Chairlift Entertainment or Awkwardness

[River19]

My favorite personal experience was a few seasons ago, I was in the singles line for the Challenger triple on the Northface at Mount Snow. I'm getting ready to join up with a couple(married? Dating? not sure but definately involved), who didn't look like they were having a good day at all!! I ask if they were just a double, and her reply was "yes, but this a$$hole screwed by best friend last night so you might not want to be a part of our lift ride!!"

I paired up with the next double in line!!

The obvious question here is, "was she hot?"

 

[mriceyman]

My favorite personal experience was a few seasons ago, I was in the singles line for the Challenger triple on the Northface at Mount Snow. I'm getting ready to join up with a couple(married? Dating? not sure but definately involved), who didn't look like they were having a good day at all!! I ask if they were just a double, and her reply was "yes, but this a$$hole screwed by best friend last night so you might not want to be a part of our lift ride!!"

I paired up with the next double in line!!

You could have swooped right in


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[drjeff]

The obvious question here is, "was she hot?"

Too much turtle fur and helmet issues obscuring the brief look I got that day to fully determine!

You could have swooped right in


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Except that my wife was right behind me in the singles line at the time!! Then I too would of been skiing as an "unhappy couple" later that day!

 

[mriceyman]

Except that my wife was right behind me in the singles line at the time!! Then I too would of been skiing as an "unhappy couple" later that day!

Funny stuff.



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[Abubob]

After reading some of these I feel sorry for some of the people we've ridden with over the years. A buddy and myself used to repeat Monty Python skits (accent and all) on the way up the chair, used to drive my wife (not wife @ time)crazy but it was all in fun. I'm sure some of the singles who got paired up with us were probably intimidated.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

What a strange person!

Is there someone else up there we can talk to?

 

[ironhippy]

Too much turtle fur and helmet issues obscuring the brief look I got that day to fully determine!



Except that my wife was right behind me in the singles line at the time!! Then I too would of been skiing as an "unhappy couple" later that day!

Shouldn't you guys have been in the doubles line then?
It seems to defeat the purpose (and benefit) of the singles line when groups split up to game the line.

 

[Abubob]

Shouldn't you guys have been in the doubles line then?
It seems to defeat the purpose (and benefit) of the singles line when groups split up to game the line.

 

[drjeff]

Shouldn't you guys have been in the doubles line then?
It seems to defeat the purpose (and benefit) of the singles line when groups split up to game the line.

a LONG regular queue line vs. a short singles line that day. We mat be married, but the importance of getting a bunch of runs in on any given day isn't lost on either of us too!

 

[dlague]

Shouldn't you guys have been in the doubles line then?
It seems to defeat the purpose (and benefit) of the singles line when groups split up to game the line.

Seriously? Small groups (2-4 people) game the line all the time! Watch the singles line! Hell if there is a short singles line, I would. If skiing with my wife I would not - rather be on the same chair with her and have fake arguments and other things that might make others uncomfortable!

 

[drjeff]

Seriously? Small groups (2-4 people) game the line all the time! Watch the singles line! Hell if there is a short singles line, I would. If skiing with my wife I would not - rather be on the same chair with her and have fake arguments and other things that might make others uncomfortable!

My 9yr old son and his ski racing buddies like to yell out "that was a NASTY fart!!" if someone is trying to ride the Bluebird Express with them in non crowded situations at Mount Snow :lol:

Having been in the Bluebird on occasion with the bubble down with someone with some nasty gas, that line that most 9yr old boys love to use, can be a legit deterrent for a random single looking to get to the top 9 seconds sooner (that's the spacing time of the chairs on the Bluebird)

 

[ironhippy]

Seriously? Small groups (2-4 people) game the line all the time! Watch the singles line!

that's my point, people game the line all the time and it defeats the purpose of having a singles line.

I personally try to avoid any type of line (skiing or otherwise) but it is really frustrating seeing a singles line double because a group decided they didn't want to wait 5 minutes at the bottom, especially since they end up waiting for everyone at the top anyway.

 

[gmcunni]

that's my point, people game the line all the time and it defeats the purpose of having a singles line.

guess it depends on how you define "singles" line. fill the chairs and move people up the hill. why does it matter who you ski with once you get to the top? If you prefer to sit with a specific group you wait in the non-singles line (which i do).

 

[drjeff]

guess it depends on how you define "singles" line. fill the chairs and move people up the hill. why does it matter who you ski with once you get to the top? If you prefer to sit with a specific group you wait in the non-singles line (which i do).

I agree! When it's crowded, as long as chairs are going up full, I really could care less from which queue lanes they get filled.

