Dr. Ruth was pretty interesting. She couldn't give me any advice though.
Rides with mags are always great.
Printable View
Dr. Ruth was pretty interesting. She couldn't give me any advice though.
Rides with mags are always great.
Oh shit, I can't believe I forgot this, but when I was a kid at Mount Hood Summer Ski Camp I was doing the bump clinic and Johnny Moseley came flying by and stopped for a second. He was pretty good. But I'm sure quite a few of you here have skied with him quite a bit.
Night skiing in the 80's at Park City (maybe PW?)
Kept riding up with a older guy who was checking in on the radio when he got on and then off. After 3-4 times that we happened to share a chair I asked about the check in. Turns out he was a nuclear weapons guy but armed escort couldn't ski and so he had mandatory 15 minute check ins. I asked about chance of all out nuclear war and he said will never happen. Next ride he said I have to believe that or I'll lose it. Last run he skis down to couple of guys and loaded in gov vehicle.
Heli skied with Montell Williams. I had no idea who he was, but my bro-in-law knew him because they were at the navel academy together.
Rode CH2 with Chris Cornell @1992? ish. He was rocking a pink fartbag and snowboarding, but had head phones in and just sort of mumbled a hey and didn't talk much. Oh well, I really don't either.
Waaay back in the day as a kid, Robert Redford would occasionally drop in to my Grampa's house at Sundance. We rarely skied at Sundance ever but one of those times was a few runs with Bob.
Smoked weed with Tommy Moe at a western regional in Aleyska, we were 15-16.
Also had a awesome time visiting this dude Buster Highmen place and skiing Silverton and Treasure mountain hut with a bunch of OG maggots. Luv ya B.
Funny story - skied Sun Valley one bright spring day and noticed a large man in a green jacket shredding around the groomers. It was Arnold.
Bumped into him in the lodge later, but a bunch of kids were pestering him, so I bugged out.
Got lost in a blizzard in Japan with Sean Pettit, Mark Abma and Joe Schuster. Watched Pettit almost die after dodging a birch tree within millimeters of his skull.
Climbed and skied old Mt. Yotei with Mr. Greg Hill. Sadly, there was a whiteout at the top, but he goes the extra distance just to prove he can find the summit stake. Guy is a complete animal.
Tried to keep pace with Jimmy Chin one day in the Jackson backcountry. I went for broke up the glory bootpack and matched his pace. At the top, I finally catch him, introduce myself, and gasp:
"Jimmy, were you going regular speed or fast speed??"
"Sorry, bro - I was going slow speed!"
Benny Profane
Rick Wyatt (we also spent a good chunk of the day touring and chatting)
Marine Tele instructor outta Sonora pass (never seen snow until enlisting). He was on a free ski day. We skied multiple laps on chair 23 together.
I’ve also gone touring under a full moon with WOW. Not a lift, but he’s an interesting guy. Good skiing, too.
I will forever picture him in that “bozo the clown” haircut from the 90s. So funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
my friend was bootfitting in Niseko and Eric pollard came in for a fitting. we both happened to be going to rusutsu the next day so we skied with him and his filmer all day. #prohoe
it was not easy trying to keep up, but we were shown some sweet spots
You're no slouch yourself...Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
but I'm surprised you didn't say Kim Kardashian or Justin Timberlake? :wink:
It was a treat to ski with Jamie Pierre at the Straightline Camp. Jamie even filmed me going huge. Most mags are very interesting people IRL. Gordy Pieffer is not only a legend, but is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Always a good time to hook up and get to know mags better. Too many to list, but looking forward to another fun year.
I caught first tram with Guru Dave at Snowbird, as I’m sure about 10,000 people have over the years. Cool guy though and shares great beta for the day.
I've had lots of interesting conversations on the lift. Something about being in a patroller uniform makes people open up and tell you shit, like you're a therapist. 3 "famous" people: Tiger Woods, Picaboo Street and Fred Beckey.
