Reasons to Wear a Helmet

There is often a lot of discussion about helmets. I am unabashedly pro helmet. Some people think that you only need one if you are doing crazy stuff, but in my experience it's the easy goofing off type stuff that you get hurt on. Plus there are a lot of people who are out of control on the mountain and  you never know what they're going to do to you.

So I wear a helmet all the time. In the years I've been snowboarding it seems more and more of my friends are wearing them. But if you need some reasons to wear one check out my photos. These are from a few years ago at Killington. I was crusing and the wind blew up some snow and I didn't see the roller that I went flying off of. I smacked my head on the ice and didn't even know it was that bad until someone noticed the cracks during lunch. At the very least I'd have had a really bad concussion without my helmet, but I think it probably would have been even worse.