Skiing with strangers

El.

El.

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The best moment that I have ever had on skis is when I met two really stoked snowboarders on the lift and skied one run with them. Conditions were terrible but we just ripped the shit out of the resort.

No day with my buddies has ever compared. Anyone else feel this way or have had a similar experience?
 
I rode out of bounds with an old guy in his 70s and he was mobbing! it was so fun to watch and to ride with him.
 
I followed the old guy in the purple onesy that's in that Salomon Freeski Season 4 Episode 17 Ski Bums Never Die episode at Whitewater. I followed him down along this traverse cause I figured he probably had a hidden stash somewhere, and sure enough he did. Once we skied it, we stopped and chatted and watched the sun set together. It was a truely epic moment.

Another time a friend of mine and I sat down at a table in the resort bar with a guy who was on his own cause there weren't any free tables, found out he was on his own on a ski trip so we showed him around the mountain and went out with him that evening to show him a good time. So much fun skiing with strangers.
 
I do it all the time. Just be friendly and cruise with different peoples. You end up meeting some really coo people and making a shit ton of friends. Works in the real word too. If your friends are lame go without them and make some new friends.
 
There was a 50 year old guy in the park once trying to hit some flat rails. I gave him some tips and sure enough he was sliding it like nothing. We seshed for a lil
 
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i once met 2 kids at killington and we shredded together for the rest of the day, still one of my favorite days ever skiing
 
i work at a resort and i posted on NS how id give a couple tickets to anyway who wants to ride with me. 3 dudes came and it was the best day of skiing all year. a couple days ago they came back and we rode again. it was so awesome
 
These Argentinian guys saw me skiing from the lift and told me to wait for them at the bottom, we then had a great session on this jump for 3 hours or so. They were easily the happiest guys I've ever met, it was sweet.
 
I have no friends who are remotley at my skill level to ski with, and i end up doing solo day trips to tahoe anyways. so i always chat up people on the lift and take a lap or two with them. thats how i get to know all the hiden gems of kwood, alpine etc; by befriending a local, and then ripping with them for a few hours.

It has its downsides though. I was really, really baked earlier this year at kwood riding the lift with some middleaged gentleman who looked like he had a condo at the base, but probly didnt ski very well(you know, that type?). Anyways, i was doing the usual "hows ur day going?" routine, and it somehow morphed into talking about a skyscraper being built in downtown SF which i happened to be working on... problem was that he was working on it also...in fact we had actually been doing coordination items with each other earlier in the week. So i had to take a few laps with him and struggle to keep a coherent semi professional conversation going whilst being incapacitatingly stoned.
 
haha that's brutal luck. hate to have to switch back to pretend-to-be-an-adult mode from there

but yeah dude, ripping with strangers is one of the sickest parts of skiing. ive had awesome days skiing with little kids, older dudes, and everything in between
 
One day I went skiing with a random dude I met on the chairlift in the terrain park.

We had fun, became friends and skied more.

Then, I introduced him to Matt Harvey who hired him.

Then he hired me.

Random chairlift friends = good.

 
So this year I met this kid from CVA in the preseason park, he liked my pants and we chatted about different things, it went on to NS and Steve and such, now whenever we see each other we exchange a wave and talk some more and finish that run. I have no idea what his name is. Just that he's from Roundtop.
 
Skiing with stranger and experience it together is awesome. Whitewater is like that. I got to meet Mary Woodward, Trace Cooke and Mike Kinrade this year. I guided with complete strangers and shred the greatest lines of my life.
 
Love meeting and skiing with strangers. The problem is i meet so many ppl i forgot who is who. Like who wore what and what their names are.
 
Met a guy learning park, me learning my way around too I asked him if he would like to ride and I got him to 3, he landed it first try and also learned switch skiing! Best feeling ever when you JUST met them and you feel like they're your best friend! Also skiing with Newschoolers is pretty fun too
 
I just saw a picture of one of the ski areas in the midwest and was thinking that they don't get any time to make chairlift friends. With the double chair thread I figured I'd post that.

On the plus side if they encounter one of those chairlift riders from hell it's a short trip. I think there's a clause in texas where you're allowed to dump said people off the lift and get protection under self defense. Unfortunately all the ski hills in texas closed down do to gobal warming. Thanks obama.
 
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