Chairlift Confessions

[Grassi21]

That happened to me at K getting on the gondola at the mid station.... the whole thing was smoked out..I was just happy my 7 year old was not with me.

I haven't been lucky enough to ride a lift with such unsavory characters. There is always next season...

 

[Greg]

That happened to me at K getting on the gondola at the mid station. The whole thing was smoked out..I was just happy my 7 year old was not with me.

I have no problem with this, but yeah if any kids are there, that ain't cool.

 

[loafer89]

In nearly 25 years of skiing I have nothing to add to this thread, perhaps it is because of my antisocial German heritage that I can avoid such annoying people?:wink:

 

[salida]

That happened to me at K getting on the gondola at the mid station. The whole thing was smoked out..I was just happy my 7 year old was not with me.

This has happened to me. The boarder initially refered to the lift as the ganjala, as opposed to the K1 gondola...

 

[ga2ski]

One night I was skiing at Pat's Peak and I rode up the Vortex double with a guy from Keene. He told me how he was race coach at Mt. Snow and had been racing since he was a kid. I don't know if I believed he had been racing since he was a kid, but judging by his vintage 1980s, maybe 1990's, racing sweater and bibs, I knew he has been racing for a long time. Either that or he got one heck of a deal on his clothes at a yard sale recently. Anyway he told me how the timing equipment must be malifunctioning because there is no way some midget wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt from Nashua could beat him through the sticks. He explained how he personally hand tunes his skis daily and there is no way someone who has his skis tuned only every other week by a machine could beat him. Luckily for me and him, the ride on the Vortex double is only about 6 minutes because his eyes were welling up and I would have hated to see a 45 year old man cry.

 

[ChileMass]

One night I was skiing at Pat's Peak and I rode up the Vortex double with a guy from Keene. He told me how he was race coach at Mt. Snow and had been racing since he was a kid. I don't know if I believed he had been racing since he was a kid, but judging by his vintage 1980s, maybe 1990's, racing sweater and bibs, I knew he has been racing for a long time. Either that or he got one heck of a deal on his clothes at a yard sale recently. Anyway he told me how the timing equipment must be malifunctioning because there is no way some midget wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt from Nashua could beat him through the sticks. He explained how he personally hand tunes his skis daily and there is no way someone who has his skis tuned only every other week by a machine could beat him. Luckily for me and him, the ride on the Vortex double is only about 6 minutes because his eyes were welling up and I would have hated to see a 45 year old man cry.

OK - that's mighty funny.......:lol:

 

[Vortex]

I missed this. I'm sure Dave's clothes came from a yard sale, well cause he would not pay for them.

Some how he looks fab in them. 1st laugh of the day. A good one at that.

Funny part is he can't get back at you until race season again, and Dave I bought new gear yesterday, time to go back to the flea markets.

 

[AdironRider]

Hey, I know plenty of skiers who smoke and ski, lets not make generalizations. I think I get offered by people every other time I go it seems. Doesnt make me mad, hell its kinda fun.

 

[John84]

I think I get offered by people every other time I go it seems. Doesnt make me mad, hell its kinda fun.

I must be skiing at the wrong mountains.

 

[Grassi21]

I must be skiing at the wrong mountains.

Tell me about it... But when the party doesn't come to you, you must start the party.

 

[roark]

One night I was skiing at Pat's Peak and I rode up the Vortex double with a guy from Keene. He told me how he was race coach at Mt. Snow and had been racing since he was a kid. I don't know if I believed he had been racing since he was a kid, but judging by his vintage 1980s, maybe 1990's, racing sweater and bibs, I knew he has been racing for a long time. Either that or he got one heck of a deal on his clothes at a yard sale recently. Anyway he told me how the timing equipment must be malifunctioning because there is no way some midget wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt from Nashua could beat him through the sticks. He explained how he personally hand tunes his skis daily and there is no way someone who has his skis tuned only every other week by a machine could beat him. Luckily for me and him, the ride on the Vortex double is only about 6 minutes because his eyes were welling up and I would have hated to see a 45 year old man cry.

Brilliant.

