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You know you're a snowboarder when...

11K views 80 replies 43 participants last post by  killincatslive 
#1 ·
-You're so bored of being injured you duct taped your arm to your chest and went snowboarding
-You smile every time you eat pretzels, melons, roast beef or chicken salad
-There is nothing you dread more then explaining what a cab double cork 1260 melon is to your friend who doesn't snowboard
-Whenever it's winter you're always covered in bruises
-You think Alaska actually sounds like a nice place to live
-You know someone from Finland
-Your foot is stained the colour of your snow socks

That's all I can think of right now. Go.

Sorry if there's already a thread like this I searched and couldn't find one
 
#36 ·
I know.. I hate how hard it is to tell how old the people who randomly started riding with you are with their gear on! Then you reach the bottom of the lift and discover they're only 21.. god damn it.

ok sorry.. back to subject

-when you have to scrap the frost off the outside and inside windows of your car.
 
#37 ·
I know.. I hate how hard it is to tell how old the people who randomly started riding with you are with their gear on! Then you reach the bottom of the lift and discover they're only 21.. god damn it.

ok sorry.. back to subject
Back off subject. Don't feel bad Kara, every year at minimum of once a year I get asked from (high school aged) ski-club kids on the chairlift what school I go to.

"Uh...I graduated in 1997"
"Holy shit, my bad!"

and the best...or worst...was the kid asking how old I am. "You're 32 and you still ride park!?

Was ready to throw that little punk right off the chair :laugh:

Back on track.

-When your car has stickers on it that no one but you and other riders understand.
-When your waxing iron gets more use than your clothes iron.
 
#40 ·
Back off track..

Haha. I know! I have a feeling snowboarding is going to make me feel old faster than anything else I'm into. There just aren't as many hardcore riders on the mountain 25+ yrs old as there are high school and college kids. I'm only 25 and I feel like I'm on the brink of snowboarding cougar.

back on track.

-you go to sleep in your hot chilis.. so you don't have to get undressed in the morning.
-you store your board in plain view all summer and tell it "shhh. Its ok.. I know.. it hurts me too.." (jokingly.. I'm not mental I swear)
 
#47 · (Edited)
-when you have a goggle tan in both your DL and concealed carry permit pictures
-when one hour hike up for a 5 minute ride down seems like a perfectly reasonable trade off
-when you get asked "is there still snow?" by your neighbors as your walking to your car with your gear, not once but multiple times over the course of several months in the spring/summer
 
#58 ·
having your car run constantly on E to save up for that lift ticket that week and when the time comes using your parents car with the excuse yours does poorly in the snow (i got stuck once :laugh:) or bumming a ride from a friend if the timing is right
 
#64 ·
- when you wake up everyday on the weekends early to go snowboarding at the local spot and don't shower
- when you can't land a trick but you try at least 10 more times anyways and it hurts
- when you pack a rusty, old, beat up, wind up toy of a car full of gear and somehow manage to crawl through the snow after that blizzard that lasted 2 days, and find the greatest place to shred
- when you spray some little kid with snow because your being a dick and he should be standing up going down the hill instead of sitting down admitting defeat
- when you shatter your arm after falling backwards off that flat down flat box and your buddy doesn't believe you so you fucking say RETARD I FUCKING BROKE MY ARM COME HELP and then you gotta take off those tight gloves that pull the broken bones apart :( :O and you come back to snowboarding 2 years later and are happy :p
 
#65 ·
When you pull your son out of school so you can home school him all year to allow more winter mountain time and week day boarding.

When you move your while family out of your 4 bedroom 3 bath home on a big lot with a pool and hot tub to move into a mountainside condo that's 1/3 the size and twice as much $$$ so you can walk to the lifts.

When you quit a great job with great advancement ops and move to a new one not knowing wtf is gonna happen the next day.....

To the previos poster... two years, wtf took so long.
 
#68 ·
kinda sounds like reckless asshole moves to me...I wouldnt be proud of quitting a good job, pulling my kid out of school, and moving my whole family to a condo just to walk to the lift unless everyone was on board 110%
 
#70 ·
The only reason it is a questionable job is because I am the low man on the totem pole here I am sure I will move up soon. If I loose this job I will go straight back to my other one and just fly up here for a week or two a month during the season and then for a summer vacation too..
 
#76 ·
i actually do this. i ride goofy, sometimes i like to go down the stairs sideways with a regular stance to practice riding switch lol
 
#73 ·
You know your a snowboarder when...

Your homepage is this forum.

You pull your board out at least once a week in the middle of summer and strap it on in your living room.

You visit resorts in the middle of summer to scope out their potential.

You watch the weather with hopeful thoughts before bed every night through the winter.

You turned your old boards into furniture.
 
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