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Z_rob
Posts: 3076 - Karma: 152
I had mine today.

I left my boot in the parking lot

not both boots.

just one.

and drove all the way home before realizing i only had one.

now i have to buy new boots.

not necessarily gaper but pretty fuckin dumb.
haha.

hopefully im not the dumbest one out here.
post your gaper story and make me feel better =]
Jan 20 2009 12:48AM
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powderhound100
Posts: 2510 - Karma: 144
you forgot a boot at home so you just bought new ones?
Jan 20 2009 12:50AM
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Shpadoinkle
Posts: 10437 - Karma: 84
So yeah...

I had a student today at Keystone, and we were trying to go up the Peru lift. She was doing awesome on the beginner lift and she had been on Peru with her parents before a couple times. So we are in line...we get to the gate, and she doesn't get the concept of the separate gates things so we miss a chair. "Oh great! There are a million fucking people behind me." So we head up behind that chair and she is in a fog or something. Her brain is stuck in overdrive. I try to pick her up along with a liftie and she isn't cooperating. She goes under the chair...I'm on the chair...the chair stops and I jump off while the lift is half way out the building. Steezy jump - afterbang and all. We go back and get on the chair without a problem at all, and as if it never happened. She skied the rest of the day without ever having a problem ANYWHERE. Just was in a daze at that very moment. Made me feel like shit.
Jan 20 2009 12:54AM
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plorr
Posts: 3131 - Karma: 528
reading comprehension FTW!
Jan 20 2009 12:55AM
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Ski311
Posts: 595 - Karma: 8
came flyin into a maze at mac 10 having fun trying to impress a girl and didnt realise i was focused one lane in. hit the outer bamboo and ended cartwheeling across the lanes getting tangled like a fly in a spiders web. it was cool.
Jan 20 2009 12:57AM
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MrYeates
Posts: 1710 - Karma: 91
hahahha


uhh ive forgot my boots at home before
2 and a half hour drive
so i said fuckit and rented
lol
Jan 20 2009 12:57AM
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sick-as-aids
Posts: 3453 - Karma: 1,007
i was walking to the caf in the morning, back pack on my back, skis on me shoulder, boots in my hand, and a kids skis in the other hand. walked up to the ski rack, which is right next to the caf, and slipped on some ice, and took out ALL the skis on the rack, the rack fell over, and then took out other skis. i felt like the biggest fuck bag it wasnt funny, people came over asking if i was ok, which made things worse, coz i now knew fucking everyone saw me. it sucked balls
Jan 20 2009 12:57AM
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S.Anderson
Posts: 369 - Karma: 18
i wasnt paying attention when i was just fooling around with some friends and i went straight through a snow pile and double ejected and front flipped it was brutal
Jan 20 2009 12:59AM
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Dub_Digital
Posts: 2794 - Karma: 636
So I was hitting a line in the park, everything going good, well it was pretty crowded, a lot of people evry where, this kid maybe 11 or 12 cut me off right before I was about to hit a jump, I had quite a bit of speed and I didn't want to hit the kid, so I resorted to going off of the side of the jump, and because it happened so fast I was kind of squirrelly in the air, so I launched off of the side of the jump, and was all squirrelly, and looked like a total gaper...haha so embarrassing. The funny thing was when I was ridding up the chair I saw a guy in a cowboy hat do a spread off the side lol
Jan 20 2009 1:07AM
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WhiteBurd
Posts: 1127 - Karma: 98
i saw some lady do that this weekend and just walked away and didnt do anything like put anything back
Jan 20 2009 1:08AM
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IceCreamer
Posts: 1587 - Karma: 27
i was skiing trees and went over a stump w/ one ski got pitched and tumbled 15 feet into a tree
Jan 20 2009 1:21AM
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lalalalaura
Posts: 6753 - Karma: 68
a week ago my jacket got stuck on the chairlift because i was riding with it open, biggest nort ever
Jan 20 2009 1:33AM
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powderhound100
Posts: 2510 - Karma: 144
haha yeah.
Jan 20 2009 1:40AM
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Ski4frnt4445
Posts: 420 - Karma: 132
i was doing a front flip in the park and started to flale and threw my pole by axident and never saw it again
Jan 20 2009 1:41AM
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Sean...M
Posts: 2450 - Karma: 14
Oh man i have so many gaper moments. They're all pretty little though. Whenever i hit a jump for the first time, i usually flail my arms n shit pretty hard.

