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SkaredShtles
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Location: In a van................ down by the river
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| MattB wrote: | Monarch over spring break is a good place and time to find them. But only one lift has the bar, the Pioneer low speed quad.
And Skared, which Mi resort has the triple black? I need to get over there and ski it so I can sew the patch to my waterproof shell. (assuming they sell the triple black patch there - surely they must!). |
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Sawyer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Stowe. If I had a nickel for every 5-day/year skier from Jersey or NYC who complained about the conditions on a powder day, I would feel better about forking over the 2 grand it costs for a pass.
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Baaahb
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Location: Ponderosa
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| steven hatcher wrote: | Wow, reality check.
So, Baaahb, I always figured you were a gaper and proud of it. Kinda waving the gaper flag like you owned it kinda thing. Now you're telling me you don't know what one is? I feel I've lost touch with you. |
Ahhhhh, it is so difficult to truly know someone. Do we ever truly know another human being?
I have to admit, I love asking people "what lake is that?" 
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MattB
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Location: G-Spot, Colorado
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| SkaredShtles wrote: | | MattB wrote: | Monarch over spring break is a good place and time to find them. But only one lift has the bar, the Pioneer low speed quad.
And Skared, which Mi resort has the triple black? I need to get over there and ski it so I can sew the patch to my waterproof shell. (assuming they sell the triple black patch there - surely they must!). |
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Dang, they don't even have a gift shop do they? I'd have to stop by Alpine Valley on the way home and get three of the regular black diamond patches...
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nstelemark
Joined: 02 Mar 2007
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Location: Nova Scotia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| B wrote: | Next year at Kirkwood?
(I sure hope not.) |
Please don't say this...
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ghostofcarl
Joined: 22 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| nstelemark wrote: | | B wrote: | Next year at Kirkwood?
(I sure hope not.) |
Please don't say this... |
god forbid the "core" remote office worker trying to be hardcore broheim vibe get leavened |
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televisionary
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:48 am Post subject: |
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Come to New Mexico. Next week is spring break for Texas and OK.
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Fenris
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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Location: Formerly a member of the A-Basin condo project
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| televisionary wrote: | | Come to New Mexico. Next week is spring break for Texas and OK. |
Ouch, I guess it works out that you end in in jail the next week or two you can go with an insanity plea or at least knock it down to justifiable.
At A-Basin we would get a extra bonus round of Texan gaperdom in the parking lot. All the stetsoned starter jacketed masses would get their dullies stuck in the parking lot, and come stomping in like they owned the place and make proclamations trying to find someone with a bigger dulliey to pull them out. Then they would freak out when someone showed up to yank them out with a Subaru or Tacoma, so sometimes the snowcat would be called into being a distraction while they were yanked free.
I'll second or third Keystone and Breck for the Rockies, and Wachussett, Bradford, and Killington for the North East. Sunapee, Okemo and Mount Snow probably deserve to be on the list also for the East, but I never have spent any money to ski at any of them, so I don't have enough mental scarring to count them yet.
Edit: Not that it means that I've actually spent any/much money to go to those other East Coast areas, but they are the one's I have a whole bunch of experience with otherwise. |
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2 left feet
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Location: Across the Universe
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While Keystone has more gapers, Vail has a much higher quality of gaper. I once saw a man wearing what appeared to be an entire animal pelt (a deep luxuious fur, maybe mink or ermine or such) as a hat, all 4 legs still attached. His partner wore a spotless down-filled shiny one-piece which I would guess cost in the thousands.
Neither actually appeared to be able to ski.
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Jim
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Location: North Ogden, Ut or upstate NY
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Earl's Lodge at Snow Basin for some high maintainence gapers. They don't even attempt at skiing. Some in the latest NTN boots that have never seen a binding. Plenty of mileage, just walking back and forth to the merchandise shop. 
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Mr. T
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I'm sure that Bode would think all TTipers are gapers...
... he's probably right! |
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Mulex
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Location: Denver
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| DaHeel wrote: | | Vail[va-le], noun-Native American word for Gaper. |
I always thought it was pronounced 'vile.'
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DaHeel
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| Mulex wrote: | | DaHeel wrote: | | Vail[va-le], noun-Native American word for Gaper. |
I always thought it was pronounced 'vile.' |
You say tomato.....
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Matt J
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| Danno wrote: | My first response to the question in your title was "TTips!".
As for the bar down thing, and helmets, I think people fail to realize that the helmet often causes the bar to hit you, there would be no contact without it.
As for where are the gapers? Keystone or Breck are good places to start. |
Just wait a year or two and I'm sure Vail Associates will have turned the eden that is Kirkwood into full gape.
To echo Danno's sentiments, anywhere in Summit County, Colorado. Really anywhere with an absurdly inexpensive season pass should be packed with Front Range "locals." Just look for the sack lunches |
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jonesinski
Joined: 02 Dec 2010
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Location: wandering and wondering
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| SkaredShtles wrote: | | MattB wrote: | Monarch over spring break is a good place and time to find them. But only one lift has the bar, the Pioneer low speed quad.
And Skared, which Mi resort has the triple black? I need to get over there and ski it so I can sew the patch to my waterproof shell. (assuming they sell the triple black patch there - surely they must!). |
Boarhemia. |
This is hilarious: http://www.mtbohemia.com/images/stories/mtbohemia_trailmap_2011.pdf
No Beginners Allowed! Extreme Back Country! 
Can't believe no one has mentioned Jimminy Peak where I learned how to ski back in the seventies and eighties. Are there more New York City/NJ skiers per-capita anywhere else? It's gotta be the best ski area in MA, but you'd be much better off anywhere in southern VT. |
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