Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

[marmot mb]

Heard while skiing at Revelstoke.

British accented person. "Blimey, there is too much powder here, we need to get back on the groomer."

We stopped and clarified "Did you just say too much powder?" "there is no such thing as too much powder" and we skied off.

[Wasatch_Expat]

Was skiing last week with my 8 year old daughter and 3 year old son. Daughter was up ahead in the lift line, riding the chair by herself. There were a couple of snowboarders in between us, one of whom was about 6'4", 250 lbs. As he's hobbling towards the chair, he starts to wobble a bit and leans on my daughter for balance. She weighs 62 pounds and has no poles but keeps this dude from tipping over. Afterwards there was no "excuse me," no "thank you," no "sorry about that." He just pretends she isn't there even though she saved him from toppling over.

[Griz]

"Boy, as fat as they are making these slalom race skis these days it's really closer to a powder ski than a carver."

-Local racer getting ready to rip the cordouroy at Monarch Mountain on an 18'' fresh day two Fridays ago.

[cmsummit]

"My ass hurts so much from all the falling I bet I couldn't take a shit if I wanted to."

-snowboarder on the lift at Breck.

[freezorburn]

"Where's the Summit Lodge?"

[skiingsamurai]

I stopped at a bootfitter near mount snow on the way back up to burlington last night. I was listening to some jersey joey tell the rentals guy about his past skiing experience.
" I was at Aspen 3 weeks ago skiing on some 175 parabolics. There was like 4 feet of snow. I couldnt see where I was going. I was about ready to throw the skis out and buy some shorter ones."

shop guy:" You needed something longer and wider underfoot to stay afloat better"
dumbass:" what are you talking about? longer skis are worse in deep snow!"

Over the course of an hour i heard so many morons i nearly cried.

Another woman was renting boots. Before she even tried on the rentals she refused to rent the XXXXX soloman boots because they were ugly. After the shop dude told her all rental boots looked this way she agreed to put her foot in the boot. She was maybe an 8 foot, not a big girl. She wouldnt rent anything other than a 28 boot!

Then when i got the actual bootfitters attention he told me that he hated powder.
"Give me boiler plate and im happy. I stay in on powder days. That floating feeling is the opposite of control."
me: thats because here at mount blow you guys only get ice.
i promptly left vowing never to go down there ever again.

[renoenvy]

"you guys get powder snow here?"

nope. It snows spring corn. You gotta wear a helmet if its snowing. It hurts like hell when it hits you in the head.

[SkiBumOfVT]

no quote from this weekend. Just what I saw while tooling around at bolton

A guy wearing an avalung.

picture that

no fucking way
WHY???

[bio-smear]

"It kind of stayed open after I pulled out, as if it was a black gaping maw, the void."

-overheard on sidewalk in Chatsworth, CA

[Thrill Hammer]

"It kind of stayed open after I pulled out, as if it was a black gaping maw, the void."

Yeah. they'll do that

[wolfy]

all from alpine, over the years:
"Will you guys ever figure out that if you don't blast in the morning, you'll save on explosives and it won't make such a big mess?"

from a chair ride with 2 tele, rasta-trustifarians, Q.- "Dude, do you know what randonee really means in French" (reply- yeah-knees too smart to telemark) #1 turns to #2 and blurts "oh dude, i think he just told us to f*** off"

top of Beaver Bowl, 2 late teens gazing out to the horizon, 14' of snowpack:
Q.- "Hey mister, can you tell us where the streams are?"
A.- There won't be any streams you can see until spring, why?
"The guy in the ski shop told us that if we learned to ski the steeps here, we could become real stream skiers."
What could i say, that guy in the ski shop was probably right...

[cl1953]

At Jay Peak last friday, riding the lift with 2 from Montreal.

After the usual pleasantries, he looked at my skis and asked if they were too fat.







I was on Monster 82s.

[Microcosm]

I get fat ski comments all the time at 93 underfoot.
Oh, and I was on the lift line at killy when I heard this:
Guy behind me: "Yeah, those are the new twin tips that kid has."
Lady next to him: "Oooh."

