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Today was an all time shit vail resort experience

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yungspliffy
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Busy pow day in Tahoe. Was tailed by a Yellowjacket for ducking a rope to shortcut a busy turn on a groomer. Guy couldn’t care less about my reasoning and insisted on taking a picture of my pass or calling mtn security. Gave him a hard time and shit talked the resort a little before reluctantly letting him take it and skiing off. Checked my email just now to find a 4 week suspension. Same shit I dealt wi th last year for skiing backwards on a “family run” . Why the fuck do I buy this pass god I’m an idiot. Fuck you rob Katz
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Dan-Man
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EPIC get it epic pass. lol shoulda moved to SLC like the rest of un
3 years ago
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Biffbarf
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Yeah maybe don't duck ropes between groomers you fuckin gaper
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TOAST.
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yungspliffyI’m an idiot

At least you're self aware
3 years ago
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r00kie
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95% of the time people whine about getting passes taken it's because they either deliberately broke a clmoutain rule like jumping rope or they were dicking around on the token family run. I very rarely feel bad for people on these things.
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snomaster
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stop getting caught
3 years ago
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theabortionator
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Ducked a rope, got caught, stopped to deal with person, csme out swinging talking shit, gave dude pass, "Wtf man I got a suspension?!?!?!?"

First places can take your pass for ducking ropes regardless of the reason. If you're going to duck ropes and get caught, or honestly do anything and get caught worst thing you can do is come out being a dick. I don't understand how people can't understand this.

Might be good to take a life lesson away from this. If you have to deal with people, especially in a situation where you did something against the rules, don't be a dick.

Even in parks people have ducked ropes while cats park is being rebuilt, crew is setting features, cats ate working, maybe even winch cats. You stop them because you don't want to kill them with your cat, and they start yelling at you out of the gate.

Idk, just not a good starting point. Hell if you ever get pulled over for speeding in your car start yelling at the dude about how you were fine, speed limits are trash, cops are trash, and see how well it works.
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Lemuel
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Sorry bub, you are fully in the wrong. Own up to your mistakes next time, your suspension probably would have been shorter.
3 years ago
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yungspliffy
Posts: 194 - Karma: 1,906
Wow @ everyone telling me I should’ve kissed ass. I don’t wanna ski with y’all
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jakeordie
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yungspliffyWhy the fuck do I buy this pass

That is the question, especially if you're in Tahoe there's hella options
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yungspliffy
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jakeordieThat is the question, especially if you're in Tahoe there's hella options


I work at Sierra and have it for off days. Kirkwood is sick , heavenly is very much not
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Biffbarf
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yungspliffyWow @ everyone telling me I should’ve kissed ass. I don’t wanna ski with y’all


Cry about it
3 years ago
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Dilldoes
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yungspliffyWow @ everyone telling me I should’ve kissed ass. I don’t wanna ski with y’all


Why would any of us want to ski with you?

Yet another stupid cry baby thread posted by butt hurt child.
3 years ago
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Sht_eatn_dog
Posts: 114 - Karma: 1,382
I remember when I was stupid
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jompcock
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Your options getting caught are to be polite and comply or b line it down the mtn and change some gear around if you can. Talking shit and still giving your pass is the worst thing you can do.
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skierman
Posts: 8621 - Karma: 9,452
yungspliffyWow @ everyone telling me I should’ve kissed ass. I don’t wanna ski with y’all


I hear they can't suspend your pass if you commit suicide.
3 years ago
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RIP_leos_shack
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Fucked around found out. Tough shit bro
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theabortionator
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yungspliffyWow @ everyone telling me I should’ve kissed ass. I don’t wanna ski with y’all


Idk ducking ropes is a no go. Kissing ass isn't the same as not being a prick.

If you come out swinging for no reason you're going to have a bad time. Looks like lesson not learned. In life you're going to have to deal with people. If you aren't a dick to people they're shockingly more likely to work with you.

If you feel like you were wronged you can stay with that and be angry but same kind of things will keep happening. Not sure what to tell you. It sucks to lose your pass but you could have handled the situation way better.
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TOAST.
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yungspliffyWow @ everyone telling me I should’ve kissed ass. I don’t wanna ski with y’all

Wow, shocking to see this response...
3 years ago
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Emma_Watson
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yungspliffyWow @ everyone telling me I should’ve kissed ass. I don’t wanna ski with y’all


AYYYY YUNG SPLIFFYY LETS GASS UP ON DAT SPLIFFY WIFFY BRUH FINNA GET TURNT ON ONE NO CAP!!!
BURN IT DOWN BROTHA SPLIFFMAN!
MANS BE TRYNA DROP HAMMERS NO CAP!!!
HAMMERS BRO!!!!!
HAMMERS!!!!!
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BigbadjerqDad
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theabortionatorIdk ducking ropes is a no go. Kissing ass isn't the same as not being a prick.

