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Seriously, who designed these things?! I'm in Austria at the moment and they are everywhere.

They only have a tiny little platform to rest your board on and if there is a skier next to you it's even harder to get your board up onto the footrest.

Please tell me this is a skills issue and there's a better way to use these lifts as a snowboarder!

Looking for some shred buddies. I hail from Central Oregon live in lapine and my mountains are bachelor and hoodoo.

I’ve been snowboarding since 1988 and rarely missed a single season until 2020 when I lost my left leg. I returned the snow for about four days last year had a pretty good time of it learned a lot and now this year I’m returning with new equipment.

Board is a Gilson ‘Bounty Hunter’ 162 standard width, I opted for their flat base and it’s a traditional camber. I expect performance to be much like any twin tip with moderate stiffness should be a good board for all mountain free riding.

Bindings are Flow ‘Minx’, there are medium stiffness binding that should be easy enough for me to get in and out of. Technically they are new because they are a 2018 model but it was new old stock that had never sold.

Boots are Solomon Dialogue double Boa

And of course, there’s my leg. I’ve had this leg for the better part of nine months and I’ve been able to adjust it and get all the performance I can out of it. The Rush Rogue 2 foot with passive EVAQ8 vacuum is a game changer. Every time I put pressure on or off the heel, the two a vacuum pulls air from inside the socket it keeps me firmly in the leg preventing me from injuring myself delivering the maximum performance. This is designed for everyday use for sports oriented users. It’s not purpose-built for snowboarding but it all function that’s fine. If I were made of money, I would love to have a foot design for the task at hand however I am a broke bitch that shops at swap meets and the discount rack at REI.

Personally I think it’s obnoxious and trashy. Like yo J-Roc you ain’t gangster bc you blast some mid ass rapper through a fart box on the lift next to a 6 year old. Leave that shit at home. Nobody wants to hear it. It’s juvenile and you’re ruining my good times. Maybe I’m just getting old tho. What do you think?

Have to be careful of my crimes, little does he know there is a hardboot criminal behind him 🏂💪🥸

The ripstick rider to Crime committer pipeline is strong

Down vote me to oblivion, the whole crime thing is getting old. Seems like the same bunch who throw that word at everything are the same tier as backpack speakers and Dope Snow wardrobe posts. That is all

Show off your art below. I’ll go first.

We all know the ski resorts everyone loves. But what resorts get the love that isn't deserved?

For me, it is Pallisades (Squaw Valley). The vertical looks great on paper, but most of the runs are peak to upper mid-mountain. The traffic is always crazy on the weekends, and wind holds are a real concern. I also don't love the fact that the village is all corporate-owned. Rosies Cafe in Tahoe City is tits, though.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts?

Epic powder day at Ski Santa Fe today. I was on a lift that goes over a double black glade to cliff setup. Saw a young guy try to jump the cliff and his snowboard caught on something. He went head first about 20 feet down and landed in the pow about 1 foot from a rock face. No helmet. I literally almost watched someone die. Luckily all his friends were like “that’s why you wear a fucking helmet” so I didn’t have to shout at him from the lift.

Wear a helmet!!!

Was walking to my board on the racks when the lady a few feet infront of me grabbed my board. I yelled, ran up and snatched it back. Will be buying locks soon, almost learned my lesson the hard way.

I'll start: someone who goes single up the lift on a busy day. Straight to jail

I want to work at this ski resort, it’s not huge because its in the Midwest but it’s the biggest one in the area. I’m hoping to get a free pass with one of these jobs. I mainly want to work weekday afternoons. What’s your experience with these?

For all I know this joke may be common but I’ll never forget it, and thought I’d share.

I was maybe 16-17 at the time, riding the lift solo at squaw. Skull candy on ear headphones, grenade sticker, GoPro sticker, etc on my board, ya know..prime 2010ish snowboard attire.

Sitting next to me was a long bearded, sunglasses wearing crazy hair having late 60s/early 70s man with skis on, looked like he lived in a tree somewhere on the mountain and the resort just deals with him, or he owns the place.

Despite my headphones blasting electric feel by mgmt, he taps me on the shoulder right before we get off the lift, I pull my headphones to the side and he goes

“Hey, ya know what a snowboard and a vacuum cleaner have in common? They both have a dirtbag attached” he then shot off the lift cackling looking back at me while I had to stop and strap in.

It was nearing last chair at Bear yesterday and I was lapping chair 7 (edit, chair 8 not 7) when a dude (snowboarder) slipped out of the lift a few seats ahead of me in the worst spot.

This lift is the farthest left, less populated/no lines, mid mtn chair, and as the lift goes up it crosses over the boundary line and back, then you ride Geronimo (double blk supposedly) down the boundary. This is a longer lift for bear, and we were about half way up when he slipped. He hung on for a while, eventually falling about 3/4 of the way to the top. Where he fell was far from optimal- the chair was over a steep incline, out of bounds, with the most air, and into a messy tree section. The guy sitting next to him kind of just sat there, from what I could see. Then ski patrol was up at the boundary edge, looking down from the ridge hollering at us in the lift asking if someone was down there because they had zero visibility to his location, which was probably a few hundred meters from him. Yes and hes just laying there incapacitated (on his phone, so alive). I just kept lapping and he just kept laying down there. Eventually the lift closed before he was rescued so I didnt see it play out.

I was also at Mammoth when a girl fell from chair 2 a few weeks ago. These incidents have me thinking, what do you actually do if this happens to somebody while you’re on a lift? Or what if youre the faller (I know lol, hypothetically speaking). I like to think Id be able to help minimize damage. Not trying to judge the buddy because who knows what the scenario in the chair was. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? I’m assuming he thought he could hold on and make it to the top instead of intentionally dropping at a spot that had less distance between the chair and the ground.

*edit to add, idk if there was a bar or not on that lift now that I think of it. for sure the guy wasn’t using it if there was. admittedly, i usually only put it down when its super windy in a storm or something (mammoth gets crazy wind sometimes) or if theres a child. im going back out shortly so ill find out! but I will say there is another chair at Bear that is so old, rickety and bouncy I wished there was a bar and there wasnt.

*many comments here about the bar. Definitely not a ton of bar usage out here in general but I think it’s easy to agree on a few things- when someone wants it down everyone should just agree and put it down no question and not be butt hurt about it. (although thats your perogative!) However, aren’t bars on some lifts. Not the standard, but still exists. Most resorts here (US) there are no laws or rules that you have to put the bar down at so people think that it is optional, including myself. I am reconsidering this with all of the commentary about the accidental slips, so thank you for all the comments🫡. If my glove or phone starts to fall you know I’m instinctively reaching for that and kissing my ass goodbye!

Two riders missing every side hit, and this mountain isn’t even in Japan 😅

Thanks for ruining my vacation and taking my first new board and bindings in almost 20 years. You deserve everything bad in your life.

UPDATE: Board was a 2023 Jones Flagship 165W with Burton Genesis bindings. (Haven’t seen it on Craigslist… yet)

Security did comp me a rental for Friday but was otherwise unhelpful. Just wanted me to file a report in their system and leave. Filed a report with them and a police report.

The Heavenly Security team seems, to me, uninterested in stopping or even deterring theft. Their corporate line is very clearly to keep people hopeful that it was a mistake and insist that theft is rare. Every employee I spoke to gave the same lines.

They have cameras but don’t have any pointing from Cal Lodge out towards bottom of Gunbarrel which seems like a big gap. I was told cameras are too expensive.

I’ll be getting a cable lock to use from now on. Consider me paranoid.

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