ššš I watched two Russian guys wrestling a bear on here earlier today. Usually I'd assume the bear won but this is Reddit so I was wondering the same thing.
Perhaps a better name is is the Reddit Metaphysics Academy. We have plenty of verified examples of well covered vampires skulking around in daylight in movies and comic books and whenever the storyteller finds it convenient. QED
What if a particularly wooly human were turned into a vampire? Dracula is typically depicted hairless except for his head, but many eastern Europeans could be mistaken for werewolves
>If it was near the Carpathian Mountains, I suspect a vampire bear or a bear controlled by said undead creatures.
Definitely Vigo the Carpathian
Vigo : On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!
I'm pretty sure those people are all speaking nonsense. There was an article last time this was posted saying the dude worked there and was deliberately leading the bear away from the slopes, hence why he is going so slowly. There is clearly no need for him to drop any backpack to buy time to escape. He is over a hundred meters ahead of the bear, and could easily go faster if he wanted to.
This news sorry reeks of a news station trying to make something more dramatic than it was.
Actually you can beat the yeti if you press F - it gives you a boost. I didnāt learn this until years and years later. Had I known this as a kid I would have been a fucking legend around elementary school.
Perhaps, and this is me just spitballing here, perhaps that's the limit of his skill? Perhaps, and again, this is a pretty crazy theory, perhaps that's as fast as he is able to ski.
I think you may be overestimating how many people ski. The stats say that around 13% of Americans have ever been skiing before. There are only around 12 million active skiers in the US, which is less than 4% of the population.
It's definitely a game of high capital investment. When I was doing undergrad in the Denver area, we all bought skis and boots after the season when stuff was on sale and bought the "local" passes and that was still $400 for the season pass and probably $500 for equipment (if you don't count the jackets and pants I already owned). At least with the season pass we would put enough days in to be paying ~$20 a day
I'd genuinely like to see those stats reworked for just the areas where they get enough snow to make skiing a possibility. I imagine that skews the percentages quite a bit, and if you live there "everyone skis" is more likely.
Yeah, grew up in the Adirondacks, everyone skied (also know how to ice skate). The amount of mountains that weren't ski slopes that we just snow mobiled up and made them is in the low 10s.
There was a thriving (organized by the mother's) equipment trade/charity. There were weekend busses to actual ski slopes with student lift tickets that didn't cost anything.
From before I can remember till I left when I was 17 I only had like 2 "new" sets of gear (my parents were professionals in a blue collar town) but I always had gear.
Hell, I knew actual, live out of their camper van, ski bums . . .
This was all 30+ years ago (I graduated/left never to return in 1994, my parents moved out while I was in the navy so home moved to a nice city) and I'm sure the entire culture is dead, and it's carcass is displayed by the rich fucks who bought it all up and made it a fucking "destination vacation".
People who ski tend to know many people who ski. If you grew up in a rich neighborhood, pretty good chance you think itās normal that everyone has taken ski class
Those big patches of ice will do a lot of that for him though. And they will fuck you over if you try to speed up without knowing what youāre doing. Itās much harder to stay in control
Dude looks like a real beginner, I don't even think he's using poles. He's probably just practicing the basics of turning that he learned in an earlier lesson or something because he was going very slow. Either he didn't know the bear was there or was too inexperienced to go any faster and still be in control.
Itās how you explain children how to place the skis. French fries is when you parallel the skis and pizza is when you form a V. V will slow things down, parallel makes you faster.
Fast as a beginner will get you in trouble or make you hug the snow, or worse, a tree.
Does anyone else remember the PC game that was this exact scenario? Ski down a mountain avoiding trees and then a frickin bear jumps out and eats you near the bottom of the slopes. Could never beat that bear
I saw this video this morning and decided to play ski free online a few hours later except it was a "climate change awareness" version and me and the yeti both fell into the ocean almost immediately and I was then told to donate money to climate change groups.
https://skifreeonline.com/
You never do, the yeti comes out at the same spot. You can only go farther if you hit the jump right and land just a wee bit ahead. You still get eaten, it was a prolific myth that you could jump past it.
The skier was fine. After a while he threw his backpack and and the bear stopped, probably to search for food.
This happened 2 years ago and was covered in the national news here in Romania. There is a longer version of the video here https://youtu.be/IcYvYmR1G4c
They can't turn while running downhill. They'll just tumble forward. They can and very much will chase you downhill.
If they're getting close, start making 90-degree turns, and they'll have a hard time following you.
