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What's the mood like in your local lift line?

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FUUUCK
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It was a powder day yesterday in whistler, I managed to be one of the first 20 people to excalibur at base II.

I don't know if everyone was just in a bad mood but the tension was so fucking high. As soon as I got off the gondola to get in line (I loaded at the village to get in line at baseII) I'm greeted by-

"HEY! BACK OF THE LINE!"

That was the direction I was already walking... thanks?

Later standing in line my buddy tells me jersey cream might be closed when we get up there. I reply with, "oh, why?".

The guy in front of me pipes up-

"HAHAHA I guess you've never done avalanche patrol before"

I wasn't aware I needed that?

Everyone gets up excellerator chair and I take one super deep trackless run, smile on my face. I get back in line to take another awesome run when the lift stops.

Someone fell off? Nope-

"HEY HE PUSHED ME OFF! CALL THE SKI PATROL!"

Are you fucking kidding me? Who pushes a guy off the lift?

I decide to head over to solarcoaster a run later and am met with another line that isn't moving. We wait for about 20 minutes, the lifties and mountain guests go around and tell everyone ski patrol is still doing avy control and they don't have an ETA for when they'll get the all clear.

Sounds reasonable, but before you know it people get restless and begin to scream and yell at the lifties to let them on. A mountain safety guy goes up the lift and everyone booos. People were acting life drunk teenagers. I felt embarrassed to be in that line.

What does NS think, is this not far off from your mountain? Or am I too sensitive?




Dec 1 2010 1:40PM
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nkmo.
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No friends on a powder day...
Dec 1 2010 1:42PM
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chardi
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mountains under 400ft don't have lift lines, you can just drive to the top if you want to
Dec 1 2010 1:43PM
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CBROOKS
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Every time I have shredded whistler on a pow day (4 occasions) there have assholes like that. Definitely people stoking too, but I have noticed a lot of bitter "I'm the best skier here so I'll tell you what to do" attitude around on the pow days there.
Dec 1 2010 1:45PM
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hoodratz47
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Canadians.......
Dec 1 2010 1:47PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
Definitely got that attitude from some people, not to say everyone was being a dick, because most people were stoked, there were just a lot of negative nancies.
Dec 1 2010 1:47PM
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stunt_ditch
Posts: 196 - Karma: 13
That's lame dude. The tram line at Jay Peak sounds like the videos we used to watch in fourth grade French class.
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Dec 1 2010 1:48PM
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jca
Posts: 4172 - Karma: 6,310
fuck those people.  They don't deserve to be shredding pow.  Lines at Red are definitely not like that.  Although snakers will get a snowball to the head.
Dec 1 2010 1:50PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
?
Dec 1 2010 1:51PM
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Skithedeep
Posts: 645 - Karma: 39
that sounds terrible. at my home mountain you cant tell the locals by the people not being able to figure out how the lift lines mesh together, but no one ever says anything if they accidentaly cut, i love being at a chill mountain with minimal dbags
Dec 1 2010 1:56PM
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Pee_and_Ski
Posts: 1869 - Karma: 57
apart from being yelled at for smoking a cig in line, no one gives anyone shit.....apart for the guy that chewed me out for swearing, another guy was pissed that me and my buddie were singing.....ya people suck
Dec 1 2010 2:01PM
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Ben.
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i dont really have lift lines...
Dec 1 2010 2:01PM
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.nasty
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all I know is the lifties at loveland have the worst attitude ever, especially on pow days. like we get it, you're some local who owns the ridge. big whoop.
Dec 1 2010 2:03PM
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lizzatronn
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it depends how long the line is at my mountain. if it's ridic long people get antsy in their pantsies and flip shit when someone "cuts" or if the lift stops because i little kid couldn't get off perfectly. if it's short it's just chill trying to get back to the top to ski some more and no one really cares if the lift has to stop.

Dec 1 2010 2:07PM
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GayWolf420
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Its pretty mellow here. Everybody is just stoked to be out shredding I guess. Sometimes you have your occasional old guys who act like they are the shit because they have been skiing longer than you have.
Dec 1 2010 2:17PM
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.AR6rider.
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One of the lifties at my hill is super uptight about getting 4 people on every lift.  Sometimes my brother and I will just hang back so we don't have to jam on the lift with two snowboarders, only to get fucking screamed at by the psycho liftie.  I just want to be like "dude, chill the fuck out, there's only 6 people behind us in line and it's a high speed lift on a hill with 180 vert.  Waiting an extra 10 seconds never killed anyone."

Dec 1 2010 2:22PM
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Style+eeze
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Ours are pretty cool. The park lift at my mountain hosts mainly park skiers and snowboarders, but also families. Everyone seems to get along fairly well. But sometimes there are douchebag, overprotective parents swearing in front of their kids. Like, yeah... we're definitely setting a bad example for your kids while you're dropping f-bombs every sentence.

