Member of the Month

KilaTsunami
October, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

East coast out of bounds

profile picture
Matt_Denny
Posts: 42 - Karma: 59
wondering what happens if you duck the ropes at any of the resorts on the east coast like okemo, stratton, kilington or snow? can they take away your season pass for skiing out of bounds? anybody know?
Nov 28 2005 2:03PM
0 0
profile picture
Riley.
Posts: 2214 - Karma: 259
yea they can...unless you can ski fast.
Nov 28 2005 2:04PM
0 0
profile picture
Matt_Denny
Posts: 42 - Karma: 59
even the first time they catch you?
Nov 28 2005 2:04PM
0 0
profile picture
SIX
Posts: 4595 - Karma: 506
Depends on the resort you go to.
Nov 28 2005 2:05PM
0 0
profile picture
Matt_Denny
Posts: 42 - Karma: 59
how bout okemo?
Nov 28 2005 2:07PM
0 0
profile picture
williams
Posts: 3083 - Karma: 9,072
okemo doesnt give a shit
Nov 28 2005 3:03PM
0 0
profile picture
redpointist
Posts: 982 - Karma: 11
Depends on the patroller that catches you too. I'd reccomend getting the hell outta there and change jackets if one sees you. Doesnt mean you shouldnt do it though.
Nov 28 2005 3:05PM
0 0
profile picture
.John.
Posts: 6943 - Karma: 14
at sugarbush, their official position is that they will take your pass, but i've skiied with patrollers out of bounds and on closed trails
Nov 28 2005 3:06PM
0 0
profile picture
skifiend
Posts: 2063 - Karma: 13
Just be careful about it. I was ducking ropes all weekend at Smuggs. Just make sure you don't see any patrollers before you duck the rope, and just ski like hell.
Nov 28 2005 3:21PM
0 0
profile picture
ski8990
Posts: 5961 - Karma: 19
Like other people said, it really depends on the patroller. If he is a dick and is having a bad day, expect your pass to be taken. The best idea is to just cut in from the side and use that as an excuse
Nov 28 2005 3:57PM
0 0
profile picture
DannyMac
Posts: 2837 - Karma: 65
Just do it / Okemo hardly ever opens their gladed trails and those are the best ones (all 3 of them) outrage and forest bump or something like that
Nov 28 2005 4:03PM
0 0
profile picture
Lineskiah11
Posts: 2029 - Karma: 21
ive gone out before at okemo on the glades like he said^ no patrolers were around so no one cared
Nov 28 2005 4:05PM
0 0
profile picture
STAUSS
Posts: 8232 - Karma: 3,311
dont be a pussy, you want the freshest pow, you gotta poach some shit.
Nov 28 2005 4:09PM
0 0
profile picture
Pesca
Posts: 214 - Karma: 10
if you have a season pass, take it off, shove it into an inside pocket, and say they never checked at the lift. always worked for me.
Nov 28 2005 4:11PM
0 0
profile picture
spin
Posts: 1330 - Karma: 11
^ knows whats up, but i usually just say i have a day ticket (my seasons pass is in my pocket) and reach for a rnadom zipper. "oh shit, im sorry it must have gotten ripped off while i was in the woods. should i go down and get a refund?" theres really nothign they can do about that except see you to the bottom, at which point you wait till they leave & put your pass back on
Nov 28 2005 5:10PM
0 0
profile picture
crooks
Posts: 14693 - Karma: 786
say that u dropped ur pole from the chair onto it if the trail is under a lift at all
Nov 28 2005 5:13PM
0 0
profile picture
STAUSS
Posts: 8232 - Karma: 3,311
haha good call.
Nov 28 2005 5:14PM
0 0
profile picture
dirtybryan
Posts: 270 - Karma: 10
Thats what I do. I remember being chased by snowmobiles under Gore's old gondola trail.

