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Stupid Unreasonable Ski Patrol

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SkiingLlama
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So, today i was skiing at Mad River Glen (VT), sick pow day btw, me and my friend decide to drop this sick cliff under the lift. apparently it was closed, but it might as well have been open, there was pow everywhere. So we drop it, get the shot, its all dope. Yet apparently some ski patroller saw us when he was on the lift, and reported. We ski to the bottom and get flagged down by a couple of ski patrollers demanding to see our passes. So instead of giving us a warning or telling us never to do that again, they take my multi-mountain pass. so now i cant ski for a few weeks even at my other mountains!
Is this fair? duck one rope, and get screwed out of skiing for the next week.
Feb 7 2008 6:43PM
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PeterWojnar
Posts: 3937 - Karma: 678
Hahaha nice one dude
Dec 19 2011 10:56PM
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LittleFoot
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Oh shit. You might have a case here. Get your parents to say exactly this and see how it goes
Dec 19 2011 11:03PM
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tj.hall
Posts: 681 - Karma: 37
Duck ropes, get pass pulled. It's what you should expect..

I wouldn't have been doing that on a multi-mountain pass or on the first couple days of a long trip/break.
Dec 19 2011 11:05PM
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midwestmike
Posts: 138 - Karma: 9
you think it would be gay for a cop to give you a ticket for going 77 in a 65? if you're from illinois where 65 really means 80 and traffic goes 80 so no cop will pull anyone in a group of cars over, i can understand this.

but anywhere else 12 over is enough over to get pulled over and ticketed by pretty much any cop. i've gotten pulled over for 7 over in some places, no ticket but i've heard of 9 over tickets all the time.
Dec 19 2011 11:08PM
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midwestmike
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and on the topic of ducking ropes. don't do it. find another way to get to the cliff. you can actually get a class D misdemeanor for this as one patroller at A-Bay told me once when my brother and i ducked ropes for pow and some dropoffs in the trees.

but the point about banning you from multiple resorts should be mentioned. if they're under different management you should be able to go to the other ones.
Dec 19 2011 11:10PM
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ShredMasterPlus
Posts: 1159 - Karma: 807
Basically Getting a speeding tickets sucks ass no matter if it was reasonable or not. Getting your pass taken for breaking rules also sucks ass. But you get these crappy things do to rules that you accept when you buy pass/get license so don't hate the players hate the game
Dec 19 2011 11:12PM
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POWDER.RANGER
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Dec 19 2011 11:34PM
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JHendrix
Posts: 1493 - Karma: 48
If that was true and that was me I think I would start burning the ski patrol's cabin to the ground...
Dec 19 2011 11:39PM
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Parks.
Posts: 5612 - Karma: 1,093
You definitely sdeserve to get your pass pulled However, they have no right to pull it from all the other mountains unless owned by another company
Dec 20 2011 12:05AM
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smuggs
Posts: 6561 - Karma: 1,375
bro, face it they made an example out of you. they saw your tall tees hangin and knew you would wine about it on the internet and people would realize not to duck ropes at mad river. makes their jobs easier
Dec 20 2011 1:01AM
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Lord*Justice
Posts: 50 - Karma: 26
Patrolers are cops these days. I'm makeing a new shredakit rule

Rule #4

Fuck The Police fuck the fuck the mutha fuck the police
Dec 20 2011 1:13AM
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Peach.
Posts: 3879 - Karma: 933
Well played, sir. Well played.
Dec 20 2011 10:43AM
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RiddleMeThis
Posts: 749 - Karma: 117
from the skier's perspective it is a load of shit. but if you or your bud were to get hurt in the closed run, even if there was a rope or big signs saying trail closed or whatever, you could sue the living fuck out of the resort. so most resorts take that shit super seriously to avoid ridiculous lawsuits

