Busted by the Patrol..anybody ever get busted??

[mattchuck2]

I was at Whiteface last year and I followed some tracks into the woods. My fiancee followed me in and we ripped sweet powdery turns down this tight ass glade at a location that I won't disclose. Anyway, I came around a corner and I saw two youngish (late 20s) ski patrollers in the glade. I sort of hung back a little, because they didn't notice me and I didn't want any problems. But then my fiancee comes up blabbering her mouth about how great this was and the patrollers turn around and say "hey, you guys know you're not supposed to be in here, right?" I go "Ummm . . . why not?" The guy goes "This isn't an official trail". And I say, "then what are you doing here?" They go "we're marking trees for removal, this is a new glade scheduled to be opened." Which was total bullshit, as I could smell the weed smoke from where I was standing. Long story short, they "Let me" go on my way, so I just finished my run and got out of there.

That was the only real run in I've had with patrol . . . A couple of Mountain Ambassadors used to yell at me at Sugarloaf for tucking Tote Road.

 

[Zand]

I've gotten stopped too many times to count at Wachusett for all kinds of reasons... too fast on Conifer, going in the woods, etc etc. Can't believe I've never had my pass pulled.

2 years ago at Smuggs on my school's trip me and a friend went down Old Goat. It had a rope on the ground at the top and no sign and a couple people had just gone down. So we went on down (and it sucked.) Later that day a couple kids from my school were sitting in the lodge with no passes. They got them pulled on the same trail and their excuse... "The rope was on the ground and there was no sign." They got them back later on though.

 

[snoseek]

i don't even know where to start on this.....

 

[ERJ-145CA]

I drive the speed limit also...

If I drove the speed limit it would take way too long to get to the ski area!

 

[wa-loaf]

No because I obey the rules ... I drive the speed limit also...

Hey Gramps! Your blinker is on! :razz:

 

[Paul]

Another little known fact about me ... driving on my back bumper won't make me go any faster either .. :lol:

Sorry 'bout that, it was worth a shot.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I was at Whiteface last year and I followed some tracks into the woods. My fiancee followed me in and we ripped sweet powdery turns down this tight ass glade at a location that I won't disclose. Anyway, I came around a corner and I saw two youngish (late 20s) ski patrollers in the glade. I sort of hung back a little, because they didn't notice me and I didn't want any problems. But then my fiancee comes up blabbering her mouth about how great this was and the patrollers turn around and say "hey, you guys know you're not supposed to be in here, right?" I go "Ummm . . . why not?" The guy goes "This isn't an official trail". And I say, "then what are you doing here?" They go "we're marking trees for removal, this is a new glade scheduled to be opened." Which was total bullshit, as I could smell the weed smoke from where I was standing. Long story short, they "Let me" go on my way, so I just finished my run and got out of there.

That was the only real run in I've had with patrol . . . A couple of Mountain Ambassadors used to yell at me at Sugarloaf for tucking Tote Road.

Ski Patrollers smoking weed...hahahaha..at Blue mountain they drink Corona lights and have circle jerks..lol

 

[ccskier]

Ticket pulled at Copper last year, apparently I traversed under a line???? Oh well. Multiple other times over the years. Many warnings, was smart one time last year, took my pass off my arm when we came out of beaver at Jay when it was closed early season and kept on skiing when everyone else got a talkin to.

 

[L2RAFO]

I am one of "those guys", and, as much as I can get a chuckle out of most of these stories, do you ever think of how it looks from our side of the carnage?

 

[wa-loaf]

I am one of "those guys", and, as much as I can get a chuckle out of most of these stories, do you ever think of how it looks from our side of the carnage?

Hey you weren't of "those guys" spotted in the woods at Whiteface . . .;-)

 

[L2RAFO]

Hey you weren't of "those guys" spotted in the woods at Whiteface . . .;-)

Nope; sadly I'm one of those who turned all paranoid from the tasty gange at a certain point in my herbal career.

Will be passing along that one though ( so Matty, here's your last chance for the delete button ).

