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bob_ham
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my friends and I have always had a little inside joke on how we talk about the weirdest shit on the chair. just wondering if you have any please share.
Oct 14 2010 5:26PM
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Mr.Huck
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So the old Lionshead Gondola fell a long time ago and some people were killed.  The spot where it fell was near the top and the drop to the ground was at least 100 feet.  We'd be riding with some gapers and we'd start talking about when the Gondola fell, and at some point we would start in about how a bar on the tower broke loose and knocked the Gondola off the cable.   We would also tell them that the only person who survived the fall grabbed the pole that was in the center of the Gondola.  By this time we would have talked about which tower it fell from.  We'd get near to that point and the people in there with us would already be scared and we would just be hitting the high point.  As we got close enough to see the tower someone would yell OH Shit and point to a bar that looked bent.  Reality is that all the bars that keep the Gondola from smacking the tower in high wind look bent so this is a pretty easy sell.  The goal was to build up the drama right up to the point where the Gondola was hitting the wheels of the tower.  Right when that happened, one of us would stomp on the floor as hard and loud as possible.  If we did a good job, at least one gaper would grab the pole in the center.  I'm kind of surprised now that we no one had a massive heart attack.

The other thing about that Gondola was that the operators opened and closed the Gondola doors with these keys with a square head.  The key hole went all the way through the door so if you had a key, you could unlock and open the door from the inside.  It was a simple lock and it didn't take us long to realize that you could just jam your ski pole into the key hole, turn it and open the door.  If we were riding up the gondola with little kids that were being a pain, we would threaten to throw them out.  Of course they would say, you can't because you can't open the door.  Without saying a word, one of us would open it with our ski pole and the kids would usually immediately start crying.  Later on when I was in college and working as an instructor, I pulled that on a group of high school kids.  It was funny and no one took it seriously, but one of the kids went home and told his mother that his instructor opened the Gondola door.  I was fired the next morning.  I still hold the record for the person who has been fired and rehired by Vail Resorts the most.  Claim!  
Oct 19 2010 11:18AM
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purps
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every part of that post was amazing
Oct 19 2010 1:31PM
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Elg
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a friend of mine thought it would be funny to take a piss on one of the seats on he lift. The next ride up we actually got the same chair, and the fucker sat in it! Karma rules sometimes!
Oct 19 2010 3:05PM
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Mr.Huck
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Hahahahaha!  The fickle finger of fate flipped him off. 
Oct 19 2010 3:23PM
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Mr.DarthVader
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i am going to try to open the door that would be so funny
Oct 19 2010 3:49PM
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Mr.Huck
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Only possible on the old style Gondolas.  They were the red and yellow ones that they used to have.  The new ones don't open the same way:-(
Oct 19 2010 4:05PM
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Pudge
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me and all my friends go in the singles lines in chairs right behind each other. and at one landmark up the path we all look at our phones and start crying and yelling to each other. never really came up with something that we are sad about though
Oct 19 2010 4:05PM
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MRoden
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Usually A)-bounce the chair
            B)-say I've never gotten off the lift before and stay on and then jump at the last second
            C) Yell mommy and daddy at random parents so they think their child just fell and almost died

Either way its the best thing in the world. I luz chairlifrtz.
Oct 19 2010 4:26PM
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Yossarian
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Best one I've been part of was skiing in Avoriaz and this 4 man goes over two lift queues (or really near them was a bit of a carnage filled trip) so we started singing "Your just too good to be true can't take my eyes off of you..." and as luck would have it we managed to sing out hell loud "I love you baby!" and so forth as we went over the queues.

Best part was is that we were all wearing pretty bright gear and got applause from a lifty when we rode back down. /Claim.

Singing is the goods.
Oct 19 2010 4:26PM
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TOAST.
Posts: 7262 - Karma: 33,255
I 2nd this. I like having conversations with older people on lifts about there opinions and thoughts on skiing.

But the occasional making things awkward or telling outrageous lies is also fun somtimes.

