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Switch Skiing No Longer allowed at Alta
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Today I was skiing fakie at alta (in control, making good right and left parallel turns on an uncrowded slope,) and was stopped at the lift by a patroller.
He said to me, "hey why don't you learn how to ski forward before you ski backwards; our guests don't like it when people are zooming by them fakie."
I kindly suggested that I was in control looking where I was going on an uncrowded slope when he interrupted me with a little, "you know what, its been a problem in the past and we just aren't tolerating it this year." He continued to tell me that "you sure aren't making yourself look coool."
So there you have it! No more fakie alta skiing...they just won't tolerate it. So I got that goin for me, which is nice...
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dont ride trails with people that suck on them. go where patrolers dont care because they know you are good enough, like the double black areas
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man, Altas goin downhill. its dissapointing
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alta fucks goats...fuck alta
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i had the same problem in sun peaks, me and my sister where skiing this tree run which comes out on a really open flat section, like 500m long. when we hit the flat we both started skiing switch not fast just crusing, this patroler going past on a skidoo pulled us up and marked our ticket and gave us this big lecture. What pissed me off the most was it was the first day of my trip and only my second run.
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sorry for digging up this thread, but is this really true that you cant ski fakie at alta anymore, or is a joke?
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i ask becasue i will be skiing there this weekend.
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you can, but you will get your pass pulled
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I'm going to Alta/SB in March and I probably won't ski Alta. I do'nt like that they don't allow snowboarders. It's the kind of place that gapers from here in the East coast get stickers and put them on their pocket rockets to make themselves feel hardcore...
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Let me put it this way. I was in the Dipper lift line at Heavenly the other day. And there were 4 people in line in front of me, next to each other waiting to get on the lift. Each with old ass one-piece ski suits, and pocket rockets with Alta stickers on the tips. That to me is alta...hopefully I'll get a better appreciation once I get there.. I'm sure its sick despite all the crap..
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alta is so sick dude, i go there every year, and most of the people are hardcore locals who just love to ski.. the reason that there are no boarders is becasue it was traditionaly a no boarder place, and most of thier good terrain you have to kinda skate to/ side step to, so boarders wouldnt like that much. but i get what u r saying, there are a few kids who will just be straight up pricks and say they love alta cuz of no snowboarders, i dont even notice it when i am there.
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sweet...I'm stoked to go there for the first time. My pass is good at Alta and snowbird so I'll probably split my time between the two.
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word, they both kick ass, but if youve never been on a tram, you should get a tram pass, if not, dont bother (for snowbird) cuz a lift ticket will get you eveywhere the tram does.
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I think that ski patroller has PMS
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haha... sounds like the ski patrolers at alta are dicks! at my hill you can do whatever, they even load me on the t-lifts switch
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fuck it... id ski switch, u have to catch me first!!!
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if your skiing the right terrain, then you dont need to being skiing switch at alta simple as that.
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That's fucking stupid. Should've just told him that people who know how to ski switch are way less dangerous to themselves and others doing that than 95% of the assholes who go up every day skiing forward... and honestly, "you're certainly not making yourself look cool"...? Because that's why we do it...
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just ski switch off-piste, no one'll fuck with you then
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ah i love europe! No pist police, no ropings off that matter and nobody fucking cares how you ski...
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lots of hills don that... they just get angry... my hill does that too
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Dude, I'm a patroller at my little local here in Minnesota. I've got Public Enemies and ski backwards all the damn time. I always get props for it by the other patrollers and the ski schoolers.
FUCK THAT GUY! But that's just me and I'm a patroller
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