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What do you do to entertain yourself on the lift?

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jimmer
Posts: 3586 - Karma: 80
just curious to see what other people do on the chairlift, and maybe get a few ideas.
Oct 25 2007 7:41PM
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GUZ
Posts: 1371 - Karma: 255
say really creepy stuff to my buddy to try and creep out the other people on the lift.
Oct 26 2007 2:38PM
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fil.p
Posts: 35 - Karma: 10
music... or throwing snow from my skis on people. or yelling out for kickflips from all the boarders below me.
Oct 26 2007 2:44PM
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cousinmark
Posts: 939 - Karma: 29
hahaha personally we climb trees on the lifts esp the gondoellas .  anyone one remember UP1 Blow when this quebeqois cat throws a watermelon of the lift. that had me rolling for while!  im gonna try it on snow that shit should be even funnier on white.
Oct 26 2007 2:52PM
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Geonerd
Posts: 251 - Karma: 63
Word, sooo true
Oct 26 2007 2:55PM
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GGreene
Posts: 993 - Karma: 42
make up stories and then tell them to people
like that your from texas and you have never skied in your life
it works teh best when you have a friend so then the story is so fake by the time yoiu get off
its great
Oct 26 2007 3:20PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7822 - Karma: 21,855
socialize, snack, figure out next line.
Oct 26 2007 3:21PM
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krl
Posts: 101 - Karma: 14
me and my friend got stuck on a lift for 45 minutes during a power outage once

we busted out bohemian rhapsody and got applause from the surrounding chairs
Oct 26 2007 3:23PM
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ryano
Posts: 4465 - Karma: 1,535
i live in the midwest so the funs arent very long...so i did that to my cousin one day. he was so pi ssed. it was funny.

thats the only time i've done that though
Oct 26 2007 3:28PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
fuck yeah man i have a story like that too.

last year my cousin and i were skiing in breckenridge and we are talking to these two guys that are riding up with us.  we tell them where we are from, and they proceed to tell us they grew up in charleroi literally 10 minutes from where we live and they were once ski patrol at 7 springs, where we ski. now they are pretty much 5 day a week skiers in colorado. i thought that was really cool.

anyways, what do i do on the lift. usually just talk to my buddies, listen to music, smoke occasionally, shout at hot girls, if im by myself i just talk to whoever is on the lift with me...

the lifts are only like 5 min. around here so not much to do...
Oct 26 2007 3:34PM
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TheQuailman
Posts: 7382 - Karma: 147
I usually talk to people if I'm alone.  You can meet so many people on the lift its ridiculous.  If I'm with my friends I'll talk with them.  Listen to music.  Get snowballs before I get on the lift and throw em at gapers.  If its a good lift on a real mountain you can scope lines, watch people, and think about what to do next.


The best lifts are the ones near a popular cornice or cliff or something and you can cheer for people or get cheered for which feels sick.
Oct 26 2007 3:47PM
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*monsterskier*
Posts: 2671 - Karma: 61
hit other skiers and especially boarders w/ snow...maybe stuff some snow in my pockets and make snowballs..
Oct 26 2007 4:15PM
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Bodeau.
Posts: 1637 - Karma: 48
I make out with my girl, and i definately listen to music. You can also meet some cool people on chair lifts, youd be surprised that some old people think newschool skiing is really cool.
Oct 26 2007 4:33PM
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STREETS
Posts: 1443 - Karma: 15
Word. Since when is being a general asshole/douche the cool thing to do especially saying people suck wtf is that maybe they are just learning how to ski park or ski in  general no need to be an ass instead give them some pointers.  Anyways when I'm on the lift I just talk to people if im alone or talk to friends, Sometimes its relaxing to just shut my eyes and chill on the way up.
Oct 26 2007 4:34PM
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lineskier2334
Posts: 895 - Karma: 15
i agreee
Oct 26 2007 4:50PM
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Sholte
Posts: 2929 - Karma: 12
i sit there, talk to people, listen to music, cheer on people under the lift.
Oct 26 2007 5:44PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
I tell outrageous lies about myself and my career.
Oct 26 2007 6:19PM
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Sideways_Shane
Posts: 756 - Karma: 73
whoa your both really gay
Oct 26 2007 6:22PM
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freestyler540
Posts: 13083 - Karma: 18,725
I talk to friends, sleep and focus on my next tricks


