Best Things heard on the mountain....

[Monique]

Not on the mountain, but in my office today:

Co-worker: So, how was the skiing?
Me: It was amazing. I had some knee-deep turns on every run.
Co-worker: Isn't that hard to ski, though?
Me: <pause> Well, I guess it depends on your skill level.

 

[epicentre]

Slightly atmospherically foggy with a 25 chair visibility: "Ugh, I can't see shit!"

 

[albertanskigirl]

Overheard this past week. Two boarders walking over to the ski rack.

Boarder 1: Hey bro, did you know you burn calories every time you fart?
Boarder 2: No way, dude. That's awesome. I totally doubled my calorie output on that last run.

And then you hear it..."Pfffffffffff...."

 

[Sibhusky]

Slightly atmospherically foggy with a 25 chair visibility: "Ugh, I can't see shit!"

Ditto. Got two of those guys in one day.

Today was great, tho. Except for the gangs of 25 I kept encountering.

 

[Tricia]

Conversation between @Chris Geib & @James at Snowmass. James was borrowing a pair of skis from Chris that he had just tuned.

James: Do you have a stone, gummy or something so I can detune the tips a little?
Chris: If you detune MY skis, I'm gonna hit you with them!

(I may have been paraphrasing)

 

[Sibhusky]

100% with Chris on that one!!

 

[slowrider]

Its foggy and cold on the mountain . Looking uphill on a run here comes this guy with no shirt.....

 

[slowrider]

Its Team Johnson,every weekend.Awesome.

 

[Freaq]

While skiing, I heard someone on the lift: "Wow, that looks awesome!" He was talking about the snow. He was right.

 

[Chris Geib]

Conversation between @Chris Geib & @James at Snowmass. James was borrowing a pair of skis from Chris that he had just tuned.

James: Do you have a stone, gummy or something so I can detune the tips a little?
Chris: If you detune MY skis, I'm gonna hit you with them!

(I may have been paraphrasing)

It is true I often give @James flak about de-tunig the entire ski in that instance.

In full disclosure, they were actually a pair of Bob's demo rec carving skis at the time that were either new or had been base ground and I was planning to try them at that Aspen ESA. Since Bob was letting me try them I offered to tune them, so I tuned them how I would like which was most likely 0/3 or 0/4. What @James actually did was relax the base bevel to likely .5 or .7 Which I still contend is fair to consider as de-tuning the entire ski on a relative basis, though, I am told opinions vary! However, James is in fact an extremely good (some might say: fanatical) tuner, that would not be likely to de-tune in the commonly known fashion...

 

[James]

I think I put a core shot in those skis...So, I guess I did detune them.
I did have them refurbished at a shop.

 

[Rio]

While riding up the chair at Bridger last weekend we saw a boy around 12 yelling at a girl around 10 who was on the opposite sides of a run. The boy yelled, "Why did you go there?" is a somewhat irked tone. The girl replied, "Because I wanted to ski here." The three of us on the chair, all strangers, agreed that her reply made perfect sense to us.

 

[bbinder]

In the rental shop:

Worker - what type of ski do you want to rent?
Customer - just give me the BEST skis that you have

 

[John Webb]

foggy with a 25 chair visibility: "Ugh, I can't see shit!"

I've been known to say that !

 

[John Webb]

Hmm.

So I skied knee deep yesterday, but it was so light and fluffy that my skis were still hitting the - loud - bottom. That's on 113mm skis. That's powder - it's just not bottomless.

Once at Stowe I skied a foot of very light powder (as good as any thing in CO) with the skis sinking to bottom and making loud noise on boilerplate ice underneath.

 

[dbostedo]

Once at Stowe I skied a foot of very light powder (as good as any thing in CO) with the skis sinking to bottom and making loud noise on boilerplate ice underneath.

That seems to be the bane of @Josh Matta 's existence this season at times.

 

[Sibhusky]

another who told me it was really "socked in" at the top when I could SEE the top from the base station

Slightly atmospherically foggy with a 25 chair visibility: "Ugh, I can't see shit!"

You can see a theme going on at this mountain. If you want to brand yourself as a visitor, complain about visibility on a day you can see three chairs or more.

 

[Chris Walker]

Early season I was riding the lift at Copper with a couple of racer kids on their super-g skis. One was complaining to the other about how hard it was to maneuver around the general public en route to their lane. "Here I am with skis as long as these 50-year-old men," she laments. Fifty year old men are fossils with old-fashioned skis I guess. Oof. Good thing I'm only 49.

 

[KevinF]

At the last Aspen gathering I got to Aspen a few days early and lucked into some of the most awesome conditions I've ever experienced. It had gone off.

Anyway, I was riding the lift with some random person who is on the phone with his wife / mistress / girlfriend (hey, it's Aspen -- you never know...) and I just hear him say "Honey, what do you mean 'how are the conditions?' IT'S FIFTEEN INCHES ON TOP OF YESTERDAY'S FIFTEEN INCHES".

It was pretty epic.

 

[KevinF]

Conversation between @Chris Geib & @James at Snowmass. James was borrowing a pair of skis from Chris that he had just tuned.

James: Do you have a stone, gummy or something so I can detune the tips a little?
Chris: If you detune MY skis, I'm gonna hit you with them!

(I may have been paraphrasing)

My favorite @Chris Geib line occurred during breakfast one time when he asked our waitress "What's the difference between the pancakes three and the pancakes... two". The waitress gives him this look of "you can not possibly be that stupid" but she did reply "one pancake".

Chris Geib memories. Pancakes and blowing up in Highlands Bowl. I got nothing else.