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Strangest people/conversations you remember while riding on the chair?

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#1 ·
I have a couple to start it off!

Went up the chairlift with a couple guys at Keystone, I shut off music and said "What's up guys?" They just kinda kept talking to each other and ignored me, which is fine by me. Then about halfway up the chair they kinda start making out, nothing crazy but a lot of heavy petting going on between a couple definite dudes. I'm a pretty progressive guy, but come on! It was a pretty awkward ride up.


I rode up a chair in Bridger Bowl with a british skier who randomly freaked the fuck out and lost his mind due to heights I guess. He already kinda pissed me off when we started out because he pinched the fuck out of my leg with the damn bar. I had keep telling him to just look at me the whole time, told him how to get off the chair, talked to him like he was a new skier (We were on the chair to the North Bowl). He sits on the bench for 10 mins or so while I'm waiting on my buddies. All the sudden he proceeds to go down a double black and he kills it, haha. :icon_scratch:
 
#5 ·
Damnit my post got deleted. Anyway, I hate lifts so maybe he just has an issue with lifts. Going down a steep ass black? No issues. I despise lifts when they rock alot because of the stop/start from some scrub eating shit. I don't know why, I think it's just the lack of control.

Anyway, my oddest convo was with this girl who appeared to be in her early 20s just railing on snowboarders and drinking on the slopes. Odd part was she was a boarder, seemed to be self hating.
 
#6 ·
I was just starting out boarding (maybe my 3rd time up) and I was riding alone, waiting in line when this dad with two little girls asks if his daughter could ride up with me. I say sure...why not. This little girl talked non-stop the entire way up the mountain. ..and I mean non-stop. Then, right at the end she gets really quiet, looks over at me and says, "I'm not very good at getting off the lift." ...so I'm think, great..neither am I. As soon as we start to get off the lift she shoves me in the back and wipes me out, then skiis off to her dad and sister leaving me there to untangle myself from the out-of-bounds net. :dunno:
 
#10 ·
My weirdest ride was with some skier in his 40s or so who spent the whole time ranting about snowboards and snowboarders. He was serious too, this guy should be at Alta. Seymour's generally pretty mellow (forum skier-hating threads notwithstanding) so this was kind of shocking to me -- and it's really the only time I've ever encountered the hating like that.

I got a small bit of revenge at the top though. He had all snowboarders pegged as a bunch of young punks and obviously thought he was landing verbal haymakers on me. So near the top of the lift I put up my goggles so he could see the gray hair and crowsfeet, and I just smiled at him. Didn't hear another word.
 
#11 ·
I can't recall any really noteworthy conversations but I find it peculiar that people are willing to discuss very personal stuff next to a stranger. For example, a lady was talking to her coworker about having an affair on her husband, hoping he wouldn't find out. Hey, I can hear you speaking because I'm 6" away from you and you have no idea who I am or if I know anyone who knows your husband.
 
#12 ·
i was on a chair lift with these collage kids. I was minding my own business and i heard them talking. i got curious and lowered my music. This girl starting taking about wanting to get her nipple pierced. The guy was saying he wanted his ear pierced and that if he pierced his ear she would pierce her nipple. Then she said how she has always wanted an excuse to pierce her nipple. All together it was just a wierd conversation.:dunno:
 
#14 ·
Going to sunshine on gondola. 4 guys were talking about money, how they dont make enough for all the drinking, one guy lost 700 bucks at a concert, and another dude went back crap crazy over taking viagra and some E. I left the gondola feeling good that im not into drugs.....
 
#17 ·
Nothing too weird, but I once rode up with this middle aged woman sitting next to me. To begin with she was pleasant enough, said hi and such. She inquired about my family, so I made the mistake of asking if she was up there with her family. She whips out a pic (regular photo, mind you) of her grandchild so fast, it made my head spin :dizzy:. And she goes into verbal diarrhea about her grandchild, daughter in law, son, etc. All lame stuff, nothing snarky but WAY TMI. Was glad when it was time to get off :yahoo:.
 
#18 ·
Last season it was a guy who was so drunk I'm not even sure how he made it on and off the lift. The whole time he talked about how much he had to drink that day and how when he rides he leaves his girlfriend at the lodge. Apparently, every time he rides she sits in the lodge all day by herself.

I also managed to catch the lift with a group of guys I saw in the park two or three runs earlier. I remembered them because one of the dudes went head first into the ice after hitting a small kicker. I noticed I was sitting next to the guy when his buddy started showing him a video of the yardsale. I asked the guy if he was ok (he was riding a rental with no helmet), he looked over at me with a totally glazed look on his face and showed me the roadrash looking ice burn on his face from sliding on his face down the hill. :dizzy: I took that as a "no".
 
#20 ·
Was on last week in MI with a soccer mom, of all people! :blowup:

She was complaining about how the beginner hill was apparently too steep for her kids. I said it looked fine and she started bitching at me for saying something "unsafe" about her kids. It got annoying. Too annoying. So about halfway up the lift I started strapping in so I'd be able to get away from her quickly when we got off, and of course, she started bitching at me even more. "Oh my gosh! It's unsafe to do that on the chairlift!" I didn't bring my board up on the lift or anything (which could've made it dangerous for her); I just stayed in position, held the back bar with my right hand and worked the ratchets with my left hand.
Still she bitched at me but I got away and luckily didn't come across her for the rest of the day. The other people I spoke with on the lift there were quite nice.:thumbsup:
 
#23 · (Edited)
oh gawd.....I wish I wasn't such a stoner and I could remember all the weird freaks I've shared a chair/gondi ride with!!!

