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