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Patrol Sucks...

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seanjurewicz
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So who has ski patrolers at thier hill that can't ski for shit. I'm a freeskiier but I'm also a ski instructor so I know how to ride w/ good form and whatever....pretty boring...anyways. Today I got yelled at for going out of bounds...which at my hill is going on tree runs cause we're a 211 vertical foot POS, and they told me that I probably can't ski well enough to go back there. The next run one of them fell just carving and I put on my old man style turning. The next time they saw me at the top they commented on my good form. Dumbasses. I'm always seeing them fall and shit...how are they supposed to help people if they can't ski....
Dec 11 2006 12:51AM
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Sharko
Posts: 2274 - Karma: 4,101
small hill = local ski patrol
Dec 11 2006 12:53AM
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bikerocker
Posts: 1427 - Karma: 461
haha, i got yelled at everyday last year for ducking ropes, now I'm on park crew. Invicible!
Dec 11 2006 12:55AM
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eheath
Posts: 61489 - Karma: 122,132
Ski patrolers just think they are the shit. I just pass them going backwards, and they usually can't catch up to talk to me.
Dec 11 2006 12:57AM
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WONTON
Posts: 6951 - Karma: 55
theyre still a necessity on the slopes. Some are really gay tho..

they were pulling passes when people ducked tape to get some knee deep pow in some tiny area right off the lift. 1.5 hrs later they took the tape away and opened the area.
Dec 11 2006 1:02AM
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seanjurewicz
Posts: 47 - Karma: 16
yea...that's another thing...last year I was crouching cause I needed the speed to get where I was going and a SNOWBOARD instructor told me not to cause I'll lose control....How would he know...
Dec 11 2006 1:02AM
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Albino
Posts: 1400 - Karma: 123
i asked why skiing switch was more dangerous once, given that i can carve and stop with more control than a lot of other skiers out there.
i was told its because theres a blindside you cant see, so i might hit someone.

so i asked how that is different from a snowboarders blindside.

no response.




that said, most patrollers at my hill are pretty reasonable. the only time i got my pass clipped was when i was 3ing a roller right next to a slow sign with lots of people around near the bottom of a lift. i was annoyed, but what should i expect. theyve got a job to do.
Dec 11 2006 2:10AM
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mad_540_trix
Posts: 2452 - Karma: 14
patrol always yells at me for going "too fast" or doing 180s off of rollers, even when there's nobody else around, kinda pisses me off.
Dec 11 2006 2:22AM
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james44
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HAHAHA so funny

one time me and some friends decided to run through all the slow signs at the bottom of the run to see what would happen. me and 2 of my friends all did it sorta (we wend slo and kinda knocked them from the side then started screaming on th ground) and we couldnt find the 4th guy. so we we getting in trouble from the patrol and my friend comes down at full speed and runs right into the sign and starts screaming about how he hates life and is never going to ski again. lol well after all that we got up and got on the lift like nothing happend ignoring the patroler that was getting mad at us.

that probly didnt make any sense at all but it was good times
Dec 11 2006 2:31AM
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Sharko
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I have no idea what you are trying to say...
Dec 11 2006 2:32AM
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Albino
Posts: 1400 - Karma: 123
ah, i dont under, i ah, cant understand, ah, .... what?
Dec 11 2006 2:33AM
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freezed
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haha...the other day at  mammoth, a ski instructor lady SCREAMED at me for riding switch. she was like...really frightened. wow.
Dec 11 2006 2:50AM
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Silence
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hahaha that would just destroy a patroller if someone actually did that..

them chasing you whilst you are waving right back at them
Dec 11 2006 3:02AM
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Holte
Posts: 10739 - Karma: 7,814
Other than pro patrol, most patrol are weekend warriors. They're doctors and paramedics who want to ski for cheap and don't mind having to set ropes and take avi classes. They're hired because of their medical training, not because they're particularly strong skiers. They don't need need to have good form to be useful medically on the mountain. And really, life would be more boring without patrol to mess with on the mountain.
Dec 11 2006 3:21AM
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rocMALONEYphotos
Posts: 1128 - Karma: 661
at Park City we not only have wack ski patrol but even gayer Saftey patrol, its like a peak alarm rent-a-cop for skking ridiculus
Dec 11 2006 3:27AM
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pbplaya69
Posts: 611 - Karma: 19
well If you cant beat them join them thats what I did, Im 17 and this will be my second year patrolling, I get a free seasons pass. Its not as bad as you may think.
Dec 11 2006 6:39AM
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blownedges
Posts: 40 - Karma: 10
you speak the truth, speak it!! speak it!!
Dec 11 2006 8:50AM
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skinnylove
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theres park crew at grouse who suck dick
Dec 11 2006 11:36AM
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seanjurewicz
Posts: 47 - Karma: 16
Yea, I know what you're saying but if someone's hurt on a hard run, I've seen patrolers fall trying to get to them. And I've seen patrolers mess kids up on the lift. I saw one guy last year go on with a single at the last second and the kid didn't know and he fell and the chair hit him in the back of the head while he got run over by the patrolers skis...
Dec 11 2006 11:57AM
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=nick=
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a patroller threatened to pull my pass wen he caught me dropping like a tiny 15 foot cliff to pow that was roped off, it was pretty gay
Dec 11 2006 1:23PM
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WONTON
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everyone knows qual doesnt have 15 ft cliffs....cmon now nick
Dec 11 2006 1:24PM
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grapesoda
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i always bomb through slow zones and not once in my life have i been stopped by ski patrol..maybe its cause they cant catch me :p
Dec 11 2006 1:30PM
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Thomson.
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At my mountain we have ski patrol and courtesy staff.  Ski Patrol at our mountain is real cool and all, but the Courtesy Staff, which is like volunteer ski patrol, are real gay.  Its just so much fun skiing on the "slow down" trail switch going insanely fast, and then them chasing you down and telling you to slow down or they'lle take your pass, when in reality they have no authority.  Yeah, good times.
Dec 11 2006 1:31PM
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snarky
Posts: 498 - Karma: 13
huh, im an instructor also, and if you  help out with sweep or other little things it goes a long ways to getting on ski patrol's good side, that and having your best friends mother be the head patroller
Dec 11 2006 1:35PM
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=nick=
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fine it was 10....azn bastard. haha
Dec 11 2006 1:55PM
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kepler.
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yeah its all fun to fuck with the patrollers. just hope u don't work at the hill cuz then they get extra bitchy and get ur boss into the mess
Dec 11 2006 2:47PM
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