Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

[wyeaster]

you're supposed to take your packs off when you get on the lift

[tango uniform]

you're supposed to take your packs off when you get on the lift

Even with it on my lap. Still uncomfortable!

I rode one at Solitude last month with no bars. Was that done recently?

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[PNWbrit]

Chairlift fright is a bigger problem than previously imagined.

[mattig]

FOFO?

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[skaredshtles]

Chairlift fright is a bigger problem than previously imagined.

I had an old college roommate that was scared SHITLESS on not only chairlifts, but gondolas as well.

And he's a commercial airline pilot.

[wyeaster]

Even with it on my lap. Still uncomfortable!

I rode one at Solitude last month with no bars. Was that done recently?

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i put the bar down 100% of the time. no bar and nothing to grab onto? i'm questionable at best.

[TahoeJ]

I had an old college roommate that was scared SHITLESS on not only chairlifts, but gondolas as well.

And he's a commercial airline pilot.

I have several good friends who are pilots. They are all control freaks. It makes sense.

[reckless toboggan]

no bar and nothing to grab onto? i'm questionable at best.

Sig worthy.

[pfluffenmeister]

There's a reeeally long span on Silverton's double chair with towers on ridges that is reeeally far above the bottom of the valley.
Really.

I don't go for bar-down too much, but that stretch is big (and there's no bar).

[PNWbrit]

There's a reeeally long span on Silverton's double chair with towers on ridges that is reeeally far above the bottom of the valley.
Really.

I don't go for bar-down too much, but that stretch is big (and there's no bar).

Pshhh.....

El Marte.

[bigdude2468]

This is not a Gaper quote but it kinda fits. On the grease boards at all Alta lifts starting at 11:00 AM.

"Gene Lang, go to your white pickup truck and drive your dog down the canyon"

[skinipenem]

I haven’t been hit by a safety bar since about 2015. Clusterfuck at loading gate so I snaked onto a chair (quad) with only two (ladies). Took the far left position to make sure they had plenty of room.

Nanoseconds before it’s time to sit down I hear “I’m getting on” and feel a shoulder or elbow in the ribs - hard enough to hop-step me to the right. I look over and this small middle aged lady is now on my left. As my butt touched the bench and without warning she dropped the bar, bouncing it off my helmet and slamming the handle into the meat of my inner thigh.

I said “Ow”
She said “That’s my space”
I said in my friendliest voice “have you been laid lately? I’m not offering but it might help your aggro attitude”

The rest of the chair ride was kinda quiet...

awesome! What a biotch.

Ugggh this shit drives me crazy. I have given up on telling people to pair up and make groups of 4/6. It irritates me way more than it should, so I have instead decided to completely ignore it and relax. I figure that I will get on the chairlift whenever it is meant to happen and that I should stop worrying about whether or not I will be 5 or 6 chairs behind where I should be. I am making a conscientious effort to not get irritated... after all it is just skiing.

The other day at Vail I was in line for a 6 inch pow day and some dude with a snowboard tried to cut into the singles line through the side. I was gonna bitch him out and tell him to get in line behind me but I just told him to have a nice day. I skied right past him at the top of the lift while he was strapping in. I figure you can’t let this shit bother you. There is already enough hostility and negativity in this country, I don’t need to get worked up about a chairlift line.

Later that same day I was in the singles line with my friends and guy behind us yelled “singles line is for singles only!”

I wanted to tell him that we understood perfectly well how a singles line worked but I kept my mouth shut again. I just don’t have the energy to be negative on the slopes anymore. Fuck it.

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[ichibaneye]

I get using the bar if you've got some little ones with you, or maybe if yer gittin old. But at my local hill, I'm always surprised when someone asks to lower the bar. Took a trip to Idaho though and wow, lets just say y'all are real safe out there!

Must have been an off day or something. I find it is a 50/50 thing, it happens at any resort, down or up. However may a Idahoen are also packing heat on the hill too. Yeah buddy! Most are not bar agros out here but will speak our minds if douche-baggary ensues.

[2FUNKY]

^ Does not speak for us Idahoans!

[El Chupacabra]

If there's a footrest, I'll use the bar most of the time.
If it's windy (like "I'm surprised this lift is still open" windy), I'll use the bar.

Otherwise, I don't bother.

[skinipenem]

I use the bar almost all the time. What's the point of having to pay attention while partying?


Pretty sure I've fallen off my chair at home laughing while sober.

At our home mountain, my friend tells me ski instructors can now only call the safety bar a "comfort bar" for liability reason.

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[pfluffenmeister]

Pshhh.....

El Marte.

I'm not traveled well enough; but if there, I'm sure I would be the gaper.

[cobblehiller]

I guess I am posting this here ...
Just watched the " snowbird rope drop " from the sidebar...
just wanted some of your feedback before I post my feelings

[~mikey b]

Oh my... that’s a whole other level. If you feel yourself falling do you throw the packs or do whatever you can to avoid landing on them? I’m sure some version of this discussion must have entered your mind...

Nah it’s not as big of a deal as you think. The bombs aren’t the issue, it’s the weight. Bombs won’t go off without an ignition source. But two 200# guys in full gear with 40# packs on swinging like that? Big deal. We were way out on a long high span. The fall would fuck you up. The bombs aren’t a concern until they are lost. Then it’s a whole other movie.

[stuckathuntermtn]

I seem to have developed a little bit of chairlift phobia since my brother died. OTOH, most of the chairs around here are old doubles and are sketchy as fuck. Nice not having to get hit in the head by some touron, though. (OK, that only happened once).

Here's some gaper shit. People who sign up just to post in this thread. WTF?

[~mikey b]

I seem to have developed a little bit of chairlift phobia since my brother died. OTOH, most of the chairs around here are old doubles and are sketchy as fuck. Nice not having to get hit in the head by some touron, though. (OK, that only happened once).

Here's some gaper shit. People who sign up just to post in this thread. WTF?

Did your brother fall off a chair?

I ride old Riblet doubles every day.

[snoqpass]

Did your brother fall off a chair?

I ride old Riblet doubles every day.

During one our bigger years a while back I remember a patroller riding the old riblet in the dark going up for control work and didn’t see the rope line for the low clearance and got snatched out of the chair

[old goat]

All this talk of bars is making me thirsty.

[goldengatestinx]

I’ve been skiing for more than 40 years. In that time, I’ve been on chairs with blatantly racist assholes, clueless newbies who wanted to learn, clueless newbies who refused to learn, ear-bud addicts who ignored me, one-weekend-a-year-skiers who were so damn EXCITED about the 2” of pow; you name it. In that time, I don’t think anyone has hit me with the safety bar, not once. Is this really a thing? Don’t you have any sense of propreoception?

It's funny when people use big words.

Proprioception (/ˌproʊprioʊˈsɛpʃən, -priə-/[1][2] PRO-pree-o-SEP-shən), from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own", "individual", and capio, capere, to take or grasp, is the sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement.[3]

[~mikey b]

All this talk of bars is making me thirsty.

Hit up the River Ranch after skiing. You can learn a lot about bars and snow and skiing. I think I have a couple wooden nickels I can give you.