A resorts dream customer gets week passes for the whole family, rents gear and puts kids in ski school. Then go up the lift and drink in the hillside restaurants. Bums are like the economy class seats on an airplane, just slightly better than not selling the ticket.
My home "mountain" claims to have 77, but its more like 15. They count every gap between a tree as a run even though it's literally impossible in most areas
There’s about 15 at mine. A few blues, like 9 greens, 2 blacks, and 1 double black which is basically a 90 degree drop that goes down the whole mountain.
The longest trail is a green that wraps around the mountain, but at one point near the start there’s a three way intersection. You can either stay on the trail, go on a trail which just goes to the side then merged back in, or you can end up on the double black.
Putting “no jumping” signs on rollers is like putting a “no robbing” sign in front of a convenient store. As if the criminal is just gonna say “oh well, theres a sign, looks like I can’t rob the place”.
You're implying the jumpers are criminals. I don't like this comparison. It's the other way around. The signs represent something like social justice warriors: trying to control what you can and can't do/say! Fuck 'em.
@@lilwillie428 we have a beginner park on the Tomte rope, if that's what you're thinking of. Nothing out there now - resetting Thursday AM, & shamelessly hijacking Angry's post. Skol!
dude this is so accurate hahaha. Was talking with some dude on the lift and he was a ski instructor. The only problem was he snowboarded his entire life and the resort made him teach how to ski. So he had to learn how to ski literally while teaching other people how to ski. Resorts are stupid.
Yea I teach snowboarding at a resort in Utah and the first thing I made clear is that I have no desire to teach skiing and you will not get me on skis. 9 years later and again never taught a ski lesson or have gotten on skis
#3 happened due to the fact they set regulations and standards to force all the top tiered, top certified instructors to either quit, leave, or step down. It was cheaper to hire "throw away" instructors who ski bum for one season vs. those of us that actually chose it as a career. They keep a fraction of those with higher certification to teach the throw away instructors. Its sad, because I watched a bunch of amazingly skilled instructors leave after 15-20+years of employment...
LOL, I know this video is a week old by now, but I just happened to run across it last night. Although a skier by trade, some of my best friends (and my kids) are snowboarders. I have no problem with them. Here's a suggestion in dealing with the #1. My mountain of choice is Whistler, and even prior to Vail Resorts picking them up just over a year ago, they have a large "Mtn. Safety Department". You won't find them up near the Harmony Horshoes or in Glissandro Glades, but you sure as hell see them towards the end of the day when they crawl out of the woodwork, just as you want to ski down the mountain to your beer, hottub, whatever. My way of dealing with them was to buy a Yellow parka (which they all wear as a uniform, to differentiate from the real safety people, the ski patrol) . I ski down the trails at a pretty good clip, getting air over the rollers, and there they are, standing by their "SLOW" signs, and what do they do? They just stand there and wave at me with a friendly smile. They think I'm one of them! Trust me, it works.
Vail bought the largest resort in Australia in 2015 and every year since without fail they've increased lift ticket prices by a pretty significant margin. Day pass lift tickets used to be AU$120 per day before the acquisition, last season around peak season (August) prices were about $160-170 if you bought it at the ticket office on the day. Rumour is they're upping it by $10 again for the 2019 season. The worst thing is the resort is inside a national park so parking there is limited, Perisher (the resort) has gotten around this by building an underground railway which goes down to a neighboring valley but a one way trip is $30 so realistically lift passes will come to $220-230 a day (US$158-165). Prices have risen too in response to Vail at the other major resort in my state. On top of this the only town that's close enough to the major resorts operates as a local government sanctioned cartel where all the businesses have agreed to keep prices artificially inflated and also to never allow any chain stores to set up shop. This is because the entire town basically becomes a ghost town during summer and all the businesses there have to make as much money as they can from June to September.
@@Loosebirnieee The 2nd largest resort (Thredbo) do push mountain biking they have professional comps there during our summer. Unfortunately that resort has its own village at the bottom whereas Perisher doesn't because they don't have a head lease from the National Park service so the only land they can use is the land directly below the existing buildings and the chairlifts so they can't develop any biking facilities, the result is everyone just stays at Thredbo during summer so the town (Jindabyne) becomes a ghost town.
Minnesota shredder that took a year and worked mountain safety for Vail Resorts. There’s 2 types of Mountain Safety employees: 1. Mr bag of dicks that you described 2. Shredders who don’t piss off people that know how to ride which then they get yelled at by the boss to write more warnings so we just pull Jer Bear’s passes so season pass holders have less people to deal with.
