Scary story from Salsa’s blog:

Last weekend one of our engineers, Blake, was competing in the 100 mile MTB endurance race in Park City, Utah. On the first lap he went down really fast in a hard crash. As best as he can tell, he thinks he flatted extremely quickly while on the descent, tossing him sideways into some rocks. He took a serious blow to the head from a rock. It did hit the lower part of the side of his helmet but also hit directly on his skull. The skull fracture pushed pieces up against his brain, but we are extremely thankful that he apparently didn’t receive any brain damage. We count that as a blessing.

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