If you come out swinging for no reason you're going to have a bad time. Looks like lesson not learned. In life you're going to have to deal with people. If you aren't a dick to people they're shockingly more likely to work with you.

If you feel like you were wronged you can stay with that and be angry but same kind of things will keep happening. Not sure what to tell you. It sucks to lose your pass but you could have handled the situation way better.

The lesson to be learned is don't stop. He says he just ducked a rope for a short cut, must have been kinda bad to get chased down though. I'm honestly surprised they didn't just pop him with a rf scanner through the jacket but actually made him take it out.
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RIP_leos_shack
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BigbadjerqDadThe lesson to be learned is don't stop. He says he just ducked a rope for a short cut, must have been kinda bad to get chased down though. I'm honestly surprised they didn't just pop him with a rf scanner through the jacket but actually made him take it out.


Problem with Heavenly is that half the mountain funnels down to a choke and there's no way to ski out. Basically if you get stopped on the California side you're screwed.
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jakeordie
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yungspliffyI work at Sierra and have it for off days. Kirkwood is sick , heavenly is very much not

So you got epic for kirkwood, when you could have got ikon for squaw alpine mammoth june bachelor cottonwoods sun valley jackson
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muffMan.
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First mistake was stopping.

”sorry I had headphones in”
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KilaTsunami
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I totally feel your frustration man. Vails mountain rules 100% suck balls. But as you get older you’ll learn ‘You catch more flies with sugar than shit”…

Meaning when he stopped you, if you had a pleasant attitude, pretended to be all sorry n shit, you coulda played dumb about their bitchy little rules and he probably wouldn’t have suspended your sorry ass.
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SteezyYeeter
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vail sucks! but, vail customers usually suck too

this wasn't a "shit vail resort experience", it was you fucking up by being a jerk

there's a difference between ass kissing or dick riding and being polite and respectful, not that ass kissing isn't worth not getting a 4 week suspension, i mean, why the hell would you do that? all that happens now is that you can't ski at vail for 4 weeks and you probably ruined someone's day.
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tutipups
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at least your fucking skiing unlike here in quebec
3 years ago
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GayWolf420
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You couldn't just ski around the end of the ropeline and the boo, sidestep or hike up, traverse, and then go to your destination? Like yeah I get what you mean, I've been guilty of doing that but doing in plain sight is just dumbfuck stuff. Also arguing too. Just be polite and take the L, man. People like you make them want to pull passes for stupid shit. Also grow the fuck up too and get some common sense, and maybe stop smoking spliffs. Your brain seems cooked from it with this logic. "OOOOO a resort worker was mean to me".

**This post was edited on Dec 3rd 2022 at 9:44:45pm
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Farmville420
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If you ski fast in a family zone or populated trail full of kids ur a fuckin asshole sorry. Obviously I don’t know the full context but idec about the ducking ropes, if ur flying down a run fakie at anything over like 20mph that’s fast enough to literally kill a small child
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Sht_eatn_dog
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Or deer. We all saw that video. Traumatic. Death by ass cheek.
Farmville420If you ski fast in a family zone or populated trail full of kids ur a fuckin asshole sorry. Obviously I don’t know the full context but idec about the ducking ropes, if ur flying down a run fakie at anything over like 20mph that’s fast enough to literally kill a small child
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theabortionator
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KilaTsunamiI totally feel your frustration man. Vails mountain rules 100% suck balls. But as you get older you’ll learn ‘You catch more flies with sugar than shit”…

Meaning when he stopped you, if you had a pleasant attitude, pretended to be all sorry n shit, you coulda played dumb about their bitchy little rules and he probably wouldn’t have suspended your sorry ass.



Lol, don't duck ropes is literally a rule everywhere, that's the point of setting them up. It's not some weird Vail construct.
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Farmville420
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Sht_eatn_dogOr deer. We all saw that video. Traumatic. Death by ass cheek.


Idk what video you’re talking about but there was literally a collision at palisades last year that killed a teenager, and both skiers involved were both “good skiers” per say so idk, it happens way too often and it’s so preventable
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.nasty
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Definitely your fault. Just jerk them off and be stupid nice and you won't have issues.
3 years ago
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bennwithtwons
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i'll bring this up at the next shareholder's meeting mmmkay
3 years ago
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Sht_eatn_dog
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Dude hauling the deer down the mountain on his back after colliding with it. Was said incident your talking about someone hotdog’n down a green or a park incident?
Farmville420Idk what video you’re talking about but there was literally a collision at palisades last year that killed a teenager, and both skiers involved were both “good skiers” per say so idk, it happens way too often and it’s so preventable
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X_MEMESWERVE_XX
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Farmville420If you ski fast in a family zone or populated trail full of kids ur a fuckin asshole sorry. Obviously I don’t know the full context but idec about the ducking ropes, if ur flying down a run fakie at anything over like 20mph that’s fast enough to literally kill a small child


Based.

fuck vail always but like there is literally no reason to bomb thru a ”family zone” or slow zone or anything like that. You don’t gain shit and you look like a reckless asshole

idk dawg, having been a ski instructor rly makes you wanna obey the signs on the hill like you said you would on the damn waiver u signed yourself when you got the pass

lil kids ain’t gonna know to steer out of ur way when you coming at them at 30mph switch
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Farmville420
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Sht_eatn_dogDude hauling the deer down the mountain on his back after colliding with it. Was said incident your talking about someone hotdog’n down a green or a park incident?


