What happened to me at belleayre...unbelievable

[koreshot]

Marc would take anything...

 

[cbcbd]

This thread is becoming worthless without pics.

 

[mattchuck2]

As far as the original purpose for the thread, you were in the wrong for skiing into the course.

It's one of those "unspoken" parts of the skier's responsibility code. Sort of like: don't stand in a place where you block the only exit to a renegade glade trail, don't ski between a group of people on the side of the trail and the woods, don't stop directly in the middle of a sweet bump line, and of course, don't spray snow on people who are in front of you.

None of these things are technically against the rules, but they are all poor form. Also, nobody will tell you any of these things are wrong . . . you just have to kind of figure it out for yourself . . .



As far as the other part of the thread, the Math Genius was that chick who played Winnie on the wonder years . . . Her thesis was on Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on Z2.

She's pretty hot too . . .

 

[riverc0il]

I do believe you've isolated the sole reason for my preference.

And a good scene to base a preference off :beer: still doesn't make up for Star Wars. Worst acting female lead job ever that I have seen.

 

[riverc0il]

Wow. Whoduthunk this would hit 5 pages?

Seems to me, the take home lessons are:
1) Don't ski race courses unless you're part of the group using it. If you do, don't enter in the middle, and be aware that someone will probably be running it at full speed, so get out of the way.

2) If you're using the course, be aware that someone may be on it going slow.

3) Don't be a jackass.

That about sum it up?

Number two is not a lesson to take away. Assuming you are supposed to be using the course, gate keepers will leave enough time between skier starts to account for a slightly slower racer. If you are racing, you assume no one is in the course in front of you and you charge hard. Thus the reason for not entering a course mid-way regardless of whether you should be on it in the first place.... someone is charging down the hill at max speed under the justified assumption that the course is clear.

 

[Paul]

As far as the original purpose for the thread, you were in the wrong for skiing into the course.

It's one of those "unspoken" parts of the skier's responsibility code. Sort of like: don't stand in a place where you block the only exit to a renegade glade trail, don't ski between a group of people on the side of the trail and the woods, don't stop directly in the middle of a sweet bump line, and of course, don't spray snow on people who are in front of you.

None of these things are technically against the rules, but they are all poor form. Also, nobody will tell you any of these things are wrong . . . you just have to kind of figure it out for yourself . . .



As far as the other part of the thread, the Math Genius was that chick who played Winnie on the wonder years . . . Her thesis was on Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on Z2.

She's pretty hot too . . .

D'OH!!! Got 'em screwed-up. However, Natalie was a guest editor of a kid's Math magazine recently. Must be why I was thinking that.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/10/natalie-portman.html

 

[Paul]

Yeah, and Winnie is teh hawt.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Oh Boy..in the words of Sir Mix Alot...Some dudes wanna hit it and quit it, I'd rather stay and play

 

[Bandit2941]

OK, so to put some perspective on the situation, here is a pic I just ran across on Belleayre's site that was taken on 12/2. These must be the gates in question.

 

[tcharron]

OK, so to put some perspective on the situation, here is a pic I just ran across on Belleayre's site that was taken on 12/2. These must be the gates in question.

No uninformed ski OR boarder, off the street, is going to know to stay off of that if they can't see the guys up top. At the top area, of the very least, at least a few flexisigns on the hill to let green skiiers know to keep out would help.

 

[rpmk104]

yep, those are the gates that I am talking about,

seems like they are on another trail though, not the one that I was on.

The gates set up on iroquois are on the right side of the trail.

 

[cbcbd]

So from the looks of those gates, which I could easily fashion out of some painted wood sticks, I could go into a trail and setup my own gates and yell at anyone who went on them... if patrol asks me I can just make up some random club/school and yell at them too.
Maybe we should setup an AZ slalom day!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

So from the looks of those gates, which I could easily fashion out of some painted wood sticks, I could go into a trail and setup my own gates and yell at anyone who went on them... if patrol asks me I can just make up some random club/school and yell at them too.
Maybe we should setup an AZ slalom day!

I'm down I enjoy gates but don't get much practice aside from Thursday night Nastar and the occasional ASRA race..

 

[ctenidae]

Maybe we should setup an AZ slalom day!

Super G(uerilla) racing. I like it.