Tacoma News Tribune article about PNW skiing

**facedeep** · 10-30-2006, 01:55 PM

and we all run around in seven jeans driving lifted trucks.

**Norcascadielady** · 10-30-2006, 02:00 PM

and confederate flags flying...and say git er done. I personally get my nails done once a week.

**PNWbrit** · 10-30-2006, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by ptavv

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/l...-5417940c.html

When Lisa Lawrence lived in Moab, Utah, you’d have had to tie her to a snowplow to get her to Washington state for a ski vacation.

Now living in Tacoma, she’s gone from skiing five times a week to four times a year..

Sounds like Ms Lawrence would't be sking even if she still lived in Utah - what a quitter.

The PNW sucks, don't come here.

**Dexter Rutecki** · 10-30-2006, 02:13 PM

The article should have mentioned that everyone in the PNW is totally gay.

**Mofro261** · 10-30-2006, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by Greydon Clark

Reading this thread, I feel the PNW has a massive inferiority complex.

I dare you to knock this battery off my shoulder.

Epitome of WA skiing: On longboard / Gaper day, no one can tell the difference.

**Lani** · 10-30-2006, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

The article should have mentioned that everyone in the PNW is totally gay.

That's just 'cuz we managed to get drunk enough to come out the closet during one of our binges after it rained for 30 fucking days in a row!!! The rest of the country merely continues to repress their latent homosexuality.

BOO HOO

**The AD** · 10-30-2006, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by Mofro261

Epitome of WA skiing: On longboard / Gaper day, no one can tell the difference.

Jeans and gaiters, dude. Why would anyone ski in anything else?

**Adamantium** · 10-30-2006, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by Norcascadielady

Especially the noth east slopes...thier loss. I don't want this place to be like vail, mammoth, tahoe etc.

i wouldn't lump mammoth into that group. although the people developing mammoth desperatly want it to become a big destination resort, it currently is not. everyone skiing mammoth is either local or drives from southern california. they still do not have a commercial airport, (despite development efforts to the contrary) which is what they need to compete as a destination resort. i'll give you that the interwest influence has certainly built up the town and mountain a whole lot in an attempt to mimic places like vail or whistler. sorry for the rant, just kind of caught me off guard that people think of mammoth in that way. maybe i still see the town through the rosey glasses of my childhood, before McCoy sold half the place to Interwest.

**Greydon Clark** · 10-30-2006, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

Jeans and gaiters, dude. Why would anyone ski in anything else?

Because you have a pink Nevica ski suit and/or your Arctic Cat jacket is the shit.

**Monique** · 10-30-2006, 02:46 PM

Here I am, skiing AWAY from Washington and leaving all that bad, bad Crystal Southback snow behind. It's so dark and gloomy in this picture I must be miserable. Which way to Colorado?

photo STOLEN from shmerham

**The AD** · 10-30-2006, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Monique

Here I am, skiing AWAY from Washington and leaving all that bad, bad Crystal Southback snow behind.

It's obvious the photo is deceptive. Even though it looks like you're skiing, there's no way you could actually be moving in that horrible Cascade Concrete.

**Schmear** · 10-30-2006, 02:55 PM

WARNING: Washington sucks.

**Monique** · 10-30-2006, 02:56 PM

Oh, and funny the "stupid things said by non skiers-riders" thread was revived today...I feel goofy quoting myself but on 9/22/06:

Originally Posted by Monique

"I don't ski anymore because I'm from Colorado and the snow here [Washington] isn't as good."

**Mofro261** · 10-30-2006, 02:58 PM

New WA Tourism Slogan:

If you can't find our White Room, hey, there's always the Grey Room.

**ptavv** · 10-30-2006, 03:32 PM

I'm kind of disappointed they didn't mention coffee in the article

**Schmear** · 10-30-2006, 03:37 PM

That reminds me of all the Super Bowl coverage from last year. It seemed every national story was required to contain the phrases "caffeine-addled" or "rain-soaked" or "while sipping on lattes."

Sadly it doesn't look like we're going to get Super Bowl coverage this year.

**Schmear** · 10-30-2006, 03:38 PM

But anyway, where were we?

Washington sux.

**ptavv** · 10-30-2006, 03:52 PM

Yah, fuck the PNW.

**Lani** · 10-30-2006, 03:56 PM

Well executed, all.

Also, in case anyone looks at the pictures I posted in that other thread, they're all fake. I painted those in an impressionist style on canvas with resins that had me hallucinating something wicked, scanned them with a flatbed, then did some sharpening in Photoshop. There is no redemption here.

**Stikki** · 10-30-2006, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

The article should have mentioned that everyone in the PNW is totally gay.

No, Metronatural.

**Squirrel99** · 10-30-2006, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by Stikki

No, Metronatural.

heh. the new slogan for the Seattle Convention & Visitors Bureau

seriously.

**The AD** · 10-30-2006, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Stikki

No, Metronatural.

For those confused please go to this link: http://www.visitseattle.org/bureau/brand.asp

edit: Oops, beaten by Squirrel.

We now have "Say WA" for the state slogan, and "metronatural" for Seattle.

**Buster Highmen** · 10-30-2006, 04:12 PM

Who thinks this stuff up? Metronatural?
Howabout:
Vitamin D Deficient - Naturally.

Overcaffienated Dark Drips

FungalSexual

Laughing Stock of Virtually Every Major League Anything