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The biggest scams in skiing

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elm.
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What are the biggest scams in skiing? I'll start:

- lodge food
- vail timeshares
- the price of poles
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Non_State_Actor
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elm.What are the biggest scams in skiing? I'll start:

- lodge food
- vail timeshares
- the price of poles


Poles are free at the lost and found...check it out, they usually have piles of them.
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Dnolly
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For real tho
mystery3Poles are free at the lost and found...check it out, they usually have piles of them.
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AlaskaDogfart
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Revision Skis
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dant02
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I know my local hill just has a rack of poles for the renters that they are supposed to return at the end of the day. Literally hundreds of pairs and any length you could possibly want. Everyone I know just snags poles off the rental rack whenever they are in need.
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Bended_Toenail
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Ankilla's circle loom stuff
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MiIfHunter
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I wanted to get in on that shit
Bended_ToenailAnkilla's circle loom stuff
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BenFrost
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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Gloves and goggles that cost 200+dollars
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overweightmastr
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deep pow days on east coast
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ViolentSkiBlade
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One beer costing $.50 less than normal with a season pass
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iced
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the cost of ski boots compared to the insole we usually get
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msauerbrey
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The cast system being sold out
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elm.
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akshredder7Revision Skis

I still have two pairs lol. Both used. Might snag another pair of subtractions if I can find any
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theabortionator
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overweightmastrdeep pow days on east coast



46 inch day at gore valentines day 2007 ish
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deathcookie
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powder skiing on resort advertisements.
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theabortionator
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Any dads that drive 3+ hiurs actually smiling. The threat of violence is in the air.
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Biffbarf
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This far and nobody has said day passes yet. Fuck day passes.
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SendyMcSendyface
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BigPurpleSkiSuitGloves and goggles that cost 200+dollars


Seriously, they all suck. Nobody needs anything warmer than a pair of kincos.
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b0ss
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Mounts by @_kevin_
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SuspiciousFish
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BiffbarfThis far and nobody has said day passes yet. Fuck day passes.


Especially early season. Keystone actually was charging $120 for a day pass when they had 4 runs open.
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swagmasterflex
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b0ssMounts by @_kevin_

dawgg 😭
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WisconsinDogfart
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SuspiciousFishEspecially early season. Keystone actually was charging $120 for a day pass when they had 4 runs open.


lmao my local was charging 4 day passes for that
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Obie.
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theabortionator46 inch day at gore valentines day 2007 ish


Oh Gore? Heard their park is dope
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DominatorJacques
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Yea, videos from Mt's about skiing powder.
The guys get early ups, so they get it virgin to do the videos. That's not reality.
Once you get there, you ride down with a thousand folks and it's tracked out in 30 minutes.
That's after waiting in a lift line for a zillion hours to get first ups.
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GayWolf420
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deathcookiepowder skiing on resort advertisements.

paging @Snowbird and @Alta and every other resort social media feed out there that posts sick brochure turns when you absolutely know it wasnt that deep or "Terrain was closed" for their athletes

also shout out to the IG account @YouDidNotGetThatBarrelled
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deathcookie
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DominatorJacquesYea, videos from Mt's about skiing powder.
The guys get early ups, so they get it virgin to do the videos. That's not reality.
Once you get there, you ride down with a thousand folks and it's tracked out in 30 minutes.
That's after waiting in a lift line for a zillion hours to get first ups.


Usually its tracked even before the mountain opens. I worked at a ski hill known for having the "greatest snow on earth," and all the employees would take multiple laps before it even opened. Also, the ski patrollers bomb and ski cut the shit out of every slope, so even if you somehow got to somewhere we hadn't already hit, you will be hitting avy debris and tracks from the patrollers.

Usually, the only places you are going to ski powder like that are outside the ski resort. If you are at a resort on a pow day, the pow lasts for two runs, and everyone is so stressed out it makes it less fun.
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weastcoat
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“These skis are Bombproof!!”
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3mania
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deathcookiepowder skiing on resort advertisements.


Unless you're the motherfucker getting to ski the closed run.
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freestyler540
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An acrobatic ski team president in Quebec stole 60,000$ from insurance fees payed by athlete parents. He scamed the team pretty good, but got caught after trying to fuck someone else over.He got 8 months for the scam
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CatdickBojangles
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90% of “green” products
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oldmanski
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Paying to park, I get it but come on. Ticket prices are already outrageous enough let alone an additional $20 to park
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Jpurd
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Came here to say this.
oldmanskiPaying to park, I get it but come on. Ticket prices are already outrageous enough let alone an additional $20 to park
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theabortionator
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Obie.Oh Gore? Heard their park is dope


Johara "building booters people love" or whatever.

That said the gully was sick. You cant convince me otherwise.
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Money.mitch
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Using Venmo to buy skis
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TRVP_ANGEL
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"I am a nigerian ski resort ceo and i have inherited a large sum of on3p and vishnu skis"
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CatdickBojangles
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Money.mitchUsing Venmo to buy skis


@lscheiwiller selling anything
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j_oski
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The snow report at Jackson Hole
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jMakin
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GripWalk Boot Soles - they're useless and MDV forces you to buy their new bindings in order for them work
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KCoCM
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patrol destroying smoke shacks
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strongbad_Q
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Wax! the cost of it, and how much those racers pay for a "premium wax"

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MiIfHunter
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Not funny, Dogfart.
TRVP_ANGEL"I am a nigerian ski resort ceo and i have inherited a large sum of on3p and vishnu skis"
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X_MEMESWERVE_XX
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KCoCMpatrol destroying smoke shacks


Bars, like do they fuckin expect us not to blaze on this hill?? the fuck is that
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KCoCM
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CrunnchyVanManBars, like do they fuckin expect us not to blaze on this hill?? the fuck is that


yooo I just seen bohemia is ur home mountain i DMed u
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elm.
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j_oskiThe snow report at Jackson Hole

Baker, too
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Non_State_Actor
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jMakinGripWalk Boot Soles - they're useless and MDV forces you to buy their new bindings in order for them work


GripWalk is amazing...and no need to buy marker bindings anyhow, unless you want to try out the Duke PT which is GW compatible already.
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ericforman
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1. Expensive jackets
2. High speed lifts. Fine with them in popular spots, but when an area with good terrain and relatively few crowds gets a high speed lift it is essentially ruined. Would rather the resort put money into, idk, paying their employees more.
3. Whistler's acreage claim. Half of it is a melt / refreeze waste land. The other half is incredible though.
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GayWolf420
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oldmanskiPaying to park, I get it but come on. Ticket prices are already outrageous enough let alone an additional $20 to park

i think most "profit centers" at resorts are entirely bullshit but hey, gotta pay the bills. Business is business.
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sqeellicbic
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Surprised nobody's said this yet but the current year's outerwear. Why would I pay $300 for a jacket when I can get last years for $120 and it's the same exact thing but a different color.
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freeskibum82
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sqeellicbicSurprised nobody's said this yet but the current year's outerwear. Why would I pay $300 for a jacket when I can get last years for $120 and it's the same exact thing but a different color.

i'll let you in on a secret. that's been the case for hardgoods too for years.. graphic change is it on 90% of skis every year. Companies only change them like every 7 years.
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MonnorCartin
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sqeellicbicSurprised nobody's said this yet but the current year's outerwear. Why would I pay $300 for a jacket when I can get last years for $120 and it's the same exact thing but a different color.


Same goes for skis. 90% Don't change year over year yet can get last years heavily discounted
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