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Awkward lift moments

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Segsxi
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I’ll start it off
Yesterday I thought these 2 boys were 2 babes and I asked “Could I ride up with you ladies?” They replied in a deeper (euro) tone “Sure, you can ride middle” So there I am sitting in an awkward silence the whole ride up Norman’s in between two euro boys who legit looked like 2 very fine toursit babes. They broke the silence eventually and asked me which way I was getting off. Not gonna lie for 2 boys they made some pretty fine babes with winter gear on, if I never asked to ride up with them I would have showed them my powder stash(if you know what I mean) on the way down!
Dec 20 2017 11:25PM
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ChangeCashMoney
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Last season at Snowbasin I met up with my dad for a few laps on the gondola. I had just ripped a bowl in my car and reeked. This dude and his girlfriend were in line ahead of us and wanted to get on the lift alone (which I would have been fine with) but my dad was excited to get up the mountain and just hopped on anyway, so I followed him. It was clear as soon as I got on why they wanted to ride alone. They smelled just as loud as I did. The first minute or so of the ride was silent, then my dad started going off to me about people who smoke weed on the gondolas, and how much he hates when he gets in and it smells like pot, and also that it's dangerous for everyone else on the mountain when people ski impaired (sorry dad, I'm that guy.) The dude, who was already understandably annoyed that he had to share the lift with us, busted out laughing. He asked my dad if he'd seen my eyes (he hadn't, I kept my goggles on) and then told him he should ask me how many gondolas I'd smoked in that day. I sort of chuckled uncomfortably, my dad just stared at me for a bit, and then the rest of the ride was dead silent. My dad didn't say a word to me the rest of the day, we took three quick laps then he went home. Hasn't said anything to me about it since.
Jan 9 2018 1:44PM
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Andbrer
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ChangeCashMoneyLast season at Snowbasin I met up with my dad for a few laps on the gondola. I had just ripped a bowl in my car and reeked. This dude and his girlfriend were in line ahead of us and wanted to get on the lift alone (which I would have been fine with) but my dad was excited to get up the mountain and just hopped on anyway, so I followed him. It was clear as soon as I got on why they wanted to ride alone. They smelled just as loud as I did. The first minute or so of the ride was silent, then my dad started going off to me about people who smoke weed on the gondolas, and how much he hates when he gets in and it smells like pot, and also that it's dangerous for everyone else on the mountain when people ski impaired (sorry dad, I'm that guy.) The dude, who was already understandably annoyed that he had to share the lift with us, busted out laughing. He asked my dad if he'd seen my eyes (he hadn't, I kept my goggles on) and then told him he should ask me how many gondolas I'd smoked in that day. I sort of chuckled uncomfortably, my dad just stared at me for a bit, and then the rest of the ride was dead silent. My dad didn't say a word to me the rest of the day, we took three quick laps then he went home. Hasn't said anything to me about it since.


you should've faked a fall in the lift line to avoid the chair, would have been less awkward in the long run
Jan 9 2018 5:33PM
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Eggdog
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Me and my buddy went out west for the first time (Vail) and two day-drunk middle aged men began to hotbox the gondola.
Jan 9 2018 6:13PM
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Segsxi
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schuellMe and my buddy went out west for the first time (Vail) and two day-drunk middle aged men began to hotbox the gondola.

From what I hear Vail sounds like Soviet Russia are those two middle aged guys still alive??
Jan 11 2018 12:21AM
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Eggdog
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SegsxiFrom what I hear Vail sounds like Soviet Russia are those two middle aged guys still alive??


Probably not. i never saw them again
Jan 11 2018 12:24AM
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ChangeCashMoney
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Andbreryou should've faked a fall in the lift line to avoid the chair, would have been less awkward in the long run

