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Poll Results: East Or West (of the Mississippi for some of you picky people)

Poll expired: Mar 4, 2006 This is a multiple choice poll
  • 34% (21)
    East
  • 29% (18)
    West
  • 26% (16)
    Dont care
  • 9% (6)
    Neither, Somewhere foriegn.
61 Total Votes  
post #31 of 158
8/16/05 at 1:56pm
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Originally Posted by mtbakerskier
a$$holes like you give all skiers a bad name. You are the very reason that skiing is not as popular or more popular than snowboarding. Everytime you get on a lift you should thank every snowboarder you see for the shaped skis you are ussing, and the fact that there numbers are what keep ski areas open. Not to mention if you ever spend any time in the backcountry, there is nothing better than having a snowboarder break trail in there soft boots. It makes postholeing in alpine boots way easier.
Hey don't hold back!! Tell us what you really think?
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post #32 of 158
8/16/05 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by Bonni
Um, teleROD, let you in on a little secret.....skier_j is also a snowboarder.
Um, ok, nevermind, <blushing smilie>
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post #33 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:28pm
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Originally Posted by SkiStarr90
Snowboarding is not part of "our" sport the sport is called skiing. and snowboarders dont need representation on this site, b/c it is not designed for snowboarders look at the name of the site, its epicski not epicsnowboard. so dont go wining about being flamed, because we can its a ski website
Thanks for defining skiing and the scope of Epicski. We were waiting for some one to come along and help us with that.
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post #34 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:30pm
Thread Starter 
You know what nothing goodd is coming out of this post so just forget it and stop posting. cuz i just dont want a bad rep.
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post #35 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:33pm
Ok.
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post #36 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:36pm
Thread Starter 
thank u
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post #37 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:39pm

Riddle me this

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Originally Posted by SkiStarr90
Snowboarding is not part of "our" sport the sport is called skiing. and snowboarders dont need representation on this site, b/c it is not designed for snowboarders look at the name of the site, its epicski not epicsnowboard. so dont go wining about being flamed, because we can its a ski website
Well excuuuse me. I didn't know Ullr had apointed you abiter of all things snow. Can you give me one good reason why snowboarding is any less a part of skiing then alpine, tele, nordic, ect....? Marketing slogans don't count.
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post #38 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by SkiStarr90
Snowboarding is not part of "our" sport the sport is called skiing. and snowboarders dont need representation on this site, b/c it is not designed for snowboarders look at the name of the site, its epicski not epicsnowboard. so dont go wining about being flamed, because we can its a ski website
Are you a troll? You've been here since yesterday and are already trying to start a fight. I am a skier, and only a skier, but I know that snowboarding is appealing to many of the youth of today and the industry has seen an increase in visits with snowboarders (monoskis, twintips, "blades" and yes, even tele). Many areas would have not survived had it not been for a renewed interest in sliding down hill by whatever means.

I don't particularly like the behavior of some of the PUNKS out there on snowboards...but that has nothing to do with the snowboards. The PUNKS are like that even without the boards. They ruin it for others.
There are many boarders out there that are great, they even carve their turns.

There are the rat-packers out there also, these are the ones that get a board and never learn to ride it, sideslip the whole mountain causing scratchy spots and SIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAIL in a pack. These are the boarders that give all boarders a bad name.

Though I was not around when rock and roll first came out, it met much the same resistance as snowboarding has. Give it time to be accepted and settle in. I think it can peacefully co-exist with skiing.
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post #39 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by mtbakerskier
snowboarding. Everytime you get on a lift you should thank every snowboarder you see for the shaped skis you are ussing, and the fact that there numbers are what keep ski areas open.
This is pretty much the bottom line....soooo take this troll poll and %&%**$$^* it Let's all be buds.....

