Skiers and snowboarders, the time is almost here

[davipu]

that's just because all the noobs never learned how to drop into a pipe on a skateboard getting off the lift is the same thing. then you just have to remember to strap in before bombing down the hill.





f%$king CAMPERS!!!!!

[RVertigo]

I strap in on the lift and head straight down the hill to the chair, repeat.

Sitting is done on the lift and in the lodge (unless I'm waiting for slow-asses or hurt myself bad enough that I can't stand).

[Jake D]

Okay, I snowboard with a skier.  By time he puts those straps around his wrists and fixes his goggles and hat and gloves and tightens his boots again because his feet hurt so damn bad he might die, I've got my board on and I'm waiting on him (and I don't even have Flow bindings).  

And when you are on a steep slope and you stop to wait on a skier because he had a yard sale and lost the 10,000 things that were strapped to his dumb ass body, you have no choice but to sit down.  You have one edge to work with and a butt.  Pull up some butt and enjoy the view.  

And I ride park most of the time anyway, so you have to wait for the landing zone to clear before going.  More sitting.  

You still couldn't pay me to put skis on again.  I'd rather never see a moutain again.

[RVertigo]

You know what I was thinking about the other day?

Waterproof motorcycle gear...  Goretex (or similar) right?  Same as snowboarding gear...  BUT!!!

Motorcycle gear has armor!!!

I'm kinda thinking about wearing my moto gear snowboarding...  We'll see...

[Mr.7]

Jake D:
It sounds like your friend needs to learn how to ski if a yard sale is a common event. He should also get new boots if they hurt his feet, because I couldn't be more comfortalbe in mine.

[davipu]

you know your getting old when you start thinking about armor.










last year I broke out the old football girdle with the hip and ass pads  and grabbed a pair of foam knee pads under the snow pants.

[RVertigo]

you know your getting old when you start thinking about armor.

Over the years seriously I hurt one knee twice and the other knee once...  I've screwed up both wrists, fracturing one, and hurt everything else on my body at least a little...  All while snowboarding...

That's not even counting the paintball stupidity...  Or the time I broke my nose doing yard work.   :x


The pain just isn't worth it anymore...  You're damn right I'm getting old...  :lol:

[Badger]

last year I broke out the old football girdle with the hip and ass pads  and grabbed a pair of foam knee pads under the snow pants.

Football padding is bulky...I'd recommend getting a pair of baseball sliding shorts.  Less padding, but more or less in all the right places.

[Jake D]

Jake D:
It sounds like your friend needs to learn how to ski if a yard sale is a common event. He should also get new boots if they hurt his feet, because I couldn't be more comfortalbe in mine.

Not really.  My point is that skiers annoy snowboarders as much as we annoy them.  Not to start a war here, but you guys stop at the top of every cool jump.  You never have any idea if a fast rider is coming from behind you .  You nail us with your poles when you sit on the chair lift.  And you feel to comfortable bitching at snowboarders for every little thing.  Etc.   I'll be the first to admit snowboarders get annoying sometimes.  I'm evan a snowboard apologist.  But skiers have there little bugaboos too.  We should all learn to get along.  Or skiers should just stick to Taos and let us have some fun.

[RVertigo]

My favorite thing to do when a Skier pisses me off is to follow them and flatten all their moguls.    :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[aaronstj]

If yer gonna sit, don't do it in the middle of the damn run!

Also, I've been hit serveral times by snowboarders, and only once by a skiier, who immediately apologized.

Also, beer is for the lodge, not the top of the lift.  It's annoying enough to dodge you guys strapping up coming off the lift, I don't want to have to the strappers and the cool kids with Miller in a can, too.

Also, you guys look so silly on the flat spots.   :lol:

That being said, there are just as many @$$hole skiers as snowboarders, it's just more fun to make fun of the other guys.  And I live to far from Taos, I'd ski there if I could.

I actually tried snowboarding last season.  Towards the end of the already crappy season, me and my wife decided we were tired of skiing on rocks with our gear, so we rented snowboards and roade the bunny hill all day.  It was a lot of fun, and I'll probably do it again.  I didn't like feeling like my one leg was trying to drag me off the chair.  Looking over my shoulder while pointed downhill was a little weird.