I ride in NC and the dumbest thing the resorts here do is turn every blower on the mountain to full blast on natural powder days while it is already snowing heavily. You can’t see more than 10 feet in front of you and it’s extremely dangerous. Blows my mind.
#1 Chairlift operators that are more concerned with scanning your ticket than controlling the lines by making certain chairs are full. It's the difference between standing 20 minutes in line or standing 5 minutes in line. Skiers/snowboarders must complain when you see long lines and empty chairs. That is your hard earned money being spent to stand in line.
a mountain safety job sounds like a great way to ride every day and ignore all violations so you can ride everyday, thus leaving people to get injured, thus less people on the hill which allows season pass holders more access.......
“Pairing people that don’t give a shit about anything else with people that don’t know they need to give a shit about everything around them is a bad idea.” It’s so true it hurts.
My local Mountian resort now has 2 season passes that you need for an actual every day pass. You buy a season pass but it doesn’t come with “peak days” which is Saturday and Sunday, so you have to buy ANOTHER “peak day” pass to be able to have a legitimate season pass. The move was to lower crowding, but the lines are the same this year, and it just screws over ski racers like me or snowboarders/ who ever else who trains on the Mountian several times a week by making us have to sell a freaking kidney to get on the snow.
Amen to all of this. I saw a sign at beaver creek above a roller saying “caution people below”. Absolutely idiotic, why don’t you just say “sitting in this blind spot is totally accepted”
Number 4 is so relatable because I am on the race team at my local resort, and enjoy riding park - and the chairlift that is used for the park is also used for the race trail, and like 5 beginner trails.
Our hill has one chairlift out of 2 not running this season due to money concerns but on the holidays WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO GO SKIING OR SNOWBOARDING, they cancel night skiing, or are just closed in general. Oh and we only get night skiing on fridays
Lol I love it when they merge park and beginner trails in a lift. Sometimes you can get rail transfers on to a beginners head lying right ahead of the rail
So how would you solve that lift problem you have, not having to sit with beginners? Build a multi million dollar chairlift only for advanced riders? Different cues where people themselves get to decide if they are experienced or not? That would be a great idea..or not.
My ski resort doesn’t have many problems but idk why better riders want to go on the beginner hill. Also thank you for welcoming me to the snowboarding forum a couple months ago
you should do one about the worst types of people at resorts.. like the skiers who bum rush the chair when it finally opens after being closed for safety checks even though youve patiently waited at the front of the line, or the guy who throws his red bull can right before getting off the chair even though there are trash cans at the top, the skier that makes really wide S's while youre straight-lining that black run, the people that bump into the workbench youre at and slam their board down causing your mounting screws to fall right into the gutter beneath, and the person chopping up the fresh pow making quick turns instead of attacking the pow like it owes you rent
Possible reason for #3 is that the resorts are owned by skiers and skiers are incessant in keeping us down. So if they can make that learning curve take a little longer, they have ignorant snowboarders around longer to harass and make fun of. Still.. if it wasn't you guys sayin' it I might not have believed it.
i think you might have deterred me from doing a colorado trip with my season pass.... only issue ive ever seen is that they put people who have no clue at the top of the bunny slope chair and they stand in the way of beginners who dont know how to get off and cause them to fall and then they lecture the person who just fell and trying to get out of the way about having to get out of the way while holding them up from getting out of the way... almost yelled at the girl about it but I didnt want my pass pulled while I was just helping a friend learn how to ride
I got a warning one run and a free hot chocolate on the next from a yellow jacket at the beav. Also one told me my music was too loud as timmy took out a herd of space suited housewives.
I’m old and a beginner, I don’t want to be on the lift with experts .... when I fall over I don’t want to be the only one😂. Like you views though ...cracked me up 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Haha #1 so good that we don’t have this „safety idiots” in Europe 😜 Saw them live for the first time in Colorado and was wondering “senseless Colorado job creation plan?!” 😂
we have them in austria. they only talked to me twice though, when they saw me and a friend riding forest. They just told us that it was their job to inform us that it's dangerous, but personally they didn't give a flying fuck.
1. When you buy an unlimited season pass. And then Vail sends you an email saying " You got some free days in this season" . cost of pass ÷ number of days 2. Safety patrol is a summit/eagle county well fare program for "the right"
Guess I am lucky in Europe. In France the ski&snowboard instructors need to go trough extensive training. Austria it is easier to become an instructor (basic level), but you still have requirements and getting to a higher level you really need to be good. Oh and those people from number 1? Never seen them here. Paid parking is a thing though, especially in the big French resorts. 90 euro to park your case for a week.
