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Stuff You Forgot

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Corben
Posts: 710 - Karma: 49
are there any stories of people forgetting shit that they need to ski? poles, skis, goggles, whatever else. im sure there are some good stories.

mine:

Ive forgot poles and shit but the worst one was when i was 13 er so i had a ski race, showed up to the lodge that was an hour and thirty away from the hotel, realized i only brought one boot... i was only twelve but still forgetting just one boot.
Nov 10 2008 4:25AM
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Scott~
Posts: 2551 - Karma: 49
One of my friends forgot his boots, so he decided to go rent some, but we were in the upper parking lot quite a ways above the lodge. So he clipped his vans sort of into his skis somehow and skied down like a G~
Nov 10 2008 4:30AM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
forgot poles a few times

worst thing was i took my footbeds out when i was drying my liners once and i took the boots out the next day standing on nothing but the bottom of the liner and the bootboard - THAT sucked.
Nov 10 2008 4:34AM
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Rainbow*Stylin
Posts: 1042 - Karma: 24
i went with my boy one time and he forgot his snowboard... ever since i do a checklist... i forgot gloves before but i just got some from lost and found and returned them after... thats a nice thing about lost and found
Nov 10 2008 4:42AM
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BigJew
Posts: 6974 - Karma: 79
I forgot my pants once. You've gotta give those gapers credit, skiing in jeans is efking hard.
Nov 10 2008 5:10AM
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SteezeNutz
Posts: 293 - Karma: 10
i drove 2 and a half hours and realized that i didnt bring my skis with me!! hahahaha. that was a really bad day up on the hill
Nov 10 2008 5:24AM
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EMK
Posts: 1632 - Karma: 669
once i forgot my jacket and the weather was windy, snowy and cold so i had no option but to rent one, it was horrible and i'm sure i looked like such a noob. it sucked.
Nov 10 2008 11:38AM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
goggles and gloves on a cold day was really bad
Nov 10 2008 11:39AM
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Blandct
Posts: 1858 - Karma: 37
my brother forgot his boots at home which was 8 hours away.....wow my dad was soooo pissed at him "you remembered to bring a god damn xbox....but not your fucking boots"
Nov 10 2008 11:48AM
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eheath
Posts: 61603 - Karma: 123,089
I usually check so much I never forget anything haha but i've forgot my pass before or something like gloves but i'd be like 2 mins from home.
Nov 10 2008 11:58AM
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scientist
Posts: 6920 - Karma: 348
I forgot my bindings twice.
Nov 10 2008 11:58AM
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ilikeplants
Posts: 1868 - Karma: 17
drove 50 miles to the hill, right as i was pulling into the exit i realized i left my pass at home. turned around drove 40 miles before remembering i could have gotten another pass for $5. wasnt one of my better moments
Nov 10 2008 12:00PM
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skodeo7
Posts: 14949 - Karma: 9,234
Nothing worse than getting to the mountain and realizing somehow you left your camcorder battery on the charger at home an hour away. D'oh.
Nov 10 2008 12:05PM
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Corben
Posts: 710 - Karma: 49
The one that happens the most to me is that my ipod is just about to crap out. Sucks so bad on the hill having an ipod thats dead.
Nov 10 2008 2:05PM
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intifada
Posts: 931 - Karma: 263
i forget shit all the time but i live close to the mountain so i just drive home and get it.
Nov 10 2008 2:14PM
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A.R.
Posts: 1111 - Karma: 11
yea forgeting to charge my ipod is a repeat offence for me.
Nov 10 2008 2:34PM
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creighton
Posts: 3837 - Karma: 3,400
i forgot my skis once
Nov 10 2008 2:36PM
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Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
i've forgotten my poles, gloves, pass, boots, gogs, and hat...but i've never forgotten my nugs!!
Nov 10 2008 2:48PM
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Horizon
Posts: 368 - Karma: 21
There are times when being OCD can be a good thing, and this is one of them.  You'll check your gear 500 times before you turn on the engine to leave haha.
Nov 10 2008 2:54PM
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_CC_
Posts: 3890 - Karma: 747
my ski pants....it was cold as fuck
Nov 10 2008 3:21PM
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unknown_fate
Posts: 14 - Karma: 10
my friend and i were driving up to the mountain on a snowy day in his volvo wagon. we forgot chains to put on the tires, and the road was too slick and we couldnt make it up. we were about .5 miles away from the resort when we had to turn around, and we had been driving for 2 hours.
Nov 10 2008 3:38PM
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0123456789
Posts: 9226 - Karma: 148
numerous times ive forgotten a pass or something small, but onetime at the lodge, i got ready, put all my shit on, grabbed my skis, walked to the lift, went to clip in, and realized i forgot to put on my boots. i just felt like a tard, but luckily they were in the lodge.
Nov 10 2008 3:41PM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
last week on wednesday i forgot my goggles when it was dumping and i was skiing 3 and a half feet and getting faceshots sucked
Nov 10 2008 3:42PM
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SEABURN
Posts: 4859 - Karma: 2,752
oh poor you!

