nurse ben wrote:I see your point, things are quieter with the bad boys silenced, but the forum thing has been dead for more than a little while, it started dying in the days preceding my final banning from TTips (aka Mitch's place), and it was finished well before Mitch took the big walk.
I'd like to think it can be reborn, but between the bad blood, cliques, etc... and just the plain "worn out" nature of what makes for good time camaraderie. All of the tele forums are dead, perhaps it parallels the decline in telemarkers?
In the bend it is just a forum, it's not like it changes anything in our real lives or affects our skiing. It was nice when it was nice, but what we have now is not really anything to write home about. There was a time when I was "proud" to advertise myself as a TTipster, but that was a few years ago, so much water has passed ... it's all kinda done.
I'll miss the spirited discussions, I'll chime in of course when there's talk of gear, and who knows, maybe this forum will be reborn?
Flying the coop in two days, wish me luck!
Hagiographic considerations aside (Saint Mitch and all) what killed Ttips was not snark ;
that's what kept it going long after it should have collapsed..Its demise can be traced to
the all the cool dude subgroups that dominated the place and turned it into a closed club.
Those groups were "experts" of natures intolerant from the great states of Colorado
and California..There was honestly nothing "open" about the forum..You conformed 100%
to the creed or you "suffered" the wrath of orthodoxy..Folks from across the nation and our
friends from the north, all equally outsiders, sat back, shook their heads and had a damned
good laugh..People from across the seas (mostly European) were often befuddled by the
intolerance and arrogance of the Rocky Mountain Highs and the Urmas Mammoths as they told the
world how to ski, and where, when and why ! Ski fun had met religion ..Zealotry, bigotry, intolerance..
It's an old old story, no ?
Eyt is now insufferably boring because the remnant cliques of Ttips have now taken over and driven
out any dissenting or honestly critical voices..
Damned cold here but much snow coming this week again..
Look me and Billy and Teledance up when you want to come explore..Actually a
forum can change your life: you can meet some fun folks to ski with and ski
new places due to forum contacts..
It's almost always colder at lookout Pass than Mission Ridge!!!
You got the colourless boredom, the bland conformity you all
