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What sets off your gaper alarm?

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backseat.bandit
Posts: 142 - Karma: 787
Mine would have to be when you are watching a pro edit and someone says "I could probably do that if I tried".
Mar 28 2014 2:50AM
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S.J.W
Posts: 7609 - Karma: 31,185
Epicski is just full of gapers.
Mar 29 2014 2:42AM
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s-hand
Posts: 1334 - Karma: 1,800
this.  stupid trollers
Mar 29 2014 9:53AM
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Bogs
Posts: 4296 - Karma: 1,361
It really isn't. At least, no more so than ns.
Mar 29 2014 10:57AM
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m4ttm4n1
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nfgnar
Mar 29 2014 11:08AM
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op14
Posts: 1769 - Karma: 4,586
I lost it Barto. Thank you for making my day.
Mar 29 2014 11:16AM
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El_Barto.
Posts: 11661 - Karma: 24,361
The grenade sticker is a good call. Anyone who carries their skis not the right way = instagaper
Mar 29 2014 11:21AM
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Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
Ahhhhh yes, another butt hurt gaper. No need to call out park skiers because you're terrible at it. I'd be willing to bet most "park skiers" could light you up around the mountain before you could even touch the features they hit.
Mar 29 2014 11:50AM
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skier58284
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 5,365
Tanner Hall is an acrobat, not a skier. Narrow skis are good for skiing in bad snow conditions, so yes, there is an exception, but having a narrow ski as a daily driver (unless you're someplace like the midwest) screams gaper. If you never ski switch you're a gaper. Scott makes the worst quality poles and goggles of anyone, not sure about their skis as I haven't skied them. Snowboarding is for fags.
Mar 29 2014 12:21PM
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skier58284
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 5,365
I don't ski park and I have no problem admitting most people here would probably own me at park. Doesn't change the fact that I'm better at big mountain than most people here (notice that I said most, not all) and I ski lines that most people here wouldn't even consider attempting.
Mar 29 2014 12:23PM
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S.J.W
Posts: 7609 - Karma: 31,185
Not sure if srs bout Tanner... not everyone lives in the fucking west... i'm sure Bode Miller is a huge gaper, he doesn't even do the switch. Poles are poles and the scott jib tw got a top 10 in freeskiers top 10 park skis. Your arguments are invalid...
Mar 29 2014 12:28PM
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Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
So no need to call them gapers then is there when the real gaper is you. And really who brags about being one the best big mountain skiers without any proof anyways?
Mar 29 2014 12:53PM
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Bogs
Posts: 4296 - Karma: 1,361
Implying that anyone who doesn't focus their skiing on park is a gaper?
Mar 29 2014 1:09PM
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Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
Nope, just no need to call out park skiers for skiing park. It's absolutely fine to ski anywhere but the park and not be a gaper. Bragging about how park skiers are pussy's and how great one is at big mountain pushes the gaper button though. Also saying one is greater than the other.
Mar 29 2014 1:16PM
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Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
A park skier calling out someone who skis the whole mointain is also a tool
Mar 29 2014 1:22PM
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John18_6
Posts: 7313 - Karma: 49,163
One time I saw this group of 6th graders who thought that gaper meant a gay snowboarder, and a gay skier was a gayser..... so they literally just went around calling everyone gapers and gaysers.
Mar 29 2014 1:59PM
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b-kul
Posts: 4350 - Karma: 1,111
looking in a mirror.
Mar 29 2014 3:14PM
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humpty
Posts: 1190 - Karma: 3,162
if you think frontflips are easier and better than backflips, you could be a gaper
Mar 29 2014 3:39PM
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jensen
Posts: 2576 - Karma: 1,267
people who use 4chan references, such as inb4, on NS.
Mar 29 2014 3:43PM
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gohamsam
Posts: 326 - Karma: 2,930
that just set off my gaper alarm
Mar 29 2014 3:56PM
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Maruchan
Posts: 206 - Karma: 1,582
People who claim hard and need to tell other people that they are better than them. That sets off the gaper alarm.
Mar 29 2014 6:24PM
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450out.
Posts: 596 - Karma: 517
Wow OP you're a fucking dick
Mar 29 2014 6:47PM
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Dode
Posts: 349 - Karma: 1,052
Barto is now the king of NS
Mar 29 2014 8:49PM
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tootinlard
Posts: 11 - Karma: 44
me...
Mar 29 2014 8:53PM
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cheaaaaaa
Posts: 830 - Karma: 630
walking backwards down the stairs
Mar 29 2014 10:31PM
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Bogs
Posts: 4296 - Karma: 1,361
the post I was referencing: "How wide your ski doesn't determine shit, what's the point of having a mid fat ski if you're skiing in the east or Australia or any sub par conditions. You only need twins if you're sking switch or landing switch."

You really don't think more members of epicski would think that ski width doesn't determine much about a skiier, or that skinnier skis are sometimes more appropriate than fat skis, or that twin tips are only useful if you actually ski switch, than ns members?
Mar 30 2014 12:31AM
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Theskiingguy
Posts: 476 - Karma: 2,514
Ahaha you're so dumb... so Tom Wallisch is a gaper? I knew it all along.
So my Atomic Punx are shitty skis because they're less than 98mm underfoot and they're traditional camber? Great. Good to know Gus Kenworthy, Jossi Wells, Andreas Håtveit, etc. are also gapers.