Seriously. Had I only known..
Jan 11 2018 1:44AM
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nxtyrsfulltilts
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I had to ride 6 person lift with a soccer mom and her 4 kids.The soccer mom puts the bar down. I was silent the whole way up and they didn't talk to me. As we pass the last tower before the summit I reach to raise the bar. The soccer mom flips out on me for putting her kids in danger and how I could have killed them because I raised the lift bar too early. I am now terrified because I don't know how Im getting off this lift. As we come into the unloading area I launch the bar up and jump off to ski away. I make it off the lift just fine but see the soccer mom and kids are missing and the lift had stopped. As I ski down the mountain under the lift I just rode I see the soccer mom and 4 kids on the other side of the lift. They failed to get off the lift in time and had been dragged with the chair to the other side of the unloading area. They had fallen a good 10ft into deep pow.
Jan 11 2018 11:15AM
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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At snowbird, I was riding up wilbere for the second time after snagging first tracks on it since it's the best for that. It's a double chair and the other guy is mountain safety. Some guy sends it deep off the first cattrack with a sweet blunt grab. Say to the mountain safety guy, man that was awesome. He says, "you know you can't do that right?". Don't say another word to him the whole ride.

Last April there was a big show on wilbere since no one wanted to wait the hour and a half for the tram on a 2 ft powder day since it was the only thing open at snowbird. There were 30 solid skiers going for it off that same cattrack and no one bothered us.

Get off and send it 40 feet just to spite him and book it on over to gadzoom so he can't find me.
Jan 11 2018 11:51PM
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Jarvis
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One time my friend fell of the lift right after we got on. We were only ten feet off the ground, and apparently he hadn't sat down right on the chair. He fell flat on his face from ten feet up. Luckily it was one of those great Utah pow days, or he might have been injured.
Jan 12 2018 12:45AM
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jm03
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i was in Telluride and me and two mates jumped on the gondola with these like 20-ish dudes we started talking and they where as high as towlie from south park like everything was funny but we skied together for that day and then for the next twelve days i was in telluride i bummed it out with these two guys best days of my life
Jan 16 2018 4:06AM
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Willy.Lamps
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So last year my two brothers and I decided to head up to the mountain sometime after christmas, when we see that there was a mostly empty parking lot and we decided to drift n shit ya know? so after we finish we park and get ready, some guy walks up to us and tells us he took a picture of our plate and would be reporting it to the mountain. My brother decided to just say fuck this guy and go piss in his front wheel well. We later were getting on the lift for our first run and what do you know the same guy gets on with us. My brother (being a dickhead) starts asking him questions about his car and such. We found out he loves the car and he would kill anyone who did anything to it. needless to say we went and moved our car and went on with our day. (Ps. fuck that guy)
Jan 16 2018 8:53AM
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bando_calrissian
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Not my story but -

My friend was waiting in line and this chachbag rolls up to the lift line hauling ass and cuts in front of everyone and shoulder's my buddy as he's cutting everyone off trying to get next chair. People were yelling at him but I guess he had music on. Anyway, Dude ends up getting he next chair and while loading one his skis falls off - literally just falls off. Naturally the liftee picks it up and hands the ski to my buddy to carry it up to the top for him. My buddy holds it until we get about half way up the line and when the guy looks back at us from his chair my buddy looks him dead in the eyes and just hucks his ski off into the tree's. The guy absolutely loses it and is screaming at him, meanwhile we are laughing our asses off. At the top there was a nice shoving match with the guy threatening to kick my friends ass but of course he ends up steaming off - on one ski. Don't know what happened but i assume he had to mono-ski down through the trees to find his shit haha.

Hope he learned not to be a douche and wreck the lift line cutting people off.
Jan 16 2018 1:24PM
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Bondy
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At whistler something happened an this chick was downloading and forgot to get off, anyways myd 40 yr old dad sat right on this fat girls lap.
The whole way up I was just roasting the shit outta my dad
Jan 16 2018 1:53PM
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calcash
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I was on a lift with this girl and her dad and she had dropped her glove and proceeded to yell at her for the whole time up about how she lost her glove at a different resort the day before and he had to buy new ones for her. Then I was so fortunate to get on the same lift as them on the next run as well and I heard the same speech except this time the girl was sobbing. Good times
Jan 16 2018 9:51PM
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FishChowder
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Was on the lift with a retired ski patrol gal probably in her late 60's. We chatted for a bit on yhe way up and she tells me she likes my skis. She says I must do all those tricks and things because of those special boots. I just laughed and said yeah. She follows it up with "I thought so because they are orange."
Feb 17 2018 9:03AM
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MoneyMakerMike
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this thread looks like it could use a bump
Sep 21 2018 5:53PM
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frekalicious
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I went to get on a chair with two gapers, a girl who appeared to at least know what she was doing, the other was this larger guy who clearly was terrified of the lift. somehow when the chair swung around to get us this guy leaned towards me and ended up sitting completely on my right leg, borderline in my whole lap. so at first I was like oh clearly he will just scootch over and apologize for literally sitting on me... NOPE. luckily the lift was short because I waited too long to say anything and it wouldve made it more awkward, since im pretty sure the guy was so terrified that he literally didnt realize he was sitting on me.... refused to get on a chair with anyone who even slightly looked like they had never skied before for the rest of the day.
Sep 22 2018 10:39AM
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BonusNo413
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I was going up the chairlift with a super hot instructor from France. She was like "you want a BJ"? She pronounced it like "bijeh" with a strong French accent and I just said "sure" not knowing what she meant. Then she proceeded to give me the greatest bijeh I've ever received, right in the middle of a crowded slope. We got some great reactions let me tell you.
Sep 22 2018 11:20AM
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BonusNo413
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jm03i bummed it out with these two guys best days of my life

