Member of the Month

PartyBullshiit
March, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Have you ever gotten first?

profile picture
a_pla5tic_bag
Posts: 9210 - Karma: 5,357
First chair at at a mountain that is. I've never done it.  inb4 first.
Nov 21 2010 10:20PM
0 0
profile picture
.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799
Only once, but it was because it was a hill that I had never been to and thought it opened an hour earlier than it did. 
Nov 21 2010 10:23PM
0 0
profile picture
Elmo.
Posts: 4317 - Karma: 663
like 4 or 5 times... i try to get it first day at loon every year but im always like 4th or 5th. but i get it like twice a year at a little place near me on a cold day
Nov 21 2010 10:25PM
0 0
profile picture
84west
Posts: 646 - Karma: 1,254
of a season or of the day?
i got first chair of the day once
Nov 21 2010 10:26PM
0 0
profile picture
LAME.
Posts: 5795 - Karma: 2,449
JAY PEAK on a powder day. nbd
Nov 21 2010 10:26PM
0 0
profile picture
dispatchQ_main
Posts: 2619 - Karma: 629
Yaah all the time, if you mean of the day. Best was white face after 2 ft of snow. The slides were perfect.
Nov 21 2010 10:28PM
0 0
profile picture
a_pla5tic_bag
Posts: 9210 - Karma: 5,357
ah man I meant of the season but i guess of the day is cool too.
Nov 21 2010 10:29PM
0 0
profile picture
zerospinskier
Posts: 4867 - Karma: 350
Don't say inb4
Nov 21 2010 10:31PM
0 0
profile picture
ORDEAL
Posts: 6386 - Karma: 75
First gondola at vail. I mean after all the ski patrol and instructor poaches. So, first public one.
Nov 21 2010 10:33PM
0 0
profile picture
JStrathern
Posts: 8747 - Karma: 1,536
Once at Gunstock, once at Sunday River, and once at Mount Snow. Mount Snow was because our condo was on the trail and we got down there right away like 15 minutes early, and SR we were at the Jordan hotel also on the trail so it was pretty easy.
Nov 21 2010 10:38PM
0 0
profile picture
--ski--
Posts: 1670 - Karma: 817
Yep, we always try and make first chair of the NZ season. Can't remember when maybe 2-3 seasons ago we each got a free bottle of champagne at Mt Hutt for making first chair.
Nov 21 2010 10:40PM
0 0
profile picture
eastcoastplanker
Posts: 964 - Karma: 70
snowbird on a pow day :)  they closed down the road into the canyon and i was stayin at cliff so it was a dream come true
Nov 21 2010 10:41PM
0 0
profile picture
cool.
Posts: 3457 - Karma: 1,724
many a times.
Nov 21 2010 10:42PM
0 0
profile picture
Chompo.
Posts: 4952 - Karma: 88
Yeah I have done it
Nov 21 2010 10:45PM
0 0
profile picture
jca
Posts: 4162 - Karma: 6,261
I've gotten first chair of the year twice at Red mountain.  Last year was a dope pow day.  /claim
Nov 21 2010 10:45PM
0 0
profile picture
Milksteak
Posts: 9948 - Karma: 842
Do you mean first chair of the season?

Hell nah, but I've gotten first chair on random days before. There's always fights 'n shit at Killington for first chair of the season...I like to watch.
Nov 21 2010 10:46PM
0 0
profile picture
skichicky3
Posts: 2593 - Karma: 64
all the time... ski patrolling definitely pays off on powder days
Nov 21 2010 10:47PM
0 0
profile picture
PeterWojnar
Posts: 3937 - Karma: 678
All the time. Whenever there's a pow day, I'm in the Alpine Meadows liftline by 7:30 LATEST, if I'm in the mountains.