Other thing is, let them catch you on the trail. This what a friend and I did, waited for him to take his poles off and unzipper his jacket to get to his radio, and we took off.
Nov 28 2005 5:14PM
0 0
profile picture
bigsoxfan
Posts: 734 - Karma: 10
yes...at jay they allow u to go out of bounds, just do not, i repeat, do not fall or get lost and need ski patrol assistance because then they will be ripshit and u have to pay for your own rescue, best to go out of bounds with some buddies also
Nov 28 2005 5:15PM
0 0
profile picture
djikstra
Posts: 2471 - Karma: 6,014
haha they cant force u to stay on there property! if u want to ski out of bounds then go for it. its if u ski on closed trails, then they will get bitchy
Nov 28 2005 5:20PM
0 0
profile picture
crooks
Posts: 14693 - Karma: 786
yeahi do that alot, only needed to use it once
Nov 28 2005 5:27PM
0 0
profile picture
cravenmoorehed
Posts: 454 - Karma: 29
I had a season pass susbended for skiing out of bounds in the east....
Nov 28 2005 5:40PM
0 0
profile picture
DuncanK
Posts: 1040 - Karma: 2,634
Is it worth it on the east coast? I wouldnt know because im from colorado, but from what ive herd, its mostly ice so ducking a rope might not be worth a season pass
Nov 28 2005 5:58PM
0 0
profile picture
t_walker
Posts: 934 - Karma: 37
you can actualy find some real good snow ducking on the east, i got caught once and the patroller put a "strike" on my pass, i guess you get like 2 chances at sunday river or something, all the other times we've just booted ass if they see us, chances are ull get away, especialy if u just ski of into some thick woods and hide
Nov 28 2005 6:02PM
0 0
profile picture
TheProfitSkier
Posts: 3901 - Karma: 9
no buddy we get good snow too. jay peak averages 350" a year.
Nov 28 2005 6:03PM
0 0
profile picture
cams
Posts: 3937 - Karma: 26
Whenever you go out of bounds tuck your pass away and say that it must have fallen off. Don't show them any ID or anything because they can't touch you. If they try giving you shit just ski away.
Nov 28 2005 6:07PM
0 0
profile picture
PhillyBluntz
Posts: 547 - Karma: 16
Jay and stowe fo sho fo sho
Nov 28 2005 6:10PM
0 0
profile picture
bp.lando
Posts: 9297 - Karma: 1,495
amen to that, there so laidback, me like stowe... alot
Nov 28 2005 6:12PM
0 0
profile picture
grubix2
Posts: 2628 - Karma: 25
Yeah well just remember, those patrolers that are dicks, will be the same ones that will be towing your ass down the hill if you get fucked up. Not to say that I haven't skied out of bounds once or twice, but those ropes are there for a reason. The trial or slope is unsafe, and for a thing called insurance they have it closed.

