Snowboarding without a lift ticket?

[Katipwnan]

Haha. Love the responses. I should just try surfing, but its the winter season here in CA and you don't have to pay for a pass to surf. Maybe I shoulda made it clear in my first response that I am in college and have I do have a job. I just wanted an alternative to have some good, free, fun. After reading a couple of these responses, $40 really is trivial considering, as someone posted earlier, risking getting jail time.

 

[Nnedd]

Going to go snowboarding for the first time in a few days and i've read you need to buy a lift ticket to go out on the slopes. If you don't they either force you to buy one or they just kick you out. I don't justify paying $40 bucks for a measly 8 hours for 1 day on the slopes. I guess I can hike up the mountain, but damn that would take a good couple hours to do. Any of you more experienced sherdoggers have any suggestions on how to enjoy a day on the slopes without having to buy a bullshit lift ticket? The resort in question is Alta Sierra in CA.

So you want to use their services, but you don't want to pay for it.

 

[White Mongoose]

Bring $40, try hike up hill then once you get down... You probably will be buying the ticket any way.

 

[afrdzak]

If you wanna be cheap, you can do what my friends and I used to do when we were much younger:


1. Get an SUV, Jeep, etc.
2. Find somewhere with a snowy road
3. Build a snow ramp on the side of the road...preferably where there is a downward sloping hill off the side of the road
4. Get a tow rope/cable and attach it to the back of the SUV, Jeep, etc
5. Get on snowboard and get towed by SUV, Jeep, etc
6. When you're about to hit the ramp, let go of the rope and have a blast

Be prepared to miss that ramp many times and go face first into the snow until you get the hang of it!

 

[Zer]

If you wanna be cheap, you can do what my friends and I used to do when we were much younger:


1. Get an SUV, Jeep, etc.
2. Find somewhere with a snowy road
3. Build a snow ramp on the side of the road...preferably where there is a downward sloping hill off the side of the road
4. Get a tow rope/cable and attach it to the back of the SUV, Jeep, etc
5. Get on snowboard and get towed by SUV, Jeep, etc
6. When you're about to hit the ramp, let go of the rope and have a blast

Be prepared to miss that ramp many times and go face first into the snow until you get the hang of it!

Why do I get the feeling this post is going to end up as police evidence someday?

 

[bellend]

Be happy your lift ticket is a mere $40. That's the cheapest price I've ever heard in the 20 years I've been snowboarding.

 

[Nnedd]

I don't think you guys understand.

He can't justify paying it. He can justify using the lift, he just can't justify paying for it.

Help him with his justification issues.

 

[Katipwnan]

If you wanna be cheap, you can do what my friends and I used to do when we were much younger:


1. Get an SUV, Jeep, etc.
2. Find somewhere with a snowy road
3. Build a snow ramp on the side of the road...preferably where there is a downward sloping hill off the side of the road
4. Get a tow rope/cable and attach it to the back of the SUV, Jeep, etc
5. Get on snowboard and get towed by SUV, Jeep, etc
6. When you're about to hit the ramp, let go of the rope and have a blast

Be prepared to miss that ramp many times and go face first into the snow until you get the hang of it!

hahaha. I guess I can do that on the way back home. Hopefully it doesn't get to crazy where end up wrapping my car around a tree.

 

[afrdzak]

Why do I get the feeling this post is going to end up as police evidence someday?

Hey, I'm well outside of the statute of limitations! This was about 15 years ago.

We had one spot we used to always go. It was in the suburbs and there were always families there sledding.

Everyone seemed to enjoy watching us do it. There were a few parents that thought we were a menace. But we had spotters to make sure we weren't jumping into the public. We made it as safe as early 20 somethings can make it.

 

[ventrue]

Dude, how cheap do you have to be to not pay $40, for a full day lift ticket.

That is pretty cheap today. I was paying $40-$50 a day for lift tickets 6 years ago, even at shitty places like New Mexico. Utah and Colorado were even more expensive.

 

[ziggs]

well....from experience.
snowboarding is expensive as at the beginning. i feel your pain and sympathize.
im canadian...only ever skied illegally on hills up here.but for what its worth ive been busted ticketless more than once lol!

know a few good cafeteria scams- ie
-eat (free) soup cracker packets w/ (free) jam condiments
-eat the shit you ordered from the kitchen while you're in the long ass line
-the already paid for receipt scam
-chocolate bars in the slurpee/drink
nevr forget the exit out the entrance!! so simple yet often forgotten.

regarding lift passes:
-sometimes its like the movie theater where you have your old ticket and just flash it like it aint no thang and boom your on.

-if there's dudes scanning, you wait in the bar until they switch or go for break or whatever. then you can get to the top of the hill where there are no ticket checkers...but you cant come down.essentially just riding the same lift over and over.....bring a backpack lunch.you have to know the system though.for hills with a gondola up to the hill its very difficult.

-sometimes you just hike up to the terrain park and stay there all day.no need for lifts.when you're in the park who cares about lifts cause they have line ups. bunny hill is a good bet there is no ticket checker. BUT....from my experience teaching people to board, 2 or 3 insane mountside runs is HOW you get good... sink or swim.

-buy a child pass.very likely to be caught.(was busted once like this cause my mom couldnt afford youth so after i just rode like i didnt have one)

now when you are caught:
--its on my other jacket (season pass)
--i left my jacket in the bar/locker room
--admit defeat & gtfo

here is a scam straight from the skids of whistler (bc canada has a subculture called skids haha):
-party all night
-sleep in late
-go to the bar at the hill
-ask old people that arent going out anymore for their pass

Now
after all that being said.

IF you get hurt and you dont have a valid ticket you dont know what will happen.

A good buddy of mine was a ski patrol. He, like so often, got one o his buddies on the lift. (on this hill you get on the lift then go out of bounds for the good stuff). the guy goes out of bounds with everyone else and breaks his leg in the trees. a rescue ensues. he is rescued and they ask for his ticket. liability and insurance are what you get when you buy a lift pass.picture what happens when you are deep in line, and a ticket checker walks to his post.....now multiply that if you hurt yourself.

 

[Real_Magi]

Wow, $40 for a day is fucking cheap as hell. I spend $100 daily in Park City Utah. You're a cheap fucker TS. Just pay the $40, lol.

Or you can find a road that goes from the top of a mountain to the bottom and shuttle all day.

 

[Toda Hiro-matsu]

I feel bad for whoever has to go snowboarding with this guy.

I mean, what the fuck?

 

[Katipwnan]

-sometimes you just hike up to the terrain park and stay there all day.no need for lifts.when you're in the park who cares about lifts cause they have line ups. bunny hill is a good bet there is no ticket checker. BUT....from my experience teaching people to board, 2 or 3 insane mountside runs is HOW you get good... sink or swim.

This exactly. I don't want to stay at the bunny hill all day learning to snowboard. Fuck that. Go hard or go home. Thanks for the advice ziggs. Probably best to buy that lift ticket if it includes liablility and insurance.

I feel bad for whoever has to go snowboarding with this guy.

I mean, what the fuck?

Yeah bro my friends feel so bad especially when the ride over the resort and the food is on me.

 

[ucunc156]

Wow, $40 for a day is fucking cheap as hell. I spend $100 daily in Park City Utah. You're a cheap fucker TS. Just pay the $40, lol.

Or you can find a road that goes from the top of a mountain to the bottom and shuttle all day.

couple things, legit questions. if you live in park city, why the fuck do you not have a season pass and instead pay $100??? if you dont live in park city, or live somewhere like SLC or within driving range of PC, why the fuck don't you go to Alta. its 60$, they have fucktons more snow, and the runs are unreal.

excuse the fucks in the above, not meant in anger, more in honest surprise.

 

[40's]

I work at snow summit in Big Bear.....let me throw down some knowledge for ya

They dont just check tickets at the base area anymore, they check tickets at pretty much every lift. The ticket checkers get paid "bounties" for finding people who dont have tickets or finding people who are using somebody else's season pass. 40 bucks aint bad for a pass, up here at snow summit, its 59.99 for a ticket

stop being cheap brah

 

[ben236]

An uncle of mine told me stories of how he used to bring a pair of small wire cutters to the ski resort and basically snip ski passes off of unsuspecting victims in order to ski for free. Not that I'm recommending doing that or anything.

 

[Zer]

An uncle of mine told me stories of how he used to bring a pair of small wire cutters to the ski resort and basically snip ski passes off of unsuspecting victims in order to ski for free. Not that I'm recommending doing that or anything.

Has there ever been a whiter crime than this?

 

[minute bull]

Takes a real jiiiiiiiiiiiiive turkey to complain about the cost of skiing.

 

[KrazyKanadian]

Ok damn dude. Seems like someone works for a ski resort.

No, I don't give a shit if you do that. It's just stupid. It's exhausting to hike up in your gear, and you'll finish a run real quick, and have to hike again. It's not worth it. It's one of the worst ideas there is.

Now, as I said...borrow someone's pass if they have a season's pass and hope you don't get caught....or just pay. That's the only way it'll work.