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11-24-2020, 08:06 PM #576
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11-24-2020, 08:07 PM #577
The whole fucking state has been off to Moab and Canyonlands, mixing families and getting drunk in the desert more so than usual this year. I just don’t get it. It’s not like Durango sucks balls, just stay home and keep your plague to yourself.
Lest you forget, it’s their public lands too. If it weren’t for people living in cities, paying taxes to manage public lands that they will never see or at best rarely recreate in, they wouldn’t exist. You want to start excluding people, your permit is going to start getting real pricey real quick.
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11-24-2020, 08:09 PM #578
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11-24-2020, 08:13 PM #579
Lest you forget, it’s their public lands too. If it weren’t for people living in cities, paying taxes to manage public lands that they will never see or at best rarely recreate in, they wouldn’t exist. You want to start excluding people, your permit is going to start getting real pricey real quick.[/QUOTE]
If I'm being honest and unemotional, this is spot on. I don't think most people realize what our permits cost.
But it's still fun to bitch about the d-bags.
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11-24-2020, 09:02 PM #580
I will pretty much never not mock Texans. It’s just too god damn easy.
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11-24-2020, 09:05 PM #581
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11-24-2020, 09:08 PM #582
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11-24-2020, 10:04 PM #583
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11-25-2020, 06:34 AM #584
I like to be good at my job, for one, and being a shitty guide kind of takes away your ability to be a Real Badass Colorado Transplant Local. Also, clients share pictures (and beers under their trophies) with their rich friends, some of whom may know the difference and be in the market for a guided trip in the future.
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11-25-2020, 08:19 AM #585Registered User
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11-25-2020, 09:09 AM #586
I have a family member that was a river guide. He used to bail off the back of the boat during one exciting rapid section, still calling directions to the paddler clients in front of him from the water, just to see the look on their faces when the section was over and they realized that their guide had fallen in due to just how "extreme" that section of water had been. Plus the photog that was always there allowed them to buy mementos of this rad section that was so bad the guide fell in - look, that's him in the water in the picture!
Sometimes being a shitty guide gives the clients a more "extreme" experience. They come back for more.
Of course, this is the same family member that use to get off his swing shift at Henderson mine in the wee hours of the night, then go ski down Berthoud pass by moonlight on wooden cross country skis with no edges and no beacon. I'm not sure he's a good role model. He was, however, the perfect role model for me.
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11-25-2020, 09:34 AM #587powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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11-25-2020, 09:39 AM #588
Sometimes the client would rather harvest the first legal bull they see than put in the hours of glassing and hiking required to get a higher class animal. In this case, the client was thrilled to take a very marginal bull as he was in no condition and not at all interested in putting the work in for a trophy. His goal was harvesting any legal elk.
Its all about giving the client the experience they want, even if we walk away and shake our heads at the decisions they sometimes make.
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11-25-2020, 09:53 AM #589
Not every heli skiing client wants to ski steep spines in Alaska. In fact, most don't.
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11-25-2020, 11:20 AM #590
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11-25-2020, 01:05 PM #591Jacket Cobbler
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www.freeridesystems.com
ski & ride jackets made in colorado
maggot discount code TGR20
ok we'll come up with a solution by then makers....
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11-25-2020, 06:18 PM #592Registered User
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Lots of hot Texas milfs here.
I’m all in!
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11-25-2020, 10:45 PM #593
vs. Hot New Jersey Babes?
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11-26-2020, 12:23 AM #594
Really ? It’s been 30+ years since I worked as a hunting
Guide, but the best tip I ever got was $500. Inflation I guess.
Sent from my iPad using TGR Forums"Zee damn fat skis are ruining zee piste !" -Oscar Schevlin
"Hike up your skirt and grow a dick you fucking crybaby" -what Bunion said to Harry at the top of The Headwaters
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11-26-2020, 01:23 AM #595olde station
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11-26-2020, 01:46 AM #596click here
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Coronavirus pandemic: Germany seeks EU deal to close ski resorts
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55081476
Summary: most are closed, they want to keep it that way. Except the Swiss.
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11-26-2020, 03:58 AM #597It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
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11-26-2020, 06:48 AM #598Banned
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Who knew that aiding and abetting Nazis provided immunity to COVID. Argentina's numbers must be looking good too.
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11-26-2020, 08:00 AM #599
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11-26-2020, 09:08 AM #600
When I was younger and trying really hard to be cool, I said a lot of jaded cynical stuff about Texans floundering in the mountains. They were always having the time of their lives, somehow to me that made them stupid. As I get older, I feel foolish for being such a douche, and I find myself a little jealous of people who can have so much silly fun just beating around on groomers (or hunting a scrawny elk, or surfing a soft top, or riding a 400cc Honda...whatever). The more time passes, the more the remnants of middle school social insecurity erodes and the more I’d so much rather be a happy gaper than a cool uberbro.
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