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Thread: Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?
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03-11-2014, 01:39 PM #4801
If you have to ask for a local's discount, you're not a local.
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03-11-2014, 02:04 PM #4802Gluten Free Dan
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Was in Breck a few winters ago, and a friend of a friend "who owns a condo," was asking for a locals discount super loudly at a burger place (forget which one). It was super awkward, and it was a timeshare her father owned. Needless to say, our waiter didn't do much to help my opinion of her being a full-on douche.
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03-11-2014, 02:11 PM #4803
@Underoos: Exactly! I can either tell - or you're nice enough to earn one anyways
@Anospa: haha awesome.I am the dirt you created.
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03-11-2014, 02:49 PM #4804
So I just get on the lift for last chair at Abasin this past Friday. The older gentleman next to me is a chunky fella with some sort of patterned jacket and a light purple backpack. I look over at him and I'm about to say hello when he blurts out....
"I'm a local"
I immediately just start laughing and say to him, "OK, well that's a way to start a conversation." Then he says...."Do you live in Denver?" Then, I say no, I'm a dentist in Frisco.
Guy doesn't say another word the rest of the lift ride. It was bizarre. Some downloading employees scream "Hey Charlie" when we past by. Who knows this guy?"Can't vouch for him, though he seems normal via email."
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03-11-2014, 03:10 PM #4805
He lives at A Basin?
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03-11-2014, 05:50 PM #4806
Yeah, Charlie is a fixture. He's a little weird, and for a guy who has logged 100 days a year since Eisenhower was a president and not a tunnel (not really, but a long time), you'd think he'd be a better skier. Powder mag did a story on him a couple of years ago when abasin had him 86'd from the parking lot where he'd been camping for a few months. He didn't live there all the time, but he camped in the HN lot frequently. AB wanted to get out of the dirtbag business and had plans to expand the parking, so they asked him to leave several times and then called the sheriff. He ended up hanging out in jail for a few weeks when he refused to leave and wouldn't just accept a plea deal. It ended up being one of those little guy vs. big guy stories... But you know you got a little guy on your hands when abasin is the big guy (no, they aren't owned by vail).
Charlie is local for sure. And if he rubbed you the wrong way, you probably read that correctly. Dude's a trip...
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03-11-2014, 06:14 PM #4807Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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03-11-2014, 08:19 PM #4808
Wow, I had no idea I had met a legend.
"Can't vouch for him, though he seems normal via email."
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03-11-2014, 08:51 PM #4809
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03-11-2014, 10:47 PM #4810
buddy buys a sled ...
"I'm not going to learn to sled, I only want to snowboard"
well thats great and all, but I DON'T WANT TO DIG YOUR SORRY ASS OUT EVERY 5 FARKING MINUTES COZ YOU CAN'T HOLD THE LINE UP A CREEK !!!We, the RATBAGGERS, formally axcept our duty is to trigger avalaches on all skiers ...
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03-11-2014, 11:01 PM #4811
Those dam wannabe sled boarders eh......
Couldn't help myself!!!!!! Bahahahhahahahahhahahah
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03-12-2014, 12:08 AM #4812
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03-13-2014, 09:54 AM #4813
Don't know if this has been posted:
http://beatermeter.tumblr.com/It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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03-13-2014, 12:00 PM #4814
Was coaching, and saw two women crowded around a maybe 13 year old kid who was sitting down in the middle of the run. I stopped to see what was the matter, and the mom said "he has a bloody nose! Can you call ski patrol!" as she points to my radio - as if I am in direct contact with them. She was actually angry with me that my radio only communicated to fellow coaches, she kept screaming at me "why cant you just call them!" and at the same time one of my 7 year olds I was coaching was asking the kid why he can't just ski down HAHA
If I wasn't in my uniform I would have just skied off, but as it was I went to the nearest emergency phone and called ski patrol trying to hold back laughter.I am the dirt you created.
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03-13-2014, 05:14 PM #4815
Not a quote but:
I'm @Abasin, skiing solo; waiting to board a triple lift.
A guy skis up next to me and pauses for a split second, then proceeds to ski forward to presumably join the group of two that is about to sit down.
The chair comes around the bullwheel, rocks the guy in the hip, knocks him out of one of his skis, and throws him about 20 feet forward.
Everyone was surprised.In search of the elusive artic powder weasel ...
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03-13-2014, 06:32 PM #4816
hitchhiked to the Winds back in the day to climb for a month--a couple of miles in passed two teens hiking out, one of them with dried blood on his face. Apparently he had a disagreement with a bear over a fish. Bleeding had stopped. Claw marks not particularly deep. Vital signs normal. We had no car. They were still extremely pissed we didn't go back with them to the very busy campground.
Extremely important to have emergency phones handy at all higher altitude resorts, due to the frequency of nosebleeds due to low humidity. And defibrillators for the really bad nose bleeds.
I feel bad for the kid but most of us had to deal with mothers growing up--he'll probably get over it (but then Norman Bates comes to mind.)
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03-13-2014, 11:46 PM #4817
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03-14-2014, 04:54 AM #4818
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03-14-2014, 06:36 PM #4819
I'm quite the Jong myself, so I hesitate to contribute...
Sitting at the base at Steamboat today, covertly watching my kid in ski school. Gaper was sitting on the wall next to where I was. It was warm and slushy at the base and I made some comment about it, as the kids in little kid ski school were having trouble even sliding at all.
Gaper said, "yeah it's really melting fast.....I bet they have to bring more in every night."
I then realized I might have just heard a gaper comment, and said no more. Maybe I misunderstood...
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03-14-2014, 06:43 PM #4820
It snowed a bit last week in Steamboat, I heard someone on Lincoln say "I can't believe someone spray painted all those signs white!". To their credit it was night time but....
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03-14-2014, 07:53 PM #4821
"WHEEEEE---HOOOOO!!!!!!!!" by a snowboarder who side slipped D8 top to bottom today. (And it wasn't even firm.)
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03-14-2014, 08:12 PM #4822
Going up the lift at Squaw the other day with a boarder,
Me: Man, I skipped out on the Cascade concrete for Sierra cement.
Dude: Yeah, where you from?
Me: Oregon
Dude: Wow, that’s a looonnng ways from here, brah.
Me: Yeah, where you from?
Dude: Maui.
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03-16-2014, 12:23 PM #4823
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03-16-2014, 12:24 PM #4824I am the dirt you created.
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03-16-2014, 01:16 PM #4825spook Guest
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