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Thread: being a lifty...
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01-24-2006, 12:07 AM #1
being a lifty...
Has been pretty good so far. Since i moved up to xtal in mid december i have only missed 2 days of skiing. Since there is no new snow expected in the next couple of days I finally decided to come back home for my days off so i can utilize such great inventions as the interweb and cable tv.
Havent got to do any skiing with maggots yet, though I did run into the AD at the bottom of green valley a couple weeks ago. I get Tue-Wed and spend the entire day in north or southback if they are open, i usually ski with a group of really good boarders, but it would be nice to find some fellow twoplankers to rip with. The nightlife aint so hot for a 20 yr old up there, but i manage to get by on a steady diet of snow cap, PBR and uhhh, tobacco. Well, time to go get drunk cuz its my friday, feel free to holla change for a nickel if you see me workin, im the lifty with a busted ass lip and a silver k2 helmet, i usually work forest queen on the weekends and either green valley or high cambell during weekdays.
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01-24-2006, 01:28 AM #2
I'd bet you've seen me...
...fat guy in full cammies, black helmet, smith goggs...z-bend poles...
usually the giveaway is the camo, but plenty of army fucks are doing the same thing too. I don't blame them, I just always call them fuckers...
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01-24-2006, 01:34 AM #3Originally Posted by crstlextrm
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01-24-2006, 09:26 AM #4Registered User
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Giving chair. I guess it beats 7-11
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01-24-2006, 10:04 AM #5Originally Posted by JRYou are what you eat.
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There's no such thing as bad snow, just shitty skiers.
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01-24-2006, 04:34 PM #6
its not so bad on pow days as long as I am working chair 3 or 6 and there are 2 people at the bottom so we can alternate laps all day long, and I never have to wait in a lift line either. A good example was on saturday when i got 12 laps in on high cambell throughout the day, not too shabby considering im getting paid while all the gapers were dropping 50 bucks to wait in huge lines.
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01-24-2006, 04:45 PM #7
I would be up on Wend w/ Jumper.....
But I currently have a kidney infection and having been pissing blood...vomiting...feeling like I'm being constantly punched in my back...you know. Lots of fun things.
Hopefully I'll be able to ski Sat or Sun. Not sure yet.....
Gabe is easy to spot, though he often disappears into one of the many holes on that mountain.
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01-24-2006, 05:04 PM #8Originally Posted by crstlextrm
I'm working at a rental shop right now, which is also working out pretty damn good. I get to ski every day for a few hours in the middle of the day, and since I work at Buttermilk (a flat mountain for those of you who don't know) it
is actually less busy on powder days, which means I can take off and head to another mountain. Free pass doesn't hurt either. Life is good.__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________
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"I'm constantly doing things I can't do. Thats how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
Cisco and his wife are fragile idiots who breed morons.
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01-24-2006, 05:07 PM #9Originally Posted by Beaver__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________
"We don't need predator control, we need whiner control. Anyone who complains that "the gummint oughta do sumpin" about the wolves and coyotes should be darted, caged, and released in a more suitable habitat for them, like the middle of Manhattan." - Spats
"I'm constantly doing things I can't do. Thats how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
Cisco and his wife are fragile idiots who breed morons.
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01-24-2006, 05:42 PM #10These meaasge boards suck
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Originally Posted by JR
Evening shift at 7-11= never missing a pow day.
Liftie=Missing numerous pow-days and watching the 7-11 workers shred powdaaaaaah all day long.
I laugh at lifties, Ive always imagined that they were tricked into the job.
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01-24-2006, 05:48 PM #11Originally Posted by crstlextrm
I remembered meeting crstlextrm briefly at the Utah mini last year and when I saw him working the Green Valley lift something clicked in my head that he was working at Crystal this year.
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01-24-2006, 06:24 PM #12
The secret to having a happy & productive lift crew is 3-4 workers per lift. 1 checking tix I working the gaper queue, 1 bumping chairs, 1 riding up to kick the top guy/gal for a run. Eat your lunch while waiting your bump from the top, everyone do equal parts of the shoveling and ramp work. And you can ski as much as any day pass holder could stand.
The secret to a shitty & surly lift crew... 2 workers per lift, no ski breaks.
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01-24-2006, 07:14 PM #13Originally Posted by powderhound
Otherwise, you only get play during the ski season 2-3 times if you're lucky, and only if you're either Smoov B, or a circa 1984 Don Johnson look-alike.
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01-24-2006, 07:17 PM #14Originally Posted by AKA
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01-25-2006, 02:11 PM #15Originally Posted by AKA
Ubersheist and bunion know whats up. Sure being a lifty isnt the best job on the mountain, but it isnt the worst. I may only make 8 bucks an hour and i might eat top ramen and easymac on a daily basis, but when i am sitting at the top of high cambell on a bluebird day looking out at mt rainier, mt hood, mt adams, mt st helens and countless other peaks while listening to my favorite tunes I am happy, which is really the only thing that matters to me.
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01-30-2006, 05:37 PM #16
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01-30-2006, 06:05 PM #17
Didn't see you on Friday, asked around and heard you were rockin the Discovery chair. We didn't really make it over there if you know waht I mean.
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