 

[millerm277]

I've never had a problem at Blue, but it's typically empty when I'm there and I don't even see any patrollers usually. Hunter patrollers actually usually have real work to do, so they don't usually bother poachers from my experience unless you look like you're in over your head, and on the powder days last year, they were on the "closed" trails as well.

That brings me to the subject of Killington...only mountain I've ever been to where I've actually seen them basically stake out a trail looking for poachers. (Lower Ovation). I've only had one incident with them, when one attempted to stop me from skiing a closed trail (Launchpad, and I wanted to get over to the untracked on Skye since the lifts over there were shut down), but he lost track of where I went, and I didn't see him again.

 

[deadheadskier]

A couple of times in HS I lost my pass for a day from Okemo mountain.

I lost my pass once for skiing in the half pipe as back in the early 90's the pipe was for snowboarders only.

I lost my pass another time for landing on top of a groomer on a snowmobile. If anyone knows Okemo, the big beginner slope area kind of has three levels. Back in the day and maybe still today there used to be some pretty nice ramps that would lead from a lower level to the higher level where you could easily get 10 to 15 verticle off the ground. I loved those and one day hit one not being able to see the groomer coming up the hill on his snowmobile. I landed right on the front of the snowmobile and skied away. The look of terror in the groomer's eyes was priceless. The ski patrol didn't seem to think so.

I also got my pass taken away for the day from my ski coach and have gotten more than a few warnings over the years poaching closed trails.

 

[mattchuck2]

Nope; sadly I'm one of those who turned all paranoid from the tasty gange at a certain point in my herbal career.

Will be passing along that one though ( so Matty, here's your last chance for the delete button ).

I refuse to delete it. It most definitely happened and it was total bullshit.

Not that they were smoking weed on the job . . . just that they had to balls to smoke weed on the job and then tell ME I was breaking the rules.

 

[L2RAFO]

I refuse to delete it. It most definitely happened and it was total bullshit.

Not that they were smoking weed on the job . . . just that they had to balls to smoke weed on the job and then tell ME I was breaking the rules.

I never judge!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

But I bet more than a few patrollers smoke on the job..I know of a few pothead patrollers at Blue mountain for sure.

 

[Kerovick]

I refuse to delete it. It most definitely happened and it was total bullshit.

Not that they were smoking weed on the job . . . just that they had to balls to smoke weed on the job and didn't offer to share.

Fixed it for you.

 

[mattchuck2]

Fixed it for you.

LOL!! Thanks!

 

[madskier6]

It was weak because they opened Redline the next day (Saturday) anyway. I don't normally poach, but I had no problem with it that day because it was so obvious they were simply saving snow. I mean, come on, does this look even remotely questionable:

:blink:

I skied at Magic that Saturday (the day after you guys were there). I hit Redline twice that day & those were some of the best runs of last season for me! We've got to hit Redline some day this season after a nice dumping.

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

Magic, last season.

Patroller at lift: "And if I see you guys poach Redline again you aren't skiing all weekend."

Wow! Things have changed since I was there.

Under the old management, they wouldn't buy us any rope to close anything. Even if it was all bare, they'd say it was open with thin cover.

Playing ski cop is my least favorite aspect of patrolling, mostly because of how beligerent people frequently get when when they're bagged doing something wrong. I do tend to look the other way unless there is a clear satey issue.

I do have to say, it was rather comical being on the other side of that process a few years back. I was at Dartmouth on a nice sunny day for the first time. I never got a map, I just skied everything that was open. I skied off the top of the chair on the peak looker's right and skied over to an outlook at the top of the cliffs to get a look. WhenI came back, there was an unroped opening onto a trail I hadn't been on. I enjoy linking some GS turns on, what turns out to be one of their racing trails and midway down, think to myself: "Self: how did I get here?" and also (Why is no one else here?")

As I pause before getting on the lift, I am surounded by patrollers, all of who are acting like I robbed a bank, they're calling for backup, the SWAT team, etc.. Now, I'm starting to find this amusing, and eventually have to interupt the lecturing of a patroller less than half my age, to ask: "When you close your trails, do you let ignorant schmucks like me know that the trail is closed by, say, putting up a rope, or a sign or SOMETHING? Beacuse If you don't communicate that to me, I'm too stupid to figure that out."