Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

**stuckathuntermtn** · 02-24-2020, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by scrambledbacon

I was musing about this saturday.
Maybe a cert, like a belay cert to ride a lift.

Shaka brah!

**romeo tango** · 02-24-2020, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

I'd say this qualifies: https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zOw4ApezS/

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NBD ....
i often stop on ridge lines
in lift-served terrain
and dig a big fucking pit

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**skipowpow** · 02-24-2020, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by romeo tango

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NBD ....
i often stop on ridge lines
in lift-served terrain
and dig a big fucking pit

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Thinking it is more like this

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**srface_hoar** · 02-25-2020, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

I don't understand how people have so much trouble with lifts. Especially adults on high speed detachables.
1. Sit down.
2. Stand up.

???

I had a Norwegian mom and her two kids riding a lift with me a Snowbird. As we get to the top, I attempt to raise the bar and she refuses to move her skis from foot rests. We get right up to the ramp and I am yelling at her to lift the f-ing bar. She still refuses until I just slammed the bar and foot rests up at the last minute and was able to escape the lift. She then had the nerve to get mad at me for ripping the bar up and yelling at her. So yeah, it appears to be difficult to ride a lift for some.

**old goat** · 02-27-2020, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by srface_hoar

I had a Norwegian mom and her two kids riding a lift with me a Snowbird. As we get to the top, I attempt to raise the bar and she refuses to move her skis from foot rests. We get right up to the ramp and I am yelling at her to lift the f-ing bar. She still refuses until I just slammed the bar and foot rests up at the last minute and was able to escape the lift. She then had the nerve to get mad at me for ripping the bar up and yelling at her. So yeah, it appears to be difficult to ride a lift for some.

Maybe she was just there to ride the lifts up and back down again. Did you ever think of that? Did you? Didn't think so.

**AirheadD8** · 02-27-2020, 05:02 AM

Originally Posted by old goat

Maybe she was just there to ride the lifts up and back down again. Did you ever think of that? Did you? Didn't think so.

"I attempt to raise the bar and she refuses to move her skis from foot rests"

Yeah with skis on ...............

**californiagrown** · 02-27-2020, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by srface_hoar

I had a Norwegian mom and her two kids riding a lift with me a Snowbird. As we get to the top, I attempt to raise the bar and she refuses to move her skis from foot rests. We get right up to the ramp and I am yelling at her to lift the f-ing bar. She still refuses until I just slammed the bar and foot rests up at the last minute and was able to escape the lift. She then had the nerve to get mad at me for ripping the bar up and yelling at her. So yeah, it appears to be difficult to ride a lift for some.

If a chair full of adults (in america) brings the bar down on my head without warning (im tall so it hits me if i dont duck) i will hold the bar down far longer than is comfortable on the offload as payback.

**toast2266** · 02-27-2020, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by californiagrown

If a chair full of adults (in america) brings the bar down on my head without warning (im tall so it hits me if i dont duck) i will hold the bar down far longer than is comfortable on the offload as payback.

Glad I'm not the only one that does this.

**m2711c** · 02-27-2020, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I don't ski weekends, and I don't tour.

This season is fucked. If this thing comes in tommorow with 50mph winds and bullshit snow, I'm outta here. 50 degree rain next week on my forecasts. I'm driving to Colorado.

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**old goat** · 02-27-2020, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by californiagrown

If a chair full of adults (in america) brings the bar down on my head without warning (im tall so it hits me if i dont duck) i will hold the bar down far longer than is comfortable on the offload as payback.

For most people that seems to be halfway up the hill.

**stayhighstaydry** · 02-27-2020, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by m2711c

......

Start packing the car.

**paulster2626** · 02-27-2020, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by californiagrown

If a chair full of adults (in america) brings the bar down on my head without warning (im tall so it hits me if i dont duck) i will hold the bar down far longer than is comfortable on the offload as payback.

And if it comes down when we're still in the goddamn bottom terminal, I'm keeping it down as we go around the top bullwheel.

**scrambledbacon** · 02-27-2020, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by AirheadD8

"I attempt to raise the bar and she refuses to move her skis from foot rests"

Yeah with skis on ...............

Watch it, sarcasm police just secured more funding and are increasing forum patrols

**scrambledbacon** · 02-27-2020, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by toast2266

Glad I'm not the only one that does this.

Every fucking chair last week...
Ima start doin this

**californiagrown** · 02-27-2020, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by paulster2626

And if it comes down when we're still in the goddamn bottom terminal, I'm keeping it down as we go around the top bullwheel.

I was warned about the Euros love of the bar, and was prepared on my first lift ride there, but damn they are quick. like before skis leave the snow quick.

Also, i had more topsheet chipping from 5 days in french lift lines than i did from a full season back home in america.

**TurxSki** · 02-27-2020, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by californiagrown

I was warned about the Euros love of the bar, and was prepared on my first lift ride there, but damn they are quick. like before skis leave the snow quick.

Also, i had more topsheet chipping from 5 days in french lift lines than i did from a full season back home in america.

Sacré bleu!

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**TahoeJ** · 02-27-2020, 12:15 PM

I have multiple dents on my helmet from fucking bar slammers. The worst.

**romeo tango** · 02-27-2020, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by TahoeJ

....multiple dents on my helmet from fucking bar slammers....

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when riding solo and grouping up in the maze
i catch the attention of the
most responsible-looking member of my new friends
and ask if they like the bar down?
if there's a language barrier
i get my free hand up in the air, ready to intercept ....

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**SkiBall** · 02-27-2020, 07:02 PM

If you aren't prepped for bar droppers at this point, that is on you.

And checking to see if the seat is down has been recently added to this list.

**babybear** · 02-27-2020, 07:25 PM

my buddy said he was hiking 4 pines the other day and a guy stopped him on the boot pack to ask if there was a cat track at the top

**~mikey b** · 02-27-2020, 10:20 PM

I hope he said “yes!”

**Cocximus** · 02-28-2020, 05:07 AM

Sit down lean back. You guys fiddling with your camel toe or what's so hard about getting on a lift? Who's the gaper...

**Talisman** · 02-28-2020, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by daught

Sit down lean back. You guys fiddling with your camel toe or what's so hard about getting on a lift? Who's the gaper...

Riding the Big Sky eight seater taught me to quickly "sit down & lean back" maneuver as someone aboard that lift will slam down the bar within a few feet of the loading station. Once the bar is slammed down, it is feet back to avoid the shin smash of the blue bubble coming down. The fun part is the bar locks in place so the slow get pinched gear or legs for the entire ride.

**paulster2626** · 02-28-2020, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by daught

Sit down lean back. You guys fiddling with your camel toe or what's so hard about getting on a lift? Who's the gaper...

When you're taller than 5'6", the lean back is awkward a mere second after planting your ass on the chair. 3 seconds, that's all I ask for.

**TahoeJ** · 02-28-2020, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by SkiBall

If you aren't prepped for bar droppers at this point, that is on you.

And checking to see if the seat is down has been recently added to this list.

I am prepared for bar droppers... in a few cases they did it extremely early, almost before everyone had a chance to scoot their asses back on the chair. Everyone else - not just me - got pissed. In each case the guy doing it was on the inside of the chair swinging around so he got seated first and brought it down before I was fully seated, being on the outside of the chair.