Opening day at lake Louise, Lake Louise opens very early in the season. They only have enough snow and time to open one run and one chairlift. The skill level is vast as there are people that have never skied before and people that ski everyday. The run is called the WeWaxy 500 it is a 10m wide blue run (about 15%) and there can be hundreds of people going anywhere from 10km/h to 60km/h on a narrow ice rusted run that serves down the mountain with little to know snow around. It gets pretty hectic and you half to be careful not to run over some kid because you weren't paying attention.
I was doing a drill with my group we undid all of are boots to help us learn have proper balance well skiing. this can make stopping particularly hard and staying in control even harder. As i was coming particularly fast out of a steep section my right ski hit a rock and ripped the boot from my foot, the clipped ski went flying down the runn leaving me with one ski and an exposed foot. The ski flew right into a ski patrol snow mobile before stopping. I skied down and just as i went to put my foot in the boot i saw a ski patrol running towards me frantically screaming. He ran up to me grabbed my ski and got on the snowmobile before i could say anything. He yelled back at me. "I hope you can ski on one foot" It took me an extra 5 minuets to get down. I met up with the ski patrol where he told me "Do yout bindings up before tossing me my ski."