But overall I'd say chill. I definitely know what you mean about Whistler. I feel like at the lower lifts that's true, but getting over to peak at 8:30 in the morning on a pow day, you're bound to witness nothing but stoke. And when the first skiers come down and drop Air Jordan, everyone's clapping and hollering and congratulating. I love it when that happens!
Dec 1 2010 2:32PM
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Toasty.
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dont understand german, austrian or swiss. so i dont really care what their talkin about. but skiin in france suck, cause i can understand them. and if it is less than freezing and not blue bird and they talk about is how shitty the day is.
Dec 1 2010 3:05PM
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J-Dunn
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Well people arepissed if the lins arelng. Including me. I go to a resort that takes 4 minutes on the lift then you get to ski down the hill and you at the bottom in 30 seconds so a long line blows. Then i hike rails nOTHIG LIKE YOU were talking about though. Thats crazy!
Dec 1 2010 3:19PM
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TheButterHashira
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Before I broke my afterbangs I would hear gapers talk about the "lights" on my bases because of the fluorescent green bases on them. I also heard one guy telling his kids that I had my skis mounted backwards. I ski amongst many gapers, but no one ever gets mad or rude in the line.
Dec 1 2010 3:24PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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das wussup
Dec 1 2010 3:32PM
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SLAGATHOR
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I think the closest thing to a conflict I can remember ever seeing at Bogus was this kid that ducked under a lift line in front of a bunch of people...then apologized when they noticed and quietly went to the back of the line. hahahahah We don't really get many powder days and definitely none of that avalanche stuff though so maybe people just don't get a chance to show their powder day douchebaggery.

Dec 1 2010 3:38PM
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theWIZARD
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that really sucks, and thats pretty ridiculous that someone pushed another off a lift!
Dec 1 2010 3:51PM
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A.Eberhard
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Some people are just general douchbags. You won't here people obeying the rules and keep shut shooting out, so it feels like everyone is a douche when really only 10 max are.

Ran into a back of a older racer guys ski's accidently and I don't know if it's just hate because we wear big/flashier clothes, but I get the response " Want to do that again bud? "
Just told him to mine him saying bud doesn't make him tougher and just cause he ski's gates doesn't make him the best skier on the hill. That was one awkward wait in the lift line...
Dec 1 2010 4:01PM
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GayWolf420
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God damn I hate that. Racers all perched up on their high horses with their 5 foot racing poles lodged in their asses. See that shit all the time at PC. Always asking us freeskiers why we wear such "colorful" and "gay" clothing.
Dec 1 2010 4:06PM
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10...nuffsaid
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I work at COP making snow and working on trail crew. yesterday i was getting on one of our two lifts on a busy sunday. This group of douchebag snowboarders (probs about 7) got all fired up when i grabbed a chair in b/t them. I was so pissed. I MAKE THE SNOW AND PARK YOUR BOARDING ON, YOU RITARDS!
Dec 1 2010 4:12PM
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OMGHEDIDNT
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I never experienced anything like this in European liftlines. Guess people are just more mellowed out about it here.
Dec 1 2010 4:13PM
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ndye
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Lift lines at my mountain are super chill.  They usually arent very long and the only people who are ever assholes are the ones who arent from around.  One time two friends and i were waiting in line.  After like 5 minutes theres a family behind us.  It is 3 people who are clearly out of state and new to skiing; a father mother and daughter.  We see another friend clipping in his skis at the end of the line and motion for him to come forward.  Fill up our quad, and its all good no one gets shortchanged or anything.  The Father in the family behind us yells at us and threatens to call the cops.  Not ski patrol, the COPS. We just told him to chill and eventually his wife/girlfriend? calmed him down. Only bad experience i have had at my mountain in lift lines.

Dec 1 2010 4:21PM
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skibum81290
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shoulda told him to buy a bullet and rent a gun
Dec 1 2010 4:31PM
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skiminnesota
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instructor lift lines are a beautiful thing.
Dec 1 2010 4:50PM
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Jpurd
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omg dude i hate waiting in lines it sucks
Dec 1 2010 4:53PM
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fatherb
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haha that made me lol
Dec 1 2010 5:01PM
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Drail
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yeah... that is one of the main reasons I very much dislike Whistler in the winter time. Fernie gets all aggro' on pow days as well.