The only thing I can't stand is the people that yell dumb shit from the lift that they think is funny.
Oct 19 2010 4:35PM
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AB3A
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I introduce my 4ft friend as Simon D
Oct 19 2010 4:44PM
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MAPLE_SYRUP
Posts: 1910 - Karma: 68
please don't bounce the chairs, I have been skiing since i was very little and to this day it still scares the shit out of me.
Oct 19 2010 5:26PM
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Shpadoinkle
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Last season my friends and I would sing "Now You're a Man!".

Oct 19 2010 8:21PM
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ThaLorax
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ha, i think i'm close for aspen/snowmass.
Oct 29 2010 6:49AM
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fujarome
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you just have to lead right back into the worst conversations. On a quad me and a friend were riding up with some guy and his wife, and as soon we sat down, my buddy turned to me and said

"nah man, it was only like 8ft deep. I'm sure he could dig himself out from that little pile of snow, with or without the broken leg. Let's just calm down, grab a bite to eat, do some laps, and if we don't see him again this afternoon, we'll let ski patrol know when we're leaving. He'll be fine. He just needs to learn how to deal with his own problems."

we managed to set it up a few times so another friend a few chairs up got off the lift, quickly covered himself in snow, hid his gloves and stuff under a bench, and was standing at the top of the lift when we got there, looking beat to shit.

"see, i told you he'd been fine. (turns to snow covered friend) dude, what the hell?! Where's you other ski and your gloves and shit? Goddamnit, we can't leave you alone, can we?"
Oct 29 2010 7:38AM
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TijmenDal
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Fill up your backpacks with snow with your buddies and start making snowballs and throw them at people...That's the funnest thing to do...
Oct 29 2010 8:17AM
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Rumi.
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can't believe you missed that
Oct 29 2010 10:10AM
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Mr.Huck
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+K.  The funny thing is that last year I got my lifetime pass from VR for working for them for almost all of my adult life.  If I get fired now, I will probably consider it close to a bonus. 
Oct 29 2010 11:09AM
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ThaLorax
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let me guess, "corporate/human resources is making us fire you but we want you back next year. sorry, it's policy."
Oct 29 2010 11:59AM
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Mr.Huck
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No, I don't think I am getting the hook for anything now. 

In the past, in addition to the Gondola door incident, I got canned for throwing a credit card 3 in a slow skiing Zone, and back flips in uniform on the beginner hill at the top of the gondola.  It was a big snow year and the cats had to push snow across the hill so that the poma lift didn't drag the ground.  They made a big spine that ran parallel to the poma.  The landing was pretty flat but deep powder.  The catch was that you had to basically tuck down the beginner hill, carve a big left hand turn, and cut between 2 beginners riding up the poma. 

Apparently one of the beginners was a little put off by this, even though I explained to her that she would not have to learn how to do that until her next lesson.  That didn't go over very well either so she waddled up to one of my supervisors at the top of the hill and told him the story.  Looking back at these exploits now, they were definitely firing offenses.  The fact that they hired me back the next season is more astounding.

So pics or it didn't happen right?  Here you go:

Click for larger image

Sorry to take thread off topic.  At least the last description does involve a ski lift. 
Oct 29 2010 4:06PM
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BShear66
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Haha it's always great when you get on a chairlift with really old or really young people and they ask you if you do jumps and what's with those crazy skiis that have tips ON THE BACK!. And then get you to explain everything about park skiing.
Oct 29 2010 4:12PM
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startspill
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You guys are fucking douchebags
Oct 29 2010 4:56PM
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Rumi.
Posts: 1231 - Karma: 556
troll?
Oct 30 2010 12:13PM
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startspill
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nope
Oct 30 2010 12:15PM
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SirFryanator
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I agree, some of the things I saw above are just straight up rude...just because you're a skier doesn't mean that you shouldn't have common courtesy. You wonder why so many people look at freestyle skiers and think "oh those punkass kids."

