Pass pulled

CalumSKIahhh a month

what are u gonna do

elm.I bought a snoqualmie "half season" pass so I'm good, just might miss out to trips like to Jackson and Big sky

elm.Nowhere at crystal does it say that you cannot duck a rope. I have photo evidence of this.

DIRTYBUBBLEGonna have to call bullshit on this one.

https://www.tetongravity.com/story/ski/News-Washington-State-House-Votes-To-Criminalize-Ducking-Ropes-3452625#!

So no you shouldn’t fight them. You could have been slapped with a misdemeanor/1000$ fine/banned from the resort. I’d be pretty stoked on just getting my pass taken for a month.

elm.If you can find it printed next to a chairlift then yes I totally fucked up, but it wasn't at any of the lifts I've seen. We also asked 3 lifties where it says you can't duck a rope, and they said they didn't know.

There were no DO NOT enter signs at the bamboo sticks between the ropes.

CalumSKIu did say this though:
We skied most of the day and near the end of the day we took a long traverse and came up to a closed sign.

and by closed sign do you mean a sign that clearly shows that the run is closed?

elm.On monday I was skiing at crystal with two friends and it was a descent 6" pow day. We skied most of the day and near the end of the day we took a long traverse and came up to a closed sign. We skied down along the rope line and decided to duck the rope in search of fresh snow. Keep in mind that this closed gate where the sign was can take you to a completely different area than the rope we were ducking. It's easiest to see on a trail map. Also I have skied Mt. Baker the last 5 years and ducking a rope is generally OK as long as there are no signs on the posts saying, "DO NOT ENTER." At crystal there were none of these signs.

We skied down along the ropeline and a ski patroller caught up to us and asked us for our passes and said they had photo evidence of us ducking the rope. After being "detained" for 2 hours, we finally got to go home. The patrollers were all pretty mean about the whole thing. They explained that they were bombing above, at the King, and that we were in a hazardous area. We were maybe 30 feet from the ropeline, which is next to an open run. Also keep in mind this is the same ski patrol that failed to do good avalanche control, which is why chair 6 was destroyed by an avalanche in 2014.

IKON pass pulled for a month.

Nowhere at crystal does it say that you cannot duck a rope. I have photo evidence of this. The day after, I was at Alpental and it explicitly says that you cannot duck a rope. I have photo evidence of this too.

I know I was in the wrong, but I've never received such harsh consequences. Should I try to combat this or just face the month of a pulled pass?

Holt_upSorry dawg but this is all you. It clearly says in a ton of places not to duck the rope. Also how was the chair six avalanche patrols fault?

elm.Yes, but that closed sign gives you access to a different bowl that you cannot access down below, where we dropped in. Because of this, it was unclear whether the area we were going into was closed. From my experience, roped off does not always equal closed.

elm.Yes, but that closed sign gives you access to a different bowl that you cannot access down below, where we dropped in. Because of this, it was unclear whether the area we were going into was closed. From my experience, roped off does not always equal closed.

ShadowXVXNot that this will help you at all, but at Snowbird which is where I do most of my skiing, there are closed area ropes and cliff area ropes. Ducking closed area ropes is not allowed but ducking cliff area ropes is allowed. In either case, there will be multiple signs either saying 'closed' or 'cliff area' along the length of rope.

elm.I don't know if you fully read it. My point is that it does it does not say anywhere that you can't duck the rope.

elm.From my experience, roped off does not always equal closed.

elm.Yes, but that closed sign gives you access to a different bowl that you cannot access down below, where we dropped in. Because of this, it was unclear whether the area we were going into was closed. From my experience, roped off does not always equal closed.

elm.I don't know if you fully read it. My point is that it does it does not say anywhere that you can't duck the rope.

freeskibum82OP the signs and ropes at baker are different as they outline the "extreme danger zones' and are clearly marked as such like every 100ft. You don't have a case here and im sure the month suspension is probably because of the attitude you gave him, not the fact your ducked a rope. Patrol wants to keep people safe. They get it, people want to ski pow but still need to follow rules. It's not like they want to just go around pulling passes.. you obviously left out details of your story here about the actual interaction with patrol just to get internet points.

TRVP_ANGEL"They explained that they were bombing above, at the King, and that we were in a hazardous area. "

The mental gymnastics required to still think you were in the right and creating a thread thinking everyone would be on your side.


a few months ago a group were skiing up a ridge that patrollers were bombing above them for avy at whistler, everyones pass pulled for the entire season. You're lucky that it was only one month

DarcOP is the reason Mc Donalds had to put "caution hot" on a fresh cup of coffee

DarcOP is the reason Mc Donalds had to put "caution hot" on a fresh cup of coffee

teamdummySaw this beautiful girl walking in the woods. She wasn’t wearing a “raping me is illegal” sign. So... you know.....I went ahead and........


sorry, extreme example. But OP’s argument is asinine.

GrandThingsI totally agree that our society (Americans anyway) have a sue-happy culture.

But everyone should look up the case of the McDonalds coffee. I agree that it sounds ridiculous but that lady got absolutely FUCKED UP by that coffee (i.e 3rd degree burns on her legs, and fused her vagina together.....yeah)

She ended up not even getting that much money, McD's still refused to pay her excess medical bills. She died a few years later after being permanently disabled and the settlement proceedings took too much out of her. Fucking crazy story.