Thread: Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

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I think this deserves to be in here.



SNOWFALL WARNING!!!11!1!!!

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=107641

(regardless, the new owner Nick at A-zone seems to be a pretty decent guy so far)

Originally Posted by Caucasian Asian

I think this deserves to be in here.



SNOWFALL WARNING!!!11!1!!!

you are making fun of somebody who appears to have a disability? are u a fucking 11 yr old ?

cool bro

Originally Posted by biff chalupa

It's the same guy. I have a very reliable source.



The Gaper Spirit Animal should not be disturbed in its natural habitat. We can only observe from afar; for as soon as we, the observers, have been discovered, the Gaper Spirit Animal may disappear into the abyss and never be seen again. Hopefully the story doesn't end here . . .

I suggest a baited camera--like they use around here to get pictures of the wolverine. The question is, what to use for bait?

The Gaper Spirit Animal rules. So I came from that biz and still have a relationship at MGS. I need to know more so inquiries have been made.....very discretely. OMG I dont know weather to laugh at that guy or feel sorry for him.

Originally Posted by Damian Sanders

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=107641

(regardless, the new owner Nick at A-zone seems to be a pretty decent guy so far)

so light on the up! must hazzzzz

Originally Posted by Lamothe

so light on the up! must hazzzzz

They look stable too...

Wow, Its like Tom from Austria....only with money and a factory.

Originally Posted by philth

Wow, Its like Tom from Austria....only with money and a factory.

LMFAO...nice.

Asswipe goes to Beaver Creek. Took this in front of the BC Chop House on Sunday.

might need to set a rap into screech owl....that's awesome

Holy shit, it is the same guy. Too much.

AAAHHH..... He's back!!!

I love that anywhere the GSA shows, mags are on the sneak pic attack. Seriously deserves a thread

Sweet Fancy Moses, that guy has to be a real life troll. No way that's not some modern incarnation of Saucer Boy. Unreal ...

Also, MAOR carabiners.

Gaper spirit animal's rage will be fearsome if he ever finds out about this thread. I think he is worthy of his own thread at this point.

Originally Posted by From_the_NEK

They look stable too...

The "skiing" in that video is suspiciously lacking in turns or stops.

Originally Posted by SKIORFORGETIT

you are making fun of somebody who appears to have a disability? are u a fucking 11 yr old ?

cool bro

Are you Canadian too? It's okay dude. Lots of people are.

I had just passed my cousin's helmet cam back to him prior to this happening.. too bad I had the best view in the house.


Coming down a central artery trail at Cannon, N.H. with snowmaking guns running on it. Trail narrows down, and I have to follow a guy under/through the snow gun.

He slows, starts to lose visibility, then goggles get caked up. Eventually stops standing about 10 feet from the gun with it blasting in his face. On a snowboard so he can't really turn away.

Gotta love this. This is pretty much in the middle of a residential area, with the main road to town in the background.

I will share stories of my own personal gaperism.

1. I started skiing when I was 2 years old, skied about ten times a year until age 20. Of course, I was convinced I was hot shit because I could pick my way down Pallavicini [A-Basin, a reasonably steep, heavily moguled, labeled double] or the like, but never with any grace or style. And, of course I would brag the shit out of my "conquest," when anybody that actually saw me ski it knew that it was over my head. I'd be the guy in the lodge saying to my friends- "Well what did YOU ski? because I skied Pali!"

2. Up until 2000, I skied a set of 1993ish 205 Salomon Equipe straight skis. I would tell anybody forced to listen that shaped skis were bullshit and were for people that didn't understand how to "carve." Of course, I had no concept of what a carved turn was and skied with the classic ankle touching pivot turn. So, I'm sure pretty much everybody I had this conversation with (and if I rode a lift with you in this era and you were wearing shaped skis, I'd probably be running my mouth about it) got to label me a total gaper when I talked about carving and then demonstrated that I couldn't do it.

Come to think of it, the only thing I was good at in my early years of skiing was that I could run a passable zipper line on Mary Jane moguled runs.

So, in 2001, I blew up my knee really really bad. Not from skiing, but I was putting shingles on a roof, when I fell off and hit a sawhorse on the way down. Even better, the sawhorse had a nail lying in it that punched right through my kneecap.

I spend 6 months walking with a cane, and didn't ski for 2 years.

When I got back into skiing, I knew that I had no hope of skiing with my blown-to-fuck knee on 205 cm skis, so I bought a pair of 170 Dynamic carving skis with something ridiculous like a 59 waist. I was also forced to learn how to actually ski, because my knee could not hold up with knee torque from pivot turns.

After about 3 years of 20-30 days a year skiing almost completely groomers, my knee got strong enough and my technique passable enough that I could actually ski deep snow, and of course, I loved it. My ridiculously skinny skis were not exactly great for this, so I decided to buy a set of "fat" skis to ski powder.

And boy, did I ever. I bought a set of 78 waist K2 Recons. And for the next several months, I referred to these as my "fat" skis. To everyone present. And I would recommend them to everybody as great fat skis. I would complain about how tough it was to get a good edge angle on them, and how tough they were to ski on boilerplate. I would take both to the ski area, and decide which to ski in the parking lot. If I decided to ski the Dynamics, and at some point in the day decided I had made a mistake, I would complain to people I was riding the lift with that I should have brought my "fatties" out. And they would almost inevitably ask me what my fat skis were, and I would tell them.

I was a real jackass.

^priceless self-realization at its best.

Originally Posted by Newsance

I was a real jackass.

interesting use of the past tense