You might be a Gaper if

[2knees]

#20 You've uttered the phrase "I do black diamonds"

 

[hammer]

#20 You've uttered the phrase "I do black diamonds"

#20a You've uttered the phrase "I do triple black diamonds"

 

[Greg]

Ahh.....could you guys number your posts please. :-?

Check the ski bum thread. The bumbering went out the window by the end of page one as folks cross-posts...

 

[thetrailboss]

#22. You're too cool to ride the lift with anyone else except your fur clad spouse and you make an effort to avoid other people on every ride, even if the lifties place you with other riders.

#23. You spend too much time talking about "how cool your expensive skis ski for you." Notice the distinction. :wink:

 

[hammer]

Check the ski bum thread. The bumbering went out the window by the end of page one as folks cross-posts...

Was this spelling intentional?

 

[2knees]

#25 You've complained that they didnt groom the powder.

 

[andyzee]

#26 - You see no reason to get to the slope before 10am

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

# 27 - You say you love to ski moguls, then proceed to traverse back and forth across the zipper line.

 

[Greg]

Was this spelling intentional?

I'm a blumbering blunderer...

 

[andyzee]

I'm a blumbering blunderer...

Gaper!

 

[2knees]

#26 - You see no reason to get to the slope before 10am

color me gaperific then. cause i rarely see any reason to start early. short of a powder day, i run out of gas before i run out of time.

 

[Greg]

#28. You attach your lift ticket to the main zipper of your starter jacket so it smacks you in the face as you speed out of control...

#29. You've been so hot that you have to completely unzip your jacket so it flaps in the wind like a cape...

 

[Greg]

#30 You struggle loading or unloading a detachable chair!

 

[2knees]

#28. You attach your lift ticket to the main zipper of your starter jacket so it smacks you in the face as you speed out of control...

#29. You've been so hot that you have to completely unzip your jacket so it flaps in the wind like a cape...

hahahahaha. that's some funny stuff.

how about the fabled right of spring gapers? #31 the shorts OVER the ski pants.

 

[teachski]

#32 You ask how the brakes work on the skis (I actually had someone ask me this)

#33 You match from head to two, including your ski socks and skis.

#34 You go in for lunch at noon.

#35 You buy your ski equipment at yardsales and/or get it at the swap shed at your local landfill.

#36 You think you are supposed to sit down on a t-bar or poma lift.

#37 Your poles are flailing all over when you go down the slope in your flying wedge.

 

[Greg]

You wear camo hunter coveralls; worse in hunter orange... :lol:

 

[Vortex]

36.

You go to your 1st lesson with your skies and your winter snow boots.. My 1st day 35 plus year ago.

 

[andyzee]

#32 You ask how the brakes work on the skis (I actually had someone ask me this)

#33 You match from head to two, including your ski socks and skis.

#34 You go in for lunch at noon.

#35 You buy your ski equipment at yardsales and/or get it at the swap shed at your local landfill.

#36 You think you are supposed to sit down on a t-bar or poma lift.

#37 Your poles are flailing all over when you go down the slope in your flying wedge.

Easy to see that your job gives you plenty of exposure to gapers. Those were some good ones.

 

[hammer]

#30 You struggle loading or unloading a detachable chair!

I fell unloading from the Sunapee Express Quad once because it swung from side to side just as it came to the unloading area...my bad for sitting on one side of the lift with 3 kids.

I guess I was a gaper that day...

 

[Greg]

I guess I was a gaper that day...

We've all gaped. It's like a right of passage. I've still been known to unzip the jacket to cool off; just as long as nobody is around...