That being said I did convince some kid I banged miley cyrus and that you can ski on ayers rock in australia.
Oct 30 2010 12:19PM
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gpitcher
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My favorite is when people fake like they are going to fall of the lift and then jump and the other random people on the lift freak out
Oct 30 2010 12:22PM
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YoungQuinton
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Yes! North Face is the best especially when its really icy.
Oct 30 2010 1:32PM
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twin-tip-hero
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i just lie my fucking ass off about who I am. And always tell people my friends and I are pro and filming our video for the year, because we always have our camera with us. Same shit during the summer. When we're at a cliff my friends and I are always flippin and shit and people ask if if we're pro divers.
Oct 30 2010 1:45PM
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eastcoastjibb
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COOL STORY BRO
Oct 30 2010 8:30PM
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207
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so motherfuckin' epic my mouth frothed.
Oct 30 2010 8:33PM
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Mr.Huck
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Hahahahahaha!  They have medicine for that I think. 
Oct 30 2010 8:40PM
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*TURBONERD*
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goddamn, I want moar stories! My life goal is now to be like you, not really joking.
Oct 30 2010 8:40PM
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snowbombz
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at Alpental i went up the chair with this crazy old gaper. He must have been in his 60s and claimed that he had had 3 knee relacements and 4 heart transplants, he also claimed that straight skis were no longer in production because the government wanted to make snowboarding more important and better. I explained to him that shaped skis were extremely difficult to use and not effective in the terrain park. He then shook his head and said "You are brainwashed by the media".

one of the strangest people on the mountain
Oct 30 2010 8:48PM
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thebeesknees
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i love this thread.
bump
Oct 30 2010 9:18PM
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steezilicious
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me and my friends always put snowballs in our pockets and whip them at gapers. It funny as hell when they get hit in the nuts or head
Oct 30 2010 9:22PM
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rach
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I adopt varying foreign accents a lot on the chair, and I usually stay pretty consistent all the way up, but thats about it.
Oct 30 2010 9:31PM
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Shlogan
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listening to gapers bitch about the cold is the worst. they obviously aren't enjoying skiing for what it is and thats irritating. besides that pet peeve if someone ever asks their friend if they have seen a tv show or movie, wait half a minute and start the same conversation about the same show with your friend. works best if there has been an awkward silence most of the ride.
Oct 30 2010 9:53PM
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SOLID7
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I just shout at gapers on the slope:

"YOUR PHONE'S DROPPED"

"WHERE?!!!!?"

"IT'S SLIDING GOGOGOGOGO!!!"

It honestly works. Try it.
Oct 30 2010 10:19PM
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PartyHon
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Usually my bud's and i talk about chair lift accidents when there a gapers with us. but we alway say we are kidding so the come back to the mountain( we need the business)

on occasion one of us would turn to the other and say something along the lines of" dude, you got the double just try to hold that tail grab for a little longer" and the other would say" yeah i know it just my momentum feels off" trying to act like total B.A's

and threads
Oct 30 2010 10:24PM
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openmindportrait
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dude +k I rode the lift with that same guy and he called me a crip for wearing a saga jacket lol
Oct 30 2010 10:26PM
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butteredpretzel
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And then john fell asleep on you, and I fell asleep on him lol.
Oct 30 2010 10:27PM
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Ryan10271
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1. Purchase rock candy
2. Break into smaller pieces
3. Put that shit in a pipe
4. Get on chairlift
5. Exchange pleasantries
6. Ask em if they wanna hit of that rock
7. ????
8. Profit
Oct 30 2010 10:51PM
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snowbombz
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dude so many people know about this guy, its like you only see him once, never see him again and then somebody else sees him. Maybe he was the guy who died falling off a cliff a few years back and decided to stay and haunt alpental!
Oct 31 2010 2:29AM
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Skiingslikewhoa
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Thread fucking sukcs
Oct 31 2010 4:52AM
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SOLID7
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Thanks for the input
Oct 31 2010 9:23AM
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Che~
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threads
Oct 31 2010 9:35AM
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Indoobly
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threads
Oct 31 2010 10:11AM
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Oreos
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threads
Oct 31 2010 10:15AM
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emlaa
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threads
Oct 31 2010 10:16AM
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TOAST.
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Well this 3rd page is full of contributions.

My friend and I were playing golf on the lift (throw snowballs into the barrels that cover the pipes) and this kid randomly starts to cheer everytime we make one in. Then he started to talk about how the little halfpipe was more of a quarter pipe. It was a fun lift ride.
Oct 31 2010 1:03PM
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