I bet it was
Sep 22 2018 11:29AM
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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I hope to be that cool dad someday who goes up with beer and sends it
STwoopsNah it's cause your talking to Dads and Snowbird is their ONLY release from their shitty life so they want you to shut up so they can hear the sound of snowflakes hitting snow.
Sep 22 2018 5:48PM
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JoeF2661
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frekaliciousI went to get on a chair with two gapers, a girl who appeared to at least know what she was doing, the other was this larger guy who clearly was terrified of the lift. somehow when the chair swung around to get us this guy leaned towards me and ended up sitting completely on my right leg, borderline in my whole lap. so at first I was like oh clearly he will just scootch over and apologize for literally sitting on me... NOPE. luckily the lift was short because I waited too long to say anything and it wouldve made it more awkward, since im pretty sure the guy was so terrified that he literally didnt realize he was sitting on me.... refused to get on a chair with anyone who even slightly looked like they had never skied before for the rest of the day.

If there's no footy it didn't happen. :)
Sep 22 2018 7:12PM
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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Also the classic old guy encounter:

It was a spring day, and I was skiing without poles. Just me and him riding up peruvian. Talking about how nice it is to lean into a carve on corn. He says, you know if you really like the groomers you gotta get over to deer valley, you'll have a great time there. I then tell him that I like the groomers but I love snowbird because it has such great natural features to get big air. He looks at me, see's I have super beat up skis snd no poles. This about a 1/4 of the way up the chairlift. He just says, "Deer Valley sucks. Dont go there." Neither of us say another word the whole next 5 min, but laughed to myself when I saw him pizza away from the lift.
Sep 22 2018 10:12PM
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freestyler540
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Couple years ago at Whitewater, I just got on the chair and the guy beside me began ranting about pot smokers in the chairlift. So I started laughing, thinking he was kidding. Lots of people toke up on the chairs, more than people who drink on the chairs, its fucking Nelson, BC!
So he continues about how he tried to stop a group of skiers, and 2 groups of snowboarders that were toking on the chairs to make an arrest for smoking dope by yelling from the chairs, but every time the groups took off and vanished before he has a chance to catch up with them.
So I look at the guy and asked : "Are you a cop or something? Chill out everyone tokes around here, its no big deal"
"I am an officer of the peace" he answers angerly as he unzips his coat and shows me his POLICE bullet proof vest and looks at me in an angry way.
Its funny because this guy actually skis in uniform, I still see him twice a year decked out in police gear.

One day at Whitewater again, it was puking so hard every line was a 20cm freshie. I was at maximum stoke level as I got on the chair. Expecting another super stoked guy; I ask: "Hows your day going? Havent seen these conditions in a while eh?"
Dude answers: "This place sucks; snow is too hard, too steep and... no, I am never coming back". All I could say was "WTF are you talking about, people pay thousands to go ride stuff like this!".
He never answered.
Sep 23 2018 1:53AM
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sincos
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Got on the chair with a girl about my age and her little brother, we were watching people send the booters on the way up. Her little bro asked her if they could do frontflips off the jump, and she replied by explaining how the momentum you get off the jump prevents you from frontflipping, only allowing you to backflip.
Sep 30 2018 6:05PM
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WoFIowz
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Not really an awkward moment, but today I was riding up with some redneck snowboarders and the one dude was talking about how he likes to use a blowtorch to melt the wax on his board.... Blowtorch on the actual base.....

