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Friend or Foe, deciding who's a poser in the parking lot

I have been very fortunate on the rider crap shoot. Some of my best rides last year were guys that I met off of the forums.
 
yes, no beacon, no ride

How are you going to find me if you don't have a beacon? If you can afford a sled, and the gas, you can surf craigslist or the swap meet here for a used $100 beacon.

I would lend you a beacon for the day...but thats just me...
 
honestly, we just ride with our own group.
We don't usually hook up with other riders in the parking lot because it is such a cr@p shoot as to what you get.

We always organize the ride before we get to the lot.

exactly:D
 
I too scan the parking lot as the other sledders unload sleds and get loadded up on booze. I look to see what others are wearing/carrying/ridding. ie beacons, shovels, gear, and sleds. I think "that is the group that Search and Rescue will get called on tonight". The group that is most dreaded is the RENTAL group stopped on the corner or just over the hill on a beer/lunch break, with all of their sleds smack in the middle of the trail. I try to stay with my core of ridders. Comfort zone I guess.
Higs
 
I don't mind taking people who are learning if they're up front about it. The trip I hated was taking 2 guys who showed up in 100k rig with mod mountain sleds, talking like they're one of us and then turned out to be psycho drunks who couldn't even ride.

Sounds like you should put the beacon on their sleds. Haha:beer;:)
 
Met a few peeps on here and always been good so far. there is always experienced right down to never been on a sled people in our group so most seem to fit in. Its kinda like a class room ride and learn. worked out good for us so far :D
 
I knew I was in trouble when the guy dropped his pants and took a big ole chit right by my trailer...:eek: He called me the next trip out and asked bout riding again. I have been avoiding his call for 4 years now.
 
I've never had the problem with people in the parking lot, but the line "my buddy from work wants to go?" is when the trouble starts. Has anyone had trouble with "hey my wife wants to go?" and what do you say to him? I had a day long ride planned and a buddies wife wanted to go and she got cold and we went back home after 10 minutes of riding. What do you say when she wants to go???

no.


unless she can ride;)
 
Probably half of the time we go riding we end up hooking up with other riders and we've had some great rides. Having said that, last year we met some guys in the parking lot that were new to the area that wanted to tag along. We agreed to show them how to get in to Mt Jeff and by the time we realized these guys were idiots we felt like we couldn't ditch them because they might not make it out. Long story involving the word "cluster", we got them out after riding their sleds across sidehills, changing belts, watching them polish off a bottle of whiskey and talk talk talk like they were seasoned mountain riders. Anybody got any sage advise about summing up your fellow riders given 10 minutes in the parking lot?

Never felt like taking jokers in the parking lot too seriously unless we know them. Our group did take one guy out though as he was next to our cabin last year with his group and seemed to always want to talk to us after our rides. I think he just felt we were having more fun out there then his group was. He had a renegade with some mods and we thought what the heck, join us tomorrow and we'll show you around. Well lets just say we didn't make it 7 miles (anyone familiar with Togowtee knows that's only up to the upper meadows on the CD trail) before he was wiped out and exhausted. So we tamed it back just a bit and then it wasn't bad for a bit but we all could tell this wasn't his cup of tea. Finished out only about 1/2 day, visibility did us in for the most part but still it was an expierence that I will and our group will think differently about next time.
 
i make sure to look like a parking lot poser so nobody wants to ride with me, but seriously, i always ride with the same 4 other guys, we know each others limits, and all help out, and know when to make each other get unstuck ourselves as a lesson. the place to hook up and meet people is a little ways into the good riding, watch em for about 5 minutes, and you can tell pretty much whats up, riding with my old neighbor, he talks the talk, but he came to cooke city with us, we barely rode anywhere past over daisy, so 4-5 miles of trail, and then just over the hill, we messed around for about 30 minutes, he didnt do very much, and then him and his brother went back to the bar cuz they were to tired.

what might seem like a good rider from the talk they talked could barely handle half an hour of messing around in some gentle open hills.<watch out for em!!
 
I always look for the local BC dude with a 14 foot sled hanging 3 foot out the back of a Datsun P/U (with the red flag of course) sporting retro purple and neon green gear

chances are they'll know the mountain VERY well!


Had some older gents in the above catagory take me some places that puckered me up lol
 
I would lend you a beacon for the day...but thats just me...

so would I. I would take the time to teach a friend how to use it. I have taken a few non sledders out for thier first mountain trips and I enjoy that. The newbies don't want to go into avy country so we are safe.

What I don't want is to get into the back country thinking a guy can help me if I am caught in an avalanche, and he doesn't have a clue or the equipment.
 
I knew I was in trouble when the guy dropped his pants and took a big ole chit right by my trailer...:eek: He called me the next trip out and asked bout riding again. I have been avoiding his call for 4 years now.

You should have scooped it up and snuck it into his muff pot while he wasn't looking.
 
My riding partner and I hooked up with an older group of riders once, one lady was 69 years old and had hip surgery 6 weeks before. We had a blast and is one of our more memorable rides.
 
I knew I was in trouble when the guy dropped his pants and took a big ole chit right by my trailer...:eek: He called me the next trip out and asked bout riding again. I have been avoiding his call for 4 years now.

Please tell me that this didn't happen in a snow park in front of a bunch of women/children..........:eek:

If he didn't have any paper and he just pulled up his gear like a cave-man, he's an EXTRA nasty-@ss.

Ya should've rubbed his nose in it and then whacked him on the head with a rolled-up magazine.....LOL
 
I always look for the local BC dude with a 14 foot sled hanging 3 foot out the back of a DAKOTA P/U (with the red flag of course) sporting retro purple and neon green gear

chances are they'll know the mountain VERY well!


Had some older gents in the above catagory take me some places that puckered me up lol


that would be ME LOL Although no flag, the sleds red HAHAHA
 
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