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01-13-2022, 11:41 AM #26
I’m more concerned with getting past the oblivious when exiting the ramp. This thread gives me an idea.
Air horn FTW !!!!
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01-13-2022, 11:48 AM #27Registered User
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assert your dominance by cold-cocking the smallest person in the group
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01-13-2022, 11:49 AM #28
not sure where you ski, but you can usually quickly duck a rope to the maze to avoid the waiters/chatters.
loud excuse me thank you! too.
I did used to be a dick about people grouping up for the chair in busy times ( math people, we can do it.
2 + 2 is 4 ok....)
but the pandemic has made me mute on this issue.
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01-13-2022, 11:50 AM #29
Most of my younger days were spent on the Vancouver north shore mtns at night, and then small interior BC hills, so liftline mazes were simple to navigate with few nitwits blocking access for the max 10min line to load. Easy-peazy and no stress, and you knew most of the locals so there was that as well.
Then I met my wife and skied with her at her home mtn Whistler. The dumbfuckery of the pre-maze crowds astounded me. I just followed my soon-to-be wife through the milling bovine to get on the lift, I would have been lost in the clusterfuck without her.
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01-13-2022, 11:52 AM #30Registered User
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Just stop where they are, really really close up and personal, with your BT speaker blasting Jamariquai and ask to join their party, with a lot of enthusiasm, and tell them all about your training for Alaska.
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01-13-2022, 12:02 PM #31
It's fun to shit on people for doing things like this, until for some reason or another you have to become one of them yourself. As if none of us have ever been "in the way" before.
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01-13-2022, 12:07 PM #32
Take their women in a manly fashion.
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01-13-2022, 12:19 PM #33Registered User
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i ski up to them, glare hard, hold a yellow card aloft for all to see (~5seconds,) and command the lifties to tack on 1 minute of extra time to daily operations. if I see it three times in a day the lifties get to do penalty kicks on the perps. this is why skiing in europe is so much better
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01-13-2022, 12:21 PM #34
On Tuesday the guy in front of me managed to release one binder while going thru the ticket reader in the AM lineup.
He then spent maybe 60 seconds flailing his poles behind him (I had to use mine defensively) while trying to put his ski back on - heel first.
After another 30 seconds he got back in with lifty assistance.
This did not adversely affect my vertical for the day
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01-13-2022, 12:21 PM #35
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01-13-2022, 12:45 PM #36
This has to be a re-tread of some 380 pager over at gapic.
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01-13-2022, 01:04 PM #37
On which continent is this hypothetical situation unfolding?
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01-13-2022, 04:20 PM #38Hucked to flat once
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If you don't know how to navigate gapers...
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01-13-2022, 04:21 PM #39
Come in with speed and hop their skis.
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01-13-2022, 07:12 PM #40
My wife gets more upset about this than I do. The other day she just went ahead and skied across 2 snowboards that were on the ground in the way with the snowboarders standing next to them.
"Holy Cow!" someone exclaimed from the back of the stationwagon.
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01-13-2022, 07:31 PM #41
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01-13-2022, 07:37 PM #42
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01-13-2022, 07:40 PM #43
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01-13-2022, 07:48 PM #44
Hockey stop spray them idea is hilarious.. However, it's usually super icy there. My bets are on that move ending badly, and even more hilariously. My kid got taken out by some gaper who washed out trying to stop just outside the corral last Tuesday. We weren't blocking, the line was backed up that far.
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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01-13-2022, 07:50 PM #45Registered User
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McConkey Machete is the clear choice here:
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01-13-2022, 08:02 PM #46
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01-13-2022, 08:31 PM #47Registered User
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back in the day my ski bud was manager at a small local hill where ever one would step out and just leave the skis right there
Mikey comes upon a bunch of skis on the ground and he needs to get the packer thru so buddy puts the blade down and plows all them skis off to one side
they didnt do that againLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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01-13-2022, 08:50 PM #48
Similar peeve of mine. I often ski Taos, where folks like to leave their skis about. Especially just outside of the mid-slope warming hut/bar. Sometimes three rows deep extending into the run. Few things bring me more joy than yelling and artificially flailing as ski across dozens of skis left in reckless abandon on the slope. They just step out and leave 'em, I just plow through and grin.
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01-13-2022, 09:07 PM #49
some of the ski areas have gotten wise and gotten grommet sized ski racks for grommet skis so there aren't a few hundred pairs of skis lying on the snow outside the lodge at lunch time. But it doesn't work.
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01-14-2022, 04:46 AM #50
I’ve almost never thought about this since it is not a big deal.
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