Maybe I should have intervened.....
Dec 8 2018 7:44PM
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ajerrywithstyle
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So a few years back I’m on a chair lift with some Austrian I’m sitting between the two seats. Then as the lift is leaving the station they slam the bar down on my leg. I’m screaming and trying to pull the bar up and they are screaming random shit at me in German.Whilst they are still slamming the bar down on my leg. Finally when I escape the bar they try to have a conversation with me in German and I just say to them “English” they give me a really dirty look then turn away from me as if I’ve done something wrong by not being Austrian .the next 5 minutes we’re the the most awkward lift ride ever.

**This post was edited on Dec 9th 2018 at 1:00:01pm
Dec 9 2018 12:55PM
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Jimmy_MacElroy
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Few years ago at Vail my buddy and I were riding singles to escape the long ass lift lines. I asked this group of three if I could ride with them, and the mom says yes. Little did I know they had already promised the chair to the single on the other side. He didnt budge so they ended up boxing me out of the chair right before sitting down. I got shoved onto the concrete in front of the entire crowd.
Dec 10 2018 2:46PM
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Eastcoast_Lew
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New season, new disappointments.
So I hit up the white mountains up in New Hampshire for my first shred of the season. I’m coming off a shoulder injury that put a hold on my park career and i decided to learn how to ski glades and bump runs better. My dad always told me if I wanted to learn to ski better just find someone who is good and follow them. So everyone knows how the youth is really doing some amazing shit these days, park and all mountain. So I find myself following a lil duo down some sick bumps and these kids are tearing it the fuck up. I’m talking strait candide thovexing that shit. So I work my way behind them but end up with them out of sight. Anyways they waited for their third guy coming off a blue trail. And i end up next to them in the single line and hop on the lift with them. I open it up with the casual compliment “ you come out the womb on skis kid you look like a pro.” Then came on the mw2 lobby style insults. Opening up with calling me a pedophile as they ripped their fruity smelling juul. I guess they looked back at least once and saw me in the park skis struggling my way down the black. So i literally sat through a solid 5 minute rip sesh holding back an insults of my own because i wasn’t gunna be the college kid who their mom chases down in the parking lot at the end of the day. Moral of the story: don’t talk to the youth they are vicious.
PS. Still followed them though and actually learned how to pick lines better and how to handle being closer to the tree line.
Dec 10 2018 6:06PM
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Dunderflip
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Eastcoast_Lewdon’t talk to the youth they are vicious.


this is a lesson that you really only need to learn once. kids arent people
Dec 10 2018 7:23PM
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Legend27
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Up at Tremblant a few years back I thought id be really cool and put my poles with pow baskets through the lift (Baskets at the back instead of the front). When I tried to get off the baskets got caught and I snapped one of the poles. Hurt like hell and I looked like and idiot.
Dec 10 2018 9:07PM
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mountaindewgirl
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We were fkn drunk at 9am snowskating. You can't really put the bar down with those things. Left to right: tourist husband, wife, 10 year old kid, me, buddy nicknamed 'Mouth of the South'. Husband immediately says, "Bar down," and tries to put down the bar, buddy freaks out and tells the dude he "Cant shove his limp dick in his wife's fat cunt." Silence up Peak 7 and the lift stopped for high wind.
Dec 11 2018 12:53AM
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AngryGramps
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one time in BC I was up there for a comp and it was a sick pow day. vibes were very high and we were all partying at the base of the venue. I got a bit carried away and hit the blunt too many times...then the fog rolls in literally and figuratively. anyway here I am trying to make my way down a very easy run, in my full comp bib looking like a complete kook. the fog was so thick that you couldn't even see 5ft in front and I kept crashing because I have mad vertigo and BC bud it too good. anyway I somehow make it back to the lift and the fog is still mad thiccc, i hop on this lift with an australian mom and her daughter, who start chatting me up about the comp. im barely holding on here, folks but navigating the conversation like im mfkn jerry springer. until the daughter starts swinging her skis, and i start trippin out. im scared folks, shit is moving on me and the fog is giving me no point of reference, so i do the natural thing and grab onto the chair for dear life, and start crying secretly because im gonna die. anyway the lift ride of terror ended, the mom was likely confused and my goggles fogged from the tears. 8/10 would recommend trying.
Dec 12 2018 8:50PM
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Moosen
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My buddy thought it would be a good idea as we were about to load the chair, to latch his pole onto the chair in front of us to pull him forward so he didnt have to skate. Well right as the people in front of us were about to sit down was when he latched his pole onto the safety bar part and ended up pivoting it down in perfect timing so that the people in front couldn't sit down....
Dec 12 2018 9:05PM
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lilmuff
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I was once skiing with my Dad at Breck and we get on the chair and this family next to us. The mom, wearing a bright orange ski mask with speed shades, asks her daughter if shes having fund repeatedly in a really angry tone. The daughter then starts crying and the mom and dad start yelling at her. My Dad and I were just looking at each other trying to hold in our laughter.
Dec 12 2018 11:08PM
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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Yesterday me and some buddy's were running hot laps. Been skiing revelstoke straight for like 9 days no rest. Anyways, we are lining up for the lift. Somehow we all zone out (cause tired) and move forward before OUR chairlift came so we move up to where you load up and we are like fuck lol. There's 8 people here and 1 chairlift.

