when im at home in tahoe i agree with you totally, but when im on the road visiting whistler or somewhere where you see stickers that say 'if its called tourist season, why cant we shoot them?' i feel a little intimidated... okay- you jst reminded me of a story that happened to a friend of mine... my friend and his brother were snowboarding at the canyons in utah. they were tryiong to carry enough speed to get across some flats, so they wouldnt have to unstrap and skate. any how according to him, they encountered four olde skiers standing perpendicular across thye trail in such a way that there was hardly any room to get by. they did so, barley, and continued on. they eventually ran out of speed anyhow, and unstrapped to skate out, when one of the old men skiers came up and started yelling at him for reasons unknown, somthing about getting too close as they curised by, one thing led to another and a scuffle ensued, the old mans wife then skied up and hit him with her pole. at this point the other two old skiers were there and got involved. so at the end of it it was my freind and his older brother (who were like 24 and 27) trying to get away from this enraged old man in his sixties who probably thought that he ahd payed too myuch money to have other people pass him when he was taking up the whole trail with his dumb buddies. at the bottom of the hill ski patroll came up, and being the upstanding citizens that they were my friednd diddnt leave, because they totally got assulted. one of the old dudes came up like he was an unbiuased observer and tried to say 'oh yea, i saw the whole thing... theses youg guys attacked the old man yada yada yada' wich was completely false. in the end the old people were un able to press any charges and nothing ever came of it, but thios is a prime example of how idiotic people can be, regardless of weather they are tourists or not.
-thespinstopshere-
