Chairlift conversations

a friend of mine thought it would be funny to take a piss on one of the seats on he lift. The next ride up we actually got the same chair, and the fucker sat in it! Karma rules sometimes!
 
Only possible on the old style Gondolas. They were the red and yellow ones that they used to have. The new ones don't open the same way:-(
 
me and all my friends go in the singles lines in chairs right behind each other. and at one landmark up the path we all look at our phones and start crying and yelling to each other. never really came up with something that we are sad about though
 
Usually A)-bounce the chair

B)-say I've never gotten off the lift before and stay on and then jump at the last second

C) Yell mommy and daddy at random parents so they think their child just fell and almost died

Either way its the best thing in the world. I luz chairlifrtz.
 
Best one I've been part of was skiing in Avoriaz and this 4 man goes over two lift queues (or really near them was a bit of a carnage filled trip) so we started singing "Your just too good to be true can't take my eyes off of you..." and as luck would have it we managed to sing out hell loud "I love you baby!" and so forth as we went over the queues.

Best part was is that we were all wearing pretty bright gear and got applause from a lifty when we rode back down. /Claim.

Singing is the goods.
 
I 2nd this. I like having conversations with older people on lifts about there opinions and thoughts on skiing.

But the occasional making things awkward or telling outrageous lies is also fun somtimes.

The only thing I can't stand is the people that yell dumb shit from the lift that they think is funny.
 
please don't bounce the chairs, I have been skiing since i was very little and to this day it still scares the shit out of me.

 
you just have to lead right back into the worst conversations. On a quad me and a friend were riding up with some guy and his wife, and as soon we sat down, my buddy turned to me and said

"nah man, it was only like 8ft deep. I'm sure he could dig himself out from that little pile of snow, with or without the broken leg. Let's just calm down, grab a bite to eat, do some laps, and if we don't see him again this afternoon, we'll let ski patrol know when we're leaving. He'll be fine. He just needs to learn how to deal with his own problems."

we managed to set it up a few times so another friend a few chairs up got off the lift, quickly covered himself in snow, hid his gloves and stuff under a bench, and was standing at the top of the lift when we got there, looking beat to shit.

"see, i told you he'd been fine. (turns to snow covered friend) dude, what the hell?! Where's you other ski and your gloves and shit? Goddamnit, we can't leave you alone, can we?"
 
Fill up your backpacks with snow with your buddies and start making snowballs and throw them at people...That's the funnest thing to do...
 
+K. The funny thing is that last year I got my lifetime pass from VR for working for them for almost all of my adult life. If I get fired now, I will probably consider it close to a bonus.
 
let me guess, "corporate/human resources is making us fire you but we want you back next year. sorry, it's policy."
 
No, I don't think I am getting the hook for anything now.

In the past, in addition to the Gondola door incident, I got canned for throwing a credit card 3 in a slow skiing Zone, and back flips in uniform on the beginner hill at the top of the gondola. It was a big snow year and the cats had to push snow across the hill so that the poma lift didn't drag the ground. They made a big spine that ran parallel to the poma. The landing was pretty flat but deep powder. The catch was that you had to basically tuck down the beginner hill, carve a big left hand turn, and cut between 2 beginners riding up the poma.

Apparently one of the beginners was a little put off by this, even though I explained to her that she would not have to learn how to do that until her next lesson. That didn't go over very well either so she waddled up to one of my supervisors at the top of the hill and told him the story. Looking back at these exploits now, they were definitely firing offenses. The fact that they hired me back the next season is more astounding.

So pics or it didn't happen right? Here you go:

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Sorry to take thread off topic. At least the last description does involve a ski lift.
 
Haha it's always great when you get on a chairlift with really old or really young people and they ask you if you do jumps and what's with those crazy skiis that have tips ON THE BACK!. And then get you to explain everything about park skiing.
 
I agree, some of the things I saw above are just straight up rude...just because you're a skier doesn't mean that you shouldn't have common courtesy. You wonder why so many people look at freestyle skiers and think "oh those punkass kids."

That being said I did convince some kid I banged miley cyrus and that you can ski on ayers rock in australia.
 
My favorite is when people fake like they are going to fall of the lift and then jump and the other random people on the lift freak out
 
i just lie my fucking ass off about who I am. And always tell people my friends and I are pro and filming our video for the year, because we always have our camera with us. Same shit during the summer. When we're at a cliff my friends and I are always flippin and shit and people ask if if we're pro divers.
 
at Alpental i went up the chair with this crazy old gaper. He must have been in his 60s and claimed that he had had 3 knee relacements and 4 heart transplants, he also claimed that straight skis were no longer in production because the government wanted to make snowboarding more important and better. I explained to him that shaped skis were extremely difficult to use and not effective in the terrain park. He then shook his head and said "You are brainwashed by the media".

one of the strangest people on the mountain
 
I adopt varying foreign accents a lot on the chair, and I usually stay pretty consistent all the way up, but thats about it.
 
listening to gapers bitch about the cold is the worst. they obviously aren't enjoying skiing for what it is and thats irritating. besides that pet peeve if someone ever asks their friend if they have seen a tv show or movie, wait half a minute and start the same conversation about the same show with your friend. works best if there has been an awkward silence most of the ride.
 
I just shout at gapers on the slope:

"YOUR PHONE'S DROPPED"

"WHERE?!!!!?"

"IT'S SLIDING GOGOGOGOGO!!!"

It honestly works. Try it.
 
Usually my bud's and i talk about chair lift accidents when there a gapers with us. but we alway say we are kidding so the come back to the mountain( we need the business)
on occasion one of us would turn to the other and say something along the lines of" dude, you got the double just try to hold that tail grab for a little longer" and the other would say" yeah i know it just my momentum feels off" trying to act like total B.A's
and threads
 
1. Purchase rock candy2. Break into smaller pieces3. Put that shit in a pipe4. Get on chairlift5. Exchange pleasantries6. Ask em if they wanna hit of that rock7. ????8. Profit
 
dude so many people know about this guy, its like you only see him once, never see him again and then somebody else sees him. Maybe he was the guy who died falling off a cliff a few years back and decided to stay and haunt alpental!
 
Well this 3rd page is full of contributions.

My friend and I were playing golf on the lift (throw snowballs into the barrels that cover the pipes) and this kid randomly starts to cheer everytime we make one in. Then he started to talk about how the little halfpipe was more of a quarter pipe. It was a fun lift ride.
 
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