"Do you need some sort of license or permit to go try that there stunt ditch?"
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"Do you need some sort of license or permit to go try that there stunt ditch?"
"Some guy broke his neck"
yeah it may be picky but...
There are nine of us-at Brighton we are 25% of the population of the entire mountain on this work day. We stop for a rest, completely at side of trail, in a downhill line no more than one skier wide.
Snowboarder: " Man you are all blocking the trail"
Seriously you guys may even sympathise but he had no NFI
Answer-Me pretty straight and mate even straigher, absolutely no concurring and completely simultaneous-"Fuck off idiot-learn to board"
Not exactly a quote. After weeks of trying to get some non skier friends out to the local hill(~400' of vert) we finally made it to ride some nice boilerplate.
In the group of 5 of us there we 4 pairs of jeans and 2 carhartt jackets.
I was so proud.
^^^^ Keeps it real!^^^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartacus087
Today up after having walked down the whole arete at the Aiguille du Midi in total whiteout and storm, a snowboarder guy said to me: "I didnt realize this was off-piste"
His two friends were still trying to make their way down the rope by sliding on their asses, absolutely terrified.
I politely explained to him that it is highly advizable to know what the hell you are doing if you are heading down this place. And in a whiteout it is really dangerous... Then i had to take off, hope they turned around like i told them to..
Gaper looking at my fat skis and BC pack... "Looks like you decided to go extreme skiing today?"
Saw a guy at the top of Saddle chute at Mt Rose--very steep, very firm, very narrow, very longvery bumpy--wearing a "Reno Rugby" jacket. I was laughing to myself until I saw him make it top to bottom in about 15 seconds, on his feet. Sometimes clothes make the man, sometimes the man makes the clothes. Glad I kept my mouth shutQuote:
Originally Posted by Spartacus087
Admittedly not a quote, but...
It was a bluebird day at Mt. Hood Meadows on Sunday, and the soccer moms and jeans/sweatshirt skiers were out in force. In the after-lunch rush at the Mt. Hood Express chair, some gaper failed to get on the chair, and wound up hanging off the front.
They stopped the chair when he was about 15 feet past the loading zone: his feet were only about 3 feet off the ground. The "ground" in this case was 2 feet of untracked snow (flat ground right under the lift, so it's untouched all season long), so all 400 people in the line started yelling for him to jump, dammit. We're pretty impatient because it was about a 15-minute line before they stopped the chair.
But no...he manages to cling desperately to the chair until every lift op drops what they're doing, all grab a big tarp (like the kind of thing that firemen might hold under a burning building), and hold it under him to catch him. Lift is stopped for about 5 minutes, making everyone furious.
Then, disregarding the fact that everyone in line is yelling things like "back of the line chump!" and threatening him with physical harm, he tries to head back to the front of the line (!!).
The crowd was getting pretty ugly -- fortunately for the gaper, a lift op yanked him out of line and took him into the lift shack to have him fill out an "incident report".
We decided that was our sign to head home before all the gapers got off the hill and back into their cars...
Last Saturday at Sunday River, it was snowing pretty good and we were enjoying the fresh pow. I brought along this foreign kid who mouthed off so much, I wanted to strangle him:
On grooming: "This is terrible. Don't they ever groom this? You can't expect people to ski this. In (foreign country), they bring out the grooming tractors as soon as the snow falls."
On the cloudy weather: "Why do they let people ski in this weather? In (foreign country), if the sun isn't out, they won't allow you to ski. They should close this place."
That's when you knock him down, take his skis off, take them with you and leave.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowmonster
"Do those Dynafit bindings drive that ski [Gotama]?"
:D
Hey dude, can you still teleski with your heels locked down. :eek:
In the Ursa lift line..."ooh honey look, there's one of those people with those wide skis they use for the terrain park"
When I first posted this back on page 4, I was a dumbass who couldn’t figure how to post pics so I’m sure few if any followed my link. Now I’m a dumbass who can post pics. Thought this was worthy of a 2nd go round with included pic.
