Ski Trip

I was skiing at Giants Ridge last weekend, staying mostly on The Chute. (double black; harder than black diamonds) The top two thirds or so is about as steep as a black, is full of trees, has icy spots, and it really uneven so lots of turns are required. The last part is smooth but skinny and about 80 degrees (90 degrees is straight down). It's a lot of fun. One of my runs on it there was a girl, maybe 12, at the top of the steep part, nervous to go down. Her dad (assuming he was her dad) was about 8-10 feet away from her waiting for her to be ready. Plenty of room to go between them. When I was almost up to them, the girl, not seeing me, got up and started skiing across the hill towards her dad. When she saw me she started screaming, and I had seen her right away. I was able to avoid hitting her, but our skies still hit. She just fell over as anyone would on a green or blue, didn't slide down or anything, but our ski tips hitting combined with me turning sharp and increasing speed in attempt to avoid her made me literally fly about 4 yards (12 feet) down the steepest (almost straight down) part. It was actually pretty funny. All that happened was I got a little bit of snow on my pants and my jacket and a big scratch on my cheek from the icy snow I landed on. The run isn't that hard for me, and I kept going on it, (although most people won't attempt it and most who do end up crawling down, sliding down, or falling, lol), I just need to learn to keep my distance from little kids over their heads on steep stuff. :P Anyway, it didn't at all stop me from going on steep stuff, just taught me to stay away from little kids. lol.