Hey man i went snkwboardi g today and every time we were lined up for the chair lift annoing preteens were constantly stomping the boards on the ground . I think they were trying to get snow off there boards. It eas absuluty annoying and in effective have you ever seen people do this wft its loud as fuck
'He tries to grab me, he is going down!' 🤣 So so so true... Sad thing is I am the 'polite/gentle' type, although swearing in heart, but can't say the rude word out... Being there, really understand how it feels of being a beginner, but never able to understand the common inconsiderate type of beginners - never care to give way when they're clearly blocking the traffic, doesn't matter how much room you give them, they're just determined to run into you try to use you as a cushion before falling, and try to block/grab you when getting on and off the chair lift. No sympathy from me there, I call that pure selfishness and self centered.
Austin Minnon yeah but most of the time the stupid ski footrest always gets in the way and I’m firmly planted in the chair.i see these videos of people falling off lifts and i wonder how it is even possible. If i truly Felt unsafe without it i would use them more.
Totally disagree with #1. Well, partially. Yes there are lousy safety peeps who ignore real issues and yell at the wrong people. But "I know what I'm doing" is just a precursor to a bad collision. Remember safety is about the 1% of time when shit goes wrong and you lose that edge cause you hit a rogue icy spot. Not the 99% of time when you do something "dangerous" and it all works ok. More to the point, before you knock it too hard, spend a half hour at one of those stations watching, and see how many near collisions you see. Or spend a season doing it and see how many ACTUAL collisions you deal with. And the big fallout from them. The difference in perspective really changed my mind from what I thought when I was younger.
Top 5 Ways to Better Spend Your Time Than Being Mountain Safety. 5. Snowboarding for yourself 4. Snowboarding for yourself 3. Snowboarding for yourself 2. Snowboarding for yourself 1. Not working in a stupid position that requires you can't snowboard for yourself.
Pure liquid hot gold on this top 5 my man. Loved it. Wouldn’t an actual fascist hill be kinda nice though? We’d all be classified on skill and the hill would be sectioned off so we wouldn’t have to risk our lives arcing through Jerry meat walls and mid run squatters.
In Colorado there is one great ski area. It’s not owned by vail, it’s a big mountain, I’m in a legendary family that are the building blocks of it and I get free season passes. It’s a big mountain with free parking and free snowcat skiing. I don’t care that I’m bragging
hahahahaha, damnnnn! here, no parking fee. but there's National Park fee of 20$ (for 24hrs), at least in our province. well, there's an option to get the yearly parking pass (approx 120-130$) :-)
Snowboard instructor working in hire for the season and I agree, talked to other instructors that did a fucking 3 day course, that's it. Pisses me off I had to work unpaid "shadowing" 35 hours, get a first aid cert, pay for my own background check, do a week long course and write a fucking dissertation on teaching to get to where they were. And if they want to get to the level I am now they can just do a 1 week course when I needed a further 300hours teaching, 2 weeks tech and teach training, more first aid, another background check and the pass rate is still like 60%. So I figure I will just join them skiing to get my dual cert because why do it the hard way to become a better instructor if you get paid the same.
I just know I have been taught better and can teach better so there is some job satisfaction, still the difference between a European and North American qualified instructor is night and day.
How can Vail not employ competent instructors ? In France you have to pass unbelievably stringent exams and pass a near Olympic level speed test. ( I think you have to reach 90 % Olympic downhill speed ) Guides to the Valee Blanche must be fully qualified mountaineers and they have EMT advanced first responder skills.
Almost every ski resort has at least one instructor who can’t actually ski. Some paid instructors can’t even straight air small jumps. I’ve seen multiple six year old children land straights and ski better than instructors. Those six year olds should be hired instead 😂 or better yet hire your volunteer instructors who can actually ski.
I think it’s lame that so may resorts aren’t chill with the overnight camping, like come on dude I camp in the back of my truck in the negative degrees I’m earning that spot bruh! Screw all the people who’ve got places close man, ruining the resorts and the mountains man
What days were you up there? Christmas Eve was a little crazy but I actually thought it was pretty chill for Christmas week. Thursday was perfect. Bluebird with 6 inches of powder. Not bad at all.
@@PhaseSkaterYeah I'm sure opening day was nuts. I was there most of Christmas week and it wasn't bad at all, surprisingly. More than not, I rode right up to the lift and went right back up.
@@PhaseSkater Yeah they had a late start to the season. But it's been dumping up there ever since Thanksgiving. More than enough snow to open the whole mountain with really good conditions. Get up there! I would but I live in TN. A little far.
