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Gaper days: were did you slide your first box

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wild.
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we all have to start somewere for me it was at gore mountain on a rainbow box back in 2007 two feet long.
Aug 3 2013 9:46PM
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GrahamGould
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I hit a short low flat box in vail when I was a little kid, I don't know what year it was though.
Aug 3 2013 9:49PM
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skiersupreme
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copper. i was probably like 9
Aug 3 2013 9:50PM
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a_burger
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first time was some time ago, Wachusetts mini park circa 2007 I think?

My dad told me they ruined my skis so I stayed away from them for a few years though until I got into park last year.
Aug 3 2013 9:53PM
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roddy116
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The third day i was skiing at keystone.
Aug 3 2013 10:08PM
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Caspaaa
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stratton mountain. the box was maybe 4 feet long and about 4 inches above the snow. i was so pumped there were three in a row and then a little jump so i would straight slide the first two, actually slide the third and ride out switch, then switch 180 the tiny jump.


thanks to tom sherwood, if he sees this/if he even browses NS. that was a dope day of skiing and you pushing me to huck a sketchy 180 off a 10 foot jump is the reason i now love to ski.
Aug 3 2013 10:15PM
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wild.
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strattons were its at
Aug 3 2013 10:20PM
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Blake.P
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Probably at Snoqualmie 13-14 years ago, when west still had a regular park. First one I vividly remember was tryin to hit a rainbow box straight at white pass probably 11 years ago and I stopped halfway up it and slid back down and fell. That definitely wasn't my first attempt. That was followed by years where I was a gaped and went through the park maybe one run a season until maybe 6 years ago when I started hitting it a bit more. I never really got interested until maybe 5 years ago
Aug 3 2013 10:24PM
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griffaah
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flat box at pat's peak in the 6th grade. I was terrified up to it and unbelievably stoked afterwords
Aug 3 2013 10:34PM
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MaryO
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Hyland Hills at age 49 haha
Aug 3 2013 10:37PM
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wild.
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I forgot to add yhe box i hit was 3 inches off the ground
Aug 3 2013 11:08PM
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MYNAMEISCARSON
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went straight for the rails when i was six and nutted myself badly
Aug 4 2013 1:41AM
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ndye
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a flat box in whistler when i was 13. but then didnt slide a rail again till 15
Aug 4 2013 1:46AM
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yung_stone
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Same but in 2006 breh
Aug 4 2013 1:48AM
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AHREN*
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my backyard
Aug 4 2013 8:29AM
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bigskier1010
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You got me beat! Copper mountain, age 35 . Ha ha !!!
Aug 4 2013 8:38AM
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triss
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bromely mountain 7th grade
Aug 4 2013 9:15AM
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_Tommo_
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*where
Aug 4 2013 9:49AM
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Forcillo
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Camden Snow Bowl in 5th-6th grade. One of those. It was a box about 5 feet long and 3 feet wide, about 6 inches off the ground. I was stoked to say the least
Aug 4 2013 11:06AM
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d00d
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Nigchusett back in 2011 I think. Up flat box with nice tuned edges (did realize people detuned them). You can picture the rest
Aug 4 2013 11:17AM
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Jared_M
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Back when I was like 10 there were a bunch of other kids doing it in the park so i tried it for my self. Rode straight on it and my friends got a huge kick out of it. I had no idea what it was until 2 years later.
Aug 4 2013 11:40AM
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wild.
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oh whoops
Aug 4 2013 11:54AM
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ThundaKilla
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I think Butternut or TRidge
Aug 4 2013 11:59AM
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Wolfgang.
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Mont Tremblant.
Aug 4 2013 1:18PM
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iH8pow
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I don't know about on skiis, probably Spirit Mt (Duluth)

on a snowboard, it was definitely Powder Ridge
Aug 4 2013 1:22PM
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tcurle
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Mt. Rose on a 4 foot box when I was 9. My mom did it too
Aug 4 2013 2:16PM
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SnowMiser
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Either jiminy peak or bosquet. Can't remember
Aug 4 2013 2:19PM
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Stose
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At a dry slop demonstration before warren millers premire in Reno
Aug 4 2013 2:24PM
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Dirac
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At COP. It was a rail and it was in like 2001. I had pictures at one point.
Aug 4 2013 2:25PM
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Rachy
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I had been skiing for 11 years already and done race team and alll that, so not really a gaper...

But I was 19, and it was actually on a snowboard. 50/50 a 2 foot wide box at Mt. High like a champ!

Skiing was that same year I believe.. also at mt high... but it was a rail and the fall hurt a lot.
Aug 4 2013 2:44PM
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Lick
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Welch
Aug 4 2013 3:44PM
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250r
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i hit a flat box for the first time at mount snow in like 2003 50 50d it no problem, ate shit trying to slide it sideways. i tried my first rail at sugarloaf a year or two after that, and got worked haha.
Aug 4 2013 3:52PM
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Dnash360
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slid my first box at bristol in NY back in 2009
Aug 4 2013 4:05PM
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DANIELMORTENSEN
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Wolf mountain Utah
Aug 4 2013 4:09PM
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PizzaKid
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Hahaha not to long ago at Alpine Valley MI. Had been skiing for 7 years in Europe but no boxes at the resort I always went there, never thought something could be so slippery... Needless to say, I ate shit hard at a flat 10 ft box...
Aug 4 2013 5:20PM
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Randy_Quench
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hot dog hill at brOkemo!
Aug 4 2013 5:23PM
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SnowMiser
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Because racers are never gapers
Aug 4 2013 6:51PM
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Peachbutt
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A 4x4 flat box at Swain in 6th or 7th grade ski club
Aug 4 2013 7:08PM
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FigNewton
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Toggenburg, NY. A big old flat box
Aug 4 2013 7:10PM
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KennyD
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Nordic Mountain in Mt. Morris, WI
Aug 4 2013 8:19PM
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kbrando
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okemo when I was like 8, the park at that time was for snowboarders only, I ducked the rope with a buddy and tried to slide a mailbox, I had never hit a box before and I was on straight skis. I ate shit, double ejected and to top it off, I was kicked out of the park
Aug 4 2013 8:42PM
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TOAST.
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Aug 4 2013 9:08PM
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~bagelz~
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snocompton when i was 12. flat party box on gaper skis
Aug 4 2013 10:58PM
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jermhy
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My first box was a wooden box made for skateboarding that I slid on nordic skis when I was 8
Aug 4 2013 11:04PM
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JahFeels
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A not so steezey boardslide at snow summit back when i didn't realize how much i sucked at snowboarding. The box was maybe 4 feet long and almost flush with the snow
Aug 4 2013 11:07PM
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TheBredward
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Mt. Rose baby. I was like thirteen and my dad got that shit on the camcorder. Showed it off to all my friends for weeks
Aug 5 2013 4:47AM
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GeorgiaJibber
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First time when i went out west when i was like 8 at keystone, felt like a stud for the rest of the trip but stayed away from park for 5 year because my dad said it ruined my skis.
Aug 5 2013 6:40AM
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HolySchimmel
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no clue when exactly or how old I was, but it was at Plose, Italy. Too bad I stopped skiing for like 7 years after the year I first went to the park. Always wonder how good I could have been if I kept on doing it...
Aug 5 2013 8:00AM
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BLADEE
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Cranmore, in like 06'-07'.
Aug 5 2013 8:56AM
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00000000
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The tiniest flat box at the Avila mini-park back in the day.
Aug 5 2013 9:50AM
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wild.
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TRIDGE
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