Gaper Sightings

[Paul]

OOHH!! I'm having some very bad flashbacks to what I used to wear in the late 80's/early 90's and how cool I thought I looked at the time!

Although I will goto my grave still saying that the electric blue and neon green Spyder race pants and matching neon green jacket and padded race sweater I had was cool!

I'm constantly amazed that these are still spotted, although their habitat has seemed to have migrated to places like Stratton and Jiminy.

 

[Greg]

your signature.

but now its changed to 69.

Current pulse rate maybe? :dunce:

 

[drjeff]

I'm constantly amazed that these are still spotted, although their habitat has seemed to have migrated to places like Stratton and Jiminy.

And of course the siting incidence goes up on Holiday weekends when the few times a year crowd shows up. Last weekend at Mount Snow I had the rare side by side double siting of both a starter jacket(Oakland Raiders) + frozen levi's right next to a late 80's very bright Nevica 1 piece suit! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry or shield my wife's eyes from the site. I just wish I had put the digi cam in my jacket on Monday!

 

[Paul]

And of course the siting incidence goes up on Holiday weekends when the few times a year crowd shows up. Last weekend at Mount Snow I had the rare side by side double siting of both a starter jacket(Oakland Raiders) + frozen levi's right next to a late 80's very bright Nevica 1 piece suit! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry or shield my wife's eyes from the site. I just wish I had put the digi cam in my jacket on Monday!

Niiiiiice, Denim Daredevil WITH Starter and a Romper to boot! Now if only one of them had Rear-Entries, the trifecta would be complete!

 

[drjeff]

Niiiiiice, Denim Daredevil WITH Starter and a Romper to boot! Now if only one of them had Rear-Entries, the trifecta would be complete!

Nope, On first glance I was 1/2 expecting the Nevica to be in a pair of Salomon Sx-91 Equipes, but they were in a pair of Noridca Overlaps. To the positive though they were on a pair of Rossi 4S's that I'd estimate at a 205! The Starter clad frozen levi wearer was on a pair of Mount Snow's finest rentals. So unfortunately it was 0 for 2 in the rear entry department!

(upon rereading I apologize for that last sentence but there really isn't a way I couldn't make it sound bad! )

 

[severine]

Niiiiiice, Denim Daredevil WITH Starter and a Romper to boot! Now if only one of them had Rear-Entries, the trifecta would be complete!

I saw a dude the other night who could have been Greg's look-alike - except for his rear-entry boots. I kept wanting to chat it up with him, until I spotted his glaring whitish rear-entries and realized my mistake. Ironically, he did have modern shaped skis though.

 

[bvibert]

I spied a guy skiing on some old rear entries from the lift at Sundown the other day. A few rides later I saw him again, except this time he was walking down carrying the sole and toe piece of one of his boots in his hand...

How long does a boot last.... Not that long...

 

[severine]

Huh?

your signature.

but now its changed to 69.

Current pulse rate maybe? :dunce:

Don't mind him. He's just being a douche.

 

[Greg]

Don't mind him. He's just being a douche.

OUCH! :-o

You just got laid out by the old lady there big man! :lol:

 

[ssudha17]

Came across a guy with a trench coat, long straight skis on with no helmet at Jay Peak a couple weeks ago.

 

[Mark_151]

Fanny Packs. I saw one guy with a really big belly wearing one. The fanny pack was stretched to its max. Looked pretty funny.

I used to use a hydration fanny pack when I climbed, until someone told me I looked like I had a load in my pants in this picture. Then I stopped.

 

[krisskis]

OOHH!! I'm having some very bad flashbacks to what I used to wear in the late 80's/early 90's and how cool I thought I looked at the time!

Although I will goto my grave still saying that the electric blue and neon green Spyder race pants and matching neon green jacket and padded race sweater I had was cool! The neon pink CB shell pants i had might have been a bit over the top, but the Spyder stuff was cool :roll:

No one rocks the neon better than me...Killington circa the 80s...hahaha

 

[SkiingInABlueDream]

Came across a guy with a trench coat, long straight skis on with no helmet at Jay Peak a couple weeks ago.

Is skiing helmet-less, in and of itself, now considered gaper? (Or is it heading that way?)

If you ski or ride only on trails, no glades/woods/drops/BC/etc, are you still less gaper for wearing a helmet even if you're more likely to get hit by a bar on a chair than a tree?

If you wore the most gaperific metallic-color fur-trimmed euro-trash one-piece evar imagined yet throw <insert names of sick tricks> in the park and rip big lines would you still be gaper? 8)

 

[billski]

Helmets seem like a cultural thing. I was at Berkshire East in December and hardly anyone was wearing a helmet.

Oops.
I saw a kid put his ski boots on the wrong feet once It was only after he snapped into his bindings did he realize there was a problem.

 

[thinnmann]

On the lift: smoking cigarettes and doing stuff like this

 

[scootertig]

No one rocks the neon better than me...Killington circa the 80s...hahaha

Had a spotting of some SERIOUS neon at Stowe last Sunday on the "Easy Mile". A bright yellow one-piece skiing with a bright pink one-piece. I think the logo on the back said "AHLO" or something like that. It was definitely, um, noticeable.

aaron

 

[MrMagic]

No one rocks the neon better than me...Killington circa the 80s...hahaha

the white rear entry boots complete the gaper skiing experence BTW a great photo !

 

[ta&idaho]

I personally love terrain park "gapers."

Few things are funnier than an otherwise talented skier with no terrain park skills (like me or my buddy featured below) try to go hang with the kids in the park.

In fairness to his rockin' outfit, the picture was taken on April Fool's Day 2007:

Oh, and although you can't tell from the picture very well, I am in fact sporting a fanny pack that my mom had carefully embroidered my name into with teal-colored thread. Rad.

 

[Grassi21]

I think bvibert will remember this one from the Hunter gathering. This guy wasn't really a gaper. I think he was more or less getting out with whatever gear he could find. On one hand he wore a knit wool glove. On the other an oven mitt with chili peppers on it and tightened up around the wrist with some duct tape.

 

[ski220]

I think bvibert will remember this one from the Hunter gathering. This guy wasn't really a gaper. I think he was more or less getting out with whatever gear he could find. On one hand he wore a knit wool glove. On the other an oven mitt with chili peppers on it and tightened up around the wrist with some duct tape.

He may have had a cast or something on the one hand. Pretty inventive I think.

Don't mean to stomp on the thread that everybody's haveing so much fun with but - Being a Gaper is a being clueless. It's an state of being, not a state of fashion. Hey, I still think one piece powder suits are the way to go.