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Ick. My neighbour snapped his femur this season but avoided the sled, they dosed him with morphine or ketamine and heli’d him off. Anecdotally I’ve heard heli’s are used for a lot more than before because the rescue can charge a bigger whack on insurance (and fair play to them if it keeps them operating).
I’ve not been sledded off myself but got skidooed down Blackcomb with a dislocated elbow. I did follow the sled down when my best mate did her ACL on a school trip back in the 80s, then we were driven to the hotel (not hospital) in the back of a teeny Renault. Teachers iced it and had her back on the slope a few days later! Did not go well :(.
brokenbetty
broke tib and fib, on piste, had to be wrapped up into a sled and ski’d back down by mountain rescue, xray in resort medical center, then 4 nights and a titanium rod in the main hospital