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[x-treme]

Scheduling a ride with my wife. And not having the forethought to check and see if her friend Flo will be joining us. Haha! It's not that much of a joke......

Now that's just stupid!

When Flo shows up unexpectedly, it can really ruin the fun.

[snowhound63]

Riding in Revelstoke with my 14 year old son on a fine sunny day and he breaks his right femur 20 Kms from truck only 2 of us on the mountain that day. Had to pick him up and put him on his sled told him to follow me out.He is the toughest person I know he rode 20kms with a broken leg Pretty scary.

[snow dance]

When Flo shows up unexpectedly, it can really ruin the fun.

The same can be said for the dreaded " #3 " after having hot wings for dinner.

[FZrider]

Heading home at night following my buddy, took a "shortcut" through a part of a local lake called the narrows. Hit VERY bad slush, hammer the throttle but barely making headway when suddenly I see the tail light on my friends sled go under. I managed to get over to the bank and stop, by then my friend was already sloshing his way over. Thank goodness it was only about waist deep and the back of the skis were still on top of the ice. We got it out, him in the water lifting the back, me pulling on the front. It actually started up and we hauled "edit for bad language" home. It was about 0deg f and we were soaked, but could have ended much worse. We were a few miles from any civilization, had we both gone in and lost the sleds, likely would have froze to death!

[dude600x]

Watching my old man hit a tree with his head...survived with a concussion and a swollen closed eye. Buddy hitting a tree in the bush and breaking his knee. Almost hitting a moose then following him for about a minute on the trail.

RIP Frank

[BeesStingCats]

Death of a friend while riding together,other critical accidents witnessed, sinking in the Mississippi while wife on sled with me to name a few..

Thats really terrible, good to see you still ride, alot of guys would probably never get on again

[Red Lake Rob]

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[BAMJAM]

Had a 99 Chevy 2500, a 97 Renegade enclosed 4 place, a 98 Formula3, a millennium mxz 700, and a 2001 Mach z tech. Rolled it all over in the fall of 2000! The Mach had 0 miles and was my dads new sled! Scared me half to death and even worse to see my investments laying in the field! Hit slick roads going about 40 mph. Fixed the truck & all the sleds, but totalled the trailer. No one was hurt & that is what I was most thankful for!

[BeesStingCats]

thats just dumb! and i want to get my 11 year old involved in this sport with drunks on sleds. cant you just enjoy the buzz of riding? my 02 dont and

Their are way to many drunks on sleds. You go up north and they fill the bars and drink like fish, then just jump on their sleds like its nobodys business. I personally don't drink ever, and don't understand why poeple have to associate recreation with it. The pure freedom, and rush of being on a sled, in the backcountry is enough high for me to last for weeks! Let one of them drunks fly around a corner and hit my kid, and I will probably sit in prison the rest of my life!

[michigan500ss]

2 years ago I was riding #2 and my dad was leading; we arrived at a stop sign on the trail after a very easy trail section but felt a sick feeling after waiting for 5 minutes and none of our buddies arrived. We turned around only to find rider #3 in the middle of the trail spitting out teeth and his sled 05 rev 600sdi was in a tree.

The rider ended up with a concussion and a broken jaw

[chirodooc]

#1. I was riding some power lines with my brother in 2003 and found someone put a fence across the trail. The same trail we rode the day before. The fence wrapped across my chest, neck and head. I would have been decapitated had his sled not released the tension on the fence. I only suffered a crack rip. He went butt first into a fence post and fractured his pelvis and sacrum. He also developed hypothermia from lying in the snow in his carhardts. We had no phone service so I stabilized his pelvis with a strap and we rode out ten miles. #2. Vomiting in my helmet after eating pizza when riding with my favorite riding buddy. We were eating in the Berglund area when we saw the cook smoking and ashes falling on the pizza. We were so hungry we ate it anyways. We made it maybe a mile down the trail before I got sick.

[madmikey]

X2 on prison,I will be in the cell next to ya!

Their are way to many drunks on sleds. You go up north and they fill the bars and drink like fish, then just jump on their sleds like its nobodys business. I personally don't drink ever, and don't understand why poeple have to associate recreation with it. The pure freedom, and rush of being on a sled, in the backcountry is enough high for me to last for weeks! Let one of them drunks fly around a corner and hit my kid, and I will probably sit in prison the rest of my life!

[sum800mit]

Me and a buddy were riding through a cut block and he got speared by a fallen tree, got him a inch below the heart the doctor said, it was pretty scary

[skidooman383]

Back in January 2002, one night around 7PM by myself I broke through the ice. Water was to my chin, I dislocated my arm when I broke through the ice and was about 100 yards from shore. Spent 15-20 minutes getting to shore by jumping up and breaking the ice. When I got to shore I had hypothermia so bad I felt like I was 150 degrees and started to take my cloths off. I had adrenaline going so hard that I couldn't feel any pain from my shoulder. I only knew it was dislocated cause I couldn't use it. Thank god there was a house about 50 yards from where I ended up on shore. Some people were home and called an ambulance, I collapsed and went unconsious before ambulance got there.

$15,000 dollar surgery later to reattach the muscles in my shoulder and I'm all good. I'm lucky to not be a death stat.