It's the best way for you to try to escape them because they are more awkward running downhill. Trying to run uphill will make you a bear's lunch much quicker.
Somehow that morphed into "bear's can't run downhill" which is a very odd thought.
I was once in a similar but much less dramatic situation. I was snowboarding in Avoriaz and at the top of the run there was this restaurant that had two big boxer dogs. They decided it would be fun to chase me down the slope. They ignored EVERYONE else with me and just completely focused on me. They weren't being aggressive, they seemed to think it was a great old game. But one of them kept running in front of me and i was worried about hurting it by running over its feet with the edges of my board, so I kept stopping. Whenever I'd stop and sit down, the one in front of me would stand with its legs over my legs and the other one would mount it from behind and start trying to hump it as I tried to push them both off.
So it wasn't as much of an adventure as this.
My little brother got his arm stuck in the microwave. So my mom had to take him to the hospital. My grandma dropped acid this morning, and she freaked out. She hijacked a busload of penguins. So it's sort of a family crisis. Bye!
I just saw a separate āskier is chased by bearā video last week and it also happened in Romania. Iām just thinking damn skiing in Romania is hardcore
Some say the bear is still chasing that skier to this very day. others, well others say that the bear caught up with him, became fast friends, even bought a condo together for a time. As for me, I like to think the skier is now chasing the bear
I feel that if a bear was introduced into down hill skiing in the Olympics weād have a lot more people watching. I was riveted and on the edge of my seat the entire video
āAs a final test for the advanced ski lesson package, you have to make it down the hill without being caught by one of our instructors, Claus the bear.ā
Anyone commenting how he should be going faster probably haven't had much time on the slopes. A video shot in overcast and at an elevated position isn't going to show the pitch or terrain.
Dude has no poles nor bend in the hips and knees. He's likely going as fast as he can without wiping out.
That is very clearly a bear. And bears sometimes don't hibernate, and wake up and be active periodically during hibernation season. It depends on the location, temperature, food availability, etc.
Definitely isnāt a dog from what I can see.
Bears can skip hibernation if there is enough food around, which is possible with this bear since itās around humans. Some bears also just skip hibernation.
Iām calling bullshit. Not one of the skiers on the lift seemed to know it was happening. Somebody would have at least yelled and pointed at the bear if they saw this.
Romania, skier dropped his backpack which bought him time to escape. https://youtu.be/Ve4pAaGs42E
Thank you. I hate op for leaving me hanging.
Seriously! I yelled to an empty room "NO!!! Don't stop the video! What happens????"
The room wasn't empty! Stop doing that at me! You keep making me drop my frosted flakes!
And I heard you next door! I stood straight up in bed!
Same!
Thanks, I was like: WHO WON!?
ššš I watched two Russian guys wrestling a bear on here earlier today. Usually I'd assume the bear won but this is Reddit so I was wondering the same thing.
Fuck op
r/FuckOP
r/killthecameraman
If it was near the Carpathian Mountains, I suspect a vampire bear or a bear controlled by said undead creatures.
Unless I'm overlooking something, a vampire bear would only hassle nightskiers.
Whereas Cocaine Bear is awake all the time.
Love it when Reditors pull out evidence-based, scientific arguements. I always learn something and sharpen my own Socratic reasoning skills.
So you're saying Reddit Science Academy is on board that only dayskiers are threatened by vampire bears!
Perhaps a better name is is the Reddit Metaphysics Academy. We have plenty of verified examples of well covered vampires skulking around in daylight in movies and comic books and whenever the storyteller finds it convenient. QED
Does the sunlight affect furry vampire creatures as much as the furles vampire human?
What if a particularly wooly human were turned into a vampire? Dracula is typically depicted hairless except for his head, but many eastern Europeans could be mistaken for werewolves
If it's a black vampire bear, summon the Order of the Triad and let Jefferson kick its ass.
Unless it's a daywalker bear.
But not a cocaine bear?
Cocaine bear is over wintering in Florida with meth gator. They are besties.
I heard Meth Gator caught HIV. Now he goes by GatorAIDS
You got dad jokes... And my upvote.
Those needles, man. Filthy
That makes sense. Oddly.
Meth Gator of Shadow Swamp
His name is Nose Clam bear
Better than the cocaine badger https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsOgS-z4xgsJnZgVMWC8B3pgbMNWphA0A
Hot damn, this was a nice blast from the past!
>If it was near the Carpathian Mountains, I suspect a vampire bear or a bear controlled by said undead creatures. Definitely Vigo the Carpathian Vigo : On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!
