Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

[Chugachjed]

After smoking 3 joints of AK's finest with only 3 people I turn to a local and ask "what elevation is Juneau?".

I've had fishing clients on the boat, ON THE OCEAN, ask how far below sea level we get at low tide.

[grrrr]

I've had fishing clients on the boat, ON THE OCEAN, ask how far below sea level we get at low tide.

"Sea Level" is usually defined as Mean Lower Low Tide, hence the negative numbers in the tide books. Although I usually just go with the level the ocean is right now when I'm on it.

[~mikey b]

my mother-in-law was complaining about the altitude in Juneau - you could see tidewater from our house

[Chugachjed]

"Sea Level" is usually defined as Mean Lower Low Tide, hence the negative numbers in the tide books. Although I usually just go with the level the ocean is right now when I'm on it.

I'm aware of MLLT but "sea level" seems too easy to calculate when it's 3 feet under the deck you're standing on.

[Chugachjed]

my mother-in-law was complaining about the altitude in Juneau - you could see tidewater from our house

By altitude she meant no nordstroms.

[gaijin]

"Are you looking forward to the snow?"

"I heard this winter is supposed to be huge."

[wolfelot]

Good to see this back up. The season beckons.

[Max Archer]

"No, no, it's like this."

As a husband and wife (in jeans, naturally) are holding up the Boreal lift line yesterday while he's trying to help her put her skis on backwards.

I mean, I'm all for new people learning the sport, but maybe figure out how to put the skis on somewhere other than the front of the line, and maybe it's not the greatest idea for two complete beginners to head up the lift on their own if they don't even know how to put their skis on?

Such fears seemed to have been proven right, as they were standing, skis off, near the top of the lift my next few laps, and before I left I saw them having an obviously awkward conversation with a patroller...

[krp8128]

After he measured, said "75in fits no problem" and I drove 30 minutes to find out my 189cm skis DON'T fit in a Thule Evo 1600:


"Man, those are some long skis. Those aren't for regular downhill, are they?"

[sqikunst]

Maybe not the appropriate place but it made me laugh cause if TGR. Sitting in law when the professor starts with the line "I once had this case where 2 skiers crashed together. They were both dentists....." Story is pretty predictable from there.

[stfu&gbtw]

I was riding the Lenawee lift at A-Basin the other day and as we're flying over Lenawee Parks, the dude at the other end of the chair goes, "I think the blues here are pretty much like the greens at Keystone."

[old goat]

Maybe not the appropriate place but it made me laugh cause if TGR. Sitting in law when the professor starts with the line "I once had this case where 2 skiers crashed together. They were both dentists....." Story is pretty predictable from there.

Yeah, well dentists tell each other lawyer jokes.

[CO_Vol]

"Dude, is that a throwback jersey?"

[cmsummit]

"Dude, is that a throwback jersey?"

Quality.

[epic]

Snowboarder at Stowe today says to me "Hey were you just skinning in the bootpack? Me "No, but it looks like people are hiking in the skin track".

[skiing-in-jackson]

Riding up Apres Vous Lift the other day. This guy started a monolog about snow conditions...

Very close paraphrase:

"The transflux cohesive layer bonds to residual wind swept molecular adhesive forming a compactive sheer surface needed for proper layering and stability of the initial layers of the foundation section resulting in a somewhat mitigated, atomic elasticity yielding bonding and nuclear fluctuations occur at these elevations and solar slant perspective....etc...etc..."

It got deep at the end. I read the avi report a few times a week and there were clearly words being used I never heard before- and I work in a ski shop!

I thought..."This guy really knows his stuff- at the beginning.

Near the end of the near 6 minute monolog about snow conditions, a good sized (8-10) group of mule deer walked under the lift. Two beautiful bucks and a bunch of does following.

"LOOK AT THE ELK!"

Maybe he had poor vision.

[jonesy]

Riding up Apres Vous Lift the other day. This guy started a monolog about snow conditions...

Very close paraphrase:

"The transflux cohesive layer bonds to residual wind swept molecular adhesive forming a compactive sheer surface needed for proper layering and stability of the initial layers of the foundation section resulting in a somewhat mitigated, atomic elasticity yielding bonding and nuclear fluctuations occur at these elevations and solar slant perspective....etc...etc..."

It got deep at the end. I read the avi report a few times a week and there were clearly words being used I never heard before- and I work in a ski shop!

I thought..."This guy really knows his stuff- at the beginning.

Near the end of the near 6 minute monolog about snow conditions, a good sized (8-10) group of mule elk walked under the lift. Two beautiful Bulls and a bunch of Cows following.

"LOOK AT THE ELK!"

Maybe he had poor vision.

Fixed it.

[skiing-in-jackson]

Yeah that's what we have here....Mule Elk.

[TacocaT]

he might have been right what elevation were you at?

[jonesy]

Yeah that's what we have here....Mule Elk.

Wait a minute. Aren't these from Wy?

[Jim S]

Last Friday powder day on Mt Rose lift:

"Looks like they are taking down the barriers and ropes to the Chutes and opening them up."

"No. Chutes are closed. They are now putting up the ropes to keep you out."


"What skis are those? They look fat. Are they those new Monument skis made in Reno?"


I jumped off the lift at this point.

[zartagen]

A friend of mine is a ski tech and was helping a customer dropping their skis off for a tune. They asked if they needed their poles waxed.

[Sessiøn]

I have never had the "waterski's" comment until saturday, when somehow I had it 3 times.

[~mikey b]

A friend of mine is a ski tech and was helping a customer dropping their skis off for a tune. They asked if they needed their poles waxed.

duh - they need to be sharpened AND waxed - that'll be $25

[old goat]

A friend of mine is a ski tech and was helping a customer dropping their skis off for a tune. They asked if they needed their poles waxed.

ky jelly works better