The lift ride with Tiger was with him and the private instructor that he had brought from Deer Valley. He didn't say much on the ride and I think the instructor was miffed that I joined them. I had no idea who they were but saw the group of two on a quad and swooped in from the troller entrance last second.
Picaboo was rolling with some type of entourage. She desperately wanted me to know who she was, I figured it out but never let on.
Fred was the most interesting of the group. Enough so that I took a run with him and another ride and then he wanted to know if employees got free food.
Met Benni Raich on the lift at Portillo. He was fascinated by my Moment skis.
Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
I spent a week skiing with Dr Ruth in the early 90’s at lake Louise. It was celebrity ski week. All kinds of celebs around. Dr Ruth spent her week skiing with Franz Klammer and my self. No advice from the Doc. But Mr Klammer told me I was a “ very good skier”. That is one of the highlights of my ski life.Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
Jealous. I was working at the resort down the valley when he won the SG at Kvitfjell. Tough track. Always tricky light.Quote:
Originally Posted by charles martel
For me, Astrid Lødemel. Colleagues laughing, when she smiled at me I went deer in the headlights.
Astrid. Wow!Quote:
Originally Posted by hafjell
I actually took a full morning ski lesson two days in a row from him. We free skied and ran GS and sl gates. He was really good and really nice.
Sent from my moto e5 plus using TGR Forums mobile app
In case you were wondering if it was really Beckey...Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
And great hats. And tons of Euro beta.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlpineKevin
Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowing alpy
I wouldn’t say it’s 15 inches, but you’d have to measure to be sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlpineKevin
Also, GFYS.
I've skied with every great personality and celebrating living or dead...but with goggles, helmet and a Buff I couldn't tell who was who.
In other words, who gives a fuck. I just chat with whom ever sits next to me if they are so inclined to chat. In the end we are all just skiers/boarders and people having a good time in the mountains.
Second that Gordy is the mang, and all his pro coaches are great as well, just people having fun in the mountains.
He does ski on 200cm skis as his daily driver, so...Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
"...it might be 12 inches long, but I don't use it as a rule..."
Sent from my SM-G930P using TGR Forums mobile app
Because when you ride with someone that doesn't talk about the weather and what size skis you have for the millionth time, it can becool and memorable. And if it's one of your ski heros, you already know a bit about them, so the conversation is rarely dumb small talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
I hate the "Wow, are you water skiing?" line. Uh, dude, fat skis have been around since, 2003? So 15 years? You haven't figured this out yet? Have you been repeating that line with every lift rider for 15 ski seasons?Quote:
Originally Posted by muted
My mom rode the lift at Stevens with a little old lady in her mid-70s, who was apparently up there with her dad who was in his late 90s...but he ditched her.
My 2:
-As a kid, maybe high school?, riding ch23 at Mammoth with my prized K2 Extreme skis on, sit down next to Mike Hattrup. He asks how I like the skis and we talk the whole chair ride about how he designed them blah blah blah. Couldn't have been a nicer guy.
-Cham, Riding the top tram of the Grands Montets. I'm skiing solo, the clouds have rolled in, and I didn't exactly know my way around too well. Hear some English and start talking to the guys. Turns out it was Dan Egan running one of his camps. He tells me to follow them and have the best afternoon lapping the upper bin with no line, ripping fast laps down toward the Argentiere glacier.
The dude's story about Doug Coombs was awesome. I also followed him a few times around JH during the '96/'97 season. Dude couldn't have been nicer and was like a cat. He would just bounce off things and always land upright on his feet. Definitely my idol for a few decades...
Celeb: Shared a lift with James Taylor at his local hill the season before his accident. As nice and soft-spoken as you would expect.
Interesting: A WWII vet still skiing at 94. His destroyer, the Lansdale, was sunk in the Mediterranean during attack. He treaded water overnight before being rescued. He had countless other great stories from being a glider pilot and general adventurer. I'd be happy to be half as good of a skier at 80 as he was at 94.
