Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

**old goat** · 12-30-2017, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by The Amicable Snowman

ASIDs.

I work at a VT mtn that gets a lot of business from bus tours out of NYC and Beantown full of these folks. They book a package including rentals (always rentals). Most speak little English, most have no clue about skiing. Weekends and holiday weeks we can always count on distress calls for taxi rides down green groomers from Asian Skiers In Distress.

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Their kids will be winning Olympic ski medals and starring in ski movies. That's the way it works in America. Most of us aren't descended from Savoyard wood cutter/mountain guides. You pick up ski knowledge and culture one way or another, or die trying.

**stuckathuntermtn** · 12-30-2017, 02:32 PM

Every time I get on a lift with a chick riding single: bla bla bla my boyfriend bla bla bla.

What I'm saying is I'm the gaper.

**Telemarketeer** · 12-30-2017, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

Every time I get on a lift with a chick riding single: bla bla bla my boyfriend bla bla bla.

What I'm saying is I'm the gaper.

Gaper? You don’t even know her!

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**brogoldenhair** · 12-30-2017, 03:18 PM

I got in a chairlift long debate with an older fellow at squaw, he asked me if I tele'd, I said nah just touring and he kept insisting I could tele on randonee bindings... I think his idea of randonee bindings was a little older than mine. Not necessarily a gaper, just a badass old timer

**smartyiak** · 12-30-2017, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by The Amicable Snowman

ASIDs.

I work at a VT mtn that gets a lot of business from bus tours out of NYC and Beantown full of these folks. They book a package including rentals (always rentals). Most speak little English, most have no clue about skiing. Weekends and holiday weeks we can always count on distress calls for taxi rides down green groomers from Asian Skiers In Distress.

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Smuggs?

It was between -4 and - 8 the other day. I see an Asian guy, 50ish, without a helmet, hat, headband, goggles, glasses, face mask, bandana.....nothing to protect his face or ears.

Is it possible to not get some skin damage from that?

**stuckathuntermtn** · 12-30-2017, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by ULLRismyco-pilot

Gaper? You don’t even know her!

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Badum bum!

**Alpinord** · 12-30-2017, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by brogoldenhair

I got in a chairlift long debate with an older fellow at squaw, he asked me if I tele'd, I said nah just touring and he kept insisting I could tele on randonee bindings... I think his idea of randonee bindings was a little older than mine. Not necessarily a gaper, just a badass old timer

That’s called door hinge-e-marking, young timer.

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**Meadow Skipper** · 12-30-2017, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by brogoldenhair

I got in a chairlift long debate with an older fellow at squaw, he asked me if I tele'd, I said nah just touring and he kept insisting I could tele on randonee bindings... I think his idea of randonee bindings was a little older than mine. Not necessarily a gaper, just a badass old timer

Originally Posted by Alpinord

That’s called door hinge-e-marking, young timer.

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aka a good way to break your bindings or your ass.

**TurxSki** · 12-30-2017, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by smartyiak

...between -4 and - 8...an Asian guy, 50ish, with nothing to protect his face or ears.
Is it possible to not get some skin damage from that?

Well, maybe he was a genuine Tibetan Sherpa, so it was no big deal?

**smartyiak** · 12-30-2017, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by TurxSki

Well, maybe he was a genuine Tibetan Sherpa, so it was no big deal?

I dunno...he was pretty well dressed for a sherpa. You’d think Bogner or Kjus would make suitable head gear for the well healed.

**old goat** · 12-30-2017, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

aka a good way to break your bindings or your ass.

You could tele on the old Silvretta cable AT bindings. Not well, but then you could alpine ski well on them either.

**SkeezeBall** · 12-30-2017, 10:09 PM

While riding on the lift
Gaper: “can you recommend a ski run”
Me: “sure. what kind of skiing you like?”
Gaper: “I like backcountry”
Me: “if that’s the case you should try to get a refund for your lift ticket”

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**SJG** · 12-30-2017, 10:31 PM

40yrs ago that Madonna chair was a seriously cold ride up. Is it still a fixed double? Knowing that place I'd assume it is. That was back when Doc's still had trees....

I don't remember if that or Killington Peak Double was colder?

Originally Posted by smartyiak

Smuggs?

It was between -4 and - 8 the other day. I see an Asian guy, 50ish, without a helmet, hat, headband, goggles, glasses, face mask, bandana.....nothing to protect his face or ears.

Is it possible to not get some skin damage from that?

**old goat** · 12-31-2017, 01:15 AM

Originally Posted by SkeezeBall

While riding on the lift
Gaper: “can you recommend a ski run”
Me: “sure. what kind of skiing you like?”
Gaper: “I like backcountry”
Me: “if that’s the case you should try to get a refund for your lift ticket”

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good answer

**Meadow Skipper** · 12-31-2017, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by old goat

You could tele on the old Silvretta cable AT bindings. Not well, but then you could alpine ski well on them either.

Heh. Those were my first touring bindings back in the 70s. They broke.

**old goat** · 12-31-2017, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

Heh. Those were my first touring bindings back in the 70s. They broke.

How could you tell they were broken. They didn't work out of the box.

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 12-31-2017, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by brogoldenhair

I got in a chairlift long debate with an older fellow at squaw, he asked me if I tele'd, I said nah just touring and he kept insisting I could tele on randonee bindings... I think his idea of randonee bindings was a little older than mine. Not necessarily a gaper, just a badass old timer

There was a guy here last week trying to telemark with Radicals and MTN Explores. I first saw him from the lift and thought he was really new or bad on tele gear. Then I was standing near the top and he glides by and I notice his boots/bindings and as soon as the slope rolled over he lunged into an out of control attempt at telemarks. He continued this bizarre exercise all the way down to the bottom.

**Meadow Skipper** · 12-31-2017, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

How could you tell they were broken. They didn't work out of the box.

When my boot came out, the cable was twenty feet back on the hill, and the ski was fifty feet ahead. No idea where the side cable hold-downs ended up. I figured that was broken, but maybe it was a feature?

**jamal** · 01-01-2018, 04:27 PM

Yesterday in line at the cafeteria

**Peruvian** · 01-01-2018, 05:01 PM

^^^Had he just been released from the ward?

**stuckathuntermtn** · 01-01-2018, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by jamal

Yesterday in line at the cafeteria

Some people like to live dangerously.

Blessed is he who keeps his toe upturned, for he is truly his brother's friend on a powder day. So sayeth the GSA, amen.

**jonesy** · 01-01-2018, 05:59 PM

Guy steps back with his ski boots on......

**Meadow Skipper** · 01-01-2018, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by jonesy

Guy steps back with his ski boots on......

Right? No toenail will survive that.

**Vt-Freeheel** · 01-01-2018, 06:39 PM

**pipedream** · 01-01-2018, 06:43 PM

I was asked this morning by a lady rolling down the street if I knew how to get to the ski area. I pointed at the end of the road and said it's right over there. Apparently her GPS took her halfway up the hillside