eajracing Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 The guide explained them snowboards are meant for bigger turns - you just dont do jump turns on 'em. I ended up buying them a round of dogshark porters after. Amazing how far that goes for international relations. Besides, I couldn't use all this up if i tried: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heroshmero Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Well today I finally got a "Is that a ski board?" from a tween on skis. It made me smile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heroshmero Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 "Doooood, I took a wicked digga in your friggin' fjord" I kept thinking about this while I was riding today. What a funny quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dida Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Last week my friend, a girl, was trying to convince me that I don't have a snowboard suit but a ski suit (F2 BX suit) because it isn't baggy. Fortunately, the suit has those Intec clasps that connect to Intec cables so I could prove it was indeed a snowboarding suit. She was stunned... Who would buy such a thing!?!? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allee Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Deliberately messing up someones run may not be great, but I have destroyed, and I do mean destroyed, runs carving before. 8 inches of fresh, just rolled - so smooth, so fast. Me and another guy - on softies too - ripped it up. Figure 8ed the whole thing wall to wall leaving about a 5 inch trench. Knew I was ruining it but didn't really care at that pint. It was just too much fun. Besides in another hour the whole would be moguls anyway. You could ride Nakiska with us. We get up to Red Crow ASAP on a weekend, and four or five of us trench the crap out of it for a solid couple of hours. Then we stop at the bottom, grin and say "yep, they'll be grooming that tonight". We figure we pay as much as anybody else to be on the hill, we're entitled to our fun too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Prokopiw Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 If it's a pow day and you are carving back and forth across the whole piste, you are being a dick. 'No friends on a powder day';'snooze you lose';I can think of many cliches that pretty much mean everybody is a dick on a powder day. I do however wait one hour,until 10:00, before carving my favorite run on a 34 degree pitch at Silver when it has been groomed.After that the skidders,which is literally 99% of everyone else regardless of one or two planks,will have to negotiate my ruts.That hour of courtesy is followed with lots of guilt free positive crowd reacton from the lift.I should add though,that this run is rarely groomed more than two cats wide.;which leads me to one of the latest things I've been asked in the lift line while standing on the 210;'Where on this mountain can you ride that thing?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 It started at the lift line, our group of 5 hardbooters noticed an elderly gentleman coming in, on a freeride board, plastic mounteneering boots and plate bindings, mild forward stance. Me: "Hello, Brother!" Oldy: "Brother? What do you mean brother?" I just showed at my boots/bindings and he smiled... Then later on the top, our group chit-chatted for few seconds, so the Oldy had a head-start on us. 1/3 down the nice blue/black slope, we all zipped by him and stopped further down to rest. He joined in slowly and said: "Oh boy, I've seen carvers and carvers, but nothing like this before! You go all the way down to the snow!?... and... where I can buy better bindings?" We directed him to Bomber ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheman0177 Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Well today I finally got a "Is that a ski board?" from a tween on skis. It made me smile. By the way, I love the avatar. Classic XB Falcon Interceptor. I's making me think it would be a good layup on a new board....:rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heroshmero Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 By the way, I love the avatar. Classic XB Falcon Interceptor. I's making me think it would be a good layup on a new board....:rolleyes: Ahh, another Mad Max fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Call me jack Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Me to a guy on a true mono ski Me: what is that! skier: it's a mono ski Me: i thought i was on a mono ski! skier: no, thats a alpine board they really have to put out the same jokes as us in the lift line saw a guy walk to the lift line with a old burton asym Me: hey what is that board? guy: it's a alpine board Me: [looking down at my donek] i know... guy: oh!!! (then he told me the model that i can't remember the name of) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bora20 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Today from skiers: #1: Huh? #2: What? #1: He has ski boots on a snowboard. #2: I guess he only needs one set of boots then. #1: Doesn't look like a real snowboard though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrutton Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Him:- Cool. An alpine board. Me:-Ya Him:- I got one of those. Me:- What you got? Him:- A Hot Logic. Me:- You should get it out, then they'd be two of us. Him:- I had it out once earlier this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steamboatrailer Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Heard riding under the lift "I wanna marry you".Tried to catch her at the top of the lift,she was gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitu Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 I asked my older son (9 yrs) how did they find me after being in offpiste, (where you can end into three different lifts): We just followed the tracks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultan Guy Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 So this morning two of us were ripping trenches into the groom and after an hour had the lifty guy say "There is a skier complaining about you guys taking up the whole mountain. He asked me to talk to you guys about it" Now this was on a Tuesday morning with a handful of people on the mountain. Lots of wide open and empty slopes. I replied to the lifty "Did he say we were unsafe?" Reply was "No". So then I said "I paid the same for my lift ticket as he did" and kept on taking up the whole mountain. :) The lift guy seemed to think it was funny that a skier complained to him about us carving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohob Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 I've been up on my old Nitro Asym the past few days due to the conditions. The public just stares and won't say anything (maybe I scare them into silence:eek:) but I'm assured at least twice a day that a lift rat will say 'You know your board is broken... right?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikerdad Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 As I slide my Tinkler up next to an older geezer on skis (I'm 64) in the lift line, and ask if I could join him, I get "I don't ride the chair with snowboarders". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Gendzwill Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 As I slide my Tinkler up next to an older geezer on skis (I'm 64) in the lift line, and ask if I could join him, I get "I don't ride the chair with snowboarders".Actually I totally get that attitude. If I'm on the chair with other snowboarders, I hang back and steer around the carnage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffV Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 Not in the liftline but rather at the urinal:eek: This was during the ECES last week. Ski coach is standing next to me and sees the ECES logo on my jacket. Coach: "Say what is going on this week with you carvers, you guys are laying trenches all over the mountain?" Me: "We've got a large event this week with over 100 alpine snowboarders". Coach: "No sh$t, there are that many of you in New England" Me: :lol: "yeah we come out of the woodwork for our events" coach: "You guys rip and are a pleasure to watch." Coach: "Noticed you guys have a demo tent, can anyone try them?" Me: "Sure, stop by the tent we'll get you set up on board and some Sidewinders". Coach now very excited: "REALLY, I can try some of them racing boards out?" Me: "Sure can" Coach: "You guys rock man, I'm coming over with some of my students after the race to try some boards" We set up a ton of ski racers with SW's and boards and they had a blast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptran11 Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 GeoffV, thats awesome that you got some people to try out the sport. Who would have know the sport can grow from the restroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikerdad Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Neil, I don't like riding with "snowboarders" either they usually end up banging their board against mine on the chair. It's just that I was surprised that with my equipment and age, I was just another snowboarder to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 If there's any sort of line-up, whatsoever, I do not ask, but just load 1st available chair. It is rude to pick and choose the seats while the poeple are waiting. Denying someone the right to 1st available seat is increadibly rude. We all paid the tickets, right? There are just few examptions to this, like begginer kids with parents if they asked to be left alone, or an obviously intoxicated skier/rider... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trenchman Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 I was denied by an instructor a week ago in the line, she said she would take a skier but not a boarder, then the guy behind me snuck around me to ride up with her. I felt discriminated against. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 I was denied by an instructor a week ago in the line, she said she would take a skier but not a boarder, then the guy behind me snuck around me to ride up with her. I felt discriminated against. When people try and pull that crap, I remind them they are ALWAYS more than welcome to hop on the next chair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 I was denied by an instructor a week ago in the line, she said she would take a skier but not a boarder, You should have reported her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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