On 08/29/2014 08:25 AM, Michael
Angle wrote:
The hill was covered in a surface that
resembled chainlink fence with plastic bristles growing out
of it:
Ah, yes. This place was once known as "Hillend" - and there's a
particularly nasty form of thumb fracture/dislocation known in
orthopedic circles as "Hillend Thumb," because the surface there
produced so many cases of it. Mechanism of injury is this: as you
fall, you put your hand down, your thumb gets caught in the mat, the
rest of your body keeps moving and your thumb stays put.
And so I spent my hour running laps on
the three in-bounds runs. The final analysis?
- It was a blast. It was a real skiing experience.
- At the end of an hour, I was just as happy to go do
something else.
I had exactly the same reaction to skiing in an indoor snowdome in
Germany about twelve years ago. It was a fascinating experience, but
it doesn't take long to extract just about all the goodness from it.