What Would You Do If You Found These?

[highpeaksdrifter]

You're skiing down a trail and you find these goggles that someone lost. What would you do and why.

I voted bring them to lost and found. I would like to keep them, but that would bother my conscience. It’s time consuming to return them to lost and found, but that’s the best shot at getting them back to their owner.

 

[ctenidae]

Is there anything special about those goggles? My reaction if they're $20 goggles may be different from if they're $200 goggles.

 

[JD]

I'd hang them by the lift.

 

[from_the_NEK]

I have found both a wallet (in the powder underneath the Boneventure Quad) and a single ski at Jay Peak. Both of which I returned to the lost and found. The wallet's owner had apparently been looking for it.

 

[Grassi21]

Take the goggles to the lost and found. I would hope someone would do the same for me if I lost some gear. Not to mention I already have two pairs of goggles and am looking for a third with clear or yellow lanes.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Is there anything special about those goggles? My reaction if they're $20 goggles may be different from if they're $200 goggles.

The website I found them on was selling them for $140. I wasn't looking for any particular pair, I was looking for a picture of a new pair of decent googles.

If they where a beat up pair of $20 googles I'd give them to a liftie so they could hang them by the chair or gondi.

 

[JohnGD33]

I would keep them. Why? " One man gathers what another man spills"

 

[Lostone]

My general practice is that if it is on a trail that lamost definitely leads to a certain lift, I will leave them with the lifty, there. If not, I bring them to Lost and Found.

Did that with a pair of goggles with the fan in them, last season. Great pair of goggles, but I know that if I lost them, I'd hope to get them back again. So I do my part to try and help.

 

[smootharc]

Lost and found....

as keeping them is bad, bad Karma.

I brain froze and left my 12 year-ish old Leki Super Makalu poles in the Sugarbush North parking lot last spring....and checked twice in lost and found to no avail.

Gotta think the person who "borrowed" them will turn them in to lost and found right after his/her upcoming season ending ACL tear...

I've turned in wallets, keys, goggles, gloves (usually singular), jackets, and a calendar/datebook think, as well as $$, over the years. Doing anything else just doesn't feel right.

 

[bvibert]

I voted for hanging them somewhere. I'd either do that or just leave them, unless I was planning making a trip to the lodge anyway then I'd bring them to lost and found. I wouldn't bother with giving them to the lifty because most don't care and/or are probably more likely to keep them for themselves.

 

[Grassi21]

I voted for hanging them somewhere. I'd either do that or just leave them, unless I was planning making a trip to the lodge anyway then I'd bring them to lost and found. I wouldn't bother with giving them to the lifty because most don't care and/or are probably more likely to keep them for themselves.

Yeah, you can't trust those lifties. Especially the ones at Sundown. ;-)

 

[ALLSKIING]

I would hang them...I would not want to make the trip to the lost and found just for that. If I was on my way to the lodge I would bring them to the lost and found but otherwise I would just hang them.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Just for karma's sake, bring them to the l&f, I know I'd want the same done.

 

[Lostone]

I wouldn't bother with giving them to the lifty because most don't care and/or are probably more likely to keep them for themselves.

I disagree. I think people are basically honest and will return things, if asked. I could be wrong, but I have seen it happen a couple times at Sugarbush. And I had a liftie return a walkman to me at Saddleback, a number of years ago.

 

[bvibert]

I disagree. I think people are basically honest and will return things, if asked. I could be wrong, but I have seen it happen a couple times at Sugarbush. And I had a liftie return a walkman to me at Saddleback, a number of years ago.

I did say most, not all. I'm just going by the impression I get from the people I work with as a liftie. A lot of times the items brought to lifties gets left in the shack for weeks instead of being brought to lost and found at the end of the shift. I, of course, would always try to bring stuff to lost and found after my shift...

Yeah, you can't trust those lifties. Especially the ones at Sundown.

Remember you said that when the chair wacks you in the back of the legs. :lol:

 

[Vortex]

I leave then at the bottom in an obvious place.

 

[andyzee]

Goggles, i'd hang in an obvious place. For me to go to lost and found, it would need to be more important, car keys or wallet are a good example. I did turn in car keys once.

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

I would turn them into lost and found, but not til after i was done skiing for the day.. Im not missing turns because you cant keep your goggles on your head.

 

[Grassi21]

Remember you said that when the chair wacks you in the back of the legs. :lol:

I retract my earlier statement.

 

[Sky]

L&F.

Karma (or is it Kharma?) big time.

Strangest event in my life...and I was the recipient of good K. I was on Mt Mitchell, NC (testing equipment @ altitude, long story). I had my dayrunner out to make a phone call. Drove off with it on the roof (unknowingly). Got the urge to stop and read a plaque regarding the view. Turned to walk away and this couple was headed up to a building I had already identified as closed...so I mentioned it to them....asked if they needed help.

They were looking for the park ranger (I had already rendezvoused with him regarding my testing). I told where they could find him. They said, "we just want to return this dayrunner we found in the parking lot."

HEH! That was one of several wonderful things that happened on that trip.

Definitely, those goggles, a wallet....keys...whatever to the L&F. Maybe not instantly (unless it were meds), but soon.