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Damn Skiers!

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#1 ·
Finally a place to let all that anger out. Vent all that built up anger towards ignorant skiers (or even snowboarders for that matter)
Tell stories of pure disregard for courtesy or common sense. Skier kept cutting you off? They took up the entire run as their new 4 lane wide turning zone? Yell something about those "Damn Snowboarders" as they ran away from an accident they caused. Tell us about it.
 
#59 ·
I'm sure it's been said a million times, but I fucking hate when skiers ram their skis into my board in the lift line. I move up a foot in the lift line, and some asshole with rental skis slams one ski after another into my board. Move up another foot, same shit. So fucking ignorant...
 
#62 ·
This is one thing that boils my blood on the hills, in the lineup at Tim Hortons, or anywhere else. Hitting me in the back, or hitting the back of my board will not make the guy in FRONT of me move any faster, so why would it make ME move any faster. It's usually clueless foreign skiers with head to toe matching gear.

I think one day I'm going to wear a green hulk t-shirt under my boarding jacket, and if they run into the back of my board I'll rip my jacket off and say "AARON MAD!!!!"

Or maybe I'll just start dressing like Animal at the hills.

I usually stay on the upper lifts to avoid the id-juts, and get to the hills early.
 
#61 ·
x2 on the poles and rental skis all over my board.

There was this idiot who did it several times in a row. I know this can happen occasionally but at least say "sorry" or something. Finally I said "Dude - watch out!" and he gave me a brilliant smile and a "I'm still learning"... Really? I wouldn't have guessed :mad:
 
#64 ·
To be honest, I find the major idjits in lift lines to be rugrats, not necessarily skiers. Little twerps not only haven't learned manners yet, but they get bored easily and start swinging their equipment or wiggling their board back and forth. Kids will be kids, but if the parent is standing right there and not doing something about it, it's the parent's failure.
 
#70 ·
Skiers suck because skiing sucks, I've skied longer then most people on this forum have been alive.

Just within the last two years I have taken up snowboarding and don't ever see myself going back, its just too much fun.

If you reallly want proof that skiers are asshats go lurk around a few of their forums.
 
#71 ·
I was at wolf creek on new years eve and some dumb bitch skier runs in to me from behind and shouts "WATCH WHERE THE FUCK YOU ARE GOING!". I lost it and starting yelling my ass off, telling her its her responsibility to avoid me. And another gayass skiier tells me to "watch your mouth". I wasn't having any of it because not so long ago I not knowingly ran over a ski resort owners sons skis and the ski patrol put me in a room to watch a safety video about how the down hill skier has the right of way and blah blah blah. Some of those rich skiers are real self righteous pricks.
 
#74 ·
aaaand who was that directed at exactly? I was out today at a custom truck show and an auto cross event, then when I got back more parts arrived so i can start rebuilding my sail boat and it was perfect in the high 80s and i'm enjoying my seasons. Nuff said.



 
#79 · (Edited)
most likely just my small ohio mountain but...

anyone who tries to look "cool" by spraying snow when they come to their abrupt stop but instead of spraying they take a huge spill and often times end up looking like a real jackass

after typing i realize i do not hate this behavior because I get a good chuckle each time it happens


oh and last season i had a skiier throw what i guess was a punch after i berated him for tapping my board for the third time in a 30 second lift line. for future reference, 1) dont throw a punch in snow gloves as its useless 2)if the person you are trying to punch is standing and conversing with three other people they are most likely his friends, and 3) dont be surprised when those other 3 join in on the fun of pushing said persons face in the snow

mabye we were both just angry because we are in Ohio and might as well wait till summer and ride the grass down a .5 degree slope because that would be = to what we have in winter
 
#80 ·
most likely just my small ohio mountain but...

anyone who tries to look "cool" by spraying snow when they come to their abrupt stop but instead of spraying they take a huge spill and often times end up looking like a real jackass

after typing i realize i do not hate this behavior because I get a good chuckle each time it happens


oh and last season i had a skiier throw what i guess was a punch after i berated him for tapping my board for the third time in a 30 second lift line. for future reference, 1) dont throw a punch in snow gloves as its useless 2)if the person you are trying to punch is standing and conversing with three other people they are most likely his friends, and 3) dont be surprised when those other 3 join in on the fun of pushing said persons face in the snow

mabye we were both just angry because we are in Ohio and might as well wait till summer and ride the grass down a .5 degree slope because that would be = to what we have in winter
awesome :laugh:
 
#81 ·
So I'm one of those anal people who doesnt like someone standing 6 inches behind me in line (gas station, grocery, movie, etc), ur next, regardless of space, back the fuck up. Needless to say the lift line drives me nuts everytime a ski clicks my topsheet, not because I care about my board, but because I dont like motherfuckers up in my grill.

After struggling for so long to not be a complete asshole, I finally got the perfect line:

"I'm sorry bro, am I in your way?"

Came off the cuff but as soon as I said it was so perfect. Guy looked at me like he just pooped his pants, "no, go ahead."

"Gee thanks."
 
#85 ·
I totaly agree with the fact that it sucks if skiers stand still and block the whole run.

