Skiing Pet Peeves....

[dmc]

:lol: :lol: Are you trying to say there are some angry boarder haters hanging out in here?

I sense a little passive agressiveness pertaining to riders here..
yes..

 

[subdude]

i hate it when the lifts come to a grinding halt due to loading and unloading errors. i know it's a impossible to eliminate but it;s still a peeve.

i hate people who zoom down SLOW ZONES like GS racers.

no offense to all the good lifties out there but i can;t stand rude lift operators. i was at killington, loading onto the k1 gondola and this one Jamaican lifty in particular was just nasty. you can make a persons day with a smile or break it with an angry glare. the ones that say "how're you doing" make up for it.

Dude the fix for that is candy always keep some chocolates or some other kind of candy with you and give it to the lifties when you're ready to board. They wil remember you.

 

[dmc]

i hate it when the lifts come to a grinding halt due to loading and unloading errors. i know it's a impossible to eliminate but it;s still a peeve.

i hate people who zoom down SLOW ZONES like GS racers.

no offense to all the good lifties out there but i can;t stand rude lift operators. i was at killington, loading onto the k1 gondola and this one Jamaican lifty in particular was just nasty. you can make a persons day with a smile or break it with an angry glare. the ones that say "how're you doing" make up for it.

Dude the fix for that is candy always keep some chocolates or some other kind of candy with you and give it to the lifties when you're ready to board. They wil remember you.

Remember...
Lifties are the most important people to shmooze and be nice to...
I've forgotten my pass before and lifties I've talked to have let me go...

 

[tekweezle]

no boarder hating over here.

i have a peeve that affects them too. I am starting to dislike flat traverses and ski resorts that only have traverses to link areas together. i know, it can;t be helped in a low snow year....but there has got to be a better way. especially when they get all rutted up by the ned of the day but it;s the only way to get to where you need to be. theyt should have mid day grooming of traverses.

 

[ctenidae]

Teenage boys (generally) who yell, just for the sake of making noise.
That, and pretty much everything else posted so far.

 

[Vortex]

No snow border dislikes or skier dislikes. There are people who meet negitive stereotypes on boards and planks. The majority of skiers and riders do get it, and are considerate of others. I have a snow boarding son who bangs his board to get the snow off it. I ask him to do it without making it real loud. I do see some guys bang their boards when there is no snow on them at all. No shots at you DMC your point was well stated.

 

[Treefingers]

Last weekend at Mt.Snow they had two sets of two people on a high speed quad in a row, followed by a triple and a single by himself! And there were sets of 4 on the lift before and after these people so I know it wasn't a day where two was the max number they could let on or anything. This is probably one of my biggest pet peeves, if a signle gets paired with a triple and the single stays back so he can have the whole lift to himself, just makes the usually already long line even longer :angry:

 

[bvibert]

Last weekend at Mt.Snow they had two sets of two people on a high speed quad in a row, followed by a triple and a single by himself! And there were sets of 4 on the lift before and after these people so I know it wasn't a day where two was the max number they could let on or anything. This is probably one of my biggest pet peeves, if a signle gets paired with a triple and the single stays back so he can have the whole lift to himself, just makes the usually already long line even longer :angry:

How about the groups of people that use the singles line to cut everyone off! :angry: I have no problem with people using the singles line as long as they pair up with someone else!

 

[bvibert]

:lol: :lol: Are you trying to say there are some angry boarder haters hanging out in here?

I sense a little passive agressiveness pertaining to riders here..
yes..

I hope you didn't take anything that I said as being anti-boarder in any way...

 

[dmc]

:lol: :lol: Are you trying to say there are some angry boarder haters hanging out in here?

I sense a little passive agressiveness pertaining to riders here..
yes..

I hope you didn't take anything that I said as being anti-boarder in any way...

No I think everyone here is pretty much boarder friendly...
But...
I do sense a little "us vs. them" thing going on occasionally...

Not a big deal...

 

[dmc]

PS: Trying to get out of work so I can pick up my new telemark boots!!!!

who knows maybe that will be my next thing?

 

[ctenidae]

Speaking of work, I think, really, that's my biggest skiing pet peave- having to work. Actually, that's just my biggest pet peeve, overall.

 

[bvibert]

Speaking of work, I think, really, that's my biggest skiing pet peave- having to work. Actually, that's just my biggest pet peeve, overall.

:lol: How true! Work is always getting in the way of skiing...

 

[bvibert]

PS: Trying to get out of work so I can pick up my new telemark boots!!!!

who knows maybe that will be my next thing?

Or you could combine the two with a teleboard

 

[tekweezle]

i agree, working a 9-5 job leaves little time for skiing. we lack of quality night skiing areas in my location.

we got mountain creek but it's to small and suffering from snow drought problems.

would be nice to have some night skiing for those saturdays after the long drive into vermont. and i mean with a significant amount of trails, not just 1 or 2 please. the only place in vt that i can recall offering night skiing is stowe.

the problem i have is that i do the 5 1/2 hour drive up, get to the condo check in after 1:00am, take about 2 hours to get everyone settled in, get about 3-4 hours of sleep, wake up, make breakfast, get people rentals and by the time i am ready to ski, i am exhausted.....

i also wish resorts would open past 4:00 in the spring to take advantage of the extra daylight. if possible

 

[dmc]

PS: Trying to get out of work so I can pick up my new telemark boots!!!!

who knows maybe that will be my next thing?

Or you could combine the two with a teleboard

I'm hoping to get on one... Saw a guy at Attitash last weekend on one..
Looked like the same guy I see at Tuckermans every year...

Dude was LAYING out some carves...

 

[dmc]

i also wish resorts would open past 4:00 in the spring to take advantage of the extra daylight. if possible

Hunter stays open sometimes until 4:30 in late spring..
The other weekend they stayed open until around 4:15 and closed the Westside later too.. Which was nice..

 

[skidbump]

ok i have a few...rude children"they come from rude adults"
people who ski in jeans"usually in a wedge out of control"
anybody who skiis in a 1 piece carthart "a**hole tried to start a fight with me at belleayre 2 weeks ago" ...people who dont speak english"they can but they prefer to speak there native tongue"and body who comes up from behind and does a loud hockey stop while i am skiing"my son who is a boarder thinks its funny...people who ski diamonds in a wedge straight down the hill"they sometimes wear jeans"oh hell anybody out of nyc or jersey"born in manhattan..lived in jersey till 11"

 

[awf170]

i think the worst thing for me is when lifties dont pull the chair back, i was at wildcat at the tomcat chair and i was ready for the liftie to pull back the chair and instead he gave it just a little tap and it wacked me in the calf. Also when high speed chairs stop, how could u not be able to get on one of those.

 

[ALLSKIING]

How about people stoping right in front of the exit ramp while unloading off the chair. :evil: