My wife and I hiked to Serenity Bowl on Breckenridge's Peak 6. This is hike-to terrain, requiring a brief hike up from Kensho Super-Chair. I entered the bowl first and stopped a few hundred yards below her so I could capture video of her sweet turns.

It seems she caught an edge in the powder just above me and went tumbling, taking my legs out in the process. Tangled up in each other, we careened down the mountain for several seconds then slid a hundred feet or so. When we finally arrested, all she could do was laugh as we untangled ourselves from each other. Unfortunately for her, the ski that popped off came to a stop a few hundred yards further down the mountain, so she glissaded down to it while I skied down the rest of the elevation we had hiked.

She's one of the most skilled and aggressive skiers I've been out with and has been an excellent instructor and role model for me, both in challenging myself and in having fun in the mountains no matter what happens. I couldn't be more impressed at how gracefully she handled this.

Juxtapose our adventure with this Breck snowboarder. My wife had been tumbling for only a few milliseconds, whereas this snowboarder slid most of the way down the bowl before finding the right skier to collide with. http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/2vb9kz/how_not_to_ride_down_the_horseshoe_bowl_at/