What bugs me though about the singles lanes at times though is when groups go into them, and then expect to be able to ride together on the chair :smash: If you're going in the singles lane as a group, don't expect to be able to ride with other members of your group regardless of how many people are needed to fill a chair. If you want to make sure that your group rides together, then use the regular queue lanes

 

[ironhippy]

guess it depends on how you define "singles" line. fill the chairs and move people up the hill. why does it matter who you ski with once you get to the top? If you prefer to sit with a specific group you wait in the non-singles line (which i do).

ok, I had never looked at it that way. i honestly figured the groups that were in the singles line where just being rude, I will have a different outlook in the future.
I only brought up who you ski with because it seemed kind of useless to avoid the line at the bottom only to wait for your group at the top and I'm only referring to times when the singles line has a significant wait, normally things move quickly.

I still won't split up if I'm with a group because that's the only time I can have a conversation with whoever I'm skiing with.

Sorry for derailing the thread.

 

[SkiingInABlueDream]

What bugs me though about the singles lanes at times though is when groups go into them, and then expect to be able to ride together on the chair :smash:

I've had guys in front of me in singles line ask me to let their friends move up so they can be together. :smash::smash:

I've had groups of less-than-chair-capacity try to tell me they don't want a single to join in. I take that as an invitation to force myself into the loading space with them and, if they don't drop back a chair, lower the bar promptly without checking for head clearance. (The only time I'll ever do that.) :smash::smash::smash:

Edit: I should amend the last bit. If the liftline overall is not too long I never force a single-add-on, or I single up with a group of 2 instead of 3 (on a quad chair). It's when the line is long and a group has the nerve to say, don't join us. That's BS.

 

[gmcunni]

ok, I had never looked at it that way. i honestly figured the groups that were in the singles line where just being rude, I will have a different outlook in the future.
I only brought up who you ski with because it seemed kind of useless to avoid the line at the bottom only to wait for your group at the top and I'm only referring to times when the singles line has a significant wait, normally things move quickly.

I still won't split up if I'm with a group because that's the only time I can have a conversation with whoever I'm skiing with.

Sorry for derailing the thread.

we derail all the time here.

i too prefer to ride the lift with group i'm skiing with MOST OF THE TIME.

 

[dlague]

I agree! When it's crowded, as long as chairs are going up full, I really could care less from which queue lanes they get filled.

What bugs me though about the singles lanes at times though is when groups go into them, and then expect to be able to ride together on the chair :smash: If you're going in the singles lane as a group, don't expect to be able to ride with other members of your group regardless of how many people are needed to fill a chair. If you want to make sure that your group rides together, then use the regular queue lanes

Agreed, that line is to fill chairs that would otherwise not be filled because there would be a vacant spot. But filling an entire chair from the singles line because they all want to sit together - nope!

 

[ironhippy]

Agreed, that line is to fill chairs that would otherwise not be filled because there would be a vacant spot. But filling an entire chair from the singles line because they all want to sit together - nope!

to be clear I was not referring to situations when there would be empty spots on a chair, I agree that all chairs should be filled when there is a line. I was only referring to situations where there is already a significant singles line

 

[gmcunni]

Agreed, that line is to fill chairs that would otherwise not be filled because there would be a vacant spot. But filling an entire chair from the singles line because they all want to sit together - nope!

i'm old and stupid things bother me... it pisses me off when a group try's to scam the singles line by taking a whole chair... but it really infuriates me when the mountain does it, i;ve seen it at mount snow... been in line main queue with my 6 people @ bubble and as we approach the singles line they tell us to hold up and they pull 12 people (6 from each singles line) to take two chairs.

probably happens at other places, not meant to single out mt snow but that's where i've seen/noticed it on more than 1 occation.

 

[drjeff]

i'm old and stupid things bother me... it pisses me off when a group try's to scam the singles line by taking a whole chair... but it really infuriates me when the mountain does it, i;ve seen it at mount snow... been in line main queue with my 6 people @ bubble and as we approach the singles line they tell us to hold up and they pull 12 people (6 from each singles line) to take two chairs.

probably happens at other places, not meant to single out mt snow but that's where i've seen/noticed it on more than 1 occation.

I complained about that exact thing on their passholders site a few weeks ago, and then coincidentally enough shared a ride on the Nitro express the next day with one of the lifts operations directors. Why they'd pull 6 singles from the singles line for the Bluebird was that the singles line had become so long, and stuck so far out the back of the queue lanes that they became hazards for people skiing down into the base area on either Canyon or Exhibition. The change they made to the queue lane design, and I can vouch that it has greatly decreased the number of times they pull 6 singles out of the singles lane while the main queue lane is full, is that now instead of 2 lanes of singles on each side of the queue, they now have 4 lanes of singles on each side - this has kept the singles line within the safety of the queue ropes and made the pace of the singles line, a much "fairer" and equal pace to that of the main queue lanes - and all but eliminated the "6 singles" call - It was getting out of hand for sure during x-mas week!!!