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"At least someone found something to do that's fun when it's freezing cold outside."

He's Norwegian, and we are experiencing the mildest winter in recent memory right now, its about +6 Celsius here now. in January. In Norway. Thats absolutely mental for this place. There is no snow. It rains, its foggy and shitty all over the place. Usually its -10 to -15 and white snow everywhere by now, but not this year.

Same in Northern Germany. I mean we have snowless winters sometimes. But never above 0°C in January.

Although it seems to be getting colder to the end of the week.

Why does his face look photoshopped?

Regarding the helmet/death statistics.. I'd be interested to see what percentage of deaths are from people wearing helmets.

It doesn't matter if 70% of people are wearing helmets if the 30% who aren't are the ones doing potentially fatal activities. A family who ski/ride once a year and wear helmets on green runs are probably not going to die, but that 14 year old who's going for it in the half-pipe every chance s/he gets is at a higher risk.

I snowboard pretty regularly myself and these days I tend to stick with back/side country. I've pretty much always worn a helmet, but I used to see a lot of young guys in the park hitting decent sized jumps/rails without one.

Good point; to my recollection, to the frustration of physicians (published article I think last month)--it's people wearing helmets.

BTW, the same date trend (same level of fatalities) applies to bicycles (but not, apparently, motorcycles to my memory)---probably for the same reason

Interesting....one more question to satisfy my inner statistics pedant:
I assume when you say "death rate" you're speaking in relative terms (i.e. deaths per man hours sliding) rather than absolute figures?

As we can see in the Michael Schumacher case: wearing a helmet does not necessarily protect you from a bad injury, but can make a big difference in life or death accident-scenarios

He fell at slow speed right next to the groomed track, his head hit a rock and the impact broke his helmet. No indication of "reckless behaviour" at all there, just the worst possible place to fall at. He would be dead had he not worn one.

what a flight !!