I was snowboarding one day early season (i'm a 90/10 skier/snowboarder, but happened to have my board on that morning). I'm riding with one of my friends. I'm making regular, smooth turns down one of the main green runs on the mountain. As I get near the edge of the trail, I hear a woman scream "WATCH OUT!!!" from just behind me. I slam on the brakes, and a blue flash flies between me and the trail edge, and I feel her ski brake clip the nose of my board. Okay, now I'm annoyed. I ride after her for about 100 yards, and then the lady stops. I pull up to her with my friend, prepared to kindly remind her about the Responsibility Code. Before I can start, the woman starts screaming at me about "out of control snowboarders" and the like, and is cursing at me like a drunken sailor. A**hole, Sh**head, F**king lunatic, you name it, this 40-something woman is hurling a stream of insults and invective at me. For about thirty seconds.
That's when I reach up to the collar of my uniform jacket, past the shiny gold nametag that says "Supervisor" on it, to the radio mic clipped there. I reach down, switch frequencies to the Patrol channel, and inform patrol that they need to meet me at the bottom of the lift. I tell the lady I'm going to follow her down. We're low enough on the mountain, so there's only one place she can go, down to the main base area. She tries to tell me not to follow her. I remind her there is only one place to go from here, so that's where I'm going anyways. I ride down with her, and there are two patrollers there. I tell them what happened, and my friend (also in full uniform) confirms the story. The wire cutters come out, the ticket gets snipped, and she's kindly asked to leave the property. The ticket was a 4 day ticket. It was 9:30AM on day one.