And I swear snowboards were designed for maximum pain when you fall.  It was either forward onto the knees (ouch) or straight onto my butt (ouch!).

Other than that, it was a ton of fun.  But I already own all my ski gear, and I'm finally getting kinda good at skiing.  I really don't need to waste another two seasons falling.

[Jake D]

I've got the ulitmate A-hole snowboarder story.

I was teaching my buddy Klink how to snowboard.  He'd never done it before.  He had skied a few times but thought snowboarding would be easy because "he was damn good skateboarder when he was a kid."  Anyway, we are on the second or third run and he was having a lot of trouble turning and controling his speed (no big deal, right?).  Before us, I saw an older couple, husband and wife, skiing.  Sure enough, Klink bee lines it for the old man and tries to slide out.  His snowboard slams into the back of the old man's legs and chaos breaks out all over.  Yard sale, etc.  The wife is reading Klink the Riot Act, screaming and pointing, so I get out of there and ride down 50 yards or so to watch.  They finally get the old man back together, scream at my friend a bit more, and get on their way.  Klink is sitting there the whole time with this,  :dunno:  "so sorry" act going.  The old man and woman get about 15 yards down the run when Klink stands up to come join me below them.  Sure enough, he makes a bee line for them again!  Same couple!  This time, he nailed the old woman!  Nearly destroyed her!

I'm sure I've never seen anything like.  He finally gets to the bottom where I'm waiting.  I asked him, "Do you hate those people or something?"

[aaronstj]

Heh.  I very nearly plowed over a little girl on my second or third time up on skis.  I got going way faster than I knew how to handle.  And I was going so fast that I knew it I tried to turn and bleed off speed I would surely die (at least, that's what it felt like), so I just had to keep going.  I see this small girl right in front of me.  I scream "look out!" and barely miss her, right before crashing losing complete control and crashing spectacularly.

That was a lot of fun.

I didn't have a with speed on a board, 'cause I just scrape down the whole bunny hill on my heel side.  And I don't think your friend was the @$$hole so much as the shouting skier, especially if you were on the bunny hill.  shaZam! happens, and it's not like he was trying to hit them.  You have to cut the noobs some slack.  He apologized, and no one got hurt, so no big.

[RVertigo]

A friend of mine nearly killed a teenage girl because she was standing UNDER a jump...  Right in the landing zone...    :x

He managed to miss her by inches, but really screwed himself up...  After recovering enough to move on, we went by the same jump and she was still sitting there!!!!!!!

Yes...  She was a skier...  Did you have to ask?

[jen_]

armor=good.  I board with my rollerblade kneepads under my pants.  Also helps because most so cal snow isn't really snow at all.  It's white, and it's frozen solid, but it ain't snow.  Wrist guards are a MUST.  I broke my wrist like my 3rd time on a board, at night--went to fast, caught the back edge, ka-pow.

My husband skis and I board so we are quite the odd couple on the slopes.  I tried skiing last year and had a blast.  Not having to stap-in bindings was niiice.  Bought some used skiis in Vail last weekend, so I plan to do a little more two-planking this year.

Thousands of noobs where I ski, most spend the majority of their day sitting on the hill with a snowboard strapped on.  I like to cut over to the bunny hill and spray snow on them. :nana:

[aevans17]

I only got to board 1.5 days last year and that was in Tahoe. (Don't eat the chilli in a bread bowl at Heavenly because a friend and I got food poisoning. That's where the .5 day came from! I was pucking the whole flight home.) As others have said WA didn't get any snow last year, but this year is looking promising!!!!
Here's a picture of me and a couple of friends at Heavenly in Tahoe!

it was awesome, I wore a t-shirt and camel pack both days because it was too warm for a jacket.
Whistler/Crystal open 2morow so let the snow season begin!!!!

This second picture is funny because my buddy nate totally wiped out!!!!

[Mr.7]

Not to start a war here, but you guys stop at the top of every cool jump.

Well I am a skier who has a friend that snowboards so on the lift we take turns picking where we want to go next. Of course my friend wants to go to the terrian park almost everytime, so I have grown accustom to jumps (I am probably the only skier that has around here)