Wait I know that video? I thought he shot it or something and it was like a hunting thing, but yeah exactly skiing that fast can kill people if u collide.

The Tahoe incident was a collision on a normal run if I remover correctly, a freestyle ski team kid and a backcountry team kid both hit each other and one of em died. Super sad shit.

if you have to go 50mph to feel some adrenaline you should just go on a harder run.
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VT_scratch
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I guarantee everyone here saying he's in the wrong and shouldn't have ducked a rope etc, etc, etc HAS DONE THE EXACT SAME SHIT time and time again, felt in control, and would be pissed if they got caught and suspended too. Let's be honest here. Lame ass.
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skierman
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VT_scratchI guarantee everyone here saying he's in the wrong and shouldn't have ducked a rope etc, etc, etc HAS DONE THE EXACT SAME SHIT time and time again, felt in control, and would be pissed if they got caught and suspended too. Let's be honest here. Lame ass.


Yeah, we would be pissed at ourselves for getting caught instead of blaming the employees for doing their jobs. Grow the fuck up.
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Gourd
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VT_scratchI guarantee everyone here saying he's in the wrong and shouldn't have ducked a rope etc, etc, etc HAS DONE THE EXACT SAME SHIT time and time again, felt in control, and would be pissed if they got caught and suspended too. Let's be honest here. Lame ass.

Your actions have consequences, and you must deal with them. If you choose to break the rules by ducking the rope, thats whatever, I don't care. But don't be a dick if you get caught.
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soup
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r00kie95% of the time people whine about getting passes taken it's because they either deliberately broke a clmoutain rule like jumping rope or they were dicking around on the token family run. I very rarely feel bad for people on these things.


This. My experience, these people have way more power than is necessary, but you are not going to change that. Just yes sir, sorry sir, I fucked up sir, is all you can say to them and just suck it up.
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VT_scratch
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GourdYour actions have consequences, and you must deal with them. If you choose to break the rules by ducking the rope, thats whatever, I don't care. But don't be a dick if you get caught.


For sure.
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VT_scratch
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skiermanYeah, we would be pissed at ourselves for getting caught instead of blaming the employees for doing their jobs. Grow the fuck up.


Yeah for sure, talking shit to employees will dig you deeper and to some degree shape your own results, but everyone here acting like they're just the perfect on hill rule followers and OP is an anomally... that's a load of shit 🤣
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PsychicMigration
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I would have played it cool talked him up and at the end asked what was gonna happen. If suspended I would have give him tons of shit especially if there was no warnings before. The other thing I would probably do would be to not buy an epic pass.
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SteezyYeeter
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VT_scratchYeah for sure, talking shit to employees will dig you deeper and to some degree shape your own results, but everyone here acting like they're just the perfect on hill rule followers and OP is an anomally... that's a load of shit 🤣

OP is an anomally... if you're gonna poach, poach a good trail and make sure it's worth it, not a cut thru on the bend of a green trail... don't think anyone here is dumb enough to do that...
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dizzydizzy
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VT_scratchYeah for sure, talking shit to employees will dig you deeper and to some degree shape your own results, but everyone here acting like they're just the perfect on hill rule followers and OP is an anomally... that's a load of shit 🤣


East coast is a bit different and following rules on a few packed icy runs is kinda annoying, but ropes actually mean something in the west a lot of the time, and you could literally die if you duck them. There's a lot of trails out west, don't ski fast on flat runs with slow signs, don't duck ropes, and you'll be just fine. This kid FAFO'd, very low sympathy. Listen to the abortionator, he's right...respect your NS elders, take their advice, and maybe y'all will learn somethin
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muffMan.
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I love that threads can’t be deleted, mark of shame for this kid
3 years ago
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jakeordie
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PsychicMigrationThe other thing I would probably do would be to not buy an epic pass.

I should write something more than just a quote.
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KilaTsunami
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theabortionatorLol, don't duck ropes is literally a rule everywhere, that's the point of setting them up. It's not some weird Vail construct.


Yea no shit, that’s why I left that out lol.
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sarc
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Day passes seem expensive, but they come with suspension immunity built in. That's value.
3 years ago
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PacificRimJob
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this experience was self inflicted as fuck
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