Stay safe on the snow
The comedy cliché of the ski resort populated by people in plaster casts and full body traction is, fortunately, very incorrect. As long as you take sensible precautions, wear all the right safety gear and don’t go wandering off piste without telling someone where you’re going, then there’s no reason that you can’t expect to come back as fit and healthy at the end of your two weeks on the slope as you were at the start. In fact, skiing and snowboarding isn’t even as dangerous as staying in the office, according to the number of accidents at work reported every year. And it isn’t even the most dangerous sport; fishing has that honour thanks to the high number of blokes who have too much to drink and fall in the water!
However, even if you are wearing all the right safety gear and don’t go chasing down the black runs on your first days on the slopes, accidents do happen and there is a risk that you could pick up a nasty bruise or scrape or even a potentially more serious injury. When snowboarders fall, in fact when most people fall, their instinct is to put out their hands to try and stop themselves. Sensible precaution, but it does lead to quite a high number of wrist fractures among snowboarders. Still, a minor wrist fracture and just a few weeks in plaster is a much better option than landing flat on your face in the snow.
I usually fall backwards rather than forwards, which means it ends up being my bum that takes the brunt of the fall. Luckily, I’ve only ever suffered some nasty bruising and have never broken my coccyx – but I know people who have and one female friend said it was more painful than childbirth…
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