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You think your mt has lift lines?

BenedictGomez

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Part of the problem is that they don't rope off lines like we do here in North America.

Why on earth is that? This seems like a 100 level course in Common Sense.

No lines in Roxbury NY.

One Saturday a few years back I waited in what might have been a 2 minute lift line, and the liftee apologized for the wait.

True story.
 

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Looks like the line outside of a package store in Northern VT on the day they get a shipment of Heady! ;) :beer:
 

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Or Tree House on any given Thur, Fri,Sat.


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I'm hoping the line there tonight won't be too bad, as as much as I love Green and Julius (what cans they have available today) I'm not a big fan about possibly having to stand around for a bit outside in likely a wind driven downpour to get 6 of each!!
 

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Why on earth is that? This seems like a 100 level course in Common Sense.
Because their values are different. Brits and North Americans like orderly lines. Most of Europe just doesn't give a shit. They grew up with chaos, and they just expect chaos to exist.

Try doing business in Italy and you'll see what I mean.
 

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Because their values are different. Brits and North Americans like orderly lines. Most of Europe just doesn't give a shit. They grew up with chaos, and they just expect chaos to exist.

Try doing business in Italy and you'll see what I mean.


Or India... haha.. In Kashmir we didn't really ski with the local people on the "expert" terrain..
But on the lower mountain where people were learning we laughed at the cluster-F we saw - people literally pulling people off the rope tow.. crazy...
 

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Interesting article on how lines are treated in different cultures. Of course, in the US, we are ready to kill over a position in line...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...queuing-foreign-and-strange-to-many-newcomers

Not sure if you meant it this way but it sounds like you prefer chaos to people standing in line and defending their positions. I've never seen anyone get shot for cutting a line and I'll bet nobody else on this site has seen that first hand either. So saying that one psychopath who killed over line cutting represents the norm seems like total overkill.

I am happy I live in a somewhat orderly society where people respect what a line stands for. You wait your turn, first come first served.

Line cutters are the self important types who think they are too good to wait. I would not do well in the chaotic cultures noted in the article. No excuse for that.
 

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Not sure if you meant it this way but it sounds like you prefer chaos to people standing in line and defending their positions. I've never seen anyone get shot for cutting a line and I'll bet nobody else on this site has seen that first hand either. So saying that one psychopath who killed over line cutting represents the norm seems like total overkill.

I am happy I live in a somewhat orderly society where people respect what a line stands for. You wait your turn, first come first served.

Line cutters are the self important types who think they are too good to wait. I would not do well in the chaotic cultures noted in the article. No excuse for that.

Not at all...my one encounter with line chaos left me irritated and I'm just as likely to get annoyed when I'm cut off as any other American. Just wanted to get an appreciation for how others around the world view lines...

Updated my post.
 

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Not at all...my one encounter with line chaos left me irritated and I'm just as likely to get annoyed when I'm cut off as any other American. Just wanted to get an appreciation for how others around the world view lines...

Updated my post.

As I suspected. You do not seem prone to exaggeration.
 

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When we skied Vail a few years ago, we paid $35 (5 people in one truck) to park at a hotel directly across the street from the Riva Bahn Quad. No line there even with a 16" powder day. Never spent any time on the other parts of the front face, went straight for the back bowls and blue sky basin.

You're welcome to come to Killington and stand in a 30 minute line for the K-1 gondola at 10am on a Saturday. If you're a moron.
 

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No doubt ... Germans, Swiss, Italians and Frenchmen in a major lift queue can get very testy.
That Vail line is representative. Certain days and times, that lift is a dice roll.

The best Vail skiing now occurs in Utah ;-)
I dont know, ill take the tahoe offerings on the epic pass over park city anyday of the week.

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I dont know, ill take the tahoe offerings on the epic pass over park city anyday of the week.

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Just bought plane tickets for March 13-20 this morning. See you then.
 
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