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[Allan]

So I'll share mine from today in hopes that other people will pitch in. So I was putting springboxes back on the t-bar today, and part of the procedure is to pull out the T to it's full length to make sure it doesn't slip or fall apart. So I pull out the T and pull on it with all my weight... all of a sudden I was sprawled out in a mud puddle on my ass and back, them damn tow cord came detatched from the spool.. It was pretty funny :)

[ODDfreakPERSON]

I came pretty close to falling up the stairs today on my face yet saved myself and acted like nothing happened. That's always embarassing.

[pyrotechnik]

i nearly tripped over a wierd bump in the soccer field today right in front of the cheerleaders

[ISMrider]

Ha I fell off a platter pull a knocked over this really hot girl.....I was quite awkward...

[Kicking Horse]

what can be worse then screwing up in from the of school cheerleaders.......

[Bill]

Do I have to tell my story? It was while I was working at Crystal Mountain too...

Maybe after a few more people add theirs...

- Bill

[CAski]

My mother, brother, and I were on a vacation back east when my mother decided to purchase a small gift for our younger sister. We entered a small, artsy, foo-foo shop that might have such an item. I lurked in a nook by the door, sighing heavily to myself, praying that the ordeal would be over soon, while my brother, out of boredom, wandered near the middle of the store and glanced over at a box on a table. "Girl Junk," he read off the label of the package, such that his voice carried across the room. Previously resounding with the cackles of middle-aged women chatting amiably, the shop fell silent as every graying head turned to this pestering intruder in the center of the room. My brother looked about nervously and replied, "What? It's just what it says on the box." The women, suspiciously eyeing him, began to turn their heads back away, and the small talk once again grew in the room. Our mother hurried up her purchase and we rushed away from the small shop.

[CAski]

Then there is, of course, the story of how I got the nickname "Jiggles." But I think that I, too, will wait until more are posted.

(By the way, that cannot currently be a reference to my weight or size, as I am a little over 150 lbs. and a tad over 6 feet. I don't know why that would matter though, since, through the miracle of the internet, I could claim to be a body builder with 0% body fat and 300 lbs. of muscle and you would never know the difference.)

[Bill]

This I would like to hear... :)

- Bill

[SkiBachelor]

I don't think I have actually had an embarassing moment in my life yet.

[liftmech]

Picture this: I'm doing line work on tower 21, chair 6 at Baker. It's a nice day, my work partner has never been in the work basket before. On these towers line work is best done with one person on the tower, so since I'm the experienced one I'm it. We finish the tower and I climb back into the work chair and call for a start. All would be well except for the fact that my fall protection is still clipped into the tower... so I get dragged out of the work chair while yelling 'STOP!' into the radio. When the chair quits moving I'm hanging about forty feet off the ground from my lanyard and my knees are locked around the basket rail. My work partner is freaking out at this point, since she is brand new and has no idea what to do. Two other mechanics happened to be working over at the top of chair 1 (about two hundred yards away) and after they finished laughing their asses off, they got an evac set and roped me down. Ever since, I get back in the basket and take a good look at the tower and sheave assembly to ensure nothing has been forgotten...
Your turn, Bill

[crazyskier91]

I've got to many embarassing moments to list, One of the best though is when I was younger we were eating at the Blue River Bistro in downtown Breckenridge. I went to the back of the restaurant where the bathrooms are and I discovered this big row of switchs. Of course I could not keep my 7 year old curiosity at bay and I flicked the switch. Every light in the place went off.

[Bill]

John knows mine, I told him at dinner when he was in town.

It was the day after Christmas, so everyone was on the hill in new wear and new equipment. Usually I am stationed on C-4 at Crystal, Quicksilver. And like most Riblets of that era the bullwheel is not in the loading zone, like the CTECs and Thiokols. So for the bulk of my learning, when downloading on Quicksilver, you bail to the inside to get off the lift, and the chair continues on and goes around the bullwheel. However on the CTEC and the Thiokol, Discovery & Gold Hills, you bail to the outside since you are exiting while its entering the bullwheel.