There's nothing better than skiing the lines under the chair first thing, and knowing that EVERYBODY on the lift is pissed you stole their line.
Nov 21 2010 10:50PM
0 0
profile picture
Willard
Posts: 5117 - Karma: 429
At my mountain all the time. Lifts open at 9 take up the 8:00 bus get there around 8:30. Usually means you get first even on a pow day
Nov 21 2010 10:57PM
0 0
profile picture
Daydreaming
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 48
Last season, Christmas day, First chair on Gad 2 and it was the first day it was open that season and it had snowed all week. I can die a happy man now.
Nov 21 2010 11:02PM
0 0
profile picture
hurrisun
Posts: 6284 - Karma: 49
hundreds of times well tens of times but i used to work at my hill (only like blue mountain size) but i had to get first chair after ski patrol but it sucked cuz i just set up the park but there were always sick sunrises and i always got first lap
Nov 21 2010 11:07PM
0 0
profile picture
TheUngroomed
Posts: 1251 - Karma: 335
ive gotten it a couple times.
ive even gotten double first chair cuz the slide side opens 30 min before main side so got first chair on slide and skied over to main and got first over there too
=)
Nov 21 2010 11:35PM
0 0
profile picture
The.Ginger
Posts: 978 - Karma: 13
ive never got first but i got last gondie at steamboat last year
Nov 21 2010 11:46PM
0 0
profile picture
c4t_l0ver
Posts: 5485 - Karma: 810
yup knee deep pow on groomer runs they groomed already, wut.
Nov 21 2010 11:50PM
0 0
profile picture
nutsnbolts
Posts: 1110 - Karma: 16
yeah my buddy lets me on the lift midweek when i dont have to teach a lesson...i love first hits on the park...so smoooooth. First tracks on pow days are pretty nifty too...
Nov 22 2010 12:01AM
0 0
profile picture
butteredpretzel
Posts: 1484 - Karma: 845
Ive had first chair at Collins lift at Alta. The lines at Alta on a powder day are scary, everyone is super aggressive lol.
Nov 22 2010 12:35AM
0 0
profile picture
ryman
Posts: 113 - Karma: 21
Never got a proper first chair (i.e. epic powder day chair). Last season at squaw i got in line at 6:20 - only scored 5th chair.

But i have been on the first chair up before. and even before first chair with ski school back in the day
Nov 22 2010 12:42AM
0 0
profile picture
cool_name
Posts: 4295 - Karma: 3,131
i was on the third gondola on Saturday fresh tracks the whole down. the other riders took other runs
Nov 22 2010 12:51AM
0 0
profile picture
t-roy
Posts: 4041 - Karma: 52
of course. but not recently since college has gotten in the way of skiing for the past 7 years :(
Nov 22 2010 12:53AM
0 0
profile picture
Broseph_Stalin
Posts: 3745 - Karma: 177
all of the time, season pass holders actually get to ski an hour earlier before the mountain officially opens where i ske
Nov 22 2010 12:53AM
0 0
profile picture
Drail
Posts: 14011 - Karma: 10,001
it's true. I saw it.


Myself, closest I've gotten is like 5th chair of the season. One year, I got first chair, not for the hill, but one of the chairs at the hill. The hill opened a few weeks before, but one of the chairs didn't open till Christmas, and I got first chair on it.
Nov 22 2010 1:04AM
0 0
profile picture
Blandct
Posts: 1858 - Karma: 37
totally thought you were referring to claiming first on a new article...
Nov 22 2010 1:20AM
0 0
profile picture
JacheOReally
Posts: 3597 - Karma: 253
I've gotten first chair AND last chair and didn't stop all day. I'm that cool.
Nov 22 2010 3:58AM
0 0
profile picture
AJizzle
Posts: 1882 - Karma: 522
Gotten first and last chair on a pow day at alpine
Nov 22 2010 4:32AM
0 0
profile picture
KLovelace
Posts: 2118 - Karma: 289
when I was patrolling I got first chair every day. :)
Nov 22 2010 6:03AM
0 0
profile picture
LIL_WAT
Posts: 1900 - Karma: 475

Yep.