skier_ j = lol..... Really
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post #40 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:46pm
Thread Starter 
i would like to make ammends, not ALL snowboarders are bad, only the ones that are punks and are not safe on the slopes, i have disliked these kinds of snowboarders b/c one of them decided to throw a snowball at when i was skiing and it hit me in a way so i fell over and broke my arm. so lets just end this fight. not all snowboarders are bad, just the ones who arde unsafe punk. so for anything ive done im sorry
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post #41 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:48pm
Thread Starter 
and these people need to learn and when the "punks" learn snowboarding will be more generally accepted
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post #42 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:49pm
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Originally Posted by SkiStarr90
i would like to make ammends, not ALL snowboarders are bad, only the ones that are punks and are not safe on the slopes, i have disliked these kinds of snowboarders b/c one of them decided to throw a snowball at when i was skiing and it hit me in a way so i fell over and broke my arm. so lets just end this fight. not all snowboarders are bad, just the ones who arde unsafe punk. so for anything ive done im sorry
You had me up untill the snowball incident. Troll.
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post #43 of 158
8/16/05 at 2:53pm
I ski!! You should really be afraid of me.

MTT
Hey it rhymes
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post #44 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:04pm
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Originally Posted by SkiStarr90
so for anything ive done im sorry
I don't think it quite works that way on the information highway. methinks yer gonna get hammered for days.
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post #45 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:05pm
Before decades end, there will be snowboards at Alta. Word.
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post #46 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:05pm
SkiStarr is alright. Not sure about MTT.
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post #47 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:09pm
Thread Starter 
lets just end this fight...
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post #48 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:10pm
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Originally Posted by telerod15
SkiStarr is alright. Not sure about MTT.
EXACTLY
Point made
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post #49 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:14pm
Thread Starter 
This may sound contradicting, but although there are snowboarders that i dont like the, for lack of a better word "punks", i do like some snowboarders, and you have like the good ones b/c they bring money to the mountain and are SAFE
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post #50 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:15pm
MTT made me laugh.
I love this place. Checks in the mail.
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post #51 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by SkiStarr90
This may sound contradicting, but although there are snowboarders that i dont like the, for lack of a better word "punks", i do like some snowboarders, and you have like the good ones b/c they bring money to the mountain and are SAFE
Skiers are punks too. I rode the lift at Roundtop with a kid who had a whole gangster motif on his skis K2. That was some fixed heel crap, but free heel had it's Terminators, Black Widows, whatever. We're all punks, that's all I'm saying.
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post #52 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:28pm
Thread Starter 
yeah that is true, amybe someone should start a post called ""Punks?""
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post #53 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:33pm
We all punks but safety nerds at the same time. It's hard to understand but get on steep exposed terrain. No athiest in fox hole kind of thing.
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post #54 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:34pm
Thread Starter 
lol good point
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post #55 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:34pm
A FIGHT! I want to play.

How about this one... who cares?

Or this... lets get rid of all snow riders on the mountain that are less than expert ability. Personally I'd like to take the true conservative appraoch and start ridding the hill of everyone starting at the beginner hill and working my way up, targeting anyone who I feel is inadequate or unfit for snow sliding sports. I'd probably leave a few snowboarders if I could be garunteed that those who couldn't keep their heels on the snow could be weeded out of the way. At least snowboarders make a good dynamic slalom course.

On a brighter side, snowboarders do great things for the skiing economy (overpriced gear they don't know how to use, overpriced lift passes that they only use once a day to sit in the middle of the fastest groomer on the hill, over priced lunches that they throw at their friends in the lodge, and they keep orthopedic doctors in business from hitting skiers all the time... more than I can say for tree hugging penny pinching free heelers who buy their straight tele skis at garage and swap sales (then ski on them for the next 10 years), pack their natually grown lunch in homemade bags, and eat on the bumper of their 1980 volvo in the parking lot.

Generalizations are fun. I say we start a new thread and start flaming every group present on the mountain that arent expert alpine skeirs. Hide the women and children and anyone who drives a 1980's Volvo Estate Wagon...

Later

GREG
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post #56 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:36pm
Thread Starter 
hey heluvaskier, you just dont get it, this ended, so just shut up and go away
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post #57 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:41pm
Hahaha (how rude)... okay... no. Clearly you need to develop a sense of humor, I think you're wanting in that department.
Okay bye.
Later
GREG
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post #58 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:51pm
Coool
Peace
Out
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post #59 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:53pm
My turn.


Last word.


Later

GREG
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post #60 of 158
8/16/05 at 3:56pm
Thread Starter 
last word
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