I wish I had 3 and a half feet of freshies


( I forgot my boots once.....landing switch in rental boots is near impossible)
Nov 10 2008 4:08PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
well my family and i were headed up to banff for a weekend and as soon as we got to the skihill my dad realized that he had forgot his suit for the party that night, so my parents dropped my sister and i off at the hill and then gunned it back to calgary to pick up the suit and get back in time for some skiing.

also, when we went to whistler my sister forgot her skipants so we had to buy some new ones in the village. lucky her haha.
Nov 10 2008 4:15PM
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~Joe~
Posts: 2631 - Karma: 57
i usually forget my poles 60-70 times a year, forget my goggles sometimes too.
Nov 10 2008 4:21PM
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heFF
Posts: 5786 - Karma: 4,456
one time i was too late to run downstairs to grab my keys so i grabbed the spares....and when i got to the ski area ..reallised that my key to unlock my ski rack was on my main keys....luckily my friend picked both locks with lift ticket wickets!
Nov 10 2008 4:25PM
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quixotic
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Haha yup.
Nov 10 2008 4:25PM
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ski_DC
Posts: 1347 - Karma: 58

my friend invited me skiing last year literally the morning he was leaving for a 3 day trip to 7 springs pa. in my hurry to leave i forgot my base layer and softshell midlayer,  so i had to ski in just my jacket and a few t shirts. night skiing was the worst ever...

Nov 10 2008 6:22PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
forgotten gloves before
Nov 10 2008 6:26PM
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Cuckoo
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HA HA I FORGOT MY DADS SKIS AT THE PARKING LOT
Nov 10 2008 6:27PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,010
oh fuck - forgetting stuff is where i'm a viking! a bunch of years ago i left a nice oakley jacket at the day lodge. another time i was at whistler in the summer. got really stoned and left a pair of a-frames sitting at the base... oops. one night i forgot one of my gloves at home, but i had no way of getting there so i spend like 4 hours skiing with one glove in like -30 weather. i just alternated the one glove i had every other run... it worked out i guess.