LMAO I agree with this 100%. And although this is funny as shit, he's right that there is a serious safety concern for beginners by having them slow down or stop in blind areas and having beginner runs crossing expert runs or entrances and exits to parks. You would think they would of figured this out by now. The beginners and experts on the lift together is HYSTERICAL. SO fucking true! Every time the lift stops while I'm on it I say "Fucking beginner". We all were beginners once but for Christ sake stay on the fucking bunny hill if you can't exit a lift and can't focus on anything more then 1 foot in front of your tips or nose.
Ski patrol ? Mountain safety ?? I swear american resorts sound like hell. So glad to have the French Alps for enjoyment. (the one stupid thing that irks me though here: becoming a ski instructor in France is pretty hard, you have to be real good. BUT to become an official snowboard instructor, you have to be a ski instructor first!!)
I like the No Jumping signs. They give you a heads up to send it!
Ryan Bittel
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Yup
Yea but you gotta send a scout to make sure the landing is clear so you don't land on a fucking toddler on a tether.
this is what i would think. senddddd itttt!
No Jumping/Slow Signs=Ollie me signs.
A resorts dream customer gets week passes for the whole family, rents gear and puts kids in ski school. Then go up the lift and drink in the hillside restaurants. Bums are like the economy class seats on an airplane, just slightly better than not selling the ticket.
im that guy, bring my own beer and tailgate in the parking lot all while riding 20+ days on the cheapest season pass
Calling
There is this one continuous run from about midway down to the base at my home mountain. It goes through 4 different names as you descend
My home "mountain" claims to have 77, but its more like 15. They count every gap between a tree as a run even though it's literally impossible in most areas
There’s about 15 at mine. A few blues, like 9 greens, 2 blacks, and 1 double black which is basically a 90 degree drop that goes down the whole mountain.
The longest trail is a green that wraps around the mountain, but at one point near the start there’s a three way intersection. You can either stay on the trail, go on a trail which just goes to the side then merged back in, or you can end up on the double black.
arcticfilms lmao no resort has more than a 40 degree drop
Putting “no jumping” signs on rollers is like putting a “no robbing” sign in front of a convenient store. As if the criminal is just gonna say “oh well, theres a sign, looks like I can’t rob the place”.
You're implying the jumpers are criminals. I don't like this comparison. It's the other way around. The signs represent something like social justice warriors: trying to control what you can and can't do/say! Fuck 'em.
Savage
@@DannyBush absolute madlad
This sign can’t stop me, I can’t read
It’s fo liability reasons
Truly honored none of the stupid things we might do made it on the Top 5. Never been prouder to miss the mark. Merry Christmas! Stay angry.
You guys are a bastion of hope in a sea of stupidity! Keep on getting people stoked Mr. Troll!
Trollhaugen please never change we love you
@@tomsellout9576 We have a fondness for you as well human. Stoked for your stoke! Skol!
Trollhaugen Don’t you have a bunch of rails on the the one bunny hill...
@@lilwillie428 we have a beginner park on the Tomte rope, if that's what you're thinking of. Nothing out there now - resetting Thursday AM, & shamelessly hijacking Angry's post. Skol!
dude this is so accurate hahaha. Was talking with some dude on the lift and he was a ski instructor. The only problem was he snowboarded his entire life and the resort made him teach how to ski. So he had to learn how to ski literally while teaching other people how to ski. Resorts are stupid.
Ziveo literally happened to me. I made the mistake of telling them I “can” ski
Lucky for us in Canada, you have to pass a test to become a instructor. Just it's not cheap. Lol
@@Red1676 Level 1 is indeed cheap and easy as shit to pass.
Yea I teach snowboarding at a resort in Utah and the first thing I made clear is that I have no desire to teach skiing and you will not get me on skis. 9 years later and again never taught a ski lesson or have gotten on skis
#3 happened due to the fact they set regulations and standards to force all the top tiered, top certified instructors to either quit, leave, or step down. It was cheaper to hire "throw away" instructors who ski bum for one season vs. those of us that actually chose it as a career. They keep a fraction of those with higher certification to teach the throw away instructors. Its sad, because I watched a bunch of amazingly skilled instructors leave after 15-20+years of employment...
Kind of a roundabout way of letting us know you lay down pencil carves.
