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Most Asshole Thing That Ski Patrol Has Done To You

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*JDBP*
Posts: 312 - Karma: 2,006
Clipping My Pass For Being Too Drunk.

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Oct 30 2013 10:13PM
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hippy.
Posts: 3106 - Karma: 14,364
I have never encountered ski patrol before because I am a responsible skier who watches out for myself and others in a safe manner.
Nov 2 2013 1:42PM
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-Robert
Posts: 2000 - Karma: 1,491
7springs this year decided to smooth the groomers down the main slope on the front side in the middle of the day. So while the they were doing that, patrol held everybody at the top of the main lift. With that said, there were A LOT of families and little kids in front of me and my friends. We didnt want to wait for all the kids to go first so we went around(still on the slope) up to the front. The ski patrol there stared me down since I was in the front and once they let everybody go, I started going and he pretty much tackled me and this other guy for cutting in line. My friends got around him but we couldn't. We got in a big argument and after awhile of him bs'ing why he stopped us, we just skied away. That wasn't to much fun. I didn't get my pass clipped or anything so it wasn't terrible.
Nov 2 2013 2:51PM
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Wizerd
Posts: 908 - Karma: 6,695
I highly doubt that
Nov 2 2013 2:59PM
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LSDTripGod
Posts: 184 - Karma: 201
Failed a nollie over a roller and hit the gucci plateau hard as fuck and probably knocked myself out. It was the last run and I was on the mountain alone and they came and saved me. They put me in an ambulance and I ended up bruising my kidney and fracturing my tailbone and peeing blood and shit so thank you ski patrol you guys arent douches
Nov 2 2013 8:08PM
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SunburntSquad
Posts: 293 - Karma: 496
lol
Nov 2 2013 8:13PM
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ThePierceStudios
Posts: 86 - Karma: 526
Most of the ski patrol are pretty cool people, but it seems like the lifties can be pretty douchey every once in a while...
Nov 26 2013 3:41PM
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AidanCski
Posts: 420 - Karma: 860
I went down the wrong trail with my friend and then we hiked like 20 yards through the woods to the right trail. Ski patrol huy saw us and " Hey get the fuck out of the woods." He walked up to us and gave us a big lecture on what we did wrong. Anyways, he pulled both of our passes and said we couldn't come back to the mountain for 2 month. We were also both 11 years old at the time. I was pretty fuckin pissed. s
Nov 26 2013 3:48PM
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Alvaro
Posts: 323 - Karma: 2,066
we spended 3 days shovelling a jump in the backcountry and they sended a team of ski patrolls to destroy it, i was really pissed off but it wasnt their fault because someone of the resort told them to do that.

Nov 26 2013 4:02PM
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iH8pow
Posts: 1808 - Karma: 7,694
not to me, but I know a guy in Breck who lost his pass for a month on opening day and has to take classes now because he was skiing "too fast". Apparently they sometimes expect you to stop and talk to them rather than just yelling at you as you ski by, because when he tried to get back on the lift it was all over for "evading"

ALSO at Breck... I was riding the lift with an employee (must have been ski patrol). We were having good conversation when a guy coming down skis a little bit outside the sticks (I don't think there was even rope) to ski a little powder. Guy gets on his walkie talkie to the lifties, giving full detail about the "offender" and telling them to pull his pass when he gets back on the lift. Needless to say, I had nothing to say to the guy for the rest of that ride

I know they are doing their job, and they are the ones who will save our ass when things go wrong. They just have the unfortunate duty (like police officers) of occasionally coming down on you very hard for doing something that was maybe only marginally bad

On the other hand, I'm in love with a ski patroller at Snowbird though. One day I will meet her, and oh yes, she will be mine
Nov 26 2013 4:06PM
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Dr.Dealgood
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When I was park ratting about eight years ago, a group of us were hitting the park and then flying down the main run ollying, buttering, etc.

At one point we were doing a suicide line through the park and I was at the tail end and fell. In order to catch up with everyone else I straight lined it.

