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Dirty Grease on Chairlift

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#1 ·
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.
 
#3 ·
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.
 
#7 ·
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.
 
#12 ·
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.

So if they tell you to fuck off don't give up.
 
#16 ·
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.

Sandia about 25 minutes away


Santa Fe about 1hour away
 
#24 ·


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 :)
 
#29 ·
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.
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.

So if they tell you to fuck off don't give up.
Sounds like a bunch of whiny little girls to me. "Oh no! My jacket is dirty, it's your fault you should give me something for free."

Snowboarding ain't about looking pretty, if you're jacket is keeping you warm it's doing exactly what you paid for it to do. Get over it and ride.
 
#32 ·
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. :cool:
 
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