[thedefone]

Some Big Sky gems:

"How old does a Deer have to be to become an Elk?

-x-x-x-

First Retard: "What are those cables for?" (pointing at the tram)
Second Retard: "I think those hold the mountain top up."

-x-x-x-

During a conference of astronomers and aerospace types, pointing at the tram light on top of the mountain around 7 pm.

"Now, I'm not sure, but I think that's Jupiter."

Ahh, gapers.. Love to hate 'em.

[unofficialandes]

"Do you guys sell boots for Powder skiing?"

[Lev]

It was mt. gaper at the Can this weekend.

I'm standing in line by the pisser, bout to take a leak, and some guy walks up and says, "ummm.... are you in line?" My answer: No dipshit, I enjoy standing at the pisser all day instead of going out and enjoying the vertical magnitude that is UT skiing. Rhetorical questions kill me. Especially when it's president's day weekend and everyone you see is slightly retarded. I need to go to Alta more.

[Jer]

I need to go to Alta more.

Sorry to break this to you, but they've found out about Alta as well.

[gatorboy]

I walk up to a pisser and this JA is standing there adjusting his fartbag (and looking slightly retarded) when I ask if he was waiting or if he just finished emptying his colostomy bag and he gets all bent out of shape.


small world.

[rideit]

I walk up to a pisser and this JA....

Japanese Astronaut?

[unofficialandes]

I walk up to a pisser and this JA is standing there

JA: Jongified Assclown??

Here are some of the better ones from working at the Squaw Valley Surefoot.

Man walks in with right boot on left foot and left boot on right foot.
“These boots are fucking killing me."

45’ish year old woman walks in with a pair of rear entry Nordica ski boots from the mid 80’s and a pair of 207 Harts from the same era.
“I am an Expert skier and I need a new expert rear entry boot so I can go ski the fingers.”

Mid October 2007, No skiing or snow anywhere: A middle aged homeless looking man (clearly on drugs) walks into the shop and immediately points to a POC back protector. “Yep, I going to need that.” After putting on the back protector he picks up the kid size back protector. “Is this the matching chest protector?”
Me: Sure is!
“Great I will take it.” Man pulls out a Black American Express Card and his ID. After paying the man walks out into the bustling village (Super stoked) with a POC back protector over his jean jacket and another kids size one over his chest.

Bones:
Hunter Mountain 1998: Man skiing under lift in Blue jeans, leather jacket
Thick Long Island accent.
"Hey Joey, Look! Im doing it!!! Im doing it Joey!!!"

[Helldawg]

no fucking way
WHY???

In any other year than this, I might ask the same Q...

Obviously, you understand.

[AbsolutStoli]

Then when i got the actual bootfitters attention he told me that he hated powder.
"Give me boiler plate and im happy. I stay in on powder days. That floating feeling is the opposite of control."
me: thats because here at mount blow you guys only get ice.
i promptly left vowing never to go down there ever again.

ahhh...my home mountain. i kinda miss skiing on ice a little. haha

anyway, heard on santiago express chair at keystone monday, getting close to mid-day, beautiful day, sun is shining.

son: where are your sunglasses?
father: theyre in my pocket. i have a meeting tomorrow, dont want to get raccoon eyes.

[sbooy42]

Me and a buddy were riding up with a couple @ Mary Jane and they asked us "how do they make all those bumps?" ...he told em they were big plastic humps that the resort brings out every fall and sets up all over the mountain.. then they put em all away in the spring....They responded " that must be a lot of work"

I was doing everything possible to not bust my guts....

[yonskion]

Anytime it snows more than 7 inches @ Mt. Bachelor, Oregon.
The management says "Sorry can't get the lift's open Today, Rime on the cable"
My 2nd favorite... "Weather Standby"

[RootSkier]

In Montana....on a deep day...like full on bottomless faceshot deep, lady looks at my Fat Bros...

"Those must be for jumping."