Two patrollers had stopped everyone else to give a free lesson on skiing etiquette and respect... but they had chosen to do this right under a large roller.

I came flying down and aired over the roller, only to domino effect everyone in the "lineup"

A hilarious argument ensued regarding ski safety: unsafely stopping us under a blind roller VS. skiing fast and in control to the lift line.

No passes were lost.
Nov 26 2013 4:17PM
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tgm
Posts: 278 - Karma: 325
Pulled my pass for skiing less than a football field's worth of a run. agreed though, they gotta do what they gotta do
Feb 8 2014 7:00PM
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GayWolf420
Posts: 37391 - Karma: 120,153
i love ski partol. rode up with one today and he gave me the low down on the deepness. had some unreal turns thanks to that dude.
Feb 8 2014 7:24PM
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raymondcabral
Posts: 747 - Karma: 1,094
It's usually the yellow jacket old guys who yell at us. LIke this one super old crusty dude who yells at us for swearing and going into the woods, even though it's aloud. I find him hilarious. KId toucher
Feb 8 2014 8:55PM
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Schmaelzle
Posts: 272 - Karma: 547
you've still got back flips
Feb 8 2014 9:30PM
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danderson.
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Kicked me out of a rail jam for not having brakes on one of my skis.
Feb 8 2014 9:52PM
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ATLskier
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Years ago, I dropped a rope and skied out of bounds (I wasn't thinking clearly as my best friend had just died). Anyways, I went down this sick chute but ski patrol saw me and chased after me. I went off some decent sized cliffs in hopes they wouldn't catch me. Somehow I lost my hat after hitting one, but they never caught me. I get called into my boss's(ski school director) office the next morning and there's my hat. The asshole ski patrol found my hat, knew it was mine, and gave it to my boss, almost getting me fired. Luckily my boss was a cool Austrian dude who felt for me (cause of my friend's death), and just gave me a lecture instead of firing me. I guess skiing is the easy part.
Feb 8 2014 9:56PM
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mseward
Posts: 1041 - Karma: 1,243
Haha, I have alot of respect for Patrolers at real resorts (av control etc) . But at my 500 metre vertical hill the patrolers stand on the lip of our 10 ft jumps telling us when to drop.
Feb 8 2014 10:29PM
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WaffleMaster
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legit one here:

I'm in that good-as-hell, no-filter mood. As soon as I'm about to get on the 2-person lift by myself, the lone liftie says "ey ski patrol says no throwing snowballs". I completely thought he was joking, as that's incredibly retarded. So I said "eh I might, I don't know" or something as I got on the chair. 15 feet later the lift stops and the dude yells "what did you say?!" and I said "nothin"-- I still thought he was joking. I actually thought, "wow he stopped the lift for a joke I mean that's going pretty far". I thought nothing of it. Soon as I get to the top there's 2 patrollers and they point and tell me to come and are like "were you being a wiseass to the guy at the bottom?" I explained that I thought he was joking and that I wasn't throwing snowballs and it was all gucci.
Feb 8 2014 11:17PM
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Wolfgang.
Posts: 807 - Karma: 866
I once lost a ski in a bail, it went flying, as I scramble to get out of the way of the landing and figure out where my ski had gone, and ski patroller picked it up and skied down with it. He yelled to me that I he'll give it to me at the bottom. I was in a cross mood so I proceeded by taking my time, hitting all the features I could on one ski. Hiking a box or two. Then at the bottom he told me that one of my heel plates and brakes were slightly crooked (obviously due to the abuse park skis get), and that he wouldn't let me ski unless I bought a leash.
Feb 8 2014 11:27PM
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OGoriginal-gaper
Posts: 354 - Karma: 86
told me to slow down, i don't think i can ever forgive him for that, but in all seriousness i broke my bindings and they gave me a ride down to the bottom and they do alot more good then bad.
Feb 8 2014 11:56PM
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