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post #31 of 166
12/28/08 at 9:56pm
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Originally Posted by Powdr View Post
- Powder Boards on a hard pack day or anything less than 6" of new. Lame.

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I intentionally did this (sort of) just for fun the other day. took the moderately hefty boards (90 underfoot) out on a really hard packed and icy day.

In a weird way it was kind of fun, certainly made me think about my skiing a bit more. Not sure I'll be doing it again anytime soon, but it was a fun experiment.
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post #32 of 166
12/28/08 at 10:17pm
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Originally Posted by dumpy View Post
x5... I can't believe people are complaining about this list, I think it's meant to be humorous.
Don't say that I didn't think the list was humorous but I just take a lot of these comments as... nice bullshit list Powdr... suck it? Just my interpretation from a few posts but heck yea who cares what other people think I LOL'd at a few of these.

Sweet list Powdr!
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post #33 of 166
12/29/08 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by stevesmith7 View Post
Rode the gondola at Keystone today with three early 20's Texans. One guy kept talking about "shreding the backcountry". I was pretty much ignoring the whole thing but my son pointed out later that he was rocking 150 rental skis.
WOW! That's REALLY wide
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post #34 of 166
12/29/08 at 1:52am
Thanks for the laugh powdr, (or is it Pow Pow-derrr)
Now, get up off your butt and go ski!
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post #35 of 166
12/29/08 at 5:22am
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Originally Posted by crgildart View Post
Let's rename this thread "Top Ten Things to do at an EpicSki Gathering"
Can I?
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post #36 of 166
12/29/08 at 6:20am
How about those guys that ski on Carvers and have the nerve to ski pow-pow with them. It's just wrong.
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post #37 of 166
12/29/08 at 6:45am
I think that list could be renamed "stuff I get a good laugh about on the hill"... And you forgot the best stuff...

Full face helmets

Race spandex nowhere near the course

Talking like Spiccoli in the liftline

PS- I always wear a neoprene facemask- but just so I don't frighten small children. You see, I'm a hideous man-beast. It ain't pretty.

Also, my skinniest ski is an 89 waist. Does that make me an East Coast Gaper?
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post #38 of 166
12/29/08 at 6:57am
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Originally Posted by Tog View Post
Fresher air is better for a cigarette, don't you know anything?!
Which is a worse offense for me, smoking on the chairlift or not having pow pow skis on a pow pow day? I suppose I could go full euro race coach and wear carvers and smoke on a powder day!
Actually, I've given it up so it's moot. Besides, I only smoked cloves. I do prefer a bar to lean on with a smoke though. Hey, does snowbird have bars on the chairs?
if this is true, Ill never ride a chairlift with you.
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post #39 of 166
12/29/08 at 7:34am
I'm just here to post in this very important thread
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post #40 of 166
12/29/08 at 8:13am
+1

Do whatever you want at the resort, just bring money.
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post #41 of 166
12/29/08 at 8:25am
Stop using that horrrible term Pow-Pow. The correct word is Freshies.
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post #42 of 166
12/29/08 at 10:05am
Wow - what a surprise. Yet another thread devolves into a bunch of gapers whining about how traumatised they are when they can't lower the gaper bar.

They still make skis that are only 90mm underfoot? Or was that guy talking about XC skis?
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post #43 of 166
12/29/08 at 10:11am
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Originally Posted by Jer View Post
Wow - what a surprise. Yet another thread devolves into a bunch of gapers whining about how traumatised they are when they can't lower the gaper bar.

They still make skis that are only 90mm underfoot? Or was that guy talking about XC skis?
Aren't you supposed to be at Bohemia or somthing.
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post #44 of 166
12/29/08 at 10:13am
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Originally Posted by Trekchick View Post
Aren't you supposed to be at Bohemia or somthing.
Actually I'm supposed to be ripping out a basement right now.
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post #45 of 166
12/29/08 at 10:18am
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Originally Posted by Jer View Post
Actually I'm supposed to be ripping out a basement right now.
Glad you found a way to be distracted for a few minutes.

Enjoy your time with Bumpfreaq.
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post #46 of 166
12/29/08 at 10:21am
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Originally Posted by Powdr View Post
*- Safety Bar slammers. I still have a lump on my head from last week. At least wait until the freakin' chair leaves the terminal, then ask. .

Gee Jer, it seems the only trauma was the gaper who, in all his rides on a chair, still can't figure out how to get his fat head out of the way of the bar.

Probably too busy staring in glassy eyed admiration at his fat skis.
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post #47 of 166
12/29/08 at 12:32pm
Hey mods - could one of you please put "don't take me seriously" back under my name? I think some people(^^^^) didn't get it the first time. Thanx.
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post #48 of 166
12/29/08 at 12:34pm
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Originally Posted by Trekchick View Post

Enjoy your time with Bumpfreaq.
Is he ripping out that basement too? Cool - I could really use some help!
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post #49 of 166
12/29/08 at 1:07pm
If it had actually been funny that would be different.

But the winner in the dorkfest:

hard core 'locals' from the 'back of the Wasatch' [oooohhhh!!!] compiling long internet lists of activities that make the non-locals uncool.