Just yesterday I about kicked some fucking bro-brah skiier in the shin! I hop on an almost full gondi as a solo rider. So it's 6 skiers and me in the gondola headed to the top. The super extreme bro skiers were debating where to ride

"lets go do this supernarrow EXTREME Chute"

"no bro, I did that yesterday, it was way icy"

"what about this one?"

"No, thats all tracked out and crappy snow"

on and on they went the ENTIRE ride..now mind you it had been snowing all morning and there was probably about 5 inches of fresh on the ground and due to wind there was huge pockets of pow to be found for sure... I was happily looking out the gondi window deciding where to ride when one of the ultra cool bros says to me

"wow you look really excited. it's not like it's epic POW or anything"

"well, I just don't ski enough to be so jaded. I still get excited about POW, sorry you are so unhappy to be skiing today"

that shut them right the fuck up....lol



oh the best was some dude asking me if I was on the same Spring Break ski trip as his daughter. I pull up my googles and facemask and say "thanks, but no" I am close to 40 and very much look it so that shocked him to say the least.

Let's see..... I used to work on a really bad television show and while I usually don't mention what I do I stupidly told someone which show I worked on and that since it was just cancelled I was unemployed and living in mammoth until I found another gig.


He then proceeds to tell me how it was the fucking worst show on TV, how it should have been cancelled years ago and he watched every single episode just to see how bad it was. I think we rode off the lift and he was still yellung about what trash it was. ahhh..that's some good times right there.

I had some dude hitting on me in the gondi (ONCE!!!) and then I asked if he wanted to ride with me. I think where I wanted to ride freaked him out and he took the wussy way down the mountain. I followed him anyway, so he motions me to stop in the trees. We smoke a j and then he says "later!" and takes off!? So I let him go ...maybe he wasn't hitting on me? Who knows....but thanks for the hit off the j regardless..lol
 
#26 ·
my favorite was gettin seperated from my friends on the lift. And being really pissed as i always toke on the ride up. So i get on the lift with a couple in their 40's quarter the way up the dude pulls out a fatty and starts tokin with his wife, needless to say i got it for free that day. Also on days i wear my cow suit id have some interesting convo's with people.
 
#27 ·
...Also on days i wear my cow suit id have some interesting convo's with people.
...you wear a Cow Suit to ride??? :blink:

...and "I'm" the one people call creepy enough that someone might jump off the lift???? :WTF::question: :RantExplode: :sarcasm:




:laugh:
 
#30 ·
Speaking of animal suits, I frequently saw a skier in a white rabbit costume at 2 different hills last season.
One day I was with my 2 friends in the park at Timber Ridge, and there was a few other guys including himself... when suddenly he takes the head of the costume off! :eek:hmy:
If you've ever played a game called Halo, that would be like if Master Chief took his helmet off, not quite as epic though.

In the end, the rabbit guy was a cool person. I think he did it just as a joke, unless he had some sort of passion for fluffy white animals... :unsure:

I've actually considered wearing some bizarre costume myself just for the fun of freaking people out. As long as I could get my helmet discreetly under it, of course. After all the heavy slams I've taken, I refuse to ride without my helmet. I do have that large alien mask I could fit in my Heli pack...
 
#37 ·
I've actually considered wearing some bizarre costume myself just for the fun of freaking people out. As long as I could get my helmet discreetly under it, of course. After all the heavy slams I've taken, I refuse to ride without my helmet. I do have that large alien mask I could fit in my Heli pack...
Years ago on the first of April I saw a large chunky man snowboarding in nothing but a black speedo, snowboard boots and a black Giro Helmet. I was like :eek:mg: It was funny, I laughed everytime I saw him.

I never had anything crazy happen except when these guys started doing lines of coke off one of their boards in the Keystone Gondola back in the day when the cabins were green. I was like no thanks. Some crazy shit has went down in those old green cabins.
 
#46 ·
I don't have a dirt bike or ride often. When I crashed it was at a friend's place who let me borrow the bike, and then me and another guy got into a bit of a race...
That was actually my first time and I haven't really done it since. Although I crashed, it was really fun and I'd like to try it again some time.
 
#55 ·
I was riding the chairlift at a local mountain with a stranger on a pow day and I asked him if he rides here regularly, he replied by saying "only when the conditions are right". I was rode with him and his friends and the next chairlift up he complains that "there is too much snow" LMAO. That was one convo that stands for me.
 
#60 ·
I rode up a chair in Bridger Bowl with a british skier who randomly freaked the fuck out and lost his mind due to heights I guess. He already kinda pissed me off when we started out because he pinched the fuck out of my leg with the damn bar. I had keep telling him to just look at me the whole time, told him how to get off the chair, talked to him like he was a new skier (We were on the chair to the North Bowl). He sits on the bench for 10 mins or so while I'm waiting on my buddies. All the sudden he proceeds to go down a double black and he kills it, haha. :icon_scratch:
After reading this whole thread this is still the oddest/funniest story. LOL
 
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