Just make sure you know what the fuck you are doing. Cause a lot of those places make it pretty hard for them to get help to.
Nov 28 2005 6:19PM
0 0
profile picture
Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
HA yea i love that
Nov 28 2005 6:19PM
0 0
profile picture
eheath
Posts: 61588 - Karma: 122,914
Why the hell would you duck the boundrys in the east coast??
Nov 28 2005 6:20PM
0 0
profile picture
bigsoxfan
Posts: 734 - Karma: 10
^same reason u do it out west, to get to the untracked pow
Nov 28 2005 6:24PM
0 0
profile picture
Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
i'm friends with alot of patrollers and instructors so yea we have some good times
Nov 28 2005 6:38PM
0 0
profile picture
1080bio
Posts: 2042 - Karma: 5
at killington your prity much allowed to ski in the woods no pattrolers will ever say anything to you and as far as out of bounds there is a rope and a sign that ses something along the lines of "you are responsible for the cost of your own resque and be preparared to spend a night in the woods." I do not recomend skiing out of bounds at killington to any one who dose not know the area, woods inbounds are fine but dont go out of bounds if you dont know what your doing. just cause its the east coast dosnt mean your not going to get lost which is probly worse then geting lost out west because once it gets dark your fucked cause it will be below zero most nights.
Nov 28 2005 6:40PM
0 0
profile picture
STAUSS
Posts: 8232 - Karma: 3,311
that is a good question cause if you dont know the mtn then you would say it is a stupid idea. but if the only way to get pow is to snake the closed trails, go off the back side, or in woods that are off limits... trust me, you;ll do it.
Nov 28 2005 6:57PM
0 0
profile picture
1080bio
Posts: 2042 - Karma: 5
toilet bowl gets tracked prity quick but decent none the less killington is just fucking gay about making all the good woods that were known by locals into trails. and now all the fuckers from new york and boston go in there and side slip there way through the tress geting rid of all the pow.
Nov 28 2005 6:58PM
0 0
profile picture
-nija-
Posts: 590 - Karma: 10
baaaahaha pow in the east coast?? funny.
Nov 28 2005 7:00PM
0 0
profile picture
Al_Smith
Posts: 643 - Karma: 11
At okemo the patrollers will get pissed but they dont usually expect a chase so just ski away as fast as possible. You can go down to the base and take off you jacket or whatever.
Nov 28 2005 7:01PM
0 0
profile picture
skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
I've really never had anyone chasing me or even talk to me about that before. I guess you just have to be a wicked dick to get in deep shit for it.
Nov 28 2005 7:12PM
0 0
profile picture
mski
Posts: 4791 - Karma: 3,803
they make you play roshambo with a rhinosaurus, and the rhino get first dibs!
Nov 28 2005 9:01PM
0 0
profile picture
III
Posts: 2041 - Karma: 22
You must be Matt D. Ill let you try and figure out who i am.
Nov 28 2005 9:03PM
0 0
profile picture
Matt_Denny
Posts: 42 - Karma: 59
nice milo
Nov 29 2005 2:16PM
0 0
profile picture
rippinbumpskier
Posts: 1628 - Karma: 23
i just got yelled at for skiing somewhere at loon out of bounds
Nov 29 2005 2:29PM
0 0
profile picture
Jeff_Lo
Posts: 5809 - Karma: 263
i dont think i would try to ski out of bounds on the east coast...with all the freezing and warming...and just seems like you get less snow or doesnt hold as well...but im probably very off
Nov 29 2005 2:31PM
0 0
profile picture
candidefan04
Posts: 755 - Karma: 11
ive heard the best out of bounds in the east is at burke, the backside, while the mountain isnt that good the out of bounds is sick and worth going for, also they have almost no patrollers there
Nov 29 2005 2:35PM
0 0
profile picture
KapitolPhoto
Posts: 1399 - Karma: 3,249
that's what i did last friday @ loon mtn to ski under the east basin lift.
Nov 29 2005 2:55PM
0 0
profile picture
ArmadaEC
Posts: 62 - Karma: 10
From my experiences people dont often care and only will give you a little talk. Just make sure no one sees you duck the ropes/go out of bounds.
Nov 29 2005 4:04PM
0 0
profile picture
pbplaya69
Posts: 611 - Karma: 19
Im lucky im a ski patrol so nobody realy cares if I do it at my mountain. Not that theres much but its not bad for free skiing
Nov 29 2005 4:16PM
0 0
profile picture
Charom
Posts: 14 - Karma: 10
They have sticks in there asses at Killington. The ski patrol bitches about pulling down the gate on the damn ski lift chair.
Nov 29 2005 4:18PM
0 0
profile picture
bigsoxfan
Posts: 734 - Karma: 10
dude i dont see how its funny, east gets pow just like the west, jay, stowe everywhere just not as much and u gotta kno how to find it
Nov 29 2005 4:21PM
0 0
profile picture
Pesca
Posts: 214 - Karma: 10
Haha, I just got yelled at for that on Sunday!
Nov 29 2005 4:39PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)