but i agree with this bullshitness. if i wanna ski some pow, you better believe im jumping a rope to get there
Dec 20 2011 10:48AM
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CashmereCat
Posts: 2211 - Karma: 2,395
No joke sundown mtn in Iowa I came switch out of a rail and skied about 100 feet downhill. Ski patrol starts yelling at me to stop skiing backwards. I do. A couple runs later I'm doing it again and this like 45 year old woman patroller stops me, screams at me and then pulls my pass...
Dec 24 2011 11:46PM
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Shredability
Posts: 2757 - Karma: 501
Yea that's Ridicilious, I hate things like that
Dec 25 2011 12:57AM
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SpaghettiWizard
Posts: 2825 - Karma: 166
man fuck sundown i quit going there altogether. these fucks on four wheelers think they own the place
Dec 25 2011 1:11AM
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GANDALF
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im glad my mountain has an open rope policy :]
Dec 25 2011 3:18AM
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.skiwi.
Posts: 898 - Karma: 40
Feel sorry for you bro, but a patrollers job is to keep people from getting hurt
Dec 25 2011 6:04AM
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luc
Posts: 1000 - Karma: 607
we don't have this problem in europe at all! so happy to be here :D oh and we have tons of snow :P
Dec 25 2011 6:25AM
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ChasingFlakes
Posts: 822 - Karma: 1,544
Well if they let you duck the rope once , everyone else is going to duck the rope once. View it from the mountains point of view . It sucks but don't duck a rope. Fuck i ducked one last season and i guess they were doing avy work. Needless to say they were not pleased. Talk my way out though yeeehhhaaawww
Dec 25 2011 8:02AM
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.ZT.
Posts: 5679 - Karma: 2,792
when i was with my school skiing in MA i got yelled at by a patroller for going in the woods! wtf he said i wasnt experienced enough and he was a shitty skier.
Dec 25 2011 9:02AM
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james6345789
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Nice bump
Dec 25 2011 10:22AM
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CashmereCat
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Never going there again, im going to chestnut now.
Dec 25 2011 10:32AM
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SpaghettiWizard
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best desicion youve ever made ever
Dec 25 2011 11:12AM
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Bill.Nye
Posts: 4060 - Karma: 2,109
If there was no rope or sign, or it wasn't clearly marked as closed, that's wack. If you knowingly sucked the sign, then you fucked up and need to accept the consequences. Don't duck closures,.
Dec 25 2011 11:22AM
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GypsyLovin
Posts: 656 - Karma: 109
Super unfortunate... In our (skiers) opinion its just ridiculous but to them its dangerous and disrespectful... Lame
Dec 25 2011 1:00PM
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simon44
Posts: 1183 - Karma: 1,185
This year on whistler we have legit mountain cops with guns and everything. pretty fucked.
Dec 25 2011 2:12PM
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Toilet-Ott3r
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Dec 25 2011 2:29PM
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LivinOuttaBounZ
Posts: 949 - Karma: 382
Fuck the police.
Dec 25 2011 2:40PM
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jason...
Posts: 9006 - Karma: 780
haha yes this. its so funny. they legit wear full police uniforms while skiing. equipped with guns, tasers, batons, pepper spray etc.

when the fuck will you ever need a gun on the mountain?
Dec 25 2011 2:50PM
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Toilet-Ott3r
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wolves n shit duhhh
Dec 25 2011 3:03PM
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howlongcanausern
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i conceal carry all the time on the mountain.

problem?
Dec 25 2011 3:24PM
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Spacekroft
Posts: 1332 - Karma: 41
true G's roll strapped at all times.
Dec 25 2011 4:10PM
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VT_scratch
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holy shit i havent seen em yet! anyone got pics?

Dec 25 2011 5:00PM
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Splice.
Posts: 1381 - Karma: -192
"DAD HOW LONG IS THE DRIVE TO VERMONT"
"WHY"
"BECAUSE I'M DROPPING THAT CLIFF< , AND IF I GET IN TROUBLE, I"M PUNCHING SKI PATROL"

Seriously, that's retarded
Dec 25 2011 5:13PM
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PhaedeD
Posts: 11499 - Karma: 342
if the patroller that saw you didnt stop you..... dont give them your fucking pass are you kidding me. i woulda said fuck you and left. there could be other people dressed like you on the mountain and if the guy didnt follow you to make sure it was you how could the people at the bottom of the hill be sure it was you. just say you have me mistaken with someone else, that wasnt us. I would go back up there with your parents(im guessing you are younger and they bought you the pass) and have them bitch the people out saying it wasnt you and that you will never buy passes from their company again if you dont give the multi mountain pass back to you. this should honestly work, they arent going to care that much to get in a huge fight with your parents.


if you arent young, go back up and say the same shit.
Dec 25 2011 5:40PM
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Christian_Schum
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It really depends on the resort. I have skied Colorado a good amount and never had an issue, I have skied local NY resorts and been fucked with but the icing on the cake is busting backflips over patrolmen at Stowe. And getting a thumbs up when looking back. It depends on how you act around them. My group of friend skied there enough and followed the rules most the time that we built up a bit of mutual respect.
Dec 25 2011 6:08PM
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Bill.Nye
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Dec 25 2011 8:54PM
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Montana_Hoodrat
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damn straight
Dec 25 2011 9:13PM
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40oz.
Posts: 1758 - Karma: 555

Damn I'm about to head out to Sundown tomorrow, from Indiana. But.... I may go to Blue Knob PA now haha. thats not straight, and they shouldn't be able to enforce that, because in the park you take you own risks and responsibilites.

hows the conditions there? worth driving 9 hours?

Dec 25 2011 9:17PM
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40oz.
Posts: 1758 - Karma: 555

truth

packing right now

Dec 25 2011 9:20PM
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PeterWojnar
Posts: 3937 - Karma: 678
LOLOLOLOLO

That sorta sucks, yesterday I was on the lift with a patroller at my hill (Alpine Meadows) and he asked me about switch takeoffs and kinks in boxes and rails... a few runs later, I saw him do a switch 1 and then slide an up-flat box from the chair.
Dec 26 2011 3:05AM
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Rodigan
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ski patrol as in police on snow ..........what the fuck is this????????
Dec 26 2011 7:18AM
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