The only problems I have at Red in the lift line is before opening chair when I go early to get at/near the front of the line only to have some old local walk in front of me and snake the whole line. I don't really care though, because he isn't going where I'm going. If it means so much to him - he can have it.
Dec 1 2010 5:09PM
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Zoro
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The only day I've ever a lift line at my mountain was Martin Luther king day. But theres usually a good vibe all around my mountain and since its so small everyone kinda knows eachother
Dec 1 2010 5:10PM
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DERS.
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haha thats lame
in telluride everyone is pretty cool with each other
only thing remotely close to that that ive ever experienced was after 4ft of freshies gold hill/prospect bowl was closed for a day or too after the storm for avalanche work. and then when they finally opened it ppl were waiting at the ropes and when the ropes were dropped all hell broke loose. couldnt see anythhing because so much powder was being kicked up a few ppl fell. and i managed to make the 3rd chair up out of over 200 ppl.. dope!
Dec 1 2010 5:13PM
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StevenR
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The one pow day we had at my mountain was pretty chill. My friends and I got like second and third gondolas. One of my friends got there after a line had formed behind the rest of us and he just kinda joined us. some old due said "Young man, I have seen people killed for doing what you just did". He was only semi serious/mostly joking though. We also had a friend walk into the gondola barn just as we were loading up and he got in with us. I'm sure it pissed people off but I didnt hear anybody say anything.
Dec 1 2010 5:21PM
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pow_pow2
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...do this all the time! SINGLE!!!  Nothing wrong with that...call the COPS, what a bitch!  You should have turned around and blew weed smoke in his face!!
Dec 1 2010 5:25PM
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shrEddie
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i wish
Dec 1 2010 6:17PM
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414.
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don't really have lines at my hill, plus i mainly use the tow-rope, but theres always the douchebag boarders just cutting in line and not spacing out the rope so it breaks down every 2 minutes.
Dec 1 2010 6:56PM
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jason...
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lol whistler. im at grouse, everyone just keeps to themselves in the lift lines, mostly families.
Dec 1 2010 6:59PM
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rozboon
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Sometimes the line for the 6-pack at my home mountain gets a real bad vibe. The queue looks real huge but being a 6 seater detachable it moves a helluva lot of people really fast but people still get all antsy. Climbing over your skis to get 1 row forward, throwing a massive hissy if you call a mate forward, stuff like that.
We were once at the back of the queue and suddenly some middle-aged guy skis up over my friend's tails, along his skis and into the back of his bindings. He turns around and is like hey, wtf man. The guy just looks at him and shouts GET OUT OF THE WAY. So we all turn on him and are like shit, it's a queue, what's your fucking deal, guy just stands there shouting YOU'RE IN THE WAY, MOVE.
Was getting pretty heated, the guy swung a ski pole at my friend but just missed deliberately, my friend pulled off his skis and started advancing on the guy when his wife/whatever dragged him away. All over nothing. Bad buzz.
Dec 1 2010 7:02PM
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butteredpretzel
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granite chief lift line at squaw valley or any morning lift line on a powder day is extremely hostile. Or hilarious.
Dec 1 2010 7:22PM
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ReignMan
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There are alot of racer kids in my line. the oonly thing people do that is weird is snake around and stare at me. since they cant see my eyes they don't realize i notice. Other wise every one knows everyone and its chill.
Dec 1 2010 7:24PM
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grambo
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Welcome to Whistler on any pow day, especially early season. Too many rad shredheads, even midweek.

Dec 1 2010 7:24PM
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selkirks
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I've never had a single problem at my mountain. Even on a powder days at Chair Six (an old, 13-minute long fixed-grip double chair), which can get fairly long liftlines, there still aren't any problems. There's often music blasting, and no one is ever afraid to shout out "SINGLE!" in the liftline. At the quads and at Stella, the lift crews are great at getting four (or six) people on every chair. On the chair, conversation is friendly. The vibe overall is much less pervasive and much more chill than what I've seen in this thread.
Dec 1 2010 7:26PM
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HalfandHalf
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dam thats retarded, people like that piss me off. ofcourse everyone is impatient and wants to go up, but pushing someone off of a fucking lift? yelling at lifties? come on.
Dec 1 2010 7:46PM
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Skibumsmith
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It's not like that at home. Everyone has a good attitude and cheers when the lift starts. But now I run the lifts bitches! MWAHAHAHA
Dec 1 2010 7:56PM
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gnarles.
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well half the time my lift lines are runned by asians so i dont understand a word they are saying
Dec 1 2010 8:00PM
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BootySpunk.
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Came in here to say this...I don't think I have waiting in a life line in about a year...
Dec 1 2010 8:14PM
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.Mike.D
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the lift lines where i ski kinda depend on the weather. bad weather-bad moods etc. it also depends on whose there on that day

Dec 1 2010 8:18PM
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Kreech
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ive NEVER experienced any negative attitude at crystal mountain, wa. thats my primary mountain and theres nothing i DONT like aboout it
Dec 1 2010 8:36PM
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