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haha you silly skier :3

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#1 ·
so at my hill on one of the runs there is a big drop. it isn't straight down but it is really steep so if you Ollie off with speed you fly. anyway i was doing a bomb run to it and this retarded skier decided to pass me right b4 the drop. :mad: he rode 2 feet from my left and im regular so that's my blind side. he was so close to wrecking me. i was at 35-40 mph and him at around 45. woulda been bad. i got revenge though. he went to nollie and his ski tips dug in. he went flying forward and landed on his face! i asked if he was alright and he said yea so i rode away laughing. he had perfect form for his crash too. perfect straight as a board superman style, and angled face first to the ground. :D :cheeky4:
 
#38 ·
Then we have the "mystery date" rider with his back hand sticking straight out in front of the toe edge as if wrapped around his invisible girlfriend. You can spot this cat from a chairlift a mile away and you know instantly that this dude doesn't have a snowball`s chance in hell of being able to slow down or stop if anything or anyone gets in his path.
I think we need to officially change the name of this to "the T'eo"
 
#43 ·
Shred tip #422:

If you see a skier who is not looking around and just looking straight ahead as if they are alone on the mountain, ride next to them, close, and pass within inches.

*this tip only works if you are riding within your ability to dodge the idiot. All points are subtracted for a collision. Double points for obviously startling the fuckturd.
 
#45 ·
Interestingly, I don't think the ones that are douches are particularly picking on snowboarders. Last weekend I saw two separate incidents where a skier buzzed another skier (one of them was preadolescent and a beginner, which made the other guy a MAJOR douche). I think that might just be their version of park.
 
#46 ·
I'm going to assume you meant to say SOME skiers. There are plenty of rad, chill, cool skiers ( excluding of course my Tele skier friends who are all a bunch of kooks.....:cheeky4:)and many skiers are also good snowboarders. There are also plenty of douchebag snowboarders. Now having said that, there is often some kernel of truth to stereotypes. I do think there still exists an element of elitism among older skiers but as these fuckers die off, that is slowly evaporating.
Yah, the symmetry in the kernel of truth about old elite skiers and I hate to admit it is that we seem to have a higher percentage of reckless riders on snowboards. I'm a diehard snowboarder but our rep is stained a bit by those semi-out of control riders bombing down blues.
 
#47 · (Edited)
I'm going to assume you meant to say SOME skiers. There are plenty of rad, chill, cool skiers ( excluding of course my Tele skier friends who are all a bunch of kooks.....:cheeky4:)and many skiers are also good snowboarders. There are also plenty of douchebag snowboarders. Now having said that, there is often some kernel of truth to stereotypes. I do think there still exists an element of elitism among older skiers but as these fuckers die off, that is slowly evaporating.

As for maneuverability and control, I don't see much of a difference. It really comes down to the skill of the skier or the rider. I really don't see one being better than the other, just different.
I wonder what these oldies are staying about the newschool freestyle groms that seem to think they can jump the lines and are crazy on the cat tracks riding out at the end of the day
" Bloody snowbo- oooh I mean skier? argh"

But yes I think skiers forget that we have a pretty big blind side.
Actually I get pretty mad with instructors...as a snowboarder with a stereotype AND a blindside I feel we are taught to look around us all the time and be aware of other riders.
Yet I see ski instructors take off with a snake of their class without looking, and taking up the whole run, blocking everyone else making irregular turns.
It really pisses me off that they are teaching bad habits regarding mountain safety to kids at a young age.

In addition...I see skiers look AFTER they change direction/cut across piste...not before all the time. What good will that do? Dumbass.
 
#56 ·
In addition...I see skiers look AFTER they change direction/cut across piste...not before all the time. What good will that do? Dumbass.

example A struck again yesterday when a middle age skier, skiing down to one side of the lift (right) and then suddenly switching and veering from far right of the piste to far left without looking nearly causing myself and the other few pow chasers to go crashing into her and each other.

completely oblivious. I could have smacked her.
 
#64 ·
this is pretty much my only complaint about skiiers, they are not cool skiing plus they act like they own the slope lol
It could be anyone, not just skiers. I just find skiers, at least the older ones are not very aware of what is happening around them. Then I see ski school teaching a class not teaching to look as they cut off people as they take off-never looking. I have been paying particular attention lately as to what the general behaviours of people on the slopes are.
That makes me mad. I really would like to get the instructors to be teaching to look around.
I mean you dont cross the road without looking, why would you not look before taking off on a ski slope with people flying past?
 
#48 ·
yea, i really ride only in the park mostly no inexpirienced riders out to kill ya there! just a couple days a go, a 10 year old came flying straight at me and last second i jump out the way. unluckily, the kid decided to go the same way:/. he then goes on to blame me and i walk away and he trying to hike after me and punch me. he didnt unbind though so it was pretty comical.
 
#50 ·
I'm going to assume you meant to say SOME skiers. There are plenty of rad, chill, cool skiers ( excluding of course my Tele skier friends who are all a bunch of kooks.....:cheeky4:)and many skiers are also good snowboarders. There are also plenty of douchebag snowboarders. Now having said that, there is often some kernel of truth to stereotypes. I do think there still exists an element of elitism among older skiers but as these fuckers die off, that is slowly evaporating.

