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duckie · 02-24-2008, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Mysticfalcon

Wow. Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I know quite a few old timer skiers that actually agree with what snowolf said about the boarders revitalizing the mountains. On days when the lift lines are short anyway.
I used to ski but I feel I get more of that oneness with nature on a board. Skiing came very easy to me but I switched to the board to get more of a challenge.

Learning to ski was easy for me as well, and well the desire to learn snowboarding grew with the years. Finally, this year I took the plunge and have no regrets bout the switch in snowsports.

Even some of my friends who are experienced skiers are considering possibly joining us on a snowboard. At the local mountain, there is almost more boarders then skiers soon close to a 6:4 ratio by now. Snowboard's popularity has truly expanded to an all ages event, and it is expected that this trend won't die down anytime soon! Go snowboarding!

ecave84 · 02-25-2008, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by TNT

His argument against snowboarders: "but the more that skill is cultivated, the more the average snowboarder feels the mountain is his or her birthright rather than the privilege it actually is. Or was." This is right after he had just said "What I hate is the idea that it’s somehow OK to invade my space — my mountain, my snow, my moguls, my chairlifts and my winter contentment"

Hipocracy, thy name is you Mr. John Fullbright.

My own experience is nothing of significant note, other than the number of skiers who continually kept bumping my board in the chairlift line this weekend. One of them even got up right behind me straddling my board with his skis - kind of weird, I'm not sure how to interpret that behavior. Then as I am trying to get around a group of skiers who had stopped up at the top of a drop in to a mogul field, I see an opening and start sliding between them and a fence w/ about 4 feet of room, and one of the adult skiers near the end cuts me off, stops in front of me, and I accidentally bump into his skis with less force than the tapping I was receiving in the lift lines. I was actually right next to him stopped before I tried to slide around him. Now completely unable to proceed down the mountain and on my butt after losing my balance, I even tell him that I'm sorry. He replies that I'm not the first snowboarder that has ever hit him. He proceeded to not move, so I had to crawl over his skies, up against the fence, to get past him. I should have told him he wasn't the first skier to think he was the only one on the mountain, but I just threw him a fake smile and went on my way.

i had a guy at gunstock on a weekday were we were the only 2 on a wide open trail ski up on my blind side and proceeded to cut right in front of me while i was going fairly fast. i ended going right over the back of his Skis and almost going down. There is no way he missed me. maybe it was this guy being one with the mountain

Mr. Right · 02-25-2008, 03:07 AM

Moguls are not jumps. They are not devices designed to help snowboarders catch “wicked air” or assist their “mad skills.”

When I was a skier I used to hit moguls like jumps all the time to help me catch "mad air" and assist my "mad skills."

I could probably strap on some gaper planks and tear that guys world up. They didn't even make shaped skis when I was skiing as a kid.

**Snowolf** · 02-25-2008, 09:05 AM

To illustrate my point, read some of the idiotic statements posted by these eliteist ski snobs on the Taos website about them "letting" snowboards on the hill....the sooner people like this all die off the better the world will be...

SkiTaos - Opens to Snowboarding March 19, 2008

Or this one.....
SkiTaos - Opens to Snowboarding March 19, 2008

Here is a shining example of the stupid steroetyping these old bastards do:

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Kirk from Austin, TX. Says...
Well, I personally have made it a point to patronize the snowboard free ski areas. It’s the main reason I go to ski valley. Skiers are more mature and courteous. The negative comments about snowboarding are true. Anyone who pays any attention while on the mountain knows that the snowboard demographic is young, self-centered, smart ass kids. They snowboard like they drive: with reckless abandon that endangers all who are around them. Ski Valley has lost its charm in the name of the almighty green back. Sadly the mountain will be over run with congestion and unsafe practice. Ski patrol will need to enforce the law of the mountain for this to work. Sorry snowboard fans. It is what it is, and I call them as I see them.

Hmmm....I guess I am not really 42, teach professionally do backcountry guiding to boarders and skiers alike. I guess all my fellow snowboard instructors who are also skiers and ski instructors are figments of my imagination. I guess the rude smart ass kids on twin tips snaking everyone in the park is another figment of my imagination.

They fucking whine and cry that snowboards ruin their moguls and turns the runs into ice.....what in the hell do these dumb asses think a skier who pizza wedges down the run does?....duh! Oh and I have seen plenty a skier slide their fucking skis sideways down the run that is too steep for them to turn on and they do that with two edges....a sideslipping skier is like two sideslipping boarders!


It should be legal to shoot stupid people!

TNT · 02-25-2008, 04:45 PM

And I guess I don't drive my pickup truck on the highway in the far right lane at 5 mph under the speed limit to save gas and help the environment...because I'm young and don't care about anyone but me.

Snowolf, a great man once realized "I could make more money than I'd ever need if only I could invent a device that would allow you to choke people through the internet."

SUPERGILDO · 02-25-2008, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by sedition

Well, we have these things called cars in New England. Were pretty advanced up here. You know, Harvard, MIT, etc. Well, see, they way it works is that if you want a quick, regular, fix you get in your car and go somewhere small and local. If you want big, you can also use the car, and go here or here.

And, as I might quote the Rome web site , "You don't need a resort to snowboard." This is also near by.

its ok young'n. take a trip out here to colorado and we can show you how its done

cars arent the only thing you have that we dont, you have the ICE TOO!!!!

dont get mad I am just joshin ya!!

Grimdog · 02-25-2008, 08:31 PM

I'm guessing that Taos may be in some financial trouble and may need the snowboarder's cash. I would have a hard time going and spending my money at a resort like this. Do they still have witch hunts as well?

rubbertoe · 02-25-2008, 08:45 PM

I saw on the news tonite NM is ripe with witches. The Weca church is evidently big here. I think most of them ski. The majority live in and around Taos, I think.

sedition · 02-25-2008, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SUPERGILDO

you have the ICE TOO!!!!

You call it "ice" we call it "snow."

SUPERGILDO · 02-25-2008, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Grimdog

I'm guessing that Taos may be in some financial trouble and may need the snowboarder's cash. I would have a hard time going and spending my money at a resort like this. Do they still have witch hunts as well?

from what i have heard, the generation of the owners has changed and thats the reason why...

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