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Unwritten rules of the Mountain

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Gooneez
Posts: 96 - Karma: 3,366
Everyone knows the written rules but what are some unwritten rules everyone should know
11 years ago
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nutz.
Posts: 3150 - Karma: 6,717
don't talk about how sick you are in general
11 years ago
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Substitute
Posts: 1378 - Karma: 2,275
the lips at my hill are non-existent. You have like a foot of lip then nothing
11 years ago
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Dorf.
Posts: 765 - Karma: 1,631
This.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RwN_dzN56U
11 years ago
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OwenReynolds
Posts: 223 - Karma: 1,955
When someone lands something, whether he's throwing doubles or learning front 270s, get stoked for them.
11 years ago
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STwoops
Posts: 2941 - Karma: 5,126
take at least one headphone out on chairlift in case homie or stranger wants to talk
11 years ago
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TOAST.
Posts: 7727 - Karma: 39,327
Tell park crew to do something. Not that hard to maintain lips.
11 years ago
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TOAST.
Posts: 7727 - Karma: 39,327
I always put the bar down now. I started to because I have to since I work at my hill, bit I'm so used to leaning on it I always put it down.
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CashmereCat
Posts: 2211 - Karma: 2,395
Congrats. You just lost all credibility by calling something gay. The only other way to lose an argument quicker is to say "that's what the Nazis did"
11 years ago
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lukeduke
Posts: 37 - Karma: 21
always stand just below the landing of a jump where no one can see you
11 years ago
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Nike_Nako
Posts: 131 - Karma: 2,458
Don't be shy, keep stashes on the down-low, don't sideslip anything on a pow day... Anything, don't cut the liftline, get the grab, break trail - or wait your turn to drop.
11 years ago
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AElot
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yeah becasue i defeinitely used the word gay to mean homosexual...putting the bar down is lame.. i hope i didnt hurt your feelings with that word!
11 years ago
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CashmereCat
Posts: 2211 - Karma: 2,395
Using the term gay in a derogatory light is one of my personal pet peeves. My bad, but it seriously annoys me.
11 years ago
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ZeMagnificentKev
Posts: 618 - Karma: 1,325
Don't heckle people from the lift? God dammit you bastards sometimes people fuck up.
11 years ago
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californiagrown
Posts: 9794 - Karma: 2,014
so being gay is lame? stop being such a jew!
11 years ago
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Scotty_B
Posts: 287 - Karma: 423
Don't Complain. I hate hearing people killing my vibes when they start to cry about the ice and the lips ect ect.

Just be happy there is snow to ski on
11 years ago
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LOLZfajitas
Posts: 393 - Karma: 1,054
never flush the toilets, no matter how bad you blew it up
11 years ago
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Snowtorious_BIG
Posts: 659 - Karma: 1,467
11 years ago
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avocado.
Posts: 262 - Karma: 247
Start a conversation on the lift, help kids get off of lift, DONT BUMP AND SKI OVER OTHERS SKIS IN LIFT LINES, give people some personal space
11 years ago
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papermache
Posts: 1097 - Karma: 616
That is one of my favorite past times, especially when it's for breaking one of the other afformentioned rules
11 years ago
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Rekkil
Posts: 169 - Karma: 146
Sit on the lift according to where you are going when you get off
11 years ago
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FunkyMalone
Posts: 66 - Karma: 640
Give props to anyone who tries even if he eats shit
11 years ago
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Huck_Norris
Posts: 11487 - Karma: 18,627
Never stop at the top of your freshy line to look at it all gapey and shit. a) someone WILL blow by you and rape it while you watch and b) the longer you stand there the harder it gets to drop in.



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ny300z
Posts: 1299 - Karma: 1,708
this is retarded.

what if you dont know the lift and what way to go?
what if you are deciding on the way up where you are gonna go?
what if multiple people were going the same direction?

im not rosa parks ill sit wherever i want on a lift.
11 years ago
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fratskier69
Posts: 1868 - Karma: 1,271
people really dont do this enough
11 years ago
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331

This!! especially on crowded days! nothing is more annoying than the douche behind you in line that rams the backs of your skis every minute because they are so antsy to move up in the lift line.

its not like a chair is magically going to skip you because you weren't immediately right behind me. or just because im not bumping into the person in front of me doesn't mean the line is not going to move any faster 