two years ago i went to whitewater (about an hour and a bit drive away) for some pre season shreding, but in the parking lot i realized i forgot my boots back in rossland. the next year, another pre season shred mish to whitewater, got about halfway there - realized i forgot my boots so we went back and grabbed em.
Nov 10 2008 6:31PM
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jayo.
Posts: 5015 - Karma: 34
 i forgot gloves once on a powder day
Nov 10 2008 6:33PM
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DirtyDiabetic
Posts: 308 - Karma: 11
one day when i was like 10 i was up at loon and i woke up to discover that i had left my jacket at home. i ended up wearing my grandmothers big puffy neon blue vest
Nov 10 2008 6:41PM
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Luc.
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funny u should ask cause that is probally one of my most re-occuring dreams...being that i am at the ski hill for the first day of the year and i dont have my boots etc etc or my skis get stolen, or i forget where i left them, and i end up wasting the whole day at the hill, looking for my shit...worst dream ever lol.
Nov 10 2008 6:48PM
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skiP.E.I.
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I've forgotten gloves waaaay too many times, but I just get some from the lost and found for the day. I forgot my goggles once that I can remember. In Outdoor Pursuits class last year all the XC ski boots looked exactly the same, and in a hurry i picked up a pair belonging to a girl that wasn't there, and they were like 3 sizes too small, I squeezed my feet into them, but it was the most miserable 3 hours of my life. Then the next class I dropped one of my own boots in the parking lot at school so i missed a class of XC.
Nov 10 2008 6:51PM
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.SimonB.
Posts: 1959 - Karma: 713
how to ski! lol never gonna happen
Nov 10 2008 7:02PM
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GuerillaInDaMist
Posts: 546 - Karma: 47
so i was at a race and my bag had a broken zipper so i grabbed my bag and i was gettign my boots on and realized i forgot one of my boots. my mom was back at the hotel sleeping becasue it was early as fuck  and it was like 5 min before looking at tthe coarse. so i had to look at the coarse on one ski and with a shoe on the other.
Nov 10 2008 7:15PM
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Dustin.
Posts: 13839 - Karma: 7,704
Fuck, no joke.  This thread made me realize I left my poles in my friends car a few hours ago.  Now I have to go get them.
Nov 10 2008 8:56PM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 161
i forgot to bring ski pants for opening weekend at abasin hahah

when driving out to school in CO this year i forgot ski socks and my underlayers
Nov 10 2008 10:32PM
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CBincognito
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nugs r the first thing i liek to forget actually
Nov 10 2008 10:33PM
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ilikeplants
Posts: 1868 - Karma: 17
what? why would you want to forget the kind bud? thats the first thing that gets put into my bag in the morning
Nov 10 2008 10:38PM
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smuggs
Posts: 6561 - Karma: 1,375
i forgot my skis once at killington, i layed them down to get into my car and ended up just leaving. i went to go skiing the next weekend, and noticed i didnt have my skis in my car.......gave the resort a call and they had them, a ski patroller saw me drive away with out my skis i guess was the story. luckily i was going back to killington anyways.
Nov 10 2008 10:38PM
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T-Wash
Posts: 1656 - Karma: 37
Last year driving back from PC I sped through a yellow light just to look back and see my gloves fly off the top of my car.
Nov 10 2008 10:46PM
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KLovelace
Posts: 2118 - Karma: 289
homie forgot his skis once.. i was thinking..
how the fuck?!
so he rented a snowboard. lol
Nov 10 2008 10:54PM
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fLyInG-liNeS
Posts: 1562 - Karma: 223
i've forgot my jacket, so i had to wear a couple hoodies, it sucked
Nov 10 2008 11:06PM
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[MEGAMO]
Posts: 1222 - Karma: 18
poles, my pass once, cell phone charger, a pillow when i slept in the car
Nov 10 2008 11:16PM
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neon1peace
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that is pretty much my dream every night.

and i have a couple of stories most involving poles...

So last year I went to colorado for a week, and it was my first time out west so I had been pshyced about it for like a whole year before. I had my gear all lined up and ready for a least a week before hand (i didnt really ski too much the last week before the trip cause i was paranoid about getting hurt). Anyway, two flights and one long bus ride latter i arrive a my room, only to find that i forgot my poles at my house on the east coast

A couple years ago i was skiing with some friends in vermont (mostly snowboarders) and i gave one of my snowboarder friends a pole to push up a little rise. He held on to it for a little while, then it turns out that I took the wrong trail so I ended up with only one other friend and one pole. So I didnt want to ski down to the lodge and drop my one pole off so i skied the rest of the day looking like an ass with only one pole

And basically ive left thousands of poles at ski mountains, and it always seems that when i forget gloves, i only forget one, and its always my right glove so im left with a shitload of left handed gloves that are useless
Nov 10 2008 11:23PM
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