Well, aren’t we all who listen to this “crap” MF angry show 😂😂😂
LOL, I know this video is a week old by now, but I just happened to run across it last night. Although a skier by trade, some of my best friends (and my kids) are snowboarders. I have no problem with them. Here's a suggestion in dealing with the #1. My mountain of choice is Whistler, and even prior to Vail Resorts picking them up just over a year ago, they have a large "Mtn. Safety Department". You won't find them up near the Harmony Horshoes or in Glissandro Glades, but you sure as hell see them towards the end of the day when they crawl out of the woodwork, just as you want to ski down the mountain to your beer, hottub, whatever. My way of dealing with them was to buy a Yellow parka (which they all wear as a uniform, to differentiate from the real safety people, the ski patrol)
. I ski down the trails at a pretty good clip, getting air over the rollers, and there they are, standing by their "SLOW" signs, and what do they do? They just stand there and wave at me with a friendly smile. They think I'm one of them! Trust me, it works.
How about chairlift operators ( on beginner lifts ) that don't speak the native language of the resort ...
This should be top 5 ways Vail is slowly killing snowboarding.
Vail bought the largest resort in Australia in 2015 and every year since without fail they've increased lift ticket prices by a pretty significant margin.
Day pass lift tickets used to be AU$120 per day before the acquisition, last season around peak season (August) prices were about $160-170 if you bought it at the ticket office on the day. Rumour is they're upping it by $10 again for the 2019 season.
The worst thing is the resort is inside a national park so parking there is limited, Perisher (the resort) has gotten around this by building an underground railway which goes down to a neighboring valley but a one way trip is $30 so realistically lift passes will come to $220-230 a day (US$158-165). Prices have risen too in response to Vail at the other major resort in my state.
On top of this the only town that's close enough to the major resorts operates as a local government sanctioned cartel where all the businesses have agreed to keep prices artificially inflated and also to never allow any chain stores to set up shop. This is because the entire town basically becomes a ghost town during summer and all the businesses there have to make as much money as they can from June to September.
@@HuyLy94 the answer to that is pushing mountain biking for summer! The more resorts push mountain biking in summer the more realistic the economy.
@@Loosebirnieee The 2nd largest resort (Thredbo) do push mountain biking they have professional comps there during our summer. Unfortunately that resort has its own village at the bottom whereas Perisher doesn't because they don't have a head lease from the National Park service so the only land they can use is the land directly below the existing buildings and the chairlifts so they can't develop any biking facilities, the result is everyone just stays at Thredbo during summer so the town (Jindabyne) becomes a ghost town.
"It's all downhill from here" best catch phrase ever for an angry snowboard channel.
1 year later...
Still the only weekly top five snowboarding show
Minnesota shredder that took a year and worked mountain safety for Vail Resorts. There’s 2 types of Mountain Safety employees:
1. Mr bag of dicks that you described
2. Shredders who don’t piss off people that know how to ride which then they get yelled at by the boss to write more warnings so we just pull Jer Bear’s passes so season pass holders have less people to deal with.
I ride in NC and the dumbest thing the resorts here do is turn every blower on the mountain to full blast on natural powder days while it is already snowing heavily. You can’t see more than 10 feet in front of you and it’s extremely dangerous. Blows my mind.
#1 Chairlift operators that are more concerned with scanning your ticket than controlling the lines by making certain chairs are full. It's the difference between standing 20 minutes in line or standing 5 minutes in line. Skiers/snowboarders must complain when you see long lines and empty chairs. That is your hard earned money being spent to stand in line.
a mountain safety job sounds like a great way to ride every day and ignore all violations so you can ride everyday, thus leaving people to get injured, thus less people on the hill which allows season pass holders more access.......
You don't shred, you just stand there thumbjacking your fart box screaming at people.
And those damn YELLOW JACKETS don’t get me started😂
Ikr
#4 so true. Both parks at Whistler do exactly that.
“Pairing people that don’t give a shit about anything else with people that don’t know they need to give a shit about everything around them is a bad idea.” It’s so true it hurts.
Think I should become a season pass holder, the logic is undeniable.
Be cooler if you did.
My local Mountian resort now has 2 season passes that you need for an actual every day pass. You buy a season pass but it doesn’t come with “peak days” which is Saturday and Sunday, so you have to buy ANOTHER “peak day” pass to be able to have a legitimate season pass. The move was to lower crowding, but the lines are the same this year, and it just screws over ski racers like me or snowboarders/ who ever else who trains on the Mountian several times a week by making us have to sell a freaking kidney to get on the snow.
Your first problem is you're a ski racer.
Angry Snowboarder ah shoot gotta run I’ve been exposed. Fun while it lasted
This could be the angriest video yet!!!!
This had me cracking up, and considering a job as an instructor, lol.
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched
Amen to all of this. I saw a sign at beaver creek above a roller saying “caution people below”. Absolutely idiotic, why don’t you just say “sitting in this blind spot is totally accepted”
Number 4 is so relatable because I am on the race team at my local resort, and enjoy riding park - and the chairlift that is used for the park is also used for the race trail, and like 5 beginner trails.