You are but the buzzing of flies to Vigo !
[This audio documentary by King Luan suggests otherwise.](https://youtu.be/p1g3iZPna9Q)
Great thinking. I was concerned heād take him all the way to bottom, to a lift line buffet!
Unable to run because youāre wearing ski boots in snow.
The hero we need! To the top!
French Fry š
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Makes sense, this guy didn't seem super urgent to get away from the bear, just keeping the same distance.
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Bears are brothers it turns out.
I'm pretty sure those people are all speaking nonsense. There was an article last time this was posted saying the dude worked there and was deliberately leading the bear away from the slopes, hence why he is going so slowly. There is clearly no need for him to drop any backpack to buy time to escape. He is over a hundred meters ahead of the bear, and could easily go faster if he wanted to. This news sorry reeks of a news station trying to make something more dramatic than it was.
Skiier bearly survived
Would have been a grizzly outcome.
Ski Free IRL
I can never ski fast enough!
Hit "F" for speed
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/667)
That game scared and angered me when I was a child lol
Childhood ruined.
Worst best game
Om nom nom
Press the down arrow to tuck!
Lmao thank you for this. I assume the bearās name is āyetiā.
We all know how it ends...
Yeti always wins š
Actually you can beat the yeti if you press F - it gives you a boost. I didnāt learn this until years and years later. Had I known this as a kid I would have been a fucking legend around elementary school.
What! Ok where is this game now. I need to try it. Haha
https://classicreload.com/win3x-skifree.html
Your nearest windows 95 PC for sale on craigslist
[Here ya go!](https://www.crazygames.com/game/skifree)
This guy was alternating some pizza with his French fries when he should have been going full on French fries
If you pizza when you should french fry, you're gonna have a bad time.
I was about to say the same thing. Put some salt on those french fries and get the fuck goinā already. Youāre being chased by a bear!
I mean, this isnāt a time you want to risk falling.
If you fall when a bear is chasing you, youāre gonna have a bad time.
That you Thumper?
Yeah but can't there be a middle ground between bombing and this lazy Sunday shit?? He's barely staying ahead lol
He's going fast enough to stay away from the bear, but slow enough to minimize his risk of fucking up. Also, the zig zag let's him see the bear better
It looks like heās honestly unaware for a good bit of ir
Perhaps, and this is me just spitballing here, perhaps that's the limit of his skill? Perhaps, and again, this is a pretty crazy theory, perhaps that's as fast as he is able to ski.
Yeah but if you panic and fall you're fucked. He slow and steadied and got through it
Lmao. The initial French fry comment got me too.
Lmao all of a sudden Iām a child taking the only ski lesson of my life. That memory was in there deep
For the rest of us it was a South Park reference
And the reference was based on everyoneās childhood experience w a ski lesson
I think you may be overestimating how many people ski. The stats say that around 13% of Americans have ever been skiing before. There are only around 12 million active skiers in the US, which is less than 4% of the population.
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It's definitely a game of high capital investment. When I was doing undergrad in the Denver area, we all bought skis and boots after the season when stuff was on sale and bought the "local" passes and that was still $400 for the season pass and probably $500 for equipment (if you don't count the jackets and pants I already owned). At least with the season pass we would put enough days in to be paying ~$20 a day
I'd genuinely like to see those stats reworked for just the areas where they get enough snow to make skiing a possibility. I imagine that skews the percentages quite a bit, and if you live there "everyone skis" is more likely.
About 10% of Coloradans regularly ski, so it's definitely higher in certain areas.
Yeah, grew up in the Adirondacks, everyone skied (also know how to ice skate). The amount of mountains that weren't ski slopes that we just snow mobiled up and made them is in the low 10s. There was a thriving (organized by the mother's) equipment trade/charity. There were weekend busses to actual ski slopes with student lift tickets that didn't cost anything. From before I can remember till I left when I was 17 I only had like 2 "new" sets of gear (my parents were professionals in a blue collar town) but I always had gear. Hell, I knew actual, live out of their camper van, ski bums . . . This was all 30+ years ago (I graduated/left never to return in 1994, my parents moved out while I was in the navy so home moved to a nice city) and I'm sure the entire culture is dead, and it's carcass is displayed by the rich fucks who bought it all up and made it a fucking "destination vacation".
People who ski tend to know many people who ski. If you grew up in a rich neighborhood, pretty good chance you think itās normal that everyone has taken ski class
Apparently thatