Intentionally Thrown From a Chairlift!

I can only speculate, Somebody must be a *TEXAN*

 

Too funny.... it was a joke post! 

While I haven't contemplated this action I have yelled at 'boarders from the lift - several of them in line like the snowplows on I90, side-slipping a steep slope they didn't have the skills to negotiate - "Make a turn already!"

Then again, I've had boarders yell at me from the lift while on my tele boards - "Hey, you need one of these!"

<== Texan

haha...  good chance the flyer was ...   They flock like salmon to Aspen. Makes sense now.  Thx for pointing that out.

And so it ends...

www.aspentimes.com/news/20603838-113/asp...-identified-arrested

“To get tits deep pow shots you just need to be on your edges,” Beckton quoted himself as saying in a Facebook post.

According to Beckton, the male then said to him, ‘Well is this funny?’ and then grabbed him and pulled/pushed him off the chairlift,” a police report states.

Struggling with this one.  Conflicted.  Could see his point of view maybe. 

One wonders if earlier in the day, the skier witnessed the boarder scraping off all that 6 inches of pow as he side-slipped down a narrow area that was too steep for boarders to safely navigate.  Its possible he then he exacted a sweet revenge we've all contemplated.  The kind that plays out over and over in your head as you ride the lift up looking down at them.

Not enough info to make the call though

Baffled by this post, and saddened that this attitude shows up on TAY

While riding in-bounds one day I was making passes to a small but not easily accessible cliff jump. On my third time around two skiers had followed my track and while one had scraped all of the snow off of the only rollover, the other was stuck on top wondering how to get down. I pointed out a narrow chute that opened up in 15 feet as I aired the rock, but when I came around again the skier had side slipped the chute taking all the snow while scraping his tails and tips on rocks/trees.

I was amused that it was a skier side slipping but I don't take his choice to say anything about "Skiers", and it certainly does not justify thoughts of inflicting bodily injury.

I think the Aspen incident was not about skier/boarder conflict but was instead about mental imbalance leading to violence. I hope you have had second thoughts about condoning the offenders actions. (and especially the admission that you might share similar inclinations.)