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What is a local?

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Logchucker
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 16
We bitch about tourist, but how would you define a local? I'm on the front range, never would say I'm a summit county local, but never would say I'm a tourist gaper either.
Feb 19 2006 10:50PM
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Liam.
Posts: 5172 - Karma: 21
good fuckin point...i guess u can relate it to a regular at a cofee shop that gets the same thing each morning and everbody knows them
Feb 19 2006 10:54PM
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ecthree
Posts: 296 - Karma: 10
"I'm a tourist gaper"

you said it.
Feb 19 2006 10:55PM
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GotamaBCshredder
Posts: 5062 - Karma: 424
i'm a local becasue I live here, that makes you a local.
Feb 19 2006 10:57PM
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SHastatahoe
Posts: 3414 - Karma: 20
gayper* your forgetting the gay in it.
Feb 19 2006 10:57PM
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TheStamos
Posts: 9311 - Karma: 910
Im a local because i live here, and it doesnt really matter except when joking about LOC status, i do get annoyed by the 9 million gaypers thats dont live here crowd alpine but they fuel the economy so i guess il live.
Feb 19 2006 11:05PM
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ISkiSwitch
Posts: 3157 - Karma: 22
A local is someone who's at the hill at least 3 times a week. And is known by all the lift attendants and such, and barely ever goes anywhere else to ski. Sort of a ski bum to one resort, like me.
Feb 19 2006 11:06PM
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thatoneguyattyrol
Posts: 1497 - Karma: 14
alpine meadows is the most gaper free resort i have ever been too....

short lines even on weekend pow days, never ever wait in line in the park.....and the gapers that do come tend to stay in the bitty park.

Being a local or not means nothing in terms of being a gaper or not, plenty of gapers live in town too.
Feb 19 2006 11:08PM
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TheStamos
Posts: 9311 - Karma: 910
yeah when a liftie asks to see my pass i laugh at there ignorance, i get it once a week and i giggle inside.
Feb 19 2006 11:08PM
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Skiboy360
Posts: 270 - Karma: 10
a local is someone who skis there every day and lives there (doesn't need to drive more than 5 minutes)
Feb 19 2006 11:10PM
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ISkiSwitch
Posts: 3157 - Karma: 22
hahah, yea. The lifties know me, and we talk and such. But today, some random ugly new chick asks for my pass. I was like, what the hell? Go back to sweeping the garbage off the floor of the cafeteria. And everytime I went down that run today, she kept asking me, I wanted to smack her.
Feb 19 2006 11:11PM
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SnowMedic
Posts: 2132 - Karma: 25
Ya at kirkwood last year i knew all the lifties and this year they went to peru or some South American country and hired all workers, i dont know if they even speak english besides the works ticket or pass, they just point and say ticket or pas and wave ya threw. and it is like they dont have a memory they never remember you if you had a brite green suit that said some thing stupid on it.
Feb 19 2006 11:17PM
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potatofarmer
Posts: 2020 - Karma: 13
im a local at Jiminy cause im there 3 times a week, chill with the park rangers, score free food from cashiers... oh, and I work there
Feb 19 2006 11:39PM
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Lax_Bro40
Posts: 5166 - Karma: 18
u dont get free food, i do... me and ian fixed the rainbow today dude.. wider take off more pop to it now..
Feb 19 2006 11:44PM
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Am.Aaron
Posts: 443 - Karma: 22
today at fernie the daylodge was crammed with people from alberta for reading week. got a discount for telling the cashier I was local. :) Damn albertans were crammed into the park too. I don't mind the ones that actually ride it but its annoying as piss to have to hike a jump 2-3 times so you can hit it without having to abort last second because of some kid ducking the ropes right into the in-run.
Feb 20 2006 12:02AM
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Gnarshred
Posts: 5670 - Karma: 18
well i live in FoCo, about 2.5 hrs from my mountain. I consider myself a local of the mountain, but never the town.

I think it is if you know the mountain so well you would never need a map, and know where all the local shit is.
Feb 20 2006 12:20AM
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gweihe
Posts: 36 - Karma: 10
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Feb 20 2006 12:23AM
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Petecanski
Posts: 941 - Karma: 7
A local knows the hill and has his/hers secret stash. A gayper is a conman looking for those.
Feb 20 2006 12:36AM
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RWalker
Posts: 384 - Karma: 11
haha talk about taking a quote out of context
Feb 20 2006 12:44AM
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_Locals_*
Posts: 92 - Karma: 9
Local= me
Feb 20 2006 1:41PM
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Stan_Darsh
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 185
im a local because our mountain is Big Mountain, Whitefish MT and i live in Whitefish
Feb 20 2006 1:43PM
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_Locals_*
Posts: 92 - Karma: 9
Reaping all the untracked, smokin blunts, and drinkin with ski patrol after the day, poaching the lift line when its long, tellin gapers to not lay in the jump landings, building that kicker, givin all the lifties a nod...without showing anything , giving shit to tourists who litter trash in the mountains, and being on the hill most days if not everyday.
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www.skipunx.com yeeah booyee
Feb 20 2006 1:52PM
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Steazy-E
Posts: 379 - Karma: 10
yea dude alpine meadows is where its at.
Feb 20 2006 6:30PM
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40calGlockSkier
Posts: 176 - Karma: 9
The true definition would be a full time year-round resident of the area around a ski resort. That, to me is a true local resident...
Feb 20 2006 6:49PM
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salomonskiier12
Posts: 2862 - Karma: 19
yup, and that ONLY gives u the right to make fun of outsiders.
Feb 20 2006 7:14PM
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Aseets
Posts: 2171 - Karma: 17
I dunno but I definately dont live next to the resort, I'm like 45 minutes away but I'm there like 4-5 times a week so I consider myself a regular. Locals are just there all the fucking time life super close. Regulars are cool, weekenders are ok, and the gapers gotta go.
Feb 20 2006 7:50PM
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