethers for my reading comprehension, apparently...

If kids wanna get away, there isn't much you can do other than never let 'em off a leash or leave 'em home. And neither is a good option.

Good luck with that one!
- Jeff

I've an acquaintance who's five year old has done the valle blanche

I am pretty sure my 5 year old could now ski it, it's the distance that would wipe her out. The five year olds skiing red / blacks........

Ski club next season

My 7 year old almost started crying when I said he should try skiing.

So there's that.

Perhaps he'd rather mountain bike down those slopes instead!

HA! He's very risk-averse. The two year old is going to "out-sport" him for sure. Luckily, he's also not the kind of kid who would care about that - he'd just want to cheer his brother on.