Die Traversers Die!

[Amphibious1]

nice work on getting this started! Education is the key.

couple of things...

I've been skiing for 28 years and this thread will probably continue for a lot longer than that. Keep the communication alive.

"Observe all posted signs and warnings" comes to mind. If there is a rope line and "no traversing" sign then tickets should be pulled. Why is it that gaper's are exempt from having their pass pulled.

The refreeze on that staircase is going to be femur breaking dangerous! Thanks for the pics. I love that mountain. makes me jealous to see those photos.

I understand the conversation about ignorance. that's why it is the responsibility of the mountain (ie. patrollers, mountain hosts, etc. ) to put their heads together to resolve these kinds of safety issues.

If you've never been to gaperville, does that make you a gaper?

[SchralphMacchio]

Reason number 117 why traverses below cornices/chutes suck:


My toenail is now almost all black after slamming into a traverse on a pow day after airing a cornice to rock combo ...

[myBALLSareSOhuge]

as long as you can look them in the eye and honestly say that you have never ducked under a rope with a closed sign next to it.

Whoa whoa whoaaaa, lets not get carried away here.

[LittleWoodsie]

"Unfortunately" I have a rare medical condition that makes closed signs completely invisible to me....

No really!

[bptempleton]

Next time I go golfing (which BTW will be the first time I go golfing) I'm gonna talk real loud while others are teeing off or putting, I'm gonna just play through or play rreeeaaallll sssslllllooooowwww and refuse to let others play through and I'm gonna divot the fuck outta everything in sight! Hey - if the other golfers don't like it they just need to MELLOW OUT! Right? Ettiquette is gay.

Word up. You can still do stupid shit inbounds. Traversing isn't justified just because you're a "paying customer"

[Hugh Conway]

Word up. You can still do stupid shit inbounds. Traversing isn't justified just because you're a "paying customer"

"Dude, you wouldn't be dissing me for cutting if you saw what I just skiied"

[ShawnB]

One traverse track = fine with me. Multiple = dangerous and annoying. ...Once one traverse track has been set, it shouldn't be that hard for people to follow it.

I agree w/ that, and disagree on a gut level with the notion of roping (closing) vertical sections of the mountain off because more core skiers might be hitting it from above. Fuck that, elitists.

If you're any good, you can avoid ONE traverse track even at mach looney.

If you're complaining because, even if it's only one traverse track, you ALSO don't like gapers actually getting to the powder and shredding it/blowing your sweet outrun... well, I sympathize -- but I can't support you. Cause now you're just being a selfish dick. Hint: SHOW UP EARLIER! Be the first there, shralp it till the outrun is toe' up, and then move on when it's no longer golden. That shit's on YOU, bud...


If the above is taken as given, for open, lift-served terrain, then the key is for patrol to create an incentive for only one track to form.


As an incentive, I see nothing wrong with a closure line, with a single, narrow gate in it, placed appropriately for a single, optimal traverse.

The ideal place for said closure line would be set back, considerably, from the groomer. So that anyone with a fucking clue would start high, gain their speed, and then need to thread the gate and stay on the travvy to keep their speed.

Anyone else, i.e. those without a clue, would start obliviously dropping low, and then after 200' of fucking things up, encounter the closure line.

If they hike up, fine. If they duck said line, they get their tix clipped/pulled etc.


Seems fair. Terrain still open, it just has gotten much, much harder for the gaperly inclined to create injury zones in the open terrain.


Fire away.
-S

[Aussie_ripper]

Lost count of how many people I saw duck through the closed off "traverse" on the south boundary today at BB. Also lost count of how many people when bragging to me about how good today was mentioned using the bullshit traverse over Mundies. I honestly think/hope it's ignorance.

Go ahead and rope that shit, it'll improve it, but judging by today people forget what orange and black mean the moment they put on ski boots.