Oct 26 2007 6:32PM
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hype
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 21
smoke a fatty
Oct 26 2007 6:35PM
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Inbred_Redneck
Posts: 2776 - Karma: 28
I usually just chat with people on the lift, usually chat to the ski patrollers who ride with me, ask where some good spots are, terrain, sports, etc...
You find some really interesting people on the lifts.
Oct 26 2007 6:38PM
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fouldsys
Posts: 7404 - Karma: 39
pull each others skis off on the lift. then ski down to the park and throw them in the woods. always good fun
Oct 26 2007 6:43PM
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cofreeskier
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Yeah one time I rode up with this pretty old guy and it turns out he was in the fucken 10th mountain division in WWII. I have so much respect for those guys... But anyway, on the lift I just talk to my friends and shit, and just talk to people mostly. I dont do shit like spitting on people thats gay people are out having a good time so I try not to fuck their day up. Occasionally my friends and I will just mess with kids though with like kc chiefs jackets and i have to admit its pretty funny.
Oct 26 2007 6:45PM
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Valind
Posts: 4358 - Karma: 17
MMMM beer
Yell at the chicks
Check lines
Text
hit on girls in the Gondala (have to bring a rubber just in case)
Mmmmmmbeer
Oct 26 2007 6:55PM
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,538
talk, watch, yell, enjoy scenory
Oct 26 2007 6:59PM
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midwestfreeski3
Posts: 141 - Karma: 11

nock the snow off my skis onto other people's heads.  put my hands in my pants

Oct 26 2007 7:06PM
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Wis_Skier_23
Posts: 2263 - Karma: 245
you better hope the wind wasnt against you
Oct 26 2007 10:28PM
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grams.
Posts: 7406 - Karma: 186
crank music loud enough so the person next to me can sing along
talk to strangers and learn something about them
get all the snow off my skis
power naps
Oct 26 2007 10:32PM
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JTL
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i go to town with a sharpie
Oct 26 2007 10:33PM
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MadSteezin
Posts: 4572 - Karma: 936
This may sound very childish but its fun. My homies and I sometimes play what we call "the last minute game".  You have the bar down and then when your coming into the top of the lift or station you keep the bar down for as long as you can. Its a lot of fun and gets your blood pumpin!
Oct 26 2007 10:40PM
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CREASTON
Posts: 765 - Karma: 1,981
jump off at low points, talk with friends/random people from chicago. use extreme and epic a lot when talking to someone who asks me what i do. music, call my mom, throw beads/random things from the arcade in the bead tree, hit tree branches with my poles, tap the lift towers, do some hardcore iron crosses, watch other people enjoying themselves on the snow, text friends, take some swe3t myspace pics!!1!1!  (just kidding), sing songs, whistle, and just try and have a good time.
Oct 27 2007 12:19AM
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ESAND
Posts: 1607 - Karma: 744
really? Thats pretty much all I do on lifts except I don't just do it on park lifts. I also like to pretend to have phone sex when I ride with some old stuck up gapers, occasionally I mix it up and actually have phone sex while on the chair. Real sex on a chair is one of my 07/08 season goals
Oct 27 2007 1:41AM
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freeski1620
Posts: 5670 - Karma: 1,718
smoke weed.
get gangsterd
throw snow balls
hit my skis together
stretch
do crazy grabs i think would be the notes.
Oct 27 2007 3:53AM
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Ski311
Posts: 595 - Karma: 8
Pick out, contemplate, and discuss lines.
Oct 27 2007 4:14AM
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whattheshit
Posts: 6562 - Karma: 107
look at the surroundings around me and think about how i would perceive it differently if i knew it was my last day on earth then ask myself why i don't look at things that way all the time.


Oct 27 2007 7:00AM
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A2theWK
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very true... throw in some thoreau
Oct 27 2007 10:09AM
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whattheshit
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what kind of thoreau do you have in mind?  im not familiar with his work.
Oct 27 2007 11:07AM
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Black-Bandanna
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Yeah, I've been known to do that...
Oct 27 2007 11:11AM
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miroz
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i sing
Oct 27 2007 11:14AM
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quixotic
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That's quality foo.
Oct 27 2007 11:26AM
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-Kieran-
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me and my buds wll make a ew snowballs and stuff them in or jackets when we get on the chair lift and then we try and hit all the snowboarders
Oct 27 2007 11:37AM
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oiECSoi
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really really
Oct 27 2007 12:01PM
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jmason
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I like to just chil. If i'm solo, think about stuff that comes to mind - i often get some pretty rad ideas from my lift rides! If there are people, i'll have some chit-chat with 'em, maybe make some new friends... you never know! I've met some interesting people on some chairlifts, and once in a while, you meet somebody who ends up being in a pretty high position, and if you were nice and polite, it can actually get you places!
Oct 27 2007 12:26PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Great American writer from New England and writes a lot about nature.

"Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer."

"The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact. Every decayed stump and moss-grown stone and rail, and the dead leaves of autumn, are concealed by a clean napkin of snow. In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold. A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself. It is invigorating to breathe the cleansed air. Its greater fineness and purity are visible to the eye, and we would fain stay out long and late, that the gales may sigh through us, too, as through the leafless trees, and fit us for the winter,—as if we hoped so to borrow some pure and steadfast virtue, which will stead us in all seasons."
Oct 29 2007 10:13AM
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HHB
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smoke cigs, a habit that i get into every winter.
talk to people and completely lie to them
make people very uncomfortable
talk to the ladies
Oct 29 2007 10:30AM
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