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Ever waited for a bus/train in India or China? Helped me get comfortable with grabbing jerks by their collar and gently pulling them back behind me. Helps to be at least 4" taller than every one else, though.
Fond memories from several years back up at Chicopee in Canada- gorgeous blue bird day, got to the top of the lift, young liftie was sitting with his feet up, soaking in the sun, listening to... Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose.I rode a lift with a young guy playing Sinatra and other crooners. That was unexpected.
All because of the damned fat skis and snowboards..Our society is falling apart. Head for the hills!
Oh, everyone is heading for the hills. Never mind.
I used to imagine that with age came wisdom. Experience has taught me that this is not so. Young clueless arseholes merely become old clueless arseholes!Had an interesting scenario this past Sunday at Keystone's opening bell. Got to the mountain way too early, so I lined up at the 4-chair Summit Express with two people who were there prior. One guy, maybe in his mid sixties and obviously in it to win it judging by all of the stretching, posturing, and walking around he was doing, seemed like he'd be an interesting person to chat with on the 8.5 minute trip up the hill, so I was looking forward to sharing the chair.
So, as opening time nears, a crowd of maybe 250+ people accumulates behind all of us and everyone starts jostling anxiously, as expected. The liftie eventually moves the barrier and, to my surprise, the guy literally full on power skates to get to a chair that's already turned and snag a single on the first chair. Not that the six second head start mattered much on the first tracks of the day, but I found it a little off-putting given the huge crowd of people behind us.
Him and I eventually shared the first chair on the next lift, Santiago, where he promptly lowered the bar strongly and without announcement and bashed the back of my helmet.
I'm one of those bad snowboarder people, but the other day I spent 15 mins during a rope drop helping a woman find her lost ski in waist deep pow. Once she mentioned she had a bf though, i left
Boy are you lucky. I used to ski in the NY metro area.This is the only time in my 59 years on ski's have I had anything even close to IMO a disrespectful act
You'll have more people walking across your skis in one lift line in Europe than 5 years in the US.Have you guys ever been on a crowded lift line in Europe?
Have you skied a busy weekend at Hunter or Killington in the last 30 years?
I guess that’s why people rent skis when they travel to EuropeYou'll have more people walking across your skis in one lift line in Europe than 5 years in the US.
A smoke of what sort? Did you take them up on it?The college guys I rode up with yesterday very graciously offered me a smoke.
I tend to agree. However, I did this to three teenage boys who were sitting across a steeper section of a blue run, out of sight from above. I skied up and very nicely told them that they were sitting in a bad spot and were not visible from above. They skied off, with the last one cussing me out as he left.When you witness somebody doing something crappy on a ski slope that is the time to turn on your most gracious and thoughtful behavior. We are the elders and zen masters of the skiing tribe and that's when it's most important for us to show the others the right way to do things. I'm sort of half joking and half serious when I say this.