Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

**Gepeto** · 03-13-2018, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by abraham

You printing em? I'll buy one as a gift for a friend

Tillerson says you can have his

**abraham** · 03-13-2018, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by Gepeto

Tillerson says you can have his

I thought exxon dudes were more the printed hard hat type??

Did I miss the foil lining?

**Gepeto** · 03-13-2018, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by abraham

I thought exxon dudes were more the printed hard hat type??

Did I miss the foil lining?

SOS position requirement

His wife made him do it

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...-want-this-job

**_Jahffrey_** · 03-13-2018, 08:44 PM

I heard a guy on Sunday say "Gloves are Gloves."

I don't agree. I like having warm fingers

**paulster2626** · 03-14-2018, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by _Jahffrey_

I heard a guy on Sunday say "Gloves are Gloves."

I don't agree. I like having warm fingers

Some people's hands don't get cold it seems, or it just doesn't bother them. How my buddy can go fishing all day in the winter rain with no gloves boggles my mind. Meanwhile, I've got 3 pairs to keep switching out and I'm still a whiny little bitch the entire day.

**californiagrown** · 03-14-2018, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by paulster2626

Some people's hands don't get cold it seems, or it just doesn't bother them. How my buddy can go fishing all day in the winter rain with no gloves boggles my mind. Meanwhile, I've got 3 pairs to keep switching out and I'm still a whiny little bitch the entire day.

Some folks (like myself) have very good circulation. As long as I am warm, and my hands aren't submerged in a bucket of ice water, my hands are warm.

Gloves are gloves for me. I use shitty leather gloves with a fuckton of snoseal baked in.

**Name Redacted** · 03-14-2018, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by californiagrown

Some folks (like myself) have very good circulation. As long as I am warm, and my hands aren't submerged in a bucket of ice water, my hands are warm.

Gloves are gloves for me. I use shitty leather gloves with a fuckton of snoseal baked in.

This is me^^^ I attribute it to frequent high-level booze consumption. Fabric backed Kincos on even the coldest days.

Of course I have been punished with a wife who has borderline Raynaud's. Not to mention a couple ski partners who are quite vocal in their displeasure when they have frigid digits.

**californiagrown** · 03-14-2018, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by shredgnar

This is me^^^ I attribute it to frequent high-level booze consumption. Fabric backed Kincos on even the coldest days.

Of course I have been punished with a wife who has borderline Raynaud's. Not to mention a couple ski partners who are quite vocal in their displeasure when they have frigid digits.

that is the other thing... having cold hands or feet is not really that uncomfortable for me. Id rather have warm hands, but on the 1-10 pain scale that medical personel give you (1 being hardly noticable, 10 being about to pass out/unable to breathe its so bad) id rate it a 1.5-2 at worst. Meanwhile my GF, who grew up in Park city and then Dillion, CO constantly complains about cold hands and feet when i can actually feel her hands are warmer than my own.

just proves that everyone is different and experiences are relative.

**SumJongGuy** · 03-14-2018, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by _Jahffrey_

I heard a guy on Sunday say "Gloves are Gloves."

I don't agree. I like having warm fingers

I don't like wearing gloves that don't match my jacket and pants. I have as many different pairs of gloves as I do different weight and color jackets.. I go with mittens when it's sub zero..

**Name Redacted** · 03-14-2018, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by californiagrown

that is the other thing... having cold hands or feet is not really that uncomfortable for me. Id rather have warm hands, but on the 1-10 pain scale that medical personel give you (1 being hardly noticable, 10 being about to pass out/unable to breathe its so bad) id rate it a 1.5-2 at worst. Meanwhile my GF, who grew up in Park city and then Dillion, CO constantly complains about cold hands and feet when i can actually feel her hands are warmer than my own.

just proves that everyone is different and experiences are relative.

Must be something in the water in Dillon, CO, my wife grew up there/here too.

**paulster2626** · 03-14-2018, 10:07 AM

You guys are lucky. My hand is frigid right now from eating this cold apple.

**GPP33** · 03-14-2018, 10:20 PM

I take dexterity over warmth. Actually the biggest factor for me seems to be tightness around my wrist. Even the slightest pressure on the back of my hand seems to constrict circulation enough to make em cold. Though I wore the exact same gloves last week when it was 25 as I did two weeks before when it was zero. Hands were colder last week than on the colder days. I can’t figure it out so I go with which ever gives me better dexterity. If they get cold I bunch em up into a fist which is only ever on the lift, once I’m skiing I don’t even notice it.

