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You know you're a vancouver skier when...

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CrunkNugget
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you know the other tram isn't going faster
you decide whether or not to go skiing based on what you see out of your window
you wonder why all the movie segments are in the daytime

anyone else?
Dec 24 2009 1:54AM
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epic_line
Posts: 929 - Karma: 32
You can't trust the snow report, cause a 400 cm base means there are dirt patches on the runs
Dec 24 2009 2:48AM
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james44
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 578
every couple of weeks you change your mind about which mountain to hate on
Dec 24 2009 3:17AM
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CHARLES.BRONSON
Posts: 3123 - Karma: 230
When you live in North or West van and complain about the drive to seymour
Dec 24 2009 2:24PM
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Turner.
Posts: 1989 - Karma: 11,892
that park crew will probably never come along to fix the lip

you can't help but feel that management really doesn't give a shit about you

that Capilano lake is man made and supplies Vancouver with about 1 third of it's fresh drinking water.
Dec 24 2009 2:47PM
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Jordan.j
Posts: 847 - Karma: 28
when you pay 5 dollers for a tiny slice of pizza
Dec 24 2009 4:06PM
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Topher19
Posts: 100 - Karma: 15
^ more of a whistler/blackcomb thing isnt it? haha
know your from squamish when youd rather risk your seasons and steal a red bull then pay $4.50 for one.
Dec 24 2009 5:19PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
as well as the locals
Dec 24 2009 5:59PM
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Download-My-Apps
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when you're stoked for a week of cold rain in the city.
Dec 24 2009 7:39PM
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erikK
Posts: 3245 - Karma: 2,329
that if i have any other questions, i know who to ask
Dec 24 2009 8:27PM
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Abc567def
Posts: 8756 - Karma: 801
when you can feel it in you bones before you even get to the tram tower and laugh at the tourists that scramble to brace themselves
Dec 25 2009 4:48AM
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Topher19
Posts: 100 - Karma: 15

when you cant stop having a little chuckle everytime the gondola gets to midstation and you watch all the tourists tumble around after the jolt

guess its kinda the same as ^^^^ but this is whistler/blackcomb one

Dec 25 2009 8:29PM
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Sir.Pete
Posts: 1617 - Karma: 84
when every time you go to the mtn they have got ridiculously sick and creative setups.
when you get treated amazing cuz management knows your a local.
cuz liftees help you cut lines if they get too long.


grouse must suck
Dec 26 2009 12:40AM
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skiseemore
Posts: 988 - Karma: 17
wen you wonder why the rest of bc has epic pow lines but ours is wet cement shit o wait all i ski is epic pow ha
Dec 26 2009 12:48AM
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erikK
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In another thread you just said seymour lines never get long.
Dec 26 2009 12:50AM
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Sir.Pete
Posts: 1617 - Karma: 84
for the locals.
Dec 26 2009 12:57AM
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brown_spy
Posts: 532 - Karma: 31
yo North Hill boxing day sale today at park royal. South side.
Dec 26 2009 10:32AM
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hue.
Posts: 1518 - Karma: 220
and they start getting off the gondi during the early season when down low isn't open
Dec 26 2009 2:23PM
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manny.ester
Posts: 708 - Karma: 141
good thread!

... when you know the best way to get free food up at grouse is to make friends with the asian tourists.
Dec 26 2009 3:21PM
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erikK
Posts: 3245 - Karma: 2,329
there's easier ways, oh how there is
Dec 27 2009 3:08AM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
not true. but i see what you're getting at.
Dec 27 2009 8:02AM
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manny.ester
Posts: 708 - Karma: 141
well unless you are gonna steal it its the easiest way
Dec 27 2009 9:15PM
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frenchsteeze
Posts: 259 - Karma: 44
hahahaha look at dis grouse noob. there are far better and easier ways, you aint got a clue
Dec 27 2009 9:26PM
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ZavierV
Posts: 5077 - Karma: 100
Um, no. The easiest way to get food is to lurk the Asian Tourists who buy $60 worth of food, barely touch it, then get up to go to torment the bears. Pounce on that shit.
Dec 27 2009 9:27PM
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manny.ester
Posts: 708 - Karma: 141
yo you can get a full meal from the asians they are so fucking generous, you can get the food people have left but its gonna be cold and shit
Dec 27 2009 10:22PM
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james44
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 578
haha do you go up to random asian families and ask them for food
Dec 28 2009 12:26AM
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manny.ester
Posts: 708 - Karma: 141
no you just gotta introduce yourself and then most of them are super nice, you dont even have to ask for food, like 3 times now they have just offered to buy me something... can't say no to that kind of an offer
Dec 28 2009 1:45AM
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erikK
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that's sick!
Dec 28 2009 2:45AM
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hucksplat
Posts: 966 - Karma: 1,124
... when you get banned for life for skiing out of bounds

