Thread: Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

^^ Hahah thats awesome

cool to see this thread back - be even cooler to be standin in lift line with the ipod in one ear listinin to all this years fresh bs. aaaahhhhhh.

I have to share this one though it clearly betrays my gaper status.

Said by me, several years back, at Jackson... after a 14 year hiatus from skiing.

"I just go so fast.. My skis are longer so they just accelerate faster than I'm comfortable with."

Said while sporting 174 Atomic Izors.

I know.... I should've just quit right there.

Fuck yeah. This thread rocks. Thanks for bumping.

Not the best one, but it's a slow day at work so i'll go ahead share one.

few years back working in a rental shop I hand a guy a pair of boots to try on and he snaps back "wait a minute I need to put on my high performace socks first"

Speachless I just set the boots down next to him and helped the next person

Guy walking to first lift of the day sees gaper mumbling profanities and slamming his boots on his bindings. Guy notices that ski is backwards and says, "you should turn that around. You're trying to put your toe into the heel."
gaper says, "These are twin tips. You can ski them backwards or forwards."
Guy continues his day.

Originally Posted by ski school graduate

Not the best one, but it's a slow day at work so i'll go ahead share one.

few years back working in a rental shop I hand a guy a pair of boots to try on and he snaps back "wait a minute I need to put on my high performace socks first"

Speachless I just set the boots down next to him and helped the next person

you are a ski school grad and you didnt know that we require special socks for skiing?

FKN JONG

Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cyc...5-socks,18259/

I only wear black sox (from Kmart) when I cycle, so people think I'm Lance.

The reappearance of this thread means it's time to get the moguls out of storage, and take the water ski bindings off and put the snow ski bindings on. And the elk are coming down from the higher elevations and turning back into deer (or do I have it backwards?).

Originally Posted by guroo270

Guy walking to first lift of the day sees gaper mumbling profanities and slamming his boots on his bindings. Guy notices that ski is backwards and says, "you should turn that around. You're trying to put your toe into the heel."
gaper says, "These are twin tips. You can ski them backwards or forwards."
Guy continues his day.

You seen one tip you've seen'em both!! What else is there to know?

I'm at the Calgary ski swap this evening and I have a pair of 185 Motherships in my hand but I'm up in the cross-country ski section while my fiance looks there.

I shit you not, this dude asks me "are those cross-country skis?"

That might be the single stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.

playing fetch with my dog.
gaper: what kind of dog is that?
me: a black lab.
gape: oh, i thought it was some kind of retriever.

doh!

Originally Posted by Shorty_J

I'm at the Calgary ski swap this evening and I have a pair of 185 Motherships in my hand but I'm up in the cross-country ski section while my fiance looks there.

I shit you not, this dude asks me "are those cross-country skis?"

That might be the single stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.

Not really. I mean, to be fare:

Originally Posted by nateski

playing fetch with my dog.
gaper: what kind of dog is that?
me: a black lab.
gape: oh, i thought it was some kind of retriever.

doh!

^^^ granted, but I wasn't there.

our season finished a few weeks back,
mid season our cover was not great but still ok, i was in a lift que one morning when there was 3 gapers talk crap, one guy was saying to his friends say that skis are getting to fat these days, mind you i only had on my K2 PE, so not a fat ski at all, he was saying that they should make rock skis for Aust,
next night it dumped 2foot, hope he enjoyed skiing this stright skis that day on our pow.

Originally Posted by pow_pow

our season finished a few weeks back,
mid season our cover was not great but still ok, i was in a lift que one morning when there was 3 gapers talk crap, one guy was saying to his friends say that skis are getting to fat these days, mind you i only had on my K2 PE, so not a fat ski at all, he was saying that they should make rock skis for Aust,
next night it dumped 2foot, hope he enjoyed skiing this stright skis that day on our pow.

Asked my "ski big" son what he thought about my new skis. He said they would be great for me. If I was 35 years younger, skied big mountains and learned to like going fast. So I sold the Griffon's for $100 and have

A COOL NEW BENCH!!


- found that on epicski. Gaperriffic.

sick thread. It never ceases to amaze me how retarded some people can be

A client from Texas told me how much nicer Vail is than Breck or Aspen becuase it has that "European Village". I held my tongue on it being a stripmall with concrete parking garages.

“It's been great,” he said, adding that it's likely the last powder day that there won't be Denver traffic. “It doesn't feel claustrophobic at all. It feels great to be outside.”

From http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2...ntprofile=1055

Gotta admit, the absolute best thing about living in grand junction is always having reverse commute to the hill. I had to take my brother back to the airport after my bachelor party last year, and dear lord, I don't know how all you Denver/Boulder people do it. I almost kicked my brother out of the car with a sign DIA so I could turn around.

Originally Posted by guroo270

Gotta admit, the absolute best thing about living in grand junction is always having reverse commute to the hill. I had to take my brother back to the airport after my bachelor party last year, and dear lord, I don't know how all you Denver/Boulder people do it. I almost kicked my brother out of the car with a sign DIA so I could turn around.

FUCK YEA! It must be so rad being a half hour from powderhorn, the only place that offers those legendary east coast conditions in the state of CO!

never been to Powderhorn. Nor will I go.

Originally Posted by guroo270

never been to Powderhorn. Nor will I go.

So next closest is what, Silverton? Lame!

obviously not a quote, but while working at loveland rental shop a few years ago, ski patrol brought back a pair of boots a lady had rented. said she broke her ankle because she had them on the wrong feet. guess that'll do it.