We were all there once -- GAPER SKI LIST

[jseeski]

It's when you think you're doing a real World Cup racing style tuck, but you actually look like this, poles sticking up, flailing about:

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When I do that, I like to make sure that I'm so crouched over that my baskets are actually AHEAD of my grips. The poles must be all the way up to the arm pits, and the hands on the grips should be on the thighs (for stability, dontcha know).

 

[jseeski]

I've left my boots at home.

I have grabbed the wrong skis out of the rack, but not the way you might think. I was in a hurry to get to the meeting place for a cat ski standby day, and I grabbed my wife's powder skis from our rack at home. Needless to say, they didn't fit my boots. I had to rent the spare backup pair carried on the cat.

I've always wanted to go cat skiing on a pair of skis I've never touched before...

 

[Andy Mink]

I grabbed my wife's powder skis

I grabbed @Tricia's pair of VMTs out of their garage one morning instead of the men's size. I spent the morning zipping around Mt. Rose on purple 160 somethings. Nothing as bad as missing a cat ski with your own skis!

 

[Tricia]

I grabbed @Tricia's pair of VMTs out of their garage one morning instead of the men's size. I spent the morning zipping around Mt. Rose on purple 160 somethings. Nothing as bad as missing a cat ski with your own skis!

Yeah, but you're a sensitive guy.

 

[slowrider]

I grabbed @Tricia's pair of VMTs out of their garage one morning instead of the men's size. I spent the morning zipping around Mt. Rose on purple 160 somethings. Nothing as bad as missing a cat ski with your own skis!

They had demo bindings,right. No judgment if the same bsl as @Tricia.

 

[cantunamunch]

Delicate. Dainty. "Demo".

 

[Andy Mink]

They had demo bindings,right. No judgment if the same bsl as @Tricia.

Yep, demos. Though @Philpug is pretty close to @Tricia's size.

 

[Tricia]

Yep, demos. Though @Philpug is pretty close to @Tricia's size.

@AKMINK says @Philpug has keebler feet. Then there is @ScotsSkier

 

[ScotsSkier]

@AKMINK says @Philpug has keebler feet. Then there is @ScotsSkier

Hey! i resemble that remark! Anyway, having a 285 BSL lets me crank the DIN up further...,.

 

[Tricia]

Hey! i resemble that remark! Anyway, having a 285 BSL lets me crank the DIN up further...,.

You may have keebler feet but you ski A-Dult Size skis.

 

[markojp]

2... fell off a lift (7 y.o. at the time), and boots too big.... not hugely so, but too big.

 

[JShort]

I once thought I could drive my manual car down an icy access road from an upper parking lot to a lower one in my ski boots. Still the most terrifying drive of my life so far.

 

[Asnis]

This may be a case of you're a gaper if you have to ask, but shouldn't leaving your sticker and wire lift tickets hanging from the coat zipper for an entire winter be on the list?

 

[slowrider]

This may be a case of you're a gaper if you have to ask, but shouldn't leaving your sticker and wire lift tickets hanging from the coat zipper for an entire winter be on the list?

Only if the tickets flap in your face when you zip up.

 

[David Chaus]

The Grumps keep a wire cutter in their gear for clipping the wire or plastic loop and remove the ticket before they leave the lodge. Anti-gaper behavior.

 

[Asnis]

Only if the tickets flap in your face when you zip up.

For sure, only a gaper would put 'em on the main zipper. I was good then...kept 'em on the pocket zipper.

 

[Uncle-A]

I scored a 8 but I think it should be a 7 because someone gave me a Ski tote but I have never used it.
The worst of my list was, I packed to go to Stowe VT. and left my ski pants home. I asked the guy at the desk of the hotel I was staying if any ski shops were open late because I didn't get to Stowe until after 9:00 PM and he asked me what I needed. I told him that I forgot to pack my ski pants and he laughed and said he would give me a loaner pair of shell pants. I used them for Saturday and Sunday and gave them back to him Sunday evening. I think I gave him a good tip but don't ask me how much it was because I don't know.

 

[Mister Tea]

This may be a case of you're a gaper if you have to ask, but shouldn't leaving your sticker and wire lift tickets hanging from the coat zipper for an entire winter be on the list?

We call those skiers "Archaeologists". They have every lift ticket they've ever skied with attached to their coat, hopefully including today's. Gaper? Yeah, probably.

When I have to endure the indignity of a lift ticket I snip it off at the very first opportunity. Real Skiers™ almost never ski with a visible lift ticket.

 

[slowrider]

We call those skiers "Archaeologists". They have every lift ticket they've ever skied with attached to their coat, hopefully including today's. Gaper? Yeah, probably.

When I have to endure the indignity of a lift ticket I snip it off at the very first opportunity. Real Skiers™ almost never ski with a visible lift ticket.

Dang I've been doing it wrong. What about ski pins?

 

[Blue Streak]

16” powder day, so I took the bus.

Couldn’t scan in the gondi line.

Immediately realized that my pass was hanging on the rearview mirror of my car back at the condo.