/claim

Nov 22 2010 6:17AM
0 0
profile picture
belden...
Posts: 2914 - Karma: 1,273
First tram at snowbird on a pow day nbd. From there got first chair on gad 2
Nov 22 2010 6:41AM
0 0
profile picture
I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
3 times first chair and 1 time i hiked the mountain, woke up around 4, started hiking and up on top i witnessed the most beautiful sunrise, then strapped on my skis, rode down and caught the first chair, probably one of my best skiing experiences ever ...


damn i can't wait till christmas to shred again ! >:(
Nov 22 2010 7:21AM
0 0
profile picture
lanny94
Posts: 1374 - Karma: 165
lol
i got first chair of the season last year at cypress and ive got first gondala twice maybe at grouse
Nov 22 2010 10:25AM
0 0
profile picture
Mr.Huck
Posts: 6096 - Karma: 14,893
I'm sure at least a few time for Milk Runs and other random things.  Used to be the all Vail Resorts full-time staff had to go through lift evac training.  They did this at like 5:00 AM in the middle of winter.  I can only imagine how butt cold that had to be.  I never had to do it, but my mom did back in the day.  There is also nothing like riding a lift at night.  I'm not talking about a mountain set up for night skiing with tons of lights.  Riding up in pitch black is really cool and skiing down at night with no lights and no moon is one of the scariest things I have ever done. 
Nov 22 2010 10:49AM
0 0
profile picture
Jpurd
Posts: 3196 - Karma: 3,554
yes i have gotten first chair at loon a couple years ago
Nov 22 2010 11:03AM
0 0
profile picture
i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 245
Ive gotten first chair, on the first day of the season for 2 years in a row now.  and last year i had last chair on the last day with the ski patrol haha
Nov 22 2010 11:57AM
0 0
profile picture
TheButterHashira
Posts: 9691 - Karma: 1,702
I got first chair of the season before, and the hills website took a picture of two random fucks and said they were the first skiers of the year. Maybe they were the first to buy lift tickets, because I was first in line at the chairlift with my season pass.
Nov 22 2010 12:50PM
0 0
profile picture
Rime.
Posts: 632 - Karma: 615
First chair, first day of season, first tracks down the mountain at Baker. Two seasons in a row now.
Nov 22 2010 12:54PM
0 0
profile picture
Gstrong
Posts: 4776 - Karma: 518
i have done it but theres not very many people at my hill
Nov 22 2010 1:02PM
0 0
profile picture
no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,270
every day in portillo because everyone's so hung over and doesn't care about skiing so nobody gets up before 10
Nov 22 2010 1:05PM
0 0
profile picture
XtRemE11
Posts: 5680 - Karma: 268
the only time i got first chair was when there was a huge ass line waiting for the lift to open, nobody saw that the other side of the lift was open also, so we just went to the other side, ahead of people that had been waiting for almost an hour on an awesome powder day, beat the people on the other side to the first chair, got yelled at like crazy, it was awesome.
Nov 22 2010 1:08PM
0 0
profile picture
no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,270
omg the same thing happened to me. i was in a lift line and there were people who had been waiting since like 6am and they didnt realize that if you cut to the front, pushed some people out of the way, ducked a rope, and snuck on to the lift you would get first chair!!!
Nov 22 2010 1:15PM
0 0
profile picture
tommyp1ckles
Posts: 1337 - Karma: 55
i used to get drives up with my friend who works at the local hill but his work started an hour before the hill opened so i used always calmly slip by the lifties and they usually thought i was a digger or something.
Nov 22 2010 1:18PM
0 0
profile picture
Shlogan
Posts: 4942 - Karma: 430
thats a really good idea, im jealous.
Nov 22 2010 1:23PM
0 0
profile picture
XtRemE11
Posts: 5680 - Karma: 268
ummm i dont think i understand?
Nov 22 2010 1:28PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-4)