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Thread: Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?
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01-09-2013, 01:53 PM #3976
10 dys ago I'm doing early morning laps taking my boys through the park. Decide to take a new big jump without having seen any kid take it first. Land one foot short and can barely walk. At least my foot feels best when it is in a boot!
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01-09-2013, 02:35 PM #3977
Heard in Russia-
"The Orb is completely safe"
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01-11-2013, 05:17 PM #3978Registered User
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Snowed about a foot last night here in the San Juans. I was having easily the best day of my year ripping up the stashes around purg when I ran into two gapers on snowblades just about to get on the lift.
They asked me if I wanted to join them. It ended up being good that I passed on that opportunity since one of them stuck his tip in the snow getting on the lift and popped his blade clean off. The dude's blade was now hanging by the leash about 3-4 feet bellow him. Had a good laugh but this gaper experience wasn't quite over yet.
We get to the top of the lift and the liftie was in front of the platform packing down the new snow. I saw it coming from a mile away, but my hollering didn't do a thing as the gapers blade smacked the liftie directly in the back of the head. I hope the dude was okay but that was some of the funniest shit I've seen in a long time.
Long live the gaper!
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01-11-2013, 05:34 PM #3979
As heard on 9 morning news in Denver.
Reporter " I went skiing at Keystone yesterday and it was great. I was a little nervous about it because sometimes it can be ify skiing in the winter ".
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01-11-2013, 06:01 PM #3980
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01-11-2013, 06:12 PM #3981"...if you're not doing a double flip cork something, skiing spines in Haines, or doing double flip cork somethings off spines in Haines, you're pretty much just gaping."
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01-11-2013, 06:22 PM #3982
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01-11-2013, 06:47 PM #3983
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=WpOWG...%3DWpOWGK8sCx8
Spreading stoke...how fat are your sand skis?
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01-12-2013, 12:47 AM #3984
riding the lifts after this little squall storm-mini pow day, that passed though at Loveland. Me talking to some people on the lift, me; "what if they turned ON the snowmaking machines during a storm like that?" them: "silence". Hey, I was baked and it was a mini pow day and the air smelled like the Pacific ocean.
Terje was right.
"We're all kooks to somebody else." -Shelby Menzel
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01-12-2013, 12:57 AM #3985
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01-12-2013, 01:11 PM #3986
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01-12-2013, 02:27 PM #3987spook Guest
can't wait until I see a pic of my shitty outwear on this thread. makes me even more embarrassed to love riding no matter what my limits.
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01-12-2013, 03:24 PM #3988not awesome
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So ... during the entire lift ride, the guy couldn't pull the snowblade up by the leash and grab it? Or it didn't occur to him? Even if he didn't get it back on, surely it would be easier to get off the chair without trailing it by the leash?
I am a gaper, but have no experience with snowblades, is there some fundamental thing I'm missing here, or was he just beyond clueless?
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01-12-2013, 03:32 PM #3989spook Guest
during my third season or so boarding I wanted to know more about one of the cat skiing operations in oregon -- how good i needed to be, what equipment, best time of year, how to get on as a solo, etc. i read their website and it said "you must be a fall-line skier."
i had no idea what a fall-line skier was, and rather than use my trusty friend google, i asked the operators in my email.
i never heard back. even after repeated inquiries.
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01-12-2013, 07:41 PM #3990
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01-12-2013, 07:43 PM #3991
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01-12-2013, 07:45 PM #3992AMERICA!!!
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01-12-2013, 08:54 PM #3993
Another classic...
This is probably mentioned already:
This woman fell and I offered to help. But she said she got it. After about 30 seconds observation, I pointed out that slipping the boot toe into the binding heel first is not going to work. So I had her rotate the skis 180 degrees.
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01-12-2013, 08:57 PM #3994
On the lift eavesdropping...
Guy A said to Guy B, 'notice that the snowboarders put their weight back and turn with their rear foot? You should sit back more and try to turn with the backs of your skis.'
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01-12-2013, 09:02 PM #3995
couple days after Christmas, after getting about 2 feet of new stuff, on the lift again of course...the guy said, this is really bad condition, they should groom more here.
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01-13-2013, 10:37 AM #3996Registered User
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Great story, spook, thanks for being willing to tell it on yourself. no response "even after repeated inquiries."
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01-13-2013, 12:14 PM #3997
Years ago at Red Mountain, BC my buddy and I were riding the first lift that appears to go to the top with a mid-station. We decide to act like fools that we didn't know what to do at said mid-station. Yep, we went around the bull-wheel...no mid-station.
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01-13-2013, 08:17 PM #3998
I know its North Carolina... but this dude stuck his lift ticket directly onto his shirt.
yeah...
to give him credit, he was trying really hard to learn how to slide a mailbox and fell a shitload of times.
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01-13-2013, 08:46 PM #3999
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01-13-2013, 09:48 PM #4000
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