| Snowboards and t bars 11:10 - Jan 7 with 1541 views | Lesta_Tractor |
General moan...
Are t-bars designed to punish boarders? |  |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 11:23 - Jan 7 with 1495 views | Weekender |
Are they new? Not seen one before. But then haven't been boarding for a few years |  |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 11:24 - Jan 7 with 1491 views | Lesta_Tractor |
| Snowboards and t bars on 11:23 - Jan 7 by Weekender |
Are they new? Not seen one before. But then haven't been boarding for a few years |
I don't think so, the last resort I went to a couple of years ago had them too | |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 12:38 - Jan 7 with 1437 views | Churchman |
T bars are designed to punish anyone that uses them. Thank goodness for chair lifts!
I would add that as a skier, boardriders deserve punishment! 😃 |  | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 13:15 - Jan 7 with 1401 views | Lesta_Tractor |
| Snowboards and t bars on 12:38 - Jan 7 by Churchman |
T bars are designed to punish anyone that uses them. Thank goodness for chair lifts!
I would add that as a skier, boardriders deserve punishment! 😃 |
Can't we all just get along?
Thankfully we're in a ski area with lots of gondalas so most of the runs are easy to get too. | |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 13:18 - Jan 7 with 1390 views | Freddies_Ears |
| Snowboards and t bars on 11:23 - Jan 7 by Weekender |
Are they new? Not seen one before. But then haven't been boarding for a few years |
They are very old. Back in the 80s, they were very common in Austria (and the main reason why I stopped going there). Mostly replaced by chairlifts now. a |  | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:10 - Jan 7 with 1355 views | TractorWood |
| Snowboards and t bars on 13:15 - Jan 7 by Lesta_Tractor |
Can't we all just get along?
Thankfully we're in a ski area with lots of gondalas so most of the runs are easy to get too. |
Whereabouts are you?
T bars are pretty controversial.
My worst experience was one man chairlift that takes you from Sauze d'Oulx to Sestriere. It's about 2,000m up and totally exposed. Awful. |  |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 14:19 - Jan 7 with 1341 views | Churchman |
| Snowboards and t bars on 13:15 - Jan 7 by Lesta_Tractor |
Can't we all just get along?
Thankfully we're in a ski area with lots of gondalas so most of the runs are easy to get too. |
Nah, you’re the enemy!! Only joking.
To be honest, had snowboarding been in when I was young, I’d have gone for it like a shot. As it was, having got to a decent level skiing I was reluctant to use up valuable mountain time learning to snowboard.
When I first learned to ski in France and Austria, there were a lot of T bars and even the odd button lift but chairs and gondolas are a far better and quicker way of getting up the mountain.
Enjoy your time in the mountains. It’s a great thing to do. I’m very very jealous! | | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:23 - Jan 7 with 1333 views | DropCliffsNotBombs |
Did a season in Tignes/Val a fair few years ago. There were bits of Espace Kily we didn't go to on boards for 7 months as needed t-bars or button lifts to get to. |  | | |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 14:29 - Jan 7 with 1324 views | Churchman |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:10 - Jan 7 by TractorWood |
Whereabouts are you?
T bars are pretty controversial.
My worst experience was one man chairlift that takes you from Sauze d'Oulx to Sestriere. It's about 2,000m up and totally exposed. Awful. |
In the attached list, I’ve done most of them. The scariest for me was a chair at Squaw Valley called Red Dog. At one point it feels like you were being pulled up vertically and the ground looks miles away. It was an old two man chair with no safety bar at that time and me and my buddy clung on for dear life. We rode it a few times and the fear-o-meter never went below 10/10.
https://www.theskidiva.com/eleven-of-the-worlds-scariest-ski-lifts-2/ | | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:51 - Jan 7 with 1301 views | Lesta_Tractor |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:10 - Jan 7 by TractorWood |
Whereabouts are you?
T bars are pretty controversial.
My worst experience was one man chairlift that takes you from Sauze d'Oulx to Sestriere. It's about 2,000m up and totally exposed. Awful. |
Wildschonau, couple of T-bars on the slopes at the top of Niederau and Alpbach | |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 14:55 - Jan 7 with 1291 views | Churchman |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:51 - Jan 7 by Lesta_Tractor |
Wildschonau, couple of T-bars on the slopes at the top of Niederau and Alpbach |
It looks lovely. Austria is a beautiful place. | | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:56 - Jan 7 with 1287 views | fabian_illness |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:51 - Jan 7 by Lesta_Tractor |
Wildschonau, couple of T-bars on the slopes at the top of Niederau and Alpbach |
I like Niederau.