When im just sliding down the hill to slowly stop, my back ski catches an edge and nearly fall or sometimes do.

Oh but the WORST though was my first time at breck, theres the line for the people with those passes or whatever that lets them through the gate. I get up to it and realize what is going on and duck under it. The liftie told me to turn around and everyone was watching me and i had to hop in the end of a massive line.
Jan 20 2009 1:48AM
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T-hall-sig
Posts: 58 - Karma: 11
13th birthday getting a pair of snowblades. thank god I realized their gayness and bought big boy skis
Jan 20 2009 1:50AM
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Horizon
Posts: 368 - Karma: 21
Haha......this totally reminds me of all the movies where someone knocks over the line of motorcycles outside a biker bar. Then they stand in fear of the oncoming beating, in your case mass embarrassment.  But better than an actual beating lol.
Jan 20 2009 1:55AM
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Ski4frnt4445
Posts: 420 - Karma: 132

I HATE SNOWBLADERS!

good choice!!!!!

Jan 20 2009 1:59AM
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mizzike
Posts: 1386 - Karma: 251
ahahah oh man thats fucking hilarious
Jan 20 2009 2:03AM
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T-hall-sig
Posts: 58 - Karma: 11
hahaha, they look so fucking goofy with no poles.
Jan 20 2009 2:04AM
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gnarrr
Posts: 823 - Karma: 12
i dropped my pole off the chair once, fucking gayperness.
Jan 20 2009 2:04AM
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DietCoke
Posts: 1317 - Karma: 7
A few weeks ago i was skiing Mont St. Anne. We were getting on a lift, me and two snowboarders. Somehow one snowboarder ended up standing on my right ski and when the lift picked us up it somehow hit the ski perfectly and it came off.

so i ride about 10 feet on the lift before i realize i only have 1 ski on. have to jump down from the lift which is like a 5 foot drop. Stomp it. One ski afterbang away back to the liftie who has since stopped the lift and throws me my ski. I clipped back in and got back on the lift since there was no line. But still i felt like the biggest nub in the whole world.
Jan 20 2009 2:15AM
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onlyskisline
Posts: 76 - Karma: 10
Today, I was going into a jump switch ,  caught my edge and veered off to the side, sacked myself on the bamboo and fell off the side of the lip,  into ice chunks.
Jan 20 2009 2:27AM
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Shpadoinkle
Posts: 10437 - Karma: 84
Word. When you jump off the the lift you have to go for the afterbang.
Jan 20 2009 2:33AM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
so first day back on my skis after 6 months in Singapore and im thinking as i go up the lift, this ski is wobbly, but i pay it no heed, it wasnt bad enough to tighten the binding up a clip. that run im mobbing down the fastest part of the hill, just having fun, you know, when my right hand Elizabeth gets squirrelly which if you have those skis, you know it never happens when youre on edge, then i look down and to my horror the toe of my boot is completely out of the toe piece of the binding. so word, i scream oh shit! and get that oh shit feeling deep down inside, but my ski just pops off and i stablize myself like a drunken Bode Miller and slide to a stop with my boot in the snow. felt like an idiot. ski just popped the fuck off and i was flailing like a crazy fuck just so i wouldnt fall.