Our hill has one chairlift out of 2 not running this season due to money concerns but on the holidays WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO GO SKIING OR SNOWBOARDING, they cancel night skiing, or are just closed in general. Oh and we only get night skiing on fridays
Lol I love it when they merge park and beginner trails in a lift. Sometimes you can get rail transfers on to a beginners head lying right ahead of the rail
So how would you solve that lift problem you have, not having to sit with beginners? Build a multi million dollar chairlift only for advanced riders? Different cues where people themselves get to decide if they are experienced or not? That would be a great idea..or not.
Simple, I tell people they can't ride with me. It's amazing.
"It's all downhill for 2019" well that turned out to be accurate
Hiding from mouth breathers and 60 degree rain here on the Toast Coast.
This was the first time I watched this channel and I just love it!
First video I’ve seen of yours. Instant subscribe my man
My ski resort doesn’t have many problems but idk why better riders want to go on the beginner hill. Also thank you for welcoming me to the snowboarding forum a couple months ago
you should do one about the worst types of people at resorts.. like the skiers who bum rush the chair when it finally opens after being closed for safety checks even though youve patiently waited at the front of the line, or the guy who throws his red bull can right before getting off the chair even though there are trash cans at the top, the skier that makes really wide S's while youre straight-lining that black run, the people that bump into the workbench youre at and slam their board down causing your mounting screws to fall right into the gutter beneath, and the person chopping up the fresh pow making quick turns instead of attacking the pow like it owes you rent
Top 5 people that fail at making coherent comments on Top 5 videos coming right up.
Lol honorable mention?
Possible reason for #3 is that the resorts are owned by skiers and skiers are incessant in keeping us down. So if they can make that learning curve take a little longer, they have ignorant snowboarders around longer to harass and make fun of. Still.. if it wasn't you guys sayin' it I might not have believed it.
As instructor for vail resorts, I can confirm. They hire noobs to teach noobs, it’s pretty shocking
The gaper ski resorts that leave their night skiing lights on 24X7 regardless of weather the mountain is open or not. Looking at you keystone.
Pow day 8 in the morning, lights on. Bluebird day 8 in the morning lights on! But they're a "green" resort company.
i think you might have deterred me from doing a colorado trip with my season pass.... only issue ive ever seen is that they put people who have no clue at the top of the bunny slope chair and they stand in the way of beginners who dont know how to get off and cause them to fall and then they lecture the person who just fell and trying to get out of the way about having to get out of the way while holding them up from getting out of the way... almost yelled at the girl about it but I didnt want my pass pulled while I was just helping a friend learn how to ride
I got a warning one run and a free hot chocolate on the next from a yellow jacket at the beav. Also one told me my music was too loud as timmy took out a herd of space suited housewives.
I’m old and a beginner, I don’t want to be on the lift with experts .... when I fall over I don’t want to be the only one😂. Like you views though ...cracked me up 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Haha #1 so good that we don’t have this „safety idiots” in Europe 😜
Saw them live for the first time in Colorado and was wondering “senseless Colorado job creation plan?!” 😂
Gregor Thomas I’ve never seen them here in Oregon or Washington either
we have them in austria. they only talked to me twice though, when they saw me and a friend riding forest. They just told us that it was their job to inform us that it's dangerous, but personally they didn't give a flying fuck.
Wait what places have paid parking? I’ve been to a only a few resorts and never seen paid parking
All the places you don't go.
@@AngrySnowboarder dang. guess i lucked out at timberline, bachelor, and arizona snowbowl lol
Never heard of mountain safety before in my life. Not even at the beginner hills. Thank you canada
Wait till Vail buys your resort.
I hope you visit some european ski resorts and make a top 5 differences video :D
Bro I used to work for vail resorts. Spot on hahaha. Bail on vail!!!
Trigger as many SJWs as possible my guy🙌🏻🙌🏻
Colin S
That ^
First time watching and im hurting from laughing. though most of this is true of resorts. Will be watching more. 👍
1. When you buy an unlimited season pass. And then Vail sends you an email saying " You got some free days in this season" . cost of pass ÷ number of days
2. Safety patrol is a summit/eagle county well fare program for "the right"
Guess I am lucky in Europe. In France the ski&snowboard instructors need to go trough extensive training. Austria it is easier to become an instructor (basic level), but you still have requirements and getting to a higher level you really need to be good.
Oh and those people from number 1? Never seen them here.
Paid parking is a thing though, especially in the big French resorts. 90 euro to park your case for a week.
