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Topic: Haters and Their Negative Comments (Read 2439 times)
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Donski
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I have never posted any trip reports of any kind as of yet, but I'm hoping to make it out to the PNW sometime next winter and would love to ski some of these areas I read about here on TAY. I have always been hesitant on posting on various forums because many times all people have to say are negative things. I don't notice it very much on this site, but on many others I always wonder why others feel the need to put down, belittle or just simply feel the need to be rude on the internet? I see many people posting things they feel good about and it bothers me how they'll recieve many comments to belittle the accomplishment. This seems to be one of the very few sites where you can post a trip report and not have one negative comment, something that seems hard to come by these days. If there's any pet peeve of mine, it is the haters out there who think they are better than others.
I know this is primarily a PNW trip reporting site, but will it be frowned upon if I posted trip reports of skiing I do on the East Coast or other parts of the world? Thanks!
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Boot
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Bring 'em on Don. I like reading about stuff from other places; spices things up and may inspire someone to check something out when they are on a trip. Good way to make a friend in a different part of the country.
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wooley12
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Welcome aboard. I think you'll find TAY as safe a haven as there is on the net. Epic comes close. There may be a ski forum run by monks and nun's that's more timid but I haven't found it. Post away. I'd love to see some eastern stuff.
On the other hand, I'm collecting social security, live in upstate New York and started AT skiing 4 years ago. My home range has an elevation gain of 60' per mile. Next time I post a TR about one of my lame wheezer, geezer tours will someone throw some dis my way to make this more fun? I'm comfortable in knowing that epic is as epic does and that I'm 10 times the skier than anyone in my bowling league.
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The stem christie is a legitimate backcountry turn
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stoudema
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I know this is primarily a PNW trip reporting site, but will it be frowned upon if I posted trip reports of skiing I do on the East Coast or other parts of the world? Thanks!
I would welcome trip reports from areas outside the PNW and encourage you to post.
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There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Marcus
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I would welcome trip reports from areas outside the PNW and encourage you to post.
Ditto -- feel free to post TRs from wherever you like, Don.
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Zap
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Don, As a former Upstate NY ski bum that was recruited to the Seattle area 30 years ago, I would enjoy ski reports from the East Coast. Don't forget to include photos. 
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CookieMonster
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A poem by CookieMonster
in the recesses of our minds
are lots of thoughts that aren't kind
we can't help it, though we try
and sometimes we make people cry
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redshift
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in the cesspool of your mind, is more like it...
May I suggest you stick to prose
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Radar
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Skiing is skiing, no matter where you are. Being the addict that I (and a lot of others on here) am, I just like reading about it no matter where you are or what you skied. It all feeds the urge 
Plus, it's nice to see some different TRs every once and a while rather than the same old things again and again imo.
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freightrainer
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I would love to see reports from the Highmount/ Belleayere area. I skied at Highmount in the 80's but the area was abandoned in the 90's - I wonder if it now qualifies as "back country"? We used to drive to the top of the chair in the summer to enjoy the view.
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trees4me
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As long as it's fun ski trip reports with a couple pics to make us drool it's all good!
You'll probably even talk a few of us into coming east for a trip sometime...
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chill people, skiing is fun
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James Wells
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Are the pix really Highmount? I recall that Bellayre had the chairs and Highmount was all T-bars. Our high school team had ski camp every post-Christmas week at Highmount and for many of us it was our introduction to what a collection about 50 minimally supervised teenagers do if you give them a week to do it.
Sad to hear it's abandoned, great times there. Skiing too.
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trees4me
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Are the pix really Highmount? I recall that Bellayre had the chairs and Highmount was all T-bars. Our high school team had ski camp every post-Christmas week at Highmount and for many of us it was our introduction to what a collection about 50 minimally supervised teenagers do if you give them a week to do it.
Sad to hear it's abandoned, great times there. Skiing too.
blizzard version of lord of the flies ... where's the pics from that?
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chill people, skiing is fun
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T. Eastman
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Anybody remember the ultra-enduro T-bar at the Catskill Ski Center in Andes?
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telemack
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...skiing I do on the East Coast or other parts of the world!
What are your usual touring haunts?
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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weaver
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Donski - As a Hudson Valley expat and unapologetic TAY lurker, I support and encourage your TR's. Any that describe back and sidecountry skiing around Whiteface and the Catskills where I skied in the 80's - Hunter, Windham, Belleayre, Plattekill ('a family mountain that ROCKS!') - would be terrific.
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blitz
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I grew up in Wash DC burbs.
I remember when I was little and it snowed, dad and his best friend (both skiers from Massachusets) used to cut work and go crosscountry skiing in Rock Creek Park. I thought they were nuts.
Dad is 83 and still skis, but very infrequently. He shoulda moved west....
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freightrainer
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Are the pix really Highmount? I recall that Bellayre had the chairs and Highmount was all T-bars. Our high school team had ski camp every post-Christmas week at Highmount and for many of us it was our introduction to what a collection about 50 minimally supervised teenagers do if you give them a week to do it.
Sad to hear it's abandoned, great times there. Skiing too
Those photos were from 1985. We went to visit our cabin again in 2009 - It didn't look as if the lifts had moved an inch in the last 20 years. Photos of Highmount from 2009 - it is sad to see it left to rust.
Do you have any photos of your trips to Highmount?
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