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Originally Posted by flip
Like I said what do your friends do when they go skiing? If you go to the parks you will need one. Rails, half pipes and jumps can be dangerous. But seriously going down a blue at Sunshine? Even on Goat's Eye at Sunshine I never felt unsafe without a helmet.
I would never and will never wear a helmet.
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In my opinion, as someone who rides 30 days a year and just started wearing a helmet last season, the most important reasons, in order of importance, for a helmet are as follows:
0: Your girlfriend telling you to... 
1: Other people hitting you on a green or blue run.
2: Loosing control and rag dolling down a rocky chute or through a glade run.
3: Bouncing off the deck in the pipe and hitting your head on the flat bottom.
4: Slamming hard off a jump.
5: Rails.
I don't care if you wear a helmet but thinking you only need a helmet to ride park is silly. I hate to agree with RCR here but rails are pretty safe and you'd be hard pressed to hit your head. Icy runs with out of control skiers/boarders on the other hand...