11 years ago
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FP_rida
Posts: 389 - Karma: 103

a backflip is more crowd pleasing that a blunted cork9

if someone does the run over the back of your skis thing in the lift line, after 5 times, its ok to turn around and bring it up

if i buy a 8$ hot dog, and you want a bite, fork over a dollar, motherfucker

11 years ago
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zard_gawd
Posts: 254 - Karma: 329
I lol'd... fuck snowboarders
11 years ago
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YUNG_milksteAk
Posts: 1437 - Karma: 4,328
Put yo shirt back on
11 years ago
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rickylikeskiing
Posts: 16 - Karma: 75
if you have abs ski without a shirt and flex
11 years ago
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Andcz
Posts: 81 - Karma: 568
Dont Blast a gnarly fart when you're on the lift next to a random person.

11 years ago
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FunkyMalone
Posts: 66 - Karma: 640
This should be put on signs displayed all over every mountain
11 years ago
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DanielPlainview
Posts: 391 - Karma: 1,707
if someone loses a ski and slides down the hill below it, always pick it up for them. Even if its a gaper dad.
11 years ago
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Toaster-Tony
Posts: 3531 - Karma: 5,850
*Especially if it's a gaper dad.

I can't think of anything tougher to watch than a middle-aged dude falling all over himself trying to get a lost ski. Save him some dignity and lend him a hand.
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Shredsterr
Posts: 2090 - Karma: 6,930
You have to click on it for it to work
11 years ago
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whackhouse
Posts: 736 - Karma: 939
apparently where I ski, do a flip and ski patrol will piss on your birthday cake
11 years ago
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El_Barto.
Posts: 11661 - Karma: 24,358
youre a gaper
11 years ago
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treebeard
Posts: 3754 - Karma: 3,176
seriously. actively giving a fuck about how someone rides a chairlift is just idiotic
11 years ago
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theabortionator
Posts: 52529 - Karma: 173,385
Somebody lost their board or a ski at mount snow a few years ago on nitro and was walking down to get it. I was hassling them telling them I was going to race them there and steal it/ sell it on ebay.

And this is the part where I'm supposed to tell you I was just joking with them for the hell of it but I actually stole it and sold it on ebay. Snooze ya loose bro.
11 years ago
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RIP_leos_shack
Posts: 718 - Karma: 3,369
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11 years ago
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Funnel
Posts: 7818 - Karma: 1,590
Usually if this happens to me I'll pick my skis up, back up a little and step on their tips. It usually does the trick. It happens all the time at Mammoth with all of the LA assholes and in Tahoe with some of the Bay Area dicks. Also pisses me off when people move up on you from the other line even though you and your homies have the right of way in alternating/merging lines.
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ErryB
Posts: 138 - Karma: 1,685

BOOM! seriously you don't look cool not having the bar down, you just look like you're a try hard thug
11 years ago
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ErryB
Posts: 138 - Karma: 1,685
call your mother fucking drop
don't make of fun people trying to learn new things whether they be a local or gaper
persistance is key to learning
learn from your mistakes
don't hate on peoples appearances
and pretty much what has already been said
11 years ago
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Randy_Quench
Posts: 5447 - Karma: 4,348
QFE.
this is the most important "unwritten rule" imo. its what keeps our sport growing and progressing. spread that stoke!
11 years ago
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Rekkil
Posts: 169 - Karma: 146
Well, doing so helps the flow of traffic coming off the lifts (i.e., person on left side wants to go right and vis versa) not so much of a rule but common courtesy that people take upon on my mountain.

Also, Rosa Parks sat where she wanted sooo.... yeah...
11 years ago
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steezburgereddie
Posts: 1059 - Karma: 1,945
Stay to in a group on the side of the run instead of lining up all the way across it for half an hour.
11 years ago
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Snazzy
Posts: 212 - Karma: 852
Sorry that couldn't happen, park crew from my hill are a bunch of lazy shits
11 years ago
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Jbleddy
Posts: 179 - Karma: 1,209
Same here, its the most pathetic thing ever. they'll rake the lips for the rails but they won't reshape them. They get smaller and smaller everyday. Eventually theres no lip onto the rail and no skiers can hit a feature in the whole park
11 years ago
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elinde
Posts: 1482 - Karma: 3,162
I wish half the guys on the mountain were like the people posting in this thread. Too many dicks and kids who think they're too cool to get stoked for someone else and be a good dude.
11 years ago
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arnemariusb
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To get all these rules and the suport going! NS should get a mounten for themself and all the members here!
11 years ago
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