The "Remember When" thread

[want2go2dasno]

remember when you were suppose to yell "single" in lift line if you were an odd man out?

[FRIDAY]

How about:



1) When App did not allow snow boarders



2) When you had to rely on the recorded snow reports and not the accurate SKINC reports

[StealthBoarder]

when webcams didn't exist and you had no idea what it looked like on the mountain

[pagamony]

- checking ski reports in the newspaper

- ski reports on the radio

- calling the ski areas ahead of time.

- the big yearly ski book with hundreds of trail maps all scaled to the page, it made beech mountain look like vail.

- ski south magazine

- wintergreen with only 3 lifts and 8 slopes

- bus trips to Killington

- bus trips to Appalachian



challenge:



does anyone actually remember the t-bar at app?



@jeffryc 170956 wrote:Great list. I always wondered why that midstation was on Cupp Run. Then I found out. They would make snow on the top and then do the bottom.



That's why they put one in for this year. But then it snowed in december and they opened it all the way. Still a good idea that came back.



I can check everything on the list except for OG where I have never been. Including skiing on Cascade Mountain at Fancy Gap - my first encounter with the world of skinny skis, coil spring bindings, and a real rope tow.

[want2go2dasno]

how about the old gondola on beech

Austrian ski instructors at beech ladderhosen and all

[jeffryc]

@MBlacky1051 171005 wrote:There are 2 lost ski areas in Tennessee, Viking Mountain between Greeneville, TN and Mars Hill, NC. Someone posted some info on this resort about 4-5 years ago, but I can't locate it. There's another lost ski area in Tennessee called Renegade Mountain that was on the Cumberland Plateau near Crossville.

I remember Renegade but I never skied there. Viking I'm not familiar with.

[hnhbaxter]

Remember when...



Extreme skiing was Ski Jumping



Ski Jumping did not use the flying V



Solomon 555's ruled the mountain



How about the first step in binding by Geeze? All Stainless steel



Hansen Ultra-light boots



Hart Freestyles and Freespirits



you still saw lace ups on the slopes from time to time



Ingamar Stenmark



skiing with your knees slammed together like a baptist high school girl was considered good technique



watching the cool skiers do daffys and back scratchers (I still pull the back scratcher from time to time)



Reingold Beer, Schaffer Beer, Gobels Beer, Knickerbocker Beer, Schiltz Beer (not the bull), Steel City Beer, etc.

[swamphox]

@hnhbaxter 171014 wrote:Remember when...



Extreme skiing was Ski Jumping



Ski Jumping did not use the flying V



Solomon 555's ruled the mountain



How about the first step in binding by Geeze? All Stainless steel



Hansen Ultra-light boots



Hart Freestyles and Freespirits



you still saw lace ups on the slopes from time to time



Ingamar Stenmark



skiing with your knees slammed together like a baptist high school girl was considered good technique



watching the cool skiers do daffys and back scratchers (I still pull the back scratcher from time to time)



Reingold Beer, Schaffer Beer, Gobels Beer, Knickerbocker Beer, Schiltz Beer (not the bull), Steel City Beer, etc.





you can still get schlitz and schaeffer if u look around...I worked for classic city, which distributed their stuff in northeast ga....our biggest area for both was blue ridge due to the amount of retired yankees with nothing better to do than drink



a good bet is a liquor store near a college town...I assure you that if they dont have it that they can point u in the right direction

[downhillNC]

@hnhbaxter 171014 wrote:Remember when...

skiing with your knees slammed together like a baptist high school girl was considered good technique.



That's AWESOME, Bill!

[almost good]

@gdwindowpane 170864 wrote:Remember when skis didn't have brakes. You had to have a run away strap. You would still see at least one run away ski a night... Usually with a JONG running down after it...



I remember these, and how if you wiped out and a ski came of it would beat you to death as you slid and rolled down the mountain.

What about Head metal skis, they made that metallic sound when you were on ice.