... when rain in the vill means snow on the hill

... when you  think the club/bar scene is whack and youd rather shred in the a.m.

... when skiing and getting high is chill, and not criminal

... when skiing and drinking kokanee is in the majority

... when olympics in whistler means snowmobiling in the coquihalla

... when a ski magazine/movie isn't even as good as what you and friends put on facebook


Dec 28 2009 3:56AM
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manny.ester
Posts: 708 - Karma: 141
...when there's 150cm of snow on the mountains in late December, and it already feels like spring skiing (this season only)
Dec 28 2009 4:29AM
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CrunkNugget
Posts: 1279 - Karma: 16
when the park crew hotboxes the rail shed
(if you were at 48 hours last year, it was basically the most amazing thing ever until ski patrol shut it down lol)
Dec 28 2009 2:05PM
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Max-Steeze
Posts: 448 - Karma: 171
when you have no money to eat ... so you get crackers and make peanut butter and jam sandwiches, and grab a cup and fill it up with milk from the dispensers
Dec 28 2009 6:30PM
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jibbinc.
Posts: 3355 - Karma: 2,497
when you take the public bus to the mountain...
Dec 28 2009 6:31PM
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ZavierV
Posts: 5077 - Karma: 100
Or bring up cookies and use milk from the dispensers...
Dec 28 2009 7:54PM
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manny.ester
Posts: 708 - Karma: 141
...when the park crew won't set up a up-flat rail as a flat-down rail because it "won't work that way because its designed to be an up-flat"
Dec 28 2009 8:05PM
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Jordan.j
Posts: 847 - Karma: 28
when u can say the speech the same as on th grouse  tram
Dec 28 2009 8:55PM
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REMDOG
Posts: 28 - Karma: 16
whistler for me

-when you say no to go party because its gonna be a pow day but you will jump on the offer if your working the morning shift!
- you think spyder suits are funny!
-you get chest deep pow on the 4th day of the opening! (2009)
-you hate new years because the bars charge 100 doll cover to see the same dj's a usual!
-taking the peak to peak is something you do everyday.

thats it for now!



Dec 28 2009 9:54PM
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BShear66
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You're still exited to go skiing in the rain because you never know when it'll snow.

You expect to wait about half an hour in the Screaming Eagle chair at Grouse.

You know there's usually something really fun to hit at the park.

Jan 3 2010 1:17AM
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ZavierV
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When you're too hungover to think or move but go ski pow anyways.
Jan 3 2010 1:49PM
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BoatsandHoes
Posts: 190 - Karma: 14
fuck the peak to peak, $50 million gone to waste
Jan 3 2010 11:57PM
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Sir.Pete
Posts: 1617 - Karma: 84
the money is gone, so may as well abuse the gondola and ride it excessively
Jan 4 2010 12:46AM
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J.D.
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The peak to peak isn't so bad now that it's there. Granted, waste of 50 mil that could've been used to open new terrain somewhere (same with symphony) but I can now park in Creekside and still ski blackcomb which I have already done a handful of times this year, used to be you had to pick a mountain.
Jan 4 2010 12:49AM
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-ShredTheGnar-
Posts: 2038 - Karma: 111
Hence why you go to house party's

had the dopest new year at a party in Alpine.
Jan 4 2010 2:35AM
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Abc567def
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I went there, got broken up early cuz that beezy got jumped...could have been better
Jan 4 2010 12:34PM
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-ShredTheGnar-
Posts: 2038 - Karma: 111
You must gone to a diff one... this one didnt get broken up was a dope party.
Jan 4 2010 7:18PM
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REMDOG
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true that but i was working at the bar so good money for me! but house party is the best option for sure! alot of tools in the bars on new years anyways!
Jan 7 2010 2:09AM
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