Most interesting person you shared a lift with

[AlpineKevin]

Not on a chair lift, but fast forward a couple years and I was at the base of Telluride buying Chapstick when I noticed a bozo in front me in a fur length coat down to his ankles. It was Trump alongside Marla Maples.

You win.

[Benny Profane]

Old timers at Taos.

[Soups]

Rode the gondola up with Josh Brolin in Whistler last year. We facetimed with his hot wife too. Super nice guy, but a snowboarder

[hawkgt]

years ago and not same chair but Seth Morrison on a weekday morning at Loveland. Not quite WROD but not much open, early season, he was in line with a couple K2 dudes (top to bottom K2 so figured they were marketing dudes). Said hello, enjoy the day, like your skiing, etc in the lift line, he was pleasant and cordial. I thought it was funny because as soon as he got on the lift with the K2 dues he put on some headphones and just watched the mountain. I was chair behind and thought, cool. I'll follow him and watch him ski. No can do, he straightlined it into some mogul run barely letting the skis touch the tops. FUCKING ripped it. K2 dudes tried to follow as well but they got smoked as well. I thought I was a good skiier at the time, that was an eye opener.

Actually lift? prob the 2 attractive gals that joined up on a chair with a buddy and I at WP. Little chit chat, etc... Gal 1 pulls out some panties and tosses them onto the panty tree, My buddy tried to give her shit saying that the panties need to be a conquest, the other girl dead ass panned "those aint her panties."

dead silence and then mass laughter from all of us.

[El Kanone]

You win.

My girlfriend at the time worked for the on mountain photo company and got a shot of Mr. Trump and Marla. Her boss sold it to the Enquirer for $10,000. He gave her enough to buy a new Mt bike. They had just started dating before that trip so it was “news”.


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[GoldMember]

That would make you around 5'11".

Math major?

[SumJongGuy]

My girlfriend at the time worked for the on mountain photo company and got a shot of Mr. Trump and Marla. Her boss sold it to the Enquirer for $10,000. He gave her enough to buy a new Mt bike. They had just started dating before that trip so it was “news”.


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I remember seeing a similar story somewhere and the person said they saw him at Vail right after his casinos got foreclosed.. They said he was waiting for the half day lift tickets to go on sale. Don't know if it's true but sounded hilarious!

[El Kanone]

I rode up on first chair with Shane McConkey on his first day skiing Mt Baker. It was a 14 inch bluebird powder day and the mountain was only open to guests of K2. I showed him around all morning.




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[AlpineKevin]

I rode up on first chair with Shane McConkey on his first day skiing Mt Baker. It was a 14 inch bluebird powder day and the mountain was only open to guests of K2. I showed him around all morning

You showed him around or he showed you around?

[muted]

My girlfriend at the time worked for the on mountain photo company and got a shot of Mr. Trump and Marla. Her boss sold it to the Enquirer for $10,000. He gave her enough to buy a new Mt bike. They had just started dating before that trip so it was “news”.


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How did she recognize her?

edit: wrong lady.....whateva

[SumJongGuy]

I rode up on first chair with Shane McConkey on his first day skiing Mt Baker. It was a 14 inch bluebird powder day and the mountain was only open to guests of K2. I showed him around all morning.




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You showed him around or he showed you around?

Depends, did he use his machetes to clear the line and secure first chair?

[Buster Highmen]

I've ridden with Plake, Tom Jungst, The Turk, and T Hall at Bridger Bowl.

Saw Seal on the tram deck at Snowbird with a smoking hot girlfriend a long time ago. I think my jaw dropped when I walked by her. Later found out it was Heidi Klum.

Seal started to follow my wife out onto the sundeck at La Grave P2 base until he saw me following her. He grumbled and turned away.

[el hefe]

Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam, smoked him up on the whistler ganjola.

[el hefe]

Seal and Heidi used to park at the Pan Pacific all the time. Worked there for a few years. Damn she was fine.

[Tri-Ungulate]

Doug Coombs and Chad Vanderham on the La Grave téléphérique.

Richard Branson in a télécabine in Verbier.

[Kinnikinnick]

Scot Schmidt at Taos

Skied a few runs with him too.

Nice guy

Ripped it smooth and fast


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[RYAN13]

At Bachelor, it seems like I'll share a chair with Josh Dirksen or Gerry Lopez (Bend celebs) at least once a season. Rode the chair with Cam McCaul once last season as well.

Once shared a chair with Darron Rahlves at Sugar Bowl circa ~2010. Think we talked about lines on the Palisades and MX.

[charles martel]

Werner Perathoner, Piz Sella.

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[pipedream]

Last season I shared a padded seat and a lap down l'Internationale with the one and only "Wild" Bill Bowen. You know, this fella:

[Bunion 2020]

Deane Brandt.

Who you ask????

Legend BB ski patroller.

He is 70+ now, still covers a 4 day work week and is hell to keep up with, skiing or hiking. He started patrolling at the tender age of around 26.

He has a library of awesome stories about all the places he patrolled before he found his home at Bridger or areas he has been to on patrol exchanges.

Some of our carpools are hilarious.

[Norseman]

Deano... good choice

[ill-advised strategy]

Gary Johnson for sure.

[GoldMember]

If only you can get them off the couch and to the polls.

[Norseman]

Buster Highmen is indeed one of the most interesting folks I've had the pleasure of sharing a chairlift with. I'm not quite as dumb and uncultured as a rock, but he makes me feel so every time. In a good way... I think.

Since this is becoming the general Celebrity Slope Encounter thread...

About five years ago I was skiing the Northway chair at Crystal with a good bud. It was a couple days after the last storm, and we were poking around in the gnarlier areas of the Horseshoe Cliffs to find pockets of pow.

We were getting lined up to air into the Teddybear Chutes, aiming for the next drop skier's right into the apron... and a patroller quietly shuffled by, leading the unmistakable shaggy form of Sage Cattabriga-Alosa further along the ridgeline. My friend and I took a three-second pause to lock eyes, grin, and silently fall in behind the pair.

They dropped off the ridgeline into a narrow patch of trees that ends in an 70 foot cliff. I was three turns behind Sage and wasn't sure what to expect. Fuck, am I going to end up sending into Sage's bomb hole here?

No, fortunately. The patroller pulled up to a hidden entrance to a line through the lateral cliff band that I hadn't yet found! A 2 foot wide gash in the cliff that started with a ten foot air and widened into a side ramp to the apron we had eyed before. The patroller nodded and dropped, leaving Sage at the brink with his skis poking into space.

"Look smooth?" I asked, standing a ski length behind him.

"Yeaah, miann, think so!" he replied, and the three of us sent it rapid fire, Sage then me then my bud, arcing huge turns out into the apron.

We high-fived where the apron met the return groomer and went about our days.

[wyeaster]

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a most interesting OG mag

i don't think i've actually ridden the lift with buster but i'd say he's definitely one of the most interesting i've had in my close proximity.