Hey man i went snkwboardi g today and every time we were lined up for the chair lift annoing preteens were constantly stomping the boards on the ground . I think they were trying to get snow off there boards. It eas absuluty annoying and in effective have you ever seen people do this wft its loud as fuck
I do it all the time because it's fun to make noise.
Oh man. Experienced all of these this week, and AMEN.
Can you do a top 5 for us big footed apes?
Great work as always. Will you review any Wired snowboards? Think they look great.
Pretty sure Rob is specifically making boards for us to review.
Do people in America not need certification for being an instructor? In canada we have Casi
There's certified and un-certified.
'He tries to grab me, he is going down!' 🤣 So so so true... Sad thing is I am the 'polite/gentle' type, although swearing in heart, but can't say the rude word out... Being there, really understand how it feels of being a beginner, but never able to understand the common inconsiderate type of beginners - never care to give way when they're clearly blocking the traffic, doesn't matter how much room you give them, they're just determined to run into you try to use you as a cushion before falling, and try to block/grab you when getting on and off the chair lift. No sympathy from me there, I call that pure selfishness and self centered.
I know where I know you from now. The coyote at beaver creek for apres ski. We were chillin with Craig!! Haha
Timmy here. Also a mouth breather. I need a safe space, quick!
yeah I got yelled at to put my bar down today.. but they did abruptly stop the lift like 8 times so I guess that makes sense to have my bar down
Having the bar down is common sense. The lift would stop for much longer if you were hanging off of it
Austin Minnon yeah but most of the time the stupid ski footrest always gets in the way and I’m firmly planted in the chair.i see these videos of people falling off lifts and i wonder how it is even possible. If i truly
Felt unsafe without it i would use them more.
@@kosycat1 you can just put your board on the footrest, don't see the problem?
@@mtcsypkens Bingo.
Y’all have separate chairs?
Totally disagree with #1. Well, partially. Yes there are lousy safety peeps who ignore real issues and yell at the wrong people. But "I know what I'm doing" is just a precursor to a bad collision. Remember safety is about the 1% of time when shit goes wrong and you lose that edge cause you hit a rogue icy spot. Not the 99% of time when you do something "dangerous" and it all works ok.
More to the point, before you knock it too hard, spend a half hour at one of those stations watching, and see how many near collisions you see. Or spend a season doing it and see how many ACTUAL collisions you deal with. And the big fallout from them. The difference in perspective really changed my mind from what I thought when I was younger.
Top 5 Ways to Better Spend Your Time Than Being Mountain Safety.
5. Snowboarding for yourself
4. Snowboarding for yourself
3. Snowboarding for yourself
2. Snowboarding for yourself
1. Not working in a stupid position that requires you can't snowboard for yourself.
This man speaks the truth!
How can you snowboard and be so angry?
How can you use the Internet and ask stupid questions?
@@AngrySnowboarder ooh its easy you just did it two. You answered a stupid question with a stupid question.
Nope
@@AngrySnowboarder Yup
I love America this channel called The Happy Snowboarder? Didn't think so...
Pure liquid hot gold on this top 5 my man. Loved it. Wouldn’t an actual fascist hill be kinda nice though? We’d all be classified on skill and the hill would be sectioned off so we wouldn’t have to risk our lives arcing through Jerry meat walls and mid run squatters.
Have you ever been to sunshine village in banff ? You could do a whole segment on how shitty that place is.
Majority “they’re on to something” lmao
Great vid man. Mountain safety is a joke
-Placing a snowpark in the worst spot possible.
-Snowpark without chairlift, or even a fucking rope.
Where the hell have you been?
First video ive seen, hilarious and so true 😂😂😂 just subed
In Colorado there is one great ski area. It’s not owned by vail, it’s a big mountain, I’m in a legendary family that are the building blocks of it and I get free season passes. It’s a big mountain with free parking and free snowcat skiing. I don’t care that I’m bragging
Hey angrysnowboarder,
Last week i plowed down some old fuck skier on schoolmarm at keystone. You should do a top 5 ways to handle a collision.
Just run. Anytime you do anything at Keystone that is frowned upon, just run.
hahahahaha, damnnnn! here, no parking fee. but there's National Park fee of 20$ (for 24hrs), at least in our province. well, there's an option to get the yearly parking pass (approx 120-130$) :-)
so happy we don't have mountain security around here...
My mountain just has a chill ass ski patrol
Most resorts (at least here) will hire instructors and then teach them during preseason
Karate chopping 😂😂😂😂
@Angry Snowboarder
Vail resorts is evil? Oh no they just bought out the mountains I ski.