 

[SnowRider]

I was on the chairlift at Wachusset one night at ski club with two of my friends. I have the Red HiFi Audio helmet and was listen to my music. The man that was put on the lift with us basicly sat there and looked straight for the first half of the ride. When "Let's Get it Started" byt the Black Eyed Peas came on he thought it was the right time to start to bob his head an sway with the music. Then in a heavy Spanish accent he said "I like you americans music." After talkin to him i figured out he was from Brazil.

SnowRider

 

[Lostone]

For the record, most people from Brazil speak Portuguese.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

For the record, most people from Brazil speak Portuguese.

Nice pickup:beer:

 

[tree_skier]

One night I was skiing at Pat's Peak and I rode up the Vortex double with a guy from Keene. He told me how he was race coach at Mt. Snow and had been racing since he was a kid. I don't know if I believed he had been racing since he was a kid, but judging by his vintage 1980s, maybe 1990's, racing sweater and bibs, I knew he has been racing for a long time. Either that or he got one heck of a deal on his clothes at a yard sale recently. Anyway he told me how the timing equipment must be malifunctioning because there is no way some midget wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt from Nashua could beat him through the sticks. He explained how he personally hand tunes his skis daily and there is no way someone who has his skis tuned only every other week by a machine could beat him. Luckily for me and him, the ride on the Vortex double is only about 6 minutes because his eyes were welling up and I would have hated to see a 45 year old man cry.

That couldn't have been the night that some crazy telemarker told me that his mother dug his old skin suit out for him to wear on the coldest night of the season, as I squashed or squeaked by the midget that night.

 

[Phildozer]

I will say this much - this particular gay man was very aggressive so that's why the rest of the ride was uncomfortable. He kept trying to engage me in a conversation about going off on a "date" with him and I kept trying to deflect the subject for the remaining 10 minutes. As an individual, this guy was very rude and aggressive.......

This sounds like Sky after drinking his second Zima of the night.

 

[Phildozer]

This has happened to me. The boarder initially refered to the lift as the ganjala, as opposed to the K1 gondola...

I suspect there's lots of folks that have experienced the Gondola Smokey Fishbowl.

 

[Marc]

This sounds like Sky after drinking his second Zima of the night.

Hmmm... and I pegged him for a Smirnoff Twister kinda guy.



And you think you know someone...

 

[smootharc]

Heavenly, California....

....circa 1988.

Quad lift loading. I'm in middle, buddy far right, and a single girl pops on to my left at the last second. I knew she was a late arriving passenger. He didn't. 5 seconds in he starts off with "Hey, dude, have you ever....". I'm not finishing his words....after all this board is polite company....but to this day I don't know what he was thinking even if he KNEW we didn't have a passenger. Maybe his therapist does. A profoundly unclassy remark had parted his lips....way over the line past humorous, PC (which hadn't even been "invented" yet) or anything else.

Suffice it to say I nudge him too late, the words are dangling in the air all around us, and I nod to my left. He looks, sees our passenger, turns white, then turns away. We're now 10 seconds into the ride.

I look left. My eye's meet the eyes of a quite comely girl, and all I can do is silently mouth the word "sorry". We ride in stony silence to the top, the discomfort swirling around us like a swarm of angry bees. I'm not a praying man.....but I think I said a prayer asking the gods to please make sure the lift didn't stop. Still gives me a case of the cringe-lets. Fun.

I have had numerous people "over-share" with me on rides up....all ladies it seems....mostly financial details I would consider private, though one was a marital confession which I would have preferred to not have heard.

MRG assigns alot of adults to ride with the younger kids on the double, and I've heard numerous "My mommy lives in one house and my daddy lives in another house" comments. Kid's conversations seem to come naturally unvarnished.

 

[Big Game]

I always like the look a stranger in a gandola gives you before they decide to spark up. They checking me out --- sizing up if I'm cool or not. I always appreciate being asked if I mind --- which I don't. It's just a nice common courtesy. I'd probably be more into myself if it didn't make me ride like a complete freakin pu$$y. I think marijuana increases my estrogen perception. Or something like that. I feel very gay. Not homosexual. But gay. Firm snow becomes boilerplate and the brakes go on. From from being immersed in outrageous carves, I am a rudderless skidder, fettered by the fear of nothing in particular.

But that's just me.