Great for the kids to learn. |  | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:59 - Jan 7 with 1278 views | Lesta_Tractor |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:56 - Jan 7 by fabian_illness |
I like Niederau.
Great for the kids to learn. |
Kids learn so quickly, got overtaken by a toddler wearing a unicorn helmet on one of the reds this morning 😂 | |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 15:46 - Jan 7 with 1243 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:23 - Jan 7 by DropCliffsNotBombs |
Did a season in Tignes/Val a fair few years ago. There were bits of Espace Kily we didn't go to on boards for 7 months as needed t-bars or button lifts to get to. |
Val a fair, haha, got to love autocorrect |  |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 15:57 - Jan 7 with 1227 views | Charlie_pl_baxter |
T-bars are horrid but button lifts can be fun on a board. |  |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 16:50 - Jan 7 with 1204 views | Bluespeed225 |
Yes, mainly because I never mastered how to ride them! | | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 16:56 - Jan 7 with 1197 views | Bluespeed225 |
| Snowboards and t bars on 14:59 - Jan 7 by Lesta_Tractor |
Kids learn so quickly, got overtaken by a toddler wearing a unicorn helmet on one of the reds this morning 😂 |
I got used to being a grown man being overtaken by the toddler ski school, a large Austrian barking out orders to a column of 5 years olds with their arms out to the sides in a perfect snake going down the hill. I didn’t try snow sports till I was 42, I envied those kids! | | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 17:35 - Jan 7 with 1175 views | nsu2000 |
| Snowboards and t bars on 16:56 - Jan 7 by Bluespeed225 |
I got used to being a grown man being overtaken by the toddler ski school, a large Austrian barking out orders to a column of 5 years olds with their arms out to the sides in a perfect snake going down the hill. I didn’t try snow sports till I was 42, I envied those kids! |
As a boarder, don’t try to stick the button or T through your legs, just hold onto the bar or handle and let it drag u up, simple and your cold nuts are still in one piece | | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 17:59 - Jan 7 with 1144 views | Ryorry |
| Snowboards and t bars on 17:35 - Jan 7 by nsu2000 |
As a boarder, don’t try to stick the button or T through your legs, just hold onto the bar or handle and let it drag u up, simple and your cold nuts are still in one piece |
Ah, this "terror" of T-bars is a male thing then? 🤔 Was struggling to understand, as I used them all the time without any problem when doing a lot of skiing in Austria back in the 60s. [Post edited 7 Jan 2022 17:59]
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| Snowboards and t bars on 19:01 - Jan 7 with 1101 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| Snowboards and t bars on 17:35 - Jan 7 by nsu2000 |
As a boarder, don’t try to stick the button or T through your legs, just hold onto the bar or handle and let it drag u up, simple and your cold nuts are still in one piece |
Only if you have steel pecs....otherwise you'll be faceplanting the snow before you're halfway up... |  |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 20:01 - Jan 7 with 1062 views | Charlie_pl_baxter |
| Snowboards and t bars on 19:01 - Jan 7 by Ewan_Oozami |
Only if you have steel pecs....otherwise you'll be faceplanting the snow before you're halfway up... |
Best technique I remember is to tuck one side of the bar under your back armpit and hold the pole with your hand. | |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 20:23 - Jan 7 with 1040 views | Churchman |
| Snowboards and t bars on 20:01 - Jan 7 by Charlie_pl_baxter |
Best technique I remember is to tuck one side of the bar under your back armpit and hold the pole with your hand. |
The ‘proper’ technique for skiers is two on, one each side bar at the top of the legs under the backside. At the top, pull on the t bar, turn it and release it through the two of you holding a couple of seconds to propel you away from the top of the lift.
Snowboarders? More difficult for the obvious reasons, so the armpit method may work better. | | | |
| Snowboards and t bars on 20:28 - Jan 7 with 1034 views | Charlie_pl_baxter |
| Snowboards and t bars on 20:23 - Jan 7 by Churchman |
The ‘proper’ technique for skiers is two on, one each side bar at the top of the legs under the backside. At the top, pull on the t bar, turn it and release it through the two of you holding a couple of seconds to propel you away from the top of the lift.
Snowboarders? More difficult for the obvious reasons, so the armpit method may work better. |
Yep that's defo a snowboarding technique, easy on skis albeit pretty sore on the backs of the legs! | |
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| Snowboards and t bars on 20:35 - Jan 7 with 1026 views | Churchman |
| Snowboards and t bars on 20:28 - Jan 7 by Charlie_pl_baxter |
Yep that's defo a snowboarding technique, easy on skis albeit pretty sore on the backs of the legs! |
It’s awful on the legs. I hate t bars. They leave you exhausted before you’ve piled down the mountain! | | | |
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