There goes Whistler Blackcomb.
Mountain safety = designated Karens.
Snowboard instructor working in hire for the season and I agree, talked to other instructors that did a fucking 3 day course, that's it. Pisses me off I had to work unpaid "shadowing" 35 hours, get a first aid cert, pay for my own background check, do a week long course and write a fucking dissertation on teaching to get to where they were. And if they want to get to the level I am now they can just do a 1 week course when I needed a further 300hours teaching, 2 weeks tech and teach training, more first aid, another background check and the pass rate is still like 60%. So I figure I will just join them skiing to get my dual cert because why do it the hard way to become a better instructor if you get paid the same.
Gotta play the game better than the rest.
I just know I have been taught better and can teach better so there is some job satisfaction, still the difference between a European and North American qualified instructor is night and day.
How can Vail not employ competent instructors ? In France you have to pass unbelievably stringent exams and pass a near Olympic level speed test. ( I think you have to reach 90 % Olympic downhill speed ) Guides to the Valee Blanche must be fully qualified mountaineers and they have EMT advanced first responder skills.
Because it's not France.
Angry Snowboarder Yup. Good point. Love your channel btw
Love It!!
5:30 the thoughts are easy to understand. If people get hurt, they have to give up the program. So more people can get "instructed". =>More money😂😂😂
they close while there is still heaps of snow
Does vail let people who don’t know how to ski give ski lessons? I’d guess they wouldn’t let that slide but I’m curious.
Oh yeah!
Almost every ski resort has at least one instructor who can’t actually ski. Some paid instructors can’t even straight air small jumps. I’ve seen multiple six year old children land straights and ski better than instructors. Those six year olds should be hired instead 😂 or better yet hire your volunteer instructors who can actually ski.
Thanks for the karate chop tip came in handy today at breck, you didn’t mention how satisfying it could be 😈
It's the most satisfying. You're brave for riding Breck today.
This is so true
i wonder who would be at fault on #2 if someone sitting there got wacked... No jumping allowed... But also no hiding behind rollers is allowed.
In the US, it's almost always the person coming from behind, legally speaking, that is.
Mission ridge does not have ski safety
I think it’s lame that so may resorts aren’t chill with the overnight camping, like come on dude I camp in the back of my truck in the negative degrees I’m earning that spot bruh! Screw all the people who’ve got places close man, ruining the resorts and the mountains man
Bachelor is a shit show, staying clear until after the holidays. Don't get me started on the traffic.
What days were you up there? Christmas Eve was a little crazy but I actually thought it was pretty chill for Christmas week. Thursday was perfect. Bluebird with 6 inches of powder. Not bad at all.
Jeremy Drummond I went to bachelor on opening day and it was a nightmare. Hopefully it calms down later this year
@@PhaseSkaterYeah I'm sure opening day was nuts. I was there most of Christmas week and it wasn't bad at all, surprisingly. More than not, I rode right up to the lift and went right back up.
@@ryanj3975 the snow coverage was low too. rocks everywhere. so many scrathes and chips on the green run lol
@@PhaseSkater Yeah they had a late start to the season. But it's been dumping up there ever since Thanksgiving. More than enough snow to open the whole mountain with really good conditions. Get up there! I would but I live in TN. A little far.
I just ripped my left nipple off hahahaha
Never seen a no jumping sign and mountain safety that you don’t need to call
Good for you.
I just found you and I think you are my inner voice or soul mate
Are you coming on to me?
LMAO I agree with this 100%. And although this is funny as shit, he's right that there is a serious safety concern for beginners by having them slow down or stop in blind areas and having beginner runs crossing expert runs or entrances and exits to parks. You would think they would of figured this out by now. The beginners and experts on the lift together is HYSTERICAL. SO fucking true! Every time the lift stops while I'm on it I say "Fucking beginner". We all were beginners once but for Christ sake stay on the fucking bunny hill if you can't exit a lift and can't focus on anything more then 1 foot in front of your tips or nose.
What happend to Nomis? I liked their stuff...
They went out of business because no one bought their stuff.
Might be on to somethin with this one
Where does mountain safety exist?
I like this guy...
Ski patrol ? Mountain safety ?? I swear american resorts sound like hell. So glad to have the French Alps for enjoyment.
(the one stupid thing that irks me though here: becoming a ski instructor in France is pretty hard, you have to be real good. BUT to become an official snowboard instructor, you have to be a ski instructor first!!)
Do you have to become French before you can become a ski instructor too?
of course, you have to grow a moustache and ski with a baguette under your arm!! haha the answer is no.......you have to speak french though.