In the first flurry light of a promising powder day, I was clearing the back deck from 6 inches of 5% density snow. As I skipped down the steps to clear the walk below, my front foot flew off of the icy ledge. Gravity kicked in immediately and exponentially, as gravity will, and I began to violently compress my back leg, knee and ankle beneath me in a potentially unnatural and painful geometry.
Without thinking I reacted by powering up my back leg into a powerful Telemark type scrunch-squat, absorbing the compression, lunging off that single leg and sticking the landing on the walkway below. "That would have killed a lesser man" I thought honestly to myself as I went on happily with the rest of my day.
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