Mostly I'm like what the fuck and start yelling at them in my native language (Flemish). I noticed that yelling in your native language really helps in foreign countries to get them moving. Ofcourse most of you guys in America won't have this problem as you all speak English :laugh:
 
#86 ·
Yeah I hate that.. They always seem to stop at the top of nice steep run right infront of the part you want to fly off of at 40-50 mph. (Typically the sides, I'd prefer if they stopped in the middle.. single file instead of blocking the whole run)

I've cussed quite a few of them out or ran over their ski's/board just out of spite. if you need to stop go in the fucking trees or behind/infront a sign or something.
 
#89 ·
I hate riding behind a group of skiers, especially when they spread out over the entire width of the trail so they can travel the mountain horizontally and not leave any room to pass them unless you time it perfectly. Their turns are hard to predict (despite me being a former skier), they're movements are harder to read than a snowboarders.

Ski patrols should also take a more aggressive stance of escorting pizza wedgers (and side slippers) back to the bunny hill. Nothing worse than watching some clueless gaper push the little snow that we do have down the hill.
 
#90 ·
Ski patrols should also take a more aggressive stance of escorting pizza wedgers (and side slippers) back to the bunny hill. Nothing worse than watching some clueless gaper push the little snow that we do have down the hill.
Skiers complain about how boarders "wreck the snow" but it doesn't seem to occur to them that snowplow skiers do exactly the same thing.
 
#91 ·
I had a Monoskier jab his god damn pole on my board, then he slammed the lift bar on my head successfully knocking off my go-pro while I was in the middle of taking it off. This was before the chair even left the station, luckily I caught it. I just gave him a dirty look and turned my music up for the ride up.

I caught up with him after strapping in, those guys are hilarious to watch wiggle down the hill. How do they not feel ridiculous?

Monopalooza! ...morons
 
#92 ·
Oh my god I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Thanks everyone.

That being said, I'm sooooooo sorry that sometimes I like forget how to come back toe side and freak out at the grade of pitch and slid heel side down the mountain. For what it's worth, I'm wincing at the sniwboard I'm pushing in front of me. I promise to get better!!!!!

(Former skier, only strapping those silly two sticks on my feet for an annual run with my slow skiing wife)
 
#93 ·
it's funny to know that both skier and boarders ruin the snow with their heelslide and pizza:laugh: I do like the reaction i get when i give tips to the newb riders how to do toeside turn when i'm on my skis, and same thing to skiers on how to not pizza to much and use your knees and ankles to turn dynamically on their skis while i'm on my board:laugh:
 
#94 ·
there's stuff I like about skiers: most of them at my resort only ride groomers, even after a big powder dump. And the few that do ride powder usually seem more interested in getting to the bottom as fast and in as straight a line as possible, leaving all the good "waves" and hips untracked for boarders to surf skash. I'm pretty sure skiers are a little jealous of us, at least, if not subconscious.

As stereotyping as it sounds, main thing that repels me about skiers is the superiority attitude many of them exude (and that tight-ass/spandex clothing). I can practically feel them mocking me as they ride right off the lift immediately on onto their precious groomers...while we have to wait and strap in. We ruin the snow?...on groomers? FU

Doesn't matter that we have one piece of equipment to their four or that we can ride switch much more easily (how often do you see skiers riding backwards?...not much), or that we seek spinning jumps, butters and skashes all day while they might get in a couple of straight jumps, on a good day. Seems, in their minds, never having to unbind trumps everything...wrong.

...and the meek shall inherit the earth
 
#97 · (Edited)
there was a little half-pipe sort of natural feature that i was clearly approaching when a group of 3 skiers come up and cut me off as i'm doing a 180 and one of them rides right over the tail of my board and makes me fall.

Then this happened to a friend : there was a basically vertical spine looking thing on the side of a jump that the terrain park crew made for fun, and we had another friend go down to it to take pictures of us hitting it, i hit it and then my friend comes to hit it and while he's coming down from hitting the spine, a skier doing like 30 comes not even an inch infront of his board and almost destroys him. It was fucking ridiculous.
 
#98 ·
On a recent trip over at Squaw, two skiers decided that it was more efficient to push their way through in an attempt to pair up with other small groups. When we told them that is what the single line is for, they got upset and started accusing my group of being disorganized. That's when things got pretty heated, and words were exchanged. He and his wife finally backed down, but acted all high and mighty. Then another skier decided to take their side, and comment about how people on snowboards are second rate citizens.

Lovely... Not saying assholes are all on skis, but I certainly run into quite a bit of them.
 
#104 ·
squaw is kinda notorious for prejudice against snowboarders among their older locals. It's the most uptight place I've been in Tahoe.

I normally, don't bother with lowering the bar, but I found myself in a slight state of acrophobia when on the Squaw's "headwall express" lift for the first time (highest non-gondola lift I've ever seen). So I slowly started to lower the bar and, before I could say anything, the hippie skier lady next to me moves her head forward at the same time and it barely touches the bar...she gave me a look like "you almost killed me!" and had a bad attitude the rest of the way up. I've also had local squaw skiers (good skiers) purposely haul ass by me, clipping my board they were so close.

Just this jan, I was on the gondola at heavenly and some old local skier lady started going off about how snowboarders are so reckless and how much she disapproves of snowboards (she never stopped talking the whole way up). Well, because the skis/snowboards are stored on the outside of the gondola, she obviously couldn't see that there was one snowboard on there...mine. I barely could interrupt her rant when I informed her that I was a snowboarder and the last person to take me down was a skier...she started talking about some other bullshit.
 
#103 · (Edited)
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