A collision with shit all over the place ensues lel

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Dec 12 2018 11:12PM
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GayWolf420
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I think back in high school, I remember seeing a dude on Jupiter Chair at PC with his girlfriend/wife/whatever and he had his hand down the back of her pants to uhhh..."warm" his hand.

And then another dude getting dome on pioneer chair which was kinda cool
Dec 12 2018 11:56PM
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lil.Boye
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probably when i was in the lift with a couple that broke up and the dude tried talking to me about it while she was right there next to him. i didn't want anything to do with it, i just wanted to ski some pow laps listening to music. the girl was so fucking mad as well. hilarious but awkward as hell
Dec 13 2018 2:26AM
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Thot.exe
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Was loading onto the lift with my Dad one day. The old coot goes beyond the load here line. As the lift comes around I sit down and the tip of my ski locks behind his binding and slides him off the lift platform. The whole lift stopped and he had to climb out of the ditch to get on the next one. Had to ride up in one of the most akward lifts with 5 other people that just witnessed my failed (unplanned) murder attempt on my old man.
Dec 13 2018 7:29AM
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HaydenB
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Wait what gender were they?
Dec 13 2018 10:26AM
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Jems
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Last season during about January I was decided to take some laps out of the park and take a downhill line switch. I got in between two very overweight middle aged white women (take in mind i was 5’4). They both were killing me and I could barely breathe. They asked why my skis where twin tipped and why I had short poles. I kept explaining that short poles look cooler and are safer. They obviously didn’t understand and attacked me for going down switch peacefully. Next round up I get in between on the lift with the same whales but this time I have a side to myself. They told me I was seeing reckless and dangerous even though I had years of experience and they were a bunch of fat bitches on 130 cm rental skis.
Dec 13 2018 12:22PM
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SuspiciousFish
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A few years ago, my brother and I were in Canada driving his Jeep around Banff national park because my Dad was doing an endurance Mountain Bike Race up there. Anyway, we would just drive to each stage and drink and sleep in the back of his jeep and generally be dirt bags the whole trip.

Anyway, we were at Panarama ski resort and had just picked up some Pilsner tall boys in the village. We got on the village gondola with a family with 2 kids. Our goal was to each chug our Pilsner before we got to the top. I cracked mine and drank as fast as I could until I got a sudden foam out and puked foamy pilsner off the side of the gondola onto a bunch of houses right in front of this family. The rest of the 5 min ride I just stood there awkwardly while the parents glared at me. We finally got to the top and drank the rest of the day.
Dec 13 2018 10:15PM
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HaydenB
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JemsLast season during about January I was decided to take some laps out of the park and take a downhill line switch. I got in between two very overweight middle aged white women (take in mind i was 5’4). They both were killing me and I could barely breathe. They asked why my skis where twin tipped and why I had short poles. I kept explaining that short poles look cooler and are safer. They obviously didn’t understand and attacked me for going down switch peacefully. Next round up I get in between on the lift with the same whales but this time I have a side to myself. They told me I was seeing reckless and dangerous even though I had years of experience and they were a bunch of fat bitches on 130 cm rental skis.


Are we talkin phat?
Dec 14 2018 8:23AM
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