I went boarding at a local hill "Sandia Peak" on opening day today. The hill is tiny and crap but it's practically in my backyard so why not. Well anyways, my brother and I were riding and having fun until my last lift up. After I got off the lift my brother says "there's mud on your back". So I take a look at it and it looks like a turd smear on my brand new jacket, wtf! And it smells like oil, more wtf! Turns out that the lift chair had dirty lube oil on it and it stained my brand new jacket. I know it's just a stain but I'm pissed. People pay 40 50 bucks to ride those slow chairs on a shitty hill and the ppl running them don;t even have the decency to clean the stupid chairs. I'm going back tomorrow to ride and complain to them. Hopefully no one else gets that crap on their gear. Sure pissed me off.
They are using the wrong type of grease...probably using a lithium based grease that gets very thin when mixed with water. A good marine grade grease or an Aluminum based grease would be better - doesn't sling off easy either.
Grease isn't all that uncommon. Where I go theres big signs saying that there may be grease and its one of the risks and they aren't responsible for it. Stuff is moving against each other and theres gonna be friction so its gotta be lubricated somehow.
good luck man all our ski areas have the signs posted saying that greas is a common hazard on chairlifts and they're not responsible for it. your place probably does, too, but maybe you just haven't seen it before?
I've had the occasional drop or two, but never a big smear or anything.
I'm gonna keep an eye out for it now that's for sure. I had grease on another jacket and I still can't get it off. It was like construction truck grease, thick and smeary. Still mad about it.
Sandia's not all bad. The slackcountry is fun when there's snow and its cool to take "the world's longest tram" to get there (I doubt its still actually the world's longest tram) I just don't understand their business plan. If the added some flood lights and built a decent park and race course they would have people coming up everyday but instead they cater to texans who are too poor to go to colorado. They're fifteen minutes from a population of >500,000; that's a huge market by ski area standards but they seem like they barely scrape by every year.
Try some dish detergent to cut through that grease.
First time that happened to me, I thought I got shit on by a bird. haha. Luckily, it was a pow day, so I just threw some snow on it, and it soaked it right up and off my gear...
Same thing happened to my buddy at Big White on opening day a few years back, a few splotches of grease on his brand new $400 jacket. He complained to the management and at first they told him your screwed, but he persisted and eventually got a new jacket out of it.
I went today and I didn't whine to them because I got over it. My jacket is still stained but whatever. Going again tomorrow. Can;t complain when a full day pass is $15 with my discount card.
There is a discount card you can get that's $49 and you get to ride Sandia Ski for $15 and Ski Santa Fe for $25 full day. Good Deal. After you go only 2 times it's already paid off. You can use it all season long too.
I saw the first pic and and went, WTF!!! :icon_scratch: then saw the second pic and realized and the resort is a little bigger so, relaxed :bowdown:
p.s. Sorry for the white cloth wearers, I had a white jacket a few years ago and it never seems to end well , which is why i mostly ride black now hehe
Abuquerque itself is about a mile high. Santa Fe is higher.
Sandia is a diversion, fun for what it is which is not much. Ski Santa Fe is the real deal. A full fledged west coast ski area (not to be confused with a west coast resort)
It's Ohio so we don't have mountains here, just valleys, but their parks have been mentioned a few times in national media. It's actually 2 resorts, a couple miles apart from each other, one lift ticket for both. Small place, but has produced a ton of great riders (Louie Vito used to do the USASA halfpipe comps here) If you buy your season pass in Feb. it's good for the rest of that winter and all of the next winter for 250 bucks
Same thing happened to my buddy at Big White on opening day a few years back, a few splotches of grease on his brand new $400 jacket. He complained to the management and at first they told him your screwed, but he persisted and eventually got a new jacket out of it.
I honestly think both of you would care if you just bought a brand new jacket and got dirty ass grease spattered on it. If it was an older jacket I couldn't care, but it's still new and I was trying to keep it clean. Who cares but it's better to not have it stained than stained. bitches.
I was sitting in the chairlift, with my white HH jacket on, when a drop of oil/grease just dripped right now on my right arm. It sucked. I tried wiping it off with snow and it didn't come out. I don't want to wash it because I fear it will lose it's water repellent / wind breaking ability.
sucks, especially because it's white. Most likely it won't come out because it's oil.
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