Drinking and Skiing?

[BobMc]

Originally posted by splat
Just dropped in to ask if everthing is going OK for you, Bob?
hopin so......

Check your PM box. I swear there is no system crashing virus in said PM.

BobMc

[Alkasquawlik]

I won Junior Olympics so hung-over I was puking off the chairlift on the way up to my run. And they don't call us the Alkasquawliks for nothing.

[Theodore]

Never more than a beer at lunch. I just don't like the feeling of being tipsy and needing full control of my body. Pinner, any idea where that study is? My PT's were telling me that alcohol relaxes the muscles just enough to lessen their protection of major joints. I had 1 PT who took out her ACL after a few beers playing soccer.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Originally posted by Alkasquawlik
I won Junior Olympics so hung-over I was puking off the chairlift on the way up to my run. And they don't call us the Alkasquawliks for nothing.

The way to do it, speed events the more hung over the better, body is nice and lose, don't overturn due to your lack of brainspeed and too stupid to get scared, or too scared at least, =perfect.


Don't mind popping one on the chairlift, but won't get blitzed during the day typically.

[Alkasquawlik]

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
The way to do it, speed events the more hung over the better, body is nice and lose, don't overturn due to your lack of brainspeed and too stupid to get scared, or too scared at least, =perfect.

Yeah that's a good point, but I think for me it was more about the fact that my coaches found out about the kegger at my condo the night before the race. The ultimatium was that if I did anything less than win, I would get to truly learn the meaning of the term "eternal damnation".

[fez]

A couple times a season its fun to get loaded on the hill and see if you can make it down.

Usually at bridger, everyone has their shovel and gear in their pack. last day, its a 12pack. of course thats why the bastards closed early, to avoid the last day party.

I used to have a beer at lunch pretty often, but i save it for the drive home now (yet another reason to love montana).

My craziest drunk skiing experience was a day of touring on teton pass, followed by an evening of putting them back at the stage coach. Sometime after midnight someone mentioned that it was a full moon and we should go ski from the pass to the resort. It was seconded, then a group of maybe 8 of us headed out. We managed to summit glory before we realized there was no way in hell 8 drunks were going to be able to ski to the resort in the middle of the night so we just skied back down. Plus we were out of beer.

[shamrockpow]

Yeah, I realized this season that I can't really ski when drunk or extremely high.

A little puff or one beer on the chair - fine. Bong and a blintz breakfast - bad.

[shmerham]

If somebody ran in to me and they were shitfaced, they would probably get a ski boot up their ass. As funny as some drunk skiing stories are, I don't think I can in any way condone it.

I don't understand the whole intermediates drinking for challenge thing either. Why wouldn't you go down something harder and pretend you're drunk on a blue? ...because you're a drunk and you suck at skiing. My relatives do this; they drop beer off on a bunch of places around the mountain and then they spend the rest of the day skiing back to it and drinking it. This seems like it would be a lot more adventurous if you were high.

Alas, I do have a few skiing and drinking related stories:

-I had never raced before either, but I joined the ski team at my college so I could meet some skiers and ski cheap. There were some racers who were really good and trained hard; but abstaining from drinking was not a part of the training regimen. Every race we bought a keg (on student union funds). Kegstands in a van on a highly patrolled highway are pretty interesting. One race we had beer left over on sunday morning, so we brought the keg to the mountain. What better place to have it then at the top of the course. I never drank while racing. I was always amazed at how well some people could ski while under the influence. Needless to say, the following year we received a letter from the mountain where we did this, requesting that we didn't do so in future races there.

There were 8 teams in our division and 6 of them were closely matched (our team included). Usually there was enough of a difference that the placing was pretty consistent. Rarely did a 4th place team ski their ass off and beat the 3rd place team. Thus, you could drink it up and it wouldn't really matter, because if you were a 3rd place team, you were gonna be 3rd place. One team, however, was leaps and bounds better than everyone else. While the rest of us would consistently be bottom of the barrel at regionals, they'd make nationals. One night, we devised a plan to get everyone to chip in and buy them a bunch of shots. I think we pooled enough up for 7 rounds. Ended up being a stupid idea, which we undoubtedly came up with AFTER we started drinking. They drank free, and they still kicked our ass. They drank like champs. It was nothing for them. It didn't help either that despite our master plan, we all drank it up and ended up hungover the next day (this is moot though as they would've beaten us regardless of how well we skied).

[lemon boy]

I admit to being a ski hill drinker. I learned it from the professor.

Always either coors or coors light.

One in the AM putting on boots (boot lube).

One a little later in the AM riding lifts.

One a little later in the AM sitting around between riding lifts

One at lunch

One a bit later riding lifts

One at the truck.

A nice even sixer - each beer except #1 & #6 get split usually.

Note, I don't ever get "drunk" skiing. Okay, except when spectating comps. This of course is cause I stopped smoking pot pretty much.

[teledave]

I've been known to have a beer or 6 in a days skiing a time or two myself. As long as they are spaced out sufficiently you just maintain a nice 2 beer buzz. I pretty much use about the same schedule as lemon boy without the splitting, and for the same reason.

Originally posted by lemon boy
This of course is cause I stopped smoking pot pretty much.