Shut up man, you're just being completely ignorant.
Mar 30 2014 3:18AM
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straightlining
Posts: 238 - Karma: 139
Shut the fuck up. You ski big mountain, cool, whatever, that's yo thing. I'm not much of a park guy myself, I prefer skiing lines, but do I say I'm the best skier on the mountain? no. Do I say I'm one of the most hardcore skiers on NS? no.


We all know what gapers are, they're usually the guys who are wearing jeans/rental outerwear, rockin' the gaper gap, and generally just acting like a fuckin' peanut.

Park Guys, not gapers. People who ski narrower, 100% camber skis, not gapers.

You're a fuckin' peanut though, so according to my criteria, you're a gaper. And a terrible person, but y'know you'll probably try and be all "extreme" and release a slab, so I reckon nature will take care of you.
Mar 30 2014 9:02AM
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skier58284
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 5,365
If you are scared of "releasing a slab" then you're a gaper.
Mar 30 2014 7:35PM
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Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
What kind of gear are you using to access your terrain you extreme son of gun? Touring setup? Sled/snow cat? Or a heli?
Mar 30 2014 8:52PM
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skier58284
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 5,365
Heli. I ski with Teton Gravity Research and I ski on custom skis that are 152mm underfoot so they can pretty much float on top of avalanches, but I usually don't do that, I prefer to break the slab then outski it. It's like racing. TGR is even doing a movie that focuses on me and has lots of footage of me outskiing avalanches and skiing on/in avalanches, it'll be out next year sometime.
Mar 30 2014 9:41PM
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milk_man
Posts: 5252 - Karma: 5,980
Jeans, jeans tucked into boots, coon hat, rentals, pizza with arms out, yard sales for days, no hat in cold weather, bomber hat, and finally when they ride over the lips of rails. Then you can be sure they're a gaper.
Mar 30 2014 10:03PM
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Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
Ahhhh I see, it all makes sense now
Mar 30 2014 10:06PM
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El_Barto.
Posts: 11661 - Karma: 24,361
hahaha




oh wait, youre serious, let me laugh even harder




HAHAHAHAHAHA
Mar 31 2014 1:35AM
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CTD
Posts: 6300 - Karma: 348
this is great.^

"Im a really good skier"

fat dudes in size small and medium ski gear

skittle boots

skittle clothes

super dry bases

any type of ski carrying straps/handles

Mar 31 2014 1:48AM
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perryhunter
Posts: 721 - Karma: -185
Lol! Yeah right. So true! Gaper life, sometimes I can relate :D
Mar 31 2014 3:17AM
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S.J.W
Posts: 7609 - Karma: 31,185
You are the biggest douche i've encounted on NS. You're worse than skiierman.
Mar 31 2014 3:24AM
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DubV134
Posts: 1541 - Karma: 690
Anyone who says the word gaper falls directly into said category of skier. Living in a ski town all I hear at restaurants and bars is douchie mid 20/early 30 year old fuckers talk trash about "gapers" they saw that day. But fact of the matter is that those same people talkin shit can't ski for shit either
Mar 31 2014 10:56AM
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*steeze_is_good
Posts: 2886 - Karma: 721
CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIM
Mar 31 2014 11:07AM
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snakerton
Posts: 2434 - Karma: 1,977
yeah fuck you.

There are l large amount of big mountain skiers on here and a lot of skiers that do both. I'm sure not the best
Mar 31 2014 11:14AM
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.squirrely.
Posts: 7563 - Karma: 7,546
100 troll points for sh4dow
Mar 31 2014 4:55PM
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90053
Posts: 2565 - Karma: 3,728
fuck he had me
Mar 31 2014 6:11PM
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Rusticles
Posts: 2180 - Karma: 1,337
He just sounds so damn stupid he might even believe it himself.
Mar 31 2014 6:14PM
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GayWolf420
Posts: 37357 - Karma: 119,622
ITT: shadow getting baited way too fucking good, damage control by major claims.
Mar 31 2014 6:21PM
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Petey.
Posts: 5736 - Karma: 4,885
there goes my gaper alert
Mar 31 2014 7:21PM
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Maruchan
Posts: 206 - Karma: 1,582
Skiierman is a lovable douche though
Mar 31 2014 10:01PM
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kylemclean
Posts: 413 - Karma: 1,311
this guy knows whats up
Mar 31 2014 10:23PM
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Z-Juice
Posts: 3151 - Karma: 1,504
Worst comment I've seen on NS in 2014.
Mar 31 2014 10:43PM
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El_Barto.
Posts: 11661 - Karma: 24,361
he did quite well if i do so say
Mar 31 2014 10:49PM
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brysenm
Posts: 28 - Karma: 403
You know they're a gaper when they ask about the lift to the backcountry
Mar 31 2014 11:00PM
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SkiThe603
Posts: 5376 - Karma: 498
ohhh guy it makes sense now



he snowboards
Mar 31 2014 11:10PM
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