Things you hate about skiing

[billski]

Things I hate about skiing:

1) Mid/top of the mountain ski lodges where the entrance is on one level and the pisser is up/down stairs. Ski boots and stairs...yuck.

The BEST-placed toilet in the world is at the the top of the fourrunner quad at Stowe. It's literally no more than 20 steps away from the unloading ramp, adjacent to the doorway and on the same level. It is more work to take your skis/board off than to get to the john.

 

[ski9]

You're going to push them off the chairlift because they want to light up a cigarette? You must be joking. Don't you think that's a little extreme? I'm not a huge fan of cigarette smoke but that's way out of line IMHO. Plus, I would rather they smoke on the chair than in the lift line.

If it really bothers you, how about a polite "I'd appreciate it if you didn't smoke on this chairlift right now"? I've got to assume you were exaggerating in your post just to make a point or get a reaction.

Politely ask someone to not make my ski jacket smell like cigarette smoke? Politely ask someone not to blow second hand smoke in my face?

Jeez, I guess I'm not that polite.

 

[Greg]

I've got to assume you were exaggerating in your post just to make a point or get a reaction.

You mean to tell me people do that when they post online? :-o

 

[jaywbigred]

The BEST-placed toilet in the world is at the the top of the fourrunner quad at Stowe. It's literally no more than 20 steps away from the unloading ramp, adjacent to the doorway and on the same level. It is more work to take your skis/board off than to get to the john.

Can't recall it, but good to know. Forget vertical feet or skiable acreage...someone should really be logging statistics and locations of ski area bathrooms...come on people, anyone can cover the side of a mountain with snow, but it takes special customer service to provide a comfortable ski-boot-and-bathroom-experience.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

People that merge onto a trail without looking to see what's coming...

The race team kids doing snakes on crowded trails..they make great slalom gates..

 

[billski]

People that merge onto a trail without looking to see what's coming...
.

In metro Boston:flame: they drive that way too.

 

[bobbutts]

Politely ask someone to not make my ski jacket smell like cigarette smoke? Politely ask someone not to blow second hand smoke in my face?

Jeez, I guess I'm not that polite.

Someday you may find out that being polite is preferable to cleaning your own blood from your jacket when you threaten the wrong person. Do you always jump to threats of violence when people do things you don't like?

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Someday you may find out that being polite is preferable to cleaning your own blood from your jacket when you threaten the wrong person. Do you always jump to threats of violence when people do things you don't like?

You obviously have not met Ski9..I'd put my money on him in a physical fight..

 

[kcyanks1]

1-so much effort to get to the ski areas from where I live
2-having to pack and travel with so much clothes/equipment
3-having to depend on unpredictable weather
4-you can only do it during ski "season" (unless you change hemispheres/etc.)

 

[rachelv]

Lugging a ski bag and a boot bag on the subway on the way to the train/airport/etc. Fun fact: a transpack XT1 with your boots in it is *just* wide enough to not fit through a subway turnstyle. Take it off before you walk through to avoid being the person who gets stuck in the turnstyle.

 

[Beetlenut]

Can't recall it, but good to know. Forget vertical feet or skiable acreage...someone should really be logging statistics and locations of ski area bathrooms...come on people, anyone can cover the side of a mountain with snow, but it takes special customer service to provide a comfortable ski-boot-and-bathroom-experience.

Ok, ski in, ski out bathrooms. Not sure on the specifics, and I'm sure backing in would be required, but I'm sure the entertainment value would be high and worth several lively threads on here!

 

[dmc]

People that boot pack up skin tracks...

 

[dl]

- windchill
- boilerplate
- baggy ski clothies on ski bunnies
- lack of ski bunnies
- people who describe their skiing ability using trail difficulty signs (black diamond)
- $25 lodge lunch for two (no adult beverages included)
- having to seriously consider the consequences of going off of a kicker, jumping off of a cliff, letting the skis run as fast as they can go, trying tricks in the 1/2 pipe (vs skiing up the side and dropping back in), ducking under the ropes, jumping off the chair into a snow drift, etc.

 

[dmc]

Icey rain

 

[ripzillia]

Gapers that stop @ the bottom of the lift ramp.
Gapers that stop in front of the lift line.
Gapers that think they have high level skills.
So I don't like Gapers.
Bro-brahs w/ fat twin tips.
Joeys that litter.
:uziumbasses that pass a line of traffic on pack snow a mile from the resort.
I feel better already........

 

[prisnah]

Weekends and vacation weeks and the hordes of people that pay absolutely no attention to where they stop to take a breather.

 

[campgottagopee]

Helmet debates

 

[Beetlenut]

helmet debates

+1 8)

 

[dmc]

+1 8)

You started it... But couldn't go the distance...

Problem is - there's always someone new to these debates... So this and "Snowboarders suck" will always be big debates/arguments... They have been forever...

And if you notice - i can sit idly by but at some point I have to interject my own .02... But only when i have a "posting window"

 

[tjf67]

I hate the guy that pushed me off the lift one time for smoking a butt.

bahaha thats great