Me: “Let me take your picture, I take the pic of the day for the Magic website” (untrue, just know the guy that does)
Alice Cooper: “Really?”
Me: “yeah, I’ll put you on the internet”
AC “Internet? Great, hold on, let me take my hat off” (takes hat off & shakes hair wildly)
When i saw him in the bar later he was so pumped he & his family made the pic of the day.
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...2&d=1204663739
Why was AC skiing Magic?
Pretty sure he was joking by calling him Alice Cooper. Alice is WAY more haggard looking...I think you'd be able to see the divits in his face. I don't know though.
Sorry, AC “lookalike”
Really not the point of my story as it could work with any old heavy metal rocker in leather. Take your pick.
Kind of a bummer for his little kid on a board being stopped on the flats like that. ;)
He's got his thumb up.
I admit, I didn't actually look at the photo.
Last year at Cataloochee a girl stopped me as I was on my way to the bar and ask if I can show here how to get her skis on. I took a look at what she was doing and just told her to turn the ski around. She clicked in just fine then.
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Originally Posted by uppernotmaster
The challenge now, G, is to post pic without an attached thumbnail....and you thought you were done.. :D
I drop gazillions of hints like "somebody tell me how to do fuckn do that", and still I flounder:-)
Took me 2 years to get this far. Pencil me in for that step March 2010.
Slooooowww dowwn .. next thing you know, you'll have an avatar.
:-)))
Was riding the lift this morning and I guy asked me how I was liking my K2 Pontoons - I kinda just pulled a stoopid face and looked at him for a while. I realized he was referring to my 04' 87mm Karmas with the custom woodgrain topsheet. There was a pretty long silence as I thought about what to say....I finally settled on "they're great - thanks"
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k5...m/IMG_2405.jpg
I was taking an avy class this weekend and we met Sunday morning at the bottom of the gondola at The Canyons. While we were waiting for everyone to show up we started to look at the surface hoar that was forming on the fresh snow, and one of the instructors took out a thermometer to show there the snow was colder then the air temp. So there's a couple of people huddled around the thermometer and the instructor is talking about long wave cooling, yadda yadda and some dude in a fart bag sticks is head in and goes. "Hey what are you guys doing, oh your measuring the snow temperature so you know what kind of wax to use. Hey Bill, check this out, these guys are trying to figure out what kind of wax to use." He then turns to the guy holding the thermometer, Tom Kimbrough, and says "Oh man, I didn't get my skis waxed last night" and Tom goes "Well then, your not going to be able to keep up with us"
Was riding Chair 4 at Telluride this weekend with a Gaper in a Red Sox jersey, backwards hat and shades. He said he'd hiked Bald Mt. 3 times. I asked him if he was by himself and he said, "Yeah, no one likes to ski with me because I always like to go extreme skiing." Also, last Saturday was cat skiing with San Juan Ski Company. Had another Boston gaper in the group. Horrible skier, completely out of control. He crossed the guide's left track on every run, and continuously traveresed open powder fields that we could have skied on subsequent runs. On several occasions he skied below the guide and kept being threatened by the guide to be removed from the group (I wish he had been). Best quote of the day by him: "Are we going to have to stay in a group all day, or will we get to go off on our own?" Yeah.....head that way dude, the cat will find YOU.
this was at moonlight a couple weeks ago. Some dudes from Cali were on the lift with me. Montana (at least MLB) doesn't seem to be too bad with gapers at all. Lot of MN, ND, SD, but I've heard a few southern/texan accents. The guy from Bismark didn't even put the bar down (the other day). The snowboarder of the group gave me the "boy those are fat." to which I just replied "it's par for the course out here, where are you from?"
They didn't really piss me off at all, they were nice, and didn't put the bar down. They were on what I refer to as old man fat skis. Ac4's, Legend 8000, etc.
Then the killer: "$51 dollars for a lift ticket, that the best deal I've seen in years."
I then named 2 ways to get cheaper lift tickets to moonlight, and mentioned how cheap bridger is.
It must be nice to have money.
This mountain host or ski instructor or something was with this guy and explaining the mountain to him (he was a newb). I think I may have jumped in a few times at the mention of sharp rocks on lone mountain (because it's almost comical how fucked up it is).
Then he starts in with a joke: "Why are skiing and golf such great sports?"
to which I reply "Golf is an awful horrible sport, but I'll play your game."
Sounds as if you are taking out your Yankee's frustrations out on Boston a bit. gapers are everywhere, including NYC.
Did have a similar experience with with Powder Mt cat-skiing at whistler a couple weeks ago with some freaks so i know how annoying it can get when the group waits for the guides to locate some idiot who skis off on his own.
probably was a johnny damon Jersey?
How does that nail-gun work for ski mounts?Quote:
Originally Posted by TyWebb
Not a Damon jersey. Nothing on the back. And I don't have to take frustration out on Boston after the Pats were successful in deflating some of that Bostonite douchebaggery. I was merely painting a vivid picture of each situation. I know all about NYC gaperdom.....skied at Mountain Creek NJ on weekends in college!
A few years back while working at PURG I left the shop and ran across a texan in a one ton ford dually 2wd trying to make it up the steep drive with a foot of fresh. he had the gas pinned and kept digging in deeper. i offered to get my rig to tow him out. he accepted while saying "hope you got a dually" i came around with my Tacoma and got the strap out of the bed. the texan just laughed and told me there was no way i could help. I insisted he let me give it a shot, i hooked him up put 'er in 4 low and dragged him out. I got my strap back with a shit eating grin and left. I laughed my ass off all the way home.
later that season, spring break, my buddy Chris was chipping ice off the steps when a touron with spurs and ten gallon hat, the whole get up, tapped Chris on the shoulder and said "Where I come from you'd be a different color." wtf? It took all of Chris' will power not to plant that pick in the ignorant assholes foot.
Not a quote really but I was out skiing this weekend with some friends. A lot of them are getting into the sport and I try to encourage them as much as possible -- except this one douchebag who, in his mind, is a super-athlete (e.g., he loves to use the word "hardcore" for anything he does) but is really totally uncoordinated. As a skier, he hits every gaper stereotype and gives newbies a bad name. Anyway, he loves to talk a big game and the night before the big trip was talking to one of the girls who was taking a lesson:
Cute Girl: I'm taking a ski lesson tomorrow.
Ugly Douche: That's great. So, you'll be skiing the greens. (PAUSE) Oh, I can't ski with you then. I ONLY SKI BLACK DIAMONDS.
The next day, he can't even get off the chairlift, skis down the greens in the biggest snowplow possible and quits after 3 runs because "he can't turn in this snow." Of course, the other newbie kids in the group are getting down the mountain with no sweat. One of the newbie girls actually gives him a trail map and points to the Beginner Area and says: "I think you should practice your turns here."
not so much a quote as it is a noise. the noise some gapers make when they click their poles behind them when approaching dh skiers/boarder... as in "i'm passing you in my semi-tuck".
is this a generally accepted rule of passing? cuz i never saw or heard it before moving to park city. and i've never seen someone do it who could actually ski worth a shit
A whole season at Purg with only 2 bad Texan stories (and one of them was probably from Arkansas)? Not bad.
I do this. And everyone knows I suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Parvo
check this outQuote:
Originally Posted by KillWW
:http://http://townienews.com/
he did two shows in hoboken you can catch on YOUTUBE too. sums up the pats fans grief which i am over thanks to Fitzy. scroll down to the Sb we blew webcast.
oh shit. I would have blown up on that guy, but I guess sometimes assholes like that aren't worth the time. how could someone be so ignorant? :nonono2:Quote:
Originally Posted by MFJ&S
i think you passed me clicking your poles this sunday -- were you wearing a puffy red fagbag and billy kidd's cowboy hat?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen