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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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hellomynameisjef
Posts: 5794 - Karma: 167
lol wut
Jan 20 2009 2:25PM
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Z_rob
Posts: 3076 - Karma: 152
I left it at the pass.
not my house haha
Jan 20 2009 3:10PM
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Aring
Posts: 128 - Karma: 11

i was going up the tow rope at the park and i fell on my pole and broke it and i felt like a idiot

Jan 20 2009 3:30PM
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toominator
Posts: 4792 - Karma: 120
I was just mucking around on a pretty flat bit of trail you take from the top of the lift at my mountain. Going switch but not looking where I was going cause I was talking to my gf. Went straight into a snow fence backwards and got a bit stuck. That was pretty embarassing.
Jan 20 2009 3:33PM
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JBriskco
Posts: 264 - Karma: 15
yeah always trying to impress the ladies on snow never works
Jan 20 2009 5:16PM
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doritos
Posts: 7368 - Karma: 53
Second or third time riding switch I crashed into a Slow sign right below the lift, unintentionally executed a gnarly-ass backflip, broke the sign, and bent the living hell outta my pole. Everyone on the lift was in hysterica. Kinda sucked haha...
Jan 20 2009 5:30PM
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s.bishop
Posts: 665 - Karma: 26
the only downside to no poles, happend to me a few times
Jan 20 2009 5:32PM
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Santa-Cruz
Posts: 2236 - Karma: 11
both of these im super pissed about

1st i was at krikwood like beginning of the season and im dunking the rope and close line my self and break my collar bone

2nd i was skiing 2days ago at squaw and am going and all of a sudden i just fall and pop a ski off
Jan 20 2009 5:59PM
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skifree179
Posts: 769 - Karma: 17

just had a steezy run on the bussiest day of the year, feelin pretty cocky once i got to the bottom when i went to stop i cought a little ice ruut ( prolly a snowboarder made the last night before everything froze slammin his board on the gound like a moron) fell flat on my face and my goggles impaled my temple and gave me a big black eye for the 1st day back from winter break.  Major gayperness!!  just told everybody i got in a fight

Jan 20 2009 6:02PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
Posts: 9217 - Karma: 5,399
On sunday, two of friends fell off the chairlift. It happened like this.

It was four of us and we were about to get a quad lift and only three of us go. My friends brother for some reason went really slow and was like really out of it. So he gets hit in the knees and falls, landing sitting down on the chairlift, at this point the guy probably should have stopped it but he didn't. So i'm looking back thinking "oh good, at least he's sitting" but then as follow the path he's taking with my eyes i see he's in a bad spot. So his brother ends up sitting on his lap and he tried to move over but started falling off, so his brother (the one who got hit by the chair) tries to pull him back on. So they fall and one of there skis almost pulled my brother off as well, but he and i stayed on. The liftie stopped the lift after they fell off and just picked up all their stuff and threw it aside and started the lift again. My friend said he really didn't speak any english. It was funny.

short: my friends fell off the chairlift, as stated in the first sentence.
Jan 20 2009 6:07PM
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Z_rob
Posts: 3076 - Karma: 152
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Jan 20 2009 6:25PM
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Z_rob
Posts: 3076 - Karma: 152
haha a similar thing happened to me at whistler one time.

we were putting the bar that hangs down to rest your feet on back up at the top and it caught my poles on it and dragged them all the way up. my hands and poles were both stuck between the bar and the top of the lift. hahah
Jan 20 2009 6:44PM
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c.hale
Posts: 636 - Karma: 50

not really my gaper moment, but def really gaper.

My friends and I were at Beaver Creek and one of them was riding tele skis. We went to this overlook deck thing and people started to take off their skis and jump off the deck into deep pow. The kid with teles dropped his ski off the side of the deck but it didnt land in the pow and since teles dont have brakes the ski took off straight down the trail. I had to bomb down half of the mountain but I cought it right before it dropped off into this closed trail. We gave the kid shit for months about it

Jan 20 2009 6:48PM
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B-VUR
Posts: 1237 - Karma: 167
So my friend was like CLOWN SCHOOOLLL and I was like, dude you listen to them?
Jan 20 2009 7:02PM
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Z_rob
Posts: 3076 - Karma: 152
this is a pretty gaper moment from my friend
who is actually pretty good normally and stuff it was just his first hit on this up box and as you will see obviously didnt get the speed right

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Jan 20 2009 7:12PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
Posts: 9217 - Karma: 5,399
haha the frame that's missing in between him being upright and on the ground makes it really funny looking.
Jan 20 2009 7:16PM
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KMeanor
Posts: 156 - Karma: 184
The strap on my pants unvelcroed so I stopped right by the rope tow to strap it up so my pants weren't at my knees. I go to jab my poles in the ground so they stand up and one just snaps in half. With 25+ people looking. Felt like a complete gaper.
Jan 20 2009 7:19PM
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Dbit
Posts: 385 - Karma: 71
Accidently tipped over like ten snowboards domino style, mostly burton..... more funny than gaper but i still felt stupid
Jan 20 2009 7:28PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
Posts: 9932 - Karma: 9,411
I have two, niether are me but two funny not to post.

1. On Sunday I was heading up this slow lift that just goes up the side of this run, Seven Brothers, and I was near the top. Near the top there is a junction with a trail sign, and the trail sign is built into a little hut. Because of the snow, all that sits out on the hut is the roof, which gets jibbed by snowboarders all the time, because the roof is a perfect triangle type wall ride, if you can picture that. So this snowboarder rides up, stalls on top, kind of freaks, does an out of control ollie, and catches his board on the trail sign. Since the sign is connected to the hut, his board locked in, and he just hung upside down for about 10-15 shamefull seconds before he could get out. After he got up, everyone on the lift had had a good laugh, and he tried to act cool and attempted to rip down the sign. He failed.

2. Earlier this season, when Loon finally had a nicely cut, and legit pipe, everyone was lapping it, and my coach had my team hike it. We had been hiking for about 8 full laps, so we had seen a few people who keep coming back on the lift for the pipe. One of them was a sick tele skier. He was boosting, and kept coming back for lap after lap. So when I got to the bottom of the pipe, to wait for the rest of my team, half my team was at the bottom allready, I saw the tele skier again. He was getting great amplitude as always, and when he popped off the wall on his last hit, he went HIGH. He kinda yelled, landed down near the bottom of the pipe wall, and smacked his face. Because he was on teles, the bindings just can't take that angle of the bottom of the pipe, so he just flipped over his skis and SMACKED his face. I felt bad for him, he looked really shook up.
Jan 20 2009 7:32PM
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TheGreen
Posts: 504 - Karma: 41
I was going down the end of the hill super fast and I went to spray my friend in snow by stopping right in front of him. I caught an edge and fell on my friend, he was pretty pissed.
Jan 20 2009 7:45PM
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Nicholas.
Posts: 10905 - Karma: 60
today.

was on a non-detatchable quad pushing up to the line where u stop to get on with 4 people. my bro steps on the front of my board by accident so obviously i fall forward, they had to slow the lift down and shit so i could get up. kinda embarassing especially cause we were getting on first run with two really good riders and friends of ours but i just laughed it off, my bro said what happened and we made fun of him for being a dbag.
Jan 20 2009 7:52PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
I was full speed sprinting to the lodge with my boots on (legs way up in the air and everything) it would have been awesome if the snow I was running on didnt disappear leaving a wet wooden floor. coming into that on an angle with boots on meant no traction whatsoever. I knew I was done for in the air. I came crashing down and did a complete slide across this bridge. I got up to try and play it off, but my knee was bruised for a few weeks and I looked like such a gaper. hurt like a bitch! let that be a lesson, dont run with ski boots on, unless on snow!
Jan 20 2009 7:53PM
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b-kul
Posts: 4350 - Karma: 1,111
went too slow into an up box at bolton, got halfway up it and then slid back down it and fell on my ass.
Jan 20 2009 8:01PM
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Lexx
Posts: 327 - Karma: 688
Me and a few friends were hittin the park before it was open to see the set-up.  We decided to drop into the half-pipe for a little powder shot.  Both my skis went straight down into the powder, i double-ejected, and face-planted for quite a few feet.  I get up laughing and while i was putting my skis on realize that my nose was bleeding like crazy.  To make it even better i saw my hot friends from pa on the way down with blood all over my face...g-a-p-e-r
Jan 20 2009 8:09PM
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ZM231
Posts: 534 - Karma: 25
Idk if it is considered a gaper moment but, one time i was at mount snow and i straightlining at a semi pow day, so there was a hill ahead of me and i went up to do a slash and unknowingly sprayed a 6 ft gayper. So i just kept goin down the mountain and i got to the lift line, then all the sudden i see the gayper come out of nowhere and he runs over the backs of my skis right infront of the lift workers and went to run back inside. Anyway i guess that wold be one of my gayper moments.
Jan 20 2009 8:26PM
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newengland72
Posts: 227 - Karma: 29
LOL. FTW; EPIC FAIL
Jan 20 2009 8:27PM
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MACAQUE
Posts: 2811 - Karma: 696
Mine was when I was getting on a quad lift with my friend and two other skiers and as I was about to move up to the loading point and my tips crossed so I looked like a complete gaper and I missed the chair.
Jan 20 2009 8:44PM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
this happened saturday at breck

i was waiting in the super long singles line texting on my phone and not paying attention to the line moving.  i  slide down sideways still not paying any attention, i catch an edge and fall right into the girl in front of me. it was pretty embarassing
Jan 20 2009 8:48PM
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PAINE_IN_MAINE
Posts: 300 - Karma: 13
I came off kink box switch, it was crowded at the landing, landed switch then slid right into a kid who wasnt watching we rolled a few feet and end up with ours skis inter locked with his ass sitting on my croch, we were stuck like this til finally one of his friends un clipped us both, I said I was sorry a few times, but the kid never said anything, when I got up I skied away as fast as possible, I hear them laughing when I was leaving, I later realised that I my goggles had fallen off in the crash, so i had to go back into the park to get them where the group of kids were still hanging out, I was pissed at my self for being such a loser, but now I am laughing about it
Jan 20 2009 9:06PM
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EvanMeyer
Posts: 3822 - Karma: 3,459
skiing through some trees in front of a huge group of people and I mean 20 or 30 and I was looking back talking to someone when I get clothes lined by a brand fall right on my back everybody stops and gathers around me thinking im dead or something I felt like the biggest dumb ass ever
Jan 20 2009 9:15PM
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spliff.Life
Posts: 7847 - Karma: 1,549
69 posts!
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Jan 20 2009 9:18PM
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BMB
Posts: 3138 - Karma: 232
last year at states at the Wa, i tried to ski into the park switch, through the gate area by the terrain park sign, but I accidentally missed and knocked over the sign, and had to put it back up.  such a gaper moment.
Jan 20 2009 9:21PM
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roaklee
Posts: 1288 - Karma: 90
Two or three weekends ago I got to my mountain and dropped my skis off at the ski racks outside the lodge and went inside to get my boots on and put my stuff away and I went back outside and couldn't find my skis for like 5 minutes.  People were looking at me cause I was just walking around looking for them.  I finally found them and they were in the exact same place i left them
Jan 20 2009 9:29PM
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Dr_Feelgood
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hahahaha oh jeez i had mine the weekend before i left for college.

was up at west mountain in queensbury ny, which isnt much of a mountain. but it is an attractant for upper class gapers, and gapers of all class. well anyways they actually have a park crew this year which i find REALLY funny because theres not much of a park. well anyways i get up to this first jump which happened to be the largest, with a gap of roughly 10 feet. i see it, not to worringly, plan hit it. with confidence i approach the jump expecting to throw a 3 for starters. i get to the base of the takeoff and realize that i am going way too fast, so i bail on the 3 and hardcore snowplow to slow myself down. then i hit the jump but ended up landing short haha. i landed right on the knuckle, which was a block of ice, along with the landing. and, of course, the landing dropped off hardcore, so the knuckle was very highlighted. landing on this knuckle, i lost one of my skis, which led to me sliding helplessly down the landing and to the flat ground below. i was ashamed.

sparknotes: i failed to clear a 10 ft gap, landed on an icey knuckle, and released from 1 ski, leaving me helplessly sliding to a stop.

Jan 20 2009 9:31PM
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Blurst
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one time i forgot my jacket at home. Mad cold night.
Jan 20 2009 9:33PM
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caucasian_chad
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I've fallen in the liftline a couple of times.  You just feel like a dumbass when that happens.
Jan 20 2009 10:24PM
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zerospinskier
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My best one is when I was little at High North in the summer. I had never been on a T-bar before, and didn't get it. I ended up getting to the front alone, so I skied up to the line, grabbed the T-bar and just sat down. But the thing was still slacked so I just fell on my ass. Then kinda got dragged and all tangled up awkwardly in myself. They had to stop the T-bar as everyone looked on, and the people in line were yelling "Just let it pull you up the hill." Almost just feeling bad for me, past the laughing stage.

It was great
Jan 20 2009 10:54PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Click for larger imagemme knuckeling the landing...Id consider it gaper ha
Jan 20 2009 11:14PM
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brenker
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tried an up-flat rail like 4 years ago at sunapee, hesitated when i was gonna spin onto it and caught an edge right on the lip, flew face first onto the flat part and scratched the fuck out of my new a-frames at the time, thought i broke a tooth. this was right under the lift too. some guy yelled to see if i was ok. sucked.
Jan 20 2009 11:23PM
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thatsG
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I was going switch and when i was reverting, i stuck my pole under my ski and fell flat on my face
Jan 20 2009 11:26PM
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[BRI]noceros
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i coach ski racing for special olympics, and i was turning to go switch so i could see the turns they were making, and my left ski caught on my right one and i fell right on my ass. they all got a huge kick out of it haha
Jan 29 2009 7:18AM
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t_rob
Posts: 6433 - Karma: 11,459
People will think I'm so much cooler after I +1 myself in this thread.
Jan 29 2009 8:20AM
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dubT-jib-1
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over christmas it was really crowded and I got off the lift in the middle of my friend and his gf who is a beginer to start with. We were weaving our way through the gapers still side by side then everything came to a bottle neck congestion. I couldnt do anything but do a last minute pizza but still ran into the back of this guy who was all ready in a 15 gaper pile up.   
Jan 29 2009 9:29AM
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mooseman077
Posts: 300 - Karma: 359
A couple of friends and I were crusing down a blue run at steamboat, when I see all my friends go to the right side of the run. At that point I realized that something bad was about to happen. I come up to a series of quick little rollers way too fast and end up getting backseat and wrecking the shit out of my self, bent the tail of my ski, and had a cut in my pants that was shaped like the side profile of my ski. Felt like a total gaper when all the old people came up to make sure I was ok.
Jan 29 2009 2:09PM
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theblacktaco
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ahhaha tryin to get on to a chailr lift ski poles got stuck under me and flipped me off my skis a double ejected .... all with in 2 feet
Jan 29 2009 3:08PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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I did a nollie of this little bump, and right in front of that little bump there was a bigger bump that i didn't see. So one of my tips it it and ski fell off, in the air i must have looked pretty dumb all stretched out and whatnot. In the air i realized what happened and spun around to regain my balance only to ride away on one ski and i was like" if i don't fall now i'll have to walk far" so i fell and proably looked stupid. oh well, seasons over.
Mar 17 2009 9:37PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
had two friends from school in the park, it was their first time skiing. i tell them that i am gonna go do a 270 on to this little box, and catch on the snowboard track of the jump, get 180, and land on my back.


Mar 17 2009 9:43PM
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Bren-Ten
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haha couldnt have said it any better
Mar 17 2009 9:51PM
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TheMoostafian
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on friday night i was just ridin switch and i guess i caught an edge or something (i dont remember what happened at all) and got a pretty bad concussion and had to go to the ER. I wasnt even hitting any feature or anything. Now i cant ski for a few weeks
Mar 17 2009 9:56PM
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mackinnon
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pretty much every time i show up at A51 i feel like a gaper hahaha
Mar 17 2009 10:34PM
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