make sure your bindings are dialed.
Jan 20 2009 3:15AM
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horner
Posts: 2439 - Karma: 1,578
Fell and broke my collar bone while going to meet someone at the bottom on the hill.  Sucked big time, super embarrassing.
Jan 20 2009 3:17AM
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s.bishop
Posts: 665 - Karma: 26
yesterday was hitting this drop (5ft or so) with a gap to the landing and for some reason every time i washed out, the turn after, so the last time i line it up sp i have to jump a foot farther to the landing but have a straight run out, so i hit it, and someone mach 10s in front of me and i shoot off to the left into the woods.  right under the lift too, so embarasing, 4 fails in a rrow, and the weird thing was that was the only thing i fell on all day long.  but yeah felt like a total n00b.
Jan 20 2009 6:33AM
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ONTerriible
Posts: 1210 - Karma: 126

they look even goofier with them

Jan 20 2009 8:09AM
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jfoley019
Posts: 929 - Karma: 95
Last weekend at Mount Snow, I was pretty hung over on Saturday morning. I boot up in the parking lot which I never do and get a ride to the main lodge. So as you all may be aware stairs at ski resorts are usually grated. So there I am walking up like 4 steps, and my boot buckle gets stuck on the last stair and I eat shit tough. My poles go one way my skis the other way... It looked like those Warren Miller movie falls, when so person slips on ice and their shit goes everywhere.
Jan 20 2009 8:51AM
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OhioRiderSPK5
Posts: 968 - Karma: 24
have you ever been just dicking around an you go to jump 180 or something catch an edge an fall over. usually i just lay there like a dumb ass until one of my friends start laughing at me.
Jan 20 2009 10:26AM
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yeahitsdave
Posts: 1315 - Karma: 10
last week at breck after a good snowfall we're in line waiting for first chair (well, second) im sitting around bullshitting with friends and dont realize the lift started loading, so we miss a chair, then i drop a pole coming through the gate and they have to stop the lift (it was weird getting used to short poles)
Jan 20 2009 10:38AM
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ilikeplants
Posts: 1868 - Karma: 17
I tried to do a daffy on 191cm skis under the lift and caught my tip into a face plant with a crowded lift above.
Jan 20 2009 10:42AM
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JBriskco
Posts: 264 - Karma: 15
i was carrying my board on my shoulders, like with both arms over it and it resting on my neck kinda thing,

and i tried walking through a door and didn't realize that the door was too small to fit through, caught my

board on both sides of the door and it knocked me flat on my ass
Jan 20 2009 10:43AM
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highaltNM
Posts: 552 - Karma: 52
dropped my iPod out of my pocket while cruisin down a run.  walked around on the run for an hour looking for it like a dumbass.  of course it was at the bottom of the park so all my friends kept cruisin by laughing at me.  i gave up and cruised to the bottom of the hill.  there was some douche bag going through my music (im sure he was upset it wasn't country) on my iPod.  the guy then had the balls to act like it was his iPod.  Too bad my name was engraved on the back..... fuckhead....
Jan 20 2009 10:47AM
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krink
Posts: 211 - Karma: 29
flat light, mirrored goggle lenses, small mogul in the middle of a groomer, double eject and poles flying... yea felt like quite the gaper
Jan 20 2009 10:49AM
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Jballz
Posts: 1638 - Karma: 79
i forgot to put my pants on one time...... i went out in just sweat pants realized when my ass was soaking wet by the time i was siting on the chair
Jan 20 2009 10:55AM
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currentwestman
Posts: 3292 - Karma: 330
lolololol i laughed when you called yourself a fuck bag
Jan 20 2009 11:06AM
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Aaaron.
Posts: 11817 - Karma: 903
i was sitting on my poles, with the tips sticking out between the seat and the backrest of the lift, and i got up to push off with my poles still under me.  They caught between in the gap between the seat and back and i hung by there by my ball, suspended by my poles.   They eventually bent and i slipped off.   landed and afterbanged, then retrieved my poles, that were bent at approximately 112 degrees (I'm good at geometry) and as i was bending them back, they snapped.
just like that.
i immediately grabbed the broken pieces and skied backwards down the nearest run, just to regain my self esteem.


Jan 20 2009 11:17AM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
i was skiing along and wasnt looking and put my pole right infront of my balls and impailed my self
Jan 20 2009 11:27AM
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skiEER
Posts: 4089 - Karma: 79
when i used to race i went to start and i pushed off so hard i double ejected  and my skis stayed in the start gate and i slid down on my face and was dqed
Jan 20 2009 11:28AM
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Moon_Park
Posts: 413 - Karma: 110
Last Season, halfway up a really long lift in Tignes, dicking around swinging my ski back and forth not looking, when I pass a lift support (don't no if thts the right name) and my ski clips it and pops off, lands in knee deep powder, my two snowboarder friends laughing their asses off at me, finally get to the end of the lift, try to get off it on 1 ski, not quick enough, get hit by lift, fall forwards, lift hits my head, lift finally stops, I shuffle off and wait 20 mins till my friends get my ski and come back up, longest 20 minutes of my life, seriously not my day
Jan 20 2009 11:48AM
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Chronic_
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it was earlier this year. the first couple weeks our montain was open all they had was a box and a couple jibs at the bottom of the mountain and me one of the park rangers were the only ones there. so the park ranger goes and does this sick thing that i still have no idea exactly what it was, it was like a unnaty 2 on jacknife 7 pretz 2 off or something ridiculous on this box and a couple minutes later a bunch of his friends showed up and he told them he landed this sick trick and they asked what it was and he said i dunno ask him pointing at me and everyone was expecting me to answer and i gave the wrong trick and the park ranger had to explain it...i dunno but i felt like a dumb shitbag

Jan 20 2009 11:50AM
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skiminnesota
Posts: 9093 - Karma: 429
ok this is my first year skiing. (time of gaper moment)

4 people waiting for chair to pick them up (quad) and i ski right up thinking the chair had passed, and now there are 5 people waiting for a quad to pick us up....

i wanted to crawl into a hole...
Jan 20 2009 11:50AM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
haha before i was really into newschool i was a gaper and i thought every off axis spin or flippy thing was corked
Jan 20 2009 11:52AM
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49566738265
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I was riding the last chair of the day and I was REALLY tired.  I was so out of it that I stood behind a group getting on a chair, let myself slide a little too close behind them, and when the chair was coming around the end of it hit me and knocked me over.  I was so tired I almost didn't want to get up.
Jan 20 2009 12:50PM
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meliskier
Posts: 143 - Karma: 15
nearly slit my throat while failing to enter a roped gate!  i don't know what hurt the most... getting slammed back on to my ass by the force of the fully extended rope, or the thought in my head after seeing all that blood on the snow: "oh my god... i'm such a gaper... sniff, sniff!!"  i got to ride down the mt on the ski patrol sled and everything!
Jan 20 2009 1:16PM
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mait
Posts: 96 - Karma: 10

Popped switch off a side booter, skiing switch for a bit, hit some powder on the edge of the run and proceeded to watch as my skis went around a tree, while a branch fucked me in the ass,

Jan 20 2009 1:23PM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15951 - Karma: 9,451
i was in the lift with no poles and couldnt stop myself haha
Jan 20 2009 1:26PM
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SHREDDY
Posts: 675 - Karma: 37
For me...prolly the beginning of this video although I still have my moments on several occasions...

Jan 20 2009 1:47PM
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ja.
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 144
this last weekend i was getting off the lift and my poles got stuck in between the back of the chair and the seat. i tried pulling them out and they wouldn't budge. i then gave up and tried to jump off at the last second which resulting in my racking myself on my poles  while the chair was still moving. I hung there for about a min and then as the chair was turning the corner, they finally stopped the lift and helped me get off my poles.

terribly embarrasing.
Jan 20 2009 1:56PM
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richards
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the girls from girllicious dont take shits on their bus cuz they think its gross.. so i do that now
Jan 20 2009 2:07PM
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