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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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PeterWojnar
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Alpine Meadows lift lines are all awesome mellow, everyone is stoked to ski and it's super chill. Even on pow days, we're all friends in the lift line and on the chair. When it comes to snaking lines it's like everywhere else— worth a lot of points to do, and you lose a lot of points if you get snaked. It's not Squaw, but some of the G.N.A.R. rules still apply. Of course, leaving one's skis and heading to the lodge on a pow day to get first chair will result in relocation of skis and a snowball in the head when you return, but it's all in good fun.

Snowball fights in the morning are way fun, and an awesome way to pass time until the lift opens.
Dec 1 2010 8:44PM
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Pow.yuHdig*
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im movin to whistler in 22 days... it still hasnt totally sunk in but holy tits ill be grinnin ear to ear every day in that line (unless its huge) then ill prolly chirp some nerds
Dec 1 2010 8:49PM
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Sam.Carson
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nothing that serious has happened to me but it pisses me off when ski patrol takes about 10 runs up and down when early the lift line guy says about 30 minute wait till it opens and turns out to be about an hour or more. seems like they take it for themselves almost.
Dec 1 2010 10:55PM
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Troy.
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Had some old guy cut me and 6 ski school kids off just to snake the line. Made me fall to avoid running into his ass. Was just kinda pissed, but then he turns around, sees me, and starts chuckling to himself. I was about to beat his ass
Dec 1 2010 11:07PM
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rewand0
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The lines at meadows on pow days and weekends in jan and feb are crazy and some people get pissed. I try to calm some people down but alot of times get pissed on the inside. But in the spring its sooo nice no lines.
Dec 1 2010 11:12PM
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pigglywiggly
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the fucking league of nations. its always chill though, ive never seen a fight or even any yelling going on. that probably because we rarely have pow to shred...
Dec 1 2010 11:20PM
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jakobk
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some people get angry but not that bad. then again my hill has ALOT of beginners because they all drive from a nearby city
Dec 1 2010 11:28PM
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yojimbo
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my lift lines are usually pretty casual. Theres always a few asshole parkrats/snowboarders who think they own the mountain and are just general d-bags. The biggest thing for me is the frustration felt when a liftie doesnt know how to do their job properly or people don't know how to move through a line properly without being fucking idiots and clogging everything up.
Dec 2 2010 2:46AM
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PacificRimJob
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Squaw definitely has the same mentality as Alpine, although with a few more people in line for KT22 at the beginning of the day, usually... mid-week they are about equal in a lot of ways (although summit chair gets more guys to the top faster - so it tends to A: have shorter lines and B: have the closer lines to the lift get skied out faster than hell)

I've never encountered the sorta thing you saw at whistler in all my years of skiing and in all my times waiting for the lift line to commence... almost always it ends in a YAYYYYY! and never ends in a BOOOOOO! unless they decide not to open the lift or something due to bad weather on top.

And yes. Snowball fights RULE. haha.


Dec 2 2010 3:28AM
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Static
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they used to hand out fresh baked cookies at CB during the holiday season, never had a better lift line experience
Dec 2 2010 3:36AM
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Schlop
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Grouse is filled with first timers and Asians, but I'm not concerned because aside from having the lifts stop periodically they keep to their own. At Seymour, the boarders can be fucking dicks sometimes. At Whistler, the early morning pow days are absolutely full of the one-piece wearing Hellbent mounted freeskiers that think they run the show, and bitch about every little thing. Nothing pisses me off more than those guys
Dec 2 2010 3:55AM
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Peach.
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There are to many begginers at my hill that have no idea what's going on and think that when there is a fiffteen minute line they are intitled to getting to have there own private chair.

Dec 2 2010 11:51AM
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hauser
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Pretty chill, the liftys arent too cool tho
Dec 2 2010 11:56AM
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Scrambles
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Snake or be snaked, and the lifties are usually hotboxing the shack.
Dec 2 2010 11:58AM
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HIT
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It's really weird that you say that, because I ski Whistler as well. I've NEVER seen that happen ever,

EVERY SINGLE TIME I've gone up for a fresh pow day, people are ancy for the lifts to open (obviously) but everyone has always been calm.
Then once the lifts open there's always a super loud cheer and lots of stoke. I usually always go up creekside because of smaller lines, and better pow, don't know if it's different at excalibur.
Then once the pow is over I go to blackcomb, and still never have problems.
No one has ever said anything to me before either, they just leave me and my buddies alone. Half the time when I make eye contact the majority of people just look away instantly, haha.
Even after smoking a bowl, in front of a few people, no one says anything..

It's just really ironic you say Whistler is unchill, because in my mind it's the chillest place on earth. Get away with anything haha.
Dec 2 2010 12:04PM
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Willard
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haha i pushed a friend off the lift before it was hilarious....The only lines my mountain ever has is on weekend pow days were everybody decides to come up. On a bad/kinda lame day you ski right up to the lift
Dec 2 2010 12:04PM
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Daydreaming
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Dec 2 2010 12:09PM
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Shlogan
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at my mountain everything is pretty chill. the main thing youll hear is people trying to explain thier rockered skis to gapers on a pow day. theres usually not enough snow to justify bents or anything so the few locals that have them anyway have a ball explaining how dope thier skis are to everyone else who is less fortunate when the snow is deep. i haven't been to the mountain many normal weekdays because of school, usually just snow days and weekends so im not sure what goes on then. i have a 4-5 week christmass break and half days to ski during the week this year though so i should get the experience the mid week pow day a fair amount. sooooo stoked for santa fe to open.
Dec 2 2010 1:33PM
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Pow.yuHdig*
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what is going on here exactly..?
Dec 2 2010 1:42PM
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deleted5
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i started a snowball fight at a mount snow lift line and they shut it down that was a good day for everyone
Dec 2 2010 1:51PM
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Daydreaming
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I realize now it is out of context because it is part of a story. You can read it here: http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/
Dec 2 2010 2:00PM
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Luc.
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meh, on the lil hill i call home the main attraction is the park, and for the most part its pretty chill, i have witnessed tense lines though out in fernie on a pow day, and got very used to the saying there are no friends on pow days.

plan on going back out after my last semester(have 3 more) weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Dec 2 2010 2:32PM
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