Rode the lift with Seth Morrison at CB once. It was the first day the North Face was open for the year and we chatted about how good the conditions were. Pretty sure we weren't skiing the same lines lol.
I may have posted about this before and I don't know if he's the most interesting person I've shared a lift with but:
I rode a t-bar with Seth Morrison several times when I was like 13-14 years old at ski camp in Whistler. Super nice, very chill dude, who was able to make me comfortable despite the fact that I was hanging out one-on-one with my biggest hero at the time. The camp was broken into groups of kids at roughly the same age/ability, and while it mainly focused on park skiing, when Seth was our coach we obviously skied off piste. We're skiing around for a bit when he decides he wants to show us this pond skim. We stop a few hundred yards above this 10' wide river and he's like, "so you need to straightline it from here to make it across." I'm looking around like, "uh, seems like you'll be going way too fast..." but say nothing cuz it's Seth and I'm not about to argue. Anyway, he hits the water going mach loony, barely touches the water, and hits an unforseen kicker on the other side, does half a backfip, way overshoots the landing and lands on his neck 20-30 feet away, barely missing a huge boulder. We kids are all freaking out, like, "What do we do? How do we get help? Is he dead?" We start to ski down to him when he finally gets up, slowly, and yells back "GO SLOWER" (Needless to say, nobody else hit it.)
Seen him in lift lines and bars a few times since. I sometimes say hi (unless it's obvious he doesn't want to be bothered) and tell him I appreciated his coaching when I was a kid -- he always acts like he'd totally remember me if I had less facial hair or the same ski jacket or whatever. Just a nice guy who seems a little uncomfortable with the notoriety he's achieved.
Gary
I got a chair with Hannah Kearney at the 2005 Deer Valley World Cup. She seemed frustrated, so I reminded her that the event was absolutely 100% hers because it was abnormally cold and the snow was abnormally hard...both of which totally favored her as a young (19 y.o.) East Coaster. She actually seemed to appreciate the logic, and I was stoked when she did well.
Scott Kauf brought a tiny little girl into the kids ski school rental shop when I was working there in 1997, I set her up, and freaked out when I saw the paperwork and realized it was Scott Kauf....That little kid was Jaelin Kauf....so it was pretty cool to see her in the Olympics last year.
Skiing, ski towns....that's some of the good stuff.
I remember him skiing around at Crested Butte in 1995. Fast, fast, fast. Fucking fassst and tight.Quote:
Originally Posted by auvgeek
Boyd used to be a pretty regular feature around there. My brothers and I (especially I) used to shadow him around the mountain, and I got to do a few racing things with him and some other Canuck team guys (Mike Carney sticks in my mind). All pretty nice guys.Quote:
Originally Posted by FJ62
Splat is a pretty interesting guy to share a lift with. Iceman, Buster, Natty, Cleetus, MD9, ACE...A lot of the OG's (most of whom I haven't skied with for far too long). Kristen Ulmer is a recent one who is pretty interesting (and fun to ski with). Gaffney and McConkey...
edit: phunky, although he doesn't count as a skier anymore, I guess. Gary when he came to VT, enjoyed MPPG this past winter (and what a great pow day for VT). Not sure I've ever ridden the lift with a celebrity from outside of skiing...skiers are almost the only celebs I care about, anyway.
Rode the K-1 gondi with Hannah a coupla years ago. Didn't want to be that creepy 50+ dude so i pretended like I didn't know who she was and we just talked about how good the skiing and riding was that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy
You and Rusty Groomer obviously have another gman in mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Fuckers.
Ha!
that's a really good pick, tooQuote:
Originally Posted by flowing alpy
Not on a chairlift but I got to gear up in Warren Miller's mud room at the Yellowstone Club over a decade ago and meet the man. He was super nice but old and just came out to say hi. Had a beer with his son after skiing private powder all day.
Got hammered in a bar in Nelson and proceeded to talk a bunch of shit to T Hall, the Petit brothers, and Morrison (sort of regret that one...)
That's a pretty non-typical funny story.Quote:
Originally Posted by auvgeek