Broken, But Not Beaten
We skied Keystone today and I have a brand new respect for Amy and ski poles. But I’ll get to that in a minute. Here we are at the top of Keystone – River Run Gondola. There is Breckenridge in the background. Not crowded but very, very warm. And we’d like a few inches of snow…but doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.
Here we are at lunch. Late start, late lunch, everyone is great and happy. No lines, no crowds…
Then it happened. I had just skied off to chase Cayden, saw that Amy, Coop, and Camber were good. We get over the hump and wait for the rest of the crew. And we wait…and wait…and wait. I call. Not good. Cooper got blasted by a snowboarder. I mean…blasted.
Amy saw the guy and starts hollering at him. Threatens to beat him with her poles. Of course, I’m not there, just over the hill. Not knowing what is going him. I’m sure the guy passed me. He’s lucky. Amy decides (wisely, I might add) to stay with Cooper. As God would have it, there were two ski patrol guys on vacation from Philadelphia. They stop and help Coop get sitting up, put some ice on his wrist. They call the Keystone Ski Patrol.
Sol (pronounced Saul) was the ski patrol guy. He was awesome.
In fact, he was so awesome, Amy felt comfortable enough to take pictures. I’m glad she did. Coop got a ride in the yellow sled. It wasn’t as fun as he thought it would be. And the guys FLYYYY down the mountain.
It’s hard to explain to your girls that their brother is okay, he’s not going to die when he’s wrapped up in the yellow sled and their zooming down the mountain. I took the girls, got the car, skis and gear to meet up with Aim at the Medical Center. Cooper got to pick the color of his cast – orange. And within a couple of hours, the adventure was done.
We bagged him up so he could sit in the hot tub. Keepin’ it elevated and the good news? He can hit the slopes on Wednesday. And we will…
Pray that I don’t run into that snowboarder…
8 Responses to “Broken, But Not Beaten”
Just think, this will someday be an excellent story with which he can impress all of the girls. He may need to embellish a little, but at least it is a start! Hang in there, Coop!
Don’t you just want to build walls around them sometimes to keep out the rotten stuff? At least he won’t have any trouble writing his “What I Did on Spring Break” essay. Good choice on the orange cast. Orange pretty much goes with everything.
Bless him. He looks as if he handled it well.
He really has no control over these adventures, it’s in his gene pool. Let me count the ways in the ER’s of America!
Okay, I think I done now, it’s time for you guys to come back. Robyn just don’t play that. I think if I would have been there I would have been egging your mom and dad to join me on the slopes to hunt for this guy. However I would hinder the search since I have no idea how to ski, and I don’t do cold, and I get altitude sickness….while anyway I’ve got your back here in Kansas should the guy come this way.
sorry for cooper. on a good note my mom thinks you wrote an excellent account of the incident.
Ok. . .I’ll have to admit – I was half-way hoping to read about Amy beating some snowboarder with her poles. That I would have paid the price of admission to see.
Coop, glad you’re doing better. And you still get to ski on Wed!
Oh, Cooper, I’m so sorry! You know your momma would’ve beaten that snowboarder with her poles if she could’ve caught him! The cool part is that now you have a cool orange cast, and the girls really dig injured boys! William will think it’s pretty cool, too. The rest of us will just be praying for you, dude!
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