As for maneuverability and control, I don't see much of a difference. It really comes down to the skill of the skier or the rider. I really don't see one being better than the other, just different.
Same, I've got two of the craziest mofo's on skis for friends, one thought snowboarding was easy. No long though, since he tried and ran into one of the lift pylons. There are some of the worst people on skis though, I remember this older fellow cut me off as I was starting down a black diamond one time, completely threw me off, resulting in a little quaking and/or surprise from me, and as a result, my edge caught, sending me flying. What's worse, I swear there was the red jacket of the Ski Patrol on his back. Yeah, the Ski Patrol has no respect for a little feller like I was at the time. Though I've met some friendly skiers as well, its the snowboarders who are really open and friendly. And trust me, you meet some real characters on snowboards:laugh:
 
#51 ·
What's worse, I swear there was the red jacket of the Ski Patrol on his back. Yeah, the Ski Patrol has no respect for a little feller like I was at the time. Though I've met some friendly skiers as well...
For me it seems to be dependent upon the place I'm at. There's a place I go in Northern Michigan where most of the people are pretty nice regardless of their age and what's strapped on their feet. There's also another place I have gone quite a few times, not far from this other one, where I swear I have been deliberately sprayed by members of ski patrol, on skis of course, on SEVERAL occasions. It's probably not a coincidence that there seems to be a larger proportion of assholes in general at this other place, and the majority of them happen to be on skis.
 
#52 ·
Here's a good one. So I'm in the terrain park, and I see this moron doing the splits over a box, jabbering like hell. Then another kid comes and plows into him, and guess what? BOTH ON SKIS. I chewed these two out for about a minute, one for standing on the end of a rail, the other for not looking.
 
#53 ·
they cant leave any place left without the spread of dumb-assness can they? haha usually its little kids riding over things and ruining ons/jumps. there is this 9 year old skier at my hill who can 7 though and hes the best mini shredder ever :D he does a misty 5 too 0.0. little kids like that are AWSOME!
 
#57 ·
Since I'm not very experienced, I try to pay attention and at least make a sensible run that people can get around me on. A couple times I've ridden lifts with a skier that would tell me how to ride, the one I remember was a guy telling me how to ride moguls because snowboarders "don't know how to and scrape off the snow". I just listened to him and nodded. Meanwhile, a skier below us was scraping tons of snow off of Alberta Face right below the chair. :icon_scratch:

I just try to have a good time, and not get in the way of anyone else doing the same. And those condemning skiers would change their tune if they saw how often (especially for a new rider) I help out skiers by bringing their "yard sales" back to them.
 
#59 · (Edited)
In addition to this I watched a women try to pizza down a black run. While yes I'm on the east coast this was a nice pitch run and it ended with her rolling down the hill.

Also I would like to say the worst gaper we have around here is the " I once went to CO gaper". They stop every 3 feet and tell there friends how CO was great but this mountain is not half bad either and they expected complete sheets of ice to ski on...
 
#63 ·
There are asshole skiers and snowboarders.

I have more a problem with the fuckers who take a break on a run and don't get to the side of a run or infront/behind a barrier. I was at Keystone the weekend before last and wanted to kill people. For those of you not from CO, Keystone puts "Rest Area" barriers EVERYWHERE, and instead of getting behind them people just stop next to them so they are blocking traffic. When I see these guys I almost want to crash into them.

Also, that parent w/kids or group who makes a wall on a run because they want to be side-by-side instead of staying in a line -you can choke on a dick.
 
#67 ·
What I hate is to be cought behind children doing snow plow skiing in narrow traverses (not the children themselves, dont get me wrong!). Aaaaaah! I immediately get paralyzed by their unpredictable and very sudden turns. And cause I'd never ever want to risk to get too close to one of them, I just stay behind and wait for my chance. If my husband has to wait for me more than the usual seconds, he always asks: got stuck in the bunnyschool bottleneck, again?! :D

Most skiers on our mountain ski very well, no prob at all to share the slopes with them. A problem are only the tourist skiers (as well as boarders!) who only ride one week a year and "want to make the most" of this one week = alkohol+speedy riding+showing each other, how brilliant thay are. At those peak season days we mostly stay away from the blacks cause they tend to gather there and it can get dangerous.
 
#68 ·
I had a 10-12 year old skier follow his mother, crossing right in front of the lift chute tonight. Cleared him with about 6" between the flag and his ass. Nice example. Of course, we also have the boarders here that will sit on a ridge scoping the run, 5 or 6 across, completely blocking a trail.
 
#69 ·
It was my first time skiing so I wasn't really comfortable yet, but was doing well, when this happened. It wasn't a particularly busy day, there was a family in front of us on the lift. Mom, dad and son about 2 chairs ahead. Their little kid wiped out getting off the chairlift and just sat there in the middle of the off ramp. The dad didn't help to get him out of the way, just stood there looking at him as did the mother. We come up and about to dismount and the kid is right there in the middle of the off ramp all spread out. I had no place to go so I just barely slipped by him, wasn't the safest maneuver but best I could do, didn't even touch him. The dad then gives me a dirty look and shakes his head.

I wanted to say something back but didn't, just wasn't worth it. Anyways, the worst thing I hate is skiers gathering right at the bottom where you get off the chair. 4,5 or 6 of them chatting away giving you hardly any room to move. When you tell them something or give them a look they act all surprised and don't get what you're on about.
 
#70 ·
It was my first time skiing so I wasn't really comfortable yet, but was doing well, when this happened. It wasn't a particularly busy day, there was a family in front of us on the lift. Mom, dad and son about 2 chairs ahead. Their little kid wiped out getting off the chairlift and just sat there in the middle of the off ramp. The dad didn't help to get him out of the way, just stood there looking at him as did the mother. We come up and about to dismount and the kid is right there in the middle of the off ramp all spread out. I had no place to go so I just barely slipped by him, wasn't the safest maneuver but best I could do, didn't even touch him. The dad then gives me a dirty look and shakes his head.
thats why u push your friend into the kid
 
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