A few from Winterplace, WV
First, a few things:
The southeast US has a very high percentage of gapers. Winterplace in WV is "The church group" resort and has the easiest terrain, and is all about beginners. I was there (fo free) over MLK weekend, the busiest, most crowded, and most gaperific weekend of the season, where they had some 500 church groups. When you see the liftline, half have their pants tucked into their boots. A quarter have those terrible 'crazy hats'(you know the colorful ones with dreads and stuff that are in the movie, jonny tsunami).
I get on the lift. first thing these people wearing Charlotte Hornets starter jackets say:
"So what church group are you here with?"
A guy is asking me about my 'double ended skis' (line invaders), looks down and says, "Wow. I didn't know SPY made skis. I have a friend that owns most of the company and he never said anything about that."
Me-"That's a sticker."
Guy-"Oh"
Not so much a quote,
Me and my friends are hiking the park at night(the mountain is flat as shit, and theres shit house lift lines). My friend put his jacket on the slow sign at the top of the park. While were are sessioning a flat down box, we see this gaper snowboarder wearing camo (fat too) take the jacket off the sign and try to ride down with it. We all saw and started yelling at him. He put the jacket back and tried to use some BS and say he was returning it to lost and found since it had been there for 3 hours. He eventually confessed that he was trying to steal it and he said, "Well I wouldnt have tried to steal it if I knew you guys were right there watching it." No shit, great west virginia education for you there.
In the park, there aren't any jumps, just 2 boxes and a rail. All the gapers are jumping off the side of the jumps to the rails. I overheard a gaper say, "Why do they put all these metal grind bars behind the jumps?"
Overheard in the lodge:
"Make sure you bundle up kids. Theres a frostbite warning today." Low:25*F High 34*F
Later, overheard in the liftline, "You fellas know how much them snowmakers cost? I bet you could pick a couple up at the home depot for about a hundred bucks."