So it happens to be the 26th of December, the lifts were packed with people enjoying the extra holidays and we had a line of about 50 - 60 people waiting for us to open the lift. On this particular day, I had to fill in for a lady that normally works C-8 (Discovery) and so I was downloading after helping my top operator get the top rady and I am downloading into the lower terminal. So for one reason or another I had a brain fart and thought I was on my Riblet lift and I bailed to the inside on a lift that was a bullwheel unload. No sooner had I stepped off the lift, I was met face-to-face with the triple chair I just stepped off of. Now these lifts have no mercy so it clocked me square in the chest and knocked me to my ass, and while I was being knocked to my ass my uniform jacket got caught on the chair and it then attempted to pull me up the hill (these lifts have no mercy), and so they had to e-stop the lift and I got up to everyone in line clapping and whistling.

I got up and felt my face turn red and stomped right into the lift shack and called Jayce Cutler, my boss and demanded to be moved to another lift. After he stopped laughing, he moved me back to my regular lift, Quicksilver, where I spent the rest of tthe day at the top away from anyone who would recognize me from that event earlier in the day.

So there it is...

- Bill

[teachski]

I forget my ski pants last spring when I went to Stowe. I had a pair of black jogging pants (brand new, nice ones not the cheap ones with elastic cuffs, they actually looked a little like my ski pants) that I had brought to lounge around in after skiing so I wore them. One fall was all it took in the slush, I was soaked and began shivering with the breeze that was blowing.

The fall I mentioned above would have to be the most embarrasing witnessed moment of my life as it relates to skiing. My friends got married on the hill at Stowe last year. After the wedding the group of us skied together. Some members of the group were instructors and/or ski patrollers, others were not. There was a wide range of ability in the group. It was quite foggy off of the summit so we would ski a ways then stop (so we wouldn't lose the 2 Iowans). I was near the middle of the group. As I went to skid a turn into the line-up we had made I hit a pile of heavy stuff. I fell flat on my face, My arms sunk into the snow as I tried to stop the fall. The snow covered my feet and was just like cement. My helmet created a kind of suction in the snow. It was hard to lift it. I couldn't get my arms out and I couldn't move my legs. My friends had to dig me out. It was embarassing, but also funny as anything.


Oh, no, I just remembered another ski area related embarassing moment.
It was about 12 years ago. I was a member of the National Ski Patrol at the little hill near me. We had a bench at the top of the hill that we would sit on to "watch the hill" and tan when it was nice out. When I got to the bench there were a couple people sitting on it so I sat on the edge. My boots were loose so I leaned over the edge of the bench to tighten them, just as I did the two people on the bench stood up to go down the hill. As they did the bench flew up in the air, like a see-saw and I flew from it on to the ground. (I actually got hurt). As if the fall was not embarassing enough I got a real ride on the toboggan. Kids saw me (the patroller) on the sled and asked, "Are you all right?" I told them I was and that we were just practicing. My knee didn't believe that though.

I also had a t-bar seat snap off on me once, that was a lot of fun.

When I was a kid, before "A Christmas Story" came out, I put my ski pole against my lip and it froze there. Nothing a stop in the top shack didn't solve.

I am not as much of a clutz as this sounds, really, I'm not...I'm just a lot older than most of you here and there has been more time for me to get embarrassed.

This post has been edited by teachski: 27 October 2004 - 06:57 PM

[Allan]

Oh I forgot about T-Bars... I was riding the T-Bar at the Salmo Ski Hill (about 45 minutes from here) My friend and I were riding up looking at the tow cord, and commenting on how strong it must be to be able to tow two adults up the steep slope. Not 10 seconds later we were both lying in a heap in the middle of the track, after the cord had snapped. It was a nice wooden T... I should have kept it :)

[crazyskier91]

So we're moving to surface lift stories? I've got one. If any of you have been to Lake Louise you will know about the summit platter. That hing is stee;p! So It was my first ride on it and it was rather icy. I got on with no problem but as I got near the top the inevitable happened and I caught a bit of ice. No big deal right? WRONG. My jacket had caught on the platter and I was being dragged up the steep section, skis and all. When I got to the top the lift op asked, How the ---- did you stay on? I replied, I didn't have much of a choice. Another time I was loading storm king at copper and when that tug came I did a backflip and landed on my back looking up at the operator!