Snowboarders on the T-bar

Riding a T-bar is pretty simple when you're on skis, but it's a real pain in the butt on a snowboard. If you're good, you can situate the bar between your legs just right so it's not killing you the whole way up. If you're bad, you end up tumbling.

Funniest sight of the Crested Butte trip:
On a non-powder day, you can get away with riding the T-bar alone, which makes things a lot easier when you’re on a snowboard. On a powder day, you can be sure that nobody is riding up the lift solo. Petro and Jonathan are both snowboarders; one rides regular (left foot in front), one rides goofy (right foot in front) and they were riding up together. If they had thought about it in advance, they would have situated themselves so that they were riding back to back. Unfortunately, they didn’t figure this out until it was too late and ended up riding face to face, practically hugging. It was hilarious to watch. If Jonathan weren’t a foot and a half taller, they would have been making out the whole way up. Tragedy struck part way up the T-bar when they got entangled and had to bail off the t-bar and walk the rest of the way, post-holing in the powder. I felt for them, but I still had a good laugh at their expense.