Here's a hint: the real rippers are too busy skiing to care about someone else's poles or turn radius (or even powder cords--no matter how many gnar points they cost you).
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post #50 of 166
12/29/08 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by Jer View Post
Actually I'm supposed to be ripping out a basement right now.
Mom's basement? Won't that make you homeless?
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post #51 of 166
12/29/08 at 1:14pm
I've never been hit by a bar. I've never seen anybody hit by a bar. Where does one's head have to be to be hit when the bar is coming down? I guess I could almost visualize it happening to a REALLY tall person, someone leaning their head off the side of the lift, or someone not sitting up straight like grandma told them to.

Also, smoking a cigarette ruins the fresh air. Is it OK to smoke something other than tobacco?
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post #52 of 166
12/29/08 at 2:53pm
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Originally Posted by saudan's boudoir View Post
Mom's basement? Won't that make you homeless?
I knew this was coming........... Jer's off his meds.
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post #53 of 166
12/29/08 at 2:59pm
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Originally Posted by Jer View Post
Is he ripping out that basement too? Cool - I could really use some help!
He's pretty handy, so you just never know.
He's quite the chef, so you should hit him up for some vittles
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post #54 of 166
12/29/08 at 3:40pm
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Originally Posted by BushwackerinPA View Post
if this is true, Ill never ride a chairlift with you.
Nah I don't smoke anymore Bush...and even if I did I'd still ride a lift with ya and not smoke. I guess you won't be riding the lift with skifishbum though, esp. if it's a powder day!

The skiing in packs where no one really has the control or awareness to handle a sudden fall in front is bad.
Worse is out of control high speed skiers. The other day this kid came flying out of nowhere at probably 40mph and hit an eight year old girl. All I heard was the sickening crunching of a collision. Skis, poles, all over the place and the kamikaze kid was probaly 20 yards down the trail. Amazingly no one got hurt. The 13 year old on the side of the trail said he'd played hockey "his whole life" and never seen anyone hit that hard. Five minutes later an adult came through almost the same speed and barely in control.
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post #55 of 166
12/29/08 at 5:04pm
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Originally Posted by crgildart View Post
I've never been hit by a bar. I've never seen anybody hit by a bar. Where does one's head have to be to be hit when the bar is coming down? I guess I could almost visualize it happening to a REALLY tall person, someone leaning their head off the side of the lift, or someone not sitting up straight like grandma told them to.

Also, smoking a cigarette ruins the fresh air. Is it OK to smoke something other than tobacco?
It has happened to me! Only about 5' 10" too! I was on the far right seat and had my elbow on the armrest, leaning my head (near the temple) on my fist. Bar came down and...whaaaack! That left a bruise...
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post #56 of 166
12/29/08 at 5:22pm
I wore Phat Luvs every day for the last two winters I skiied! but they weren't very fat, I think they're 80 at teh waist. Got a pretty good time in the Nastar course on them, too.
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post #57 of 166
12/29/08 at 5:31pm
boy!! skiing is getting harder and harder,so much to think about!!
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post #58 of 166
12/29/08 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by Tog View Post
Nah I don't smoke anymore Bush...and even if I did I'd still ride a lift with ya and not smoke. I guess you won't be riding the lift with skifishbum though, esp. if it's a powder day!

The skiing in packs where no one really has the control or awareness to handle a sudden fall in front is bad.
Worse is out of control high speed skiers. The other day this kid came flying out of nowhere at probably 40mph and hit an eight year old girl. All I heard was the sickening crunching of a collision. Skis, poles, all over the place and the kamikaze kid was probaly 20 yards down the trail. Amazingly no one got hurt. The 13 year old on the side of the trail said he'd played hockey "his whole life" and never seen anyone hit that hard. Five minutes later an adult came through almost the same speed and barely in control.
I have ridden a lift with skifishbum before but yeah that guy is a freak. I never seen it in person but apparently he smoke while skinning up the hill and kicking everyone elses asses. go figure?
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post #59 of 166
12/30/08 at 6:22am
Dubsman35 - I wouldn't bother with your arguments. Not worth the effort, and you won't change his mind. Probably not anyone else's either!

Leave the curmudgeons alone.

BTW -- Pow pow = ghey. Big time.
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post #60 of 166
12/30/08 at 6:26am
I like my neoprene face mask ... like maybe at Jay Peak when it's -10F and the wind is blowing 20-30 MPH.

Bringing the bar down quick is a "helmet test". I get kickbacks from the shop when the skiers with bumps on the back of their heads go in and buy new helmets.

I never wear my instructor parka at another mountain unless maybe if-- 1) I'm going to a PSIA event and 2) I'm leaving after a shift at my home mountain. I can pack for two days of skiing in my boot bag as long as I wear the parka/shell I'm going to ski in. Why have to pack a second bag just because I want to change my parka?

I used to smoke and could care less if other people smoke as long as I don't have to smell it. Please spend 20 minutes observing prevailing wind currents and move to an appropriate place at least 100 yards downwind before lighting up.

I agree about people who power wedge their kids down blacks when they could be on greens actually learning how to ski.
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