I didn't mean to imply that people on race skis or midfats in powder are necessarily gapers. (Indeed, I started last season on five-year-old X-Screams.) I only meant to point out that these people...

Multiple times in Kirkwood's unusually and egregiously long lift lines, I heard such comments on my Praxis as: "The dude's skiing on waterskis." "Those are ridiculous. I bet he can't even turn...