**TahoeJ** · 03-14-2018, 10:29 PM

Pretty sure you’re supposed to say you prefer gloves that are dexterous as fuck...

**Olaf Metal** · 03-14-2018, 11:44 PM

Gloves are gloves for me. I use shitty leather gloves with a fuckton of snoseal baked in.[/QUOTE]

Is a fuckton more than a shitton?

**BoogieWater** · 03-15-2018, 12:43 AM

Originally Posted by Olaf Metal

Gloves are gloves for me. I use shitty leather gloves with a fuckton of snoseal baked in.

Is a fuckton more than a shitton?[/QUOTE]
This all depends on if we're talking metric or imperial...

**old goat** · 03-20-2018, 02:09 AM

Older woman in the Squaw lot today in a speed suit, struggling to carry her race skis which where scissoring badly over her shoulder. I guess it's NASTAR championships. Those are handicapped, aren't they? She's probably a sandbagger with an excellent chance of winning. Still, I would think you should learn to carry your skis before you start racing.

**DropCliffsNotBombs** · 03-20-2018, 08:50 AM

NASTAR "championships?"

**thefortrees** · 03-20-2018, 09:33 AM

Standing in line at Mary Jane last Saturday, lifties are blasting Stairway to Heaven. Dude next to me goes "good music, I love Dust in the Wind". Sorry to say that I was skiing with said person, and he is a family member. I guess we can give him credit because he's still in college...?

**Jonny Snow** · 03-20-2018, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by k2skier112

Or, let the 3 gapers slide out to load, act like you missed the chair, then ride solo.

Yes, on a fixed grip quad. Or just don't pair up with them in the first place if they look like they don't know how to ride the lift.

**old goat** · 03-20-2018, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by DropCliffsNotBombs

NASTAR "championships?"

I suppose "Nastar Championships" is a gaper quote in its own right.

Originally Posted by thefortrees

Standing in line at Mary Jane last Saturday, lifties are blasting Stairway to Heaven. Dude next to me goes "good music, I love Dust in the Wind". Sorry to say that I was skiing with said person, and he is a family member. I guess we can give him credit because he's still in college...?

Spare me the greatest hits of the 70's. I got tired of those in the 70's. Why do ski areas insist on playing that shit? I guess because there are enough gapers that like to listen to it.

**WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot** · 03-24-2018, 05:31 PM

overheard a phone conversation today:
wife had lost a ski in deep snow,
called her husband in the lodge;
listened to him talk her through a "search":
not really gaper, but funny as fuck!

**old goat** · 03-24-2018, 06:52 PM

A friend of ours was in a sports shop in Jackson a few summers ago and overheard someone asking the clerk how to get the bear bells on the bear. Appeared to be serious. This cannot be the first time this has come up in this thread.

**Meadow Skipper** · 03-24-2018, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

A friend of ours was in a sports shop in Jackson a few summers ago and overheard someone asking the clerk how to get the bear bells on the bear. Appeared to be serious. This cannot be the first time this has come up in this thread.

I've heard a claim that someone in a sports shop asked the clerk how much bear spray they had to apply to themself for it to be effective.

**PNW_Skier206** · 03-24-2018, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

I've heard a claim that someone in a sports shop asked the clerk how much bear spray they had to apply to themself for it to be effective.

Please tell me he said all of it

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**Toddball** · 03-24-2018, 08:48 PM

At Stevens yesterday, putting on skis after hiking to Bob and Nancy at the top of 7th (i.e. had a great top-down view on the offloading station). Two snowboarders ride right up to the ramp, then just stay on the chair as the ramp falls away under them. Lifty comes out of the shack: "Did you miss something?!?"

Lifty then spins the lift until the boarders are on the other side of the ramp, facing back down the lift. One of them, slumped in the chair, almost doesn't get his board over the bar that automatically stops the lift, but just manages it. (This guy has a distinctive checkered jacket, which will be important later.) Finally they get off the chair, shuffle around to the ramp, tumble down the ramp, and start strapping in right at the base of the ramp. After some more encouragement by the lifty, they move some distance away.

After several runs, we are heading up Skyline, and see two people rounding a corner of a groomer on sleds. Further inspection reveals that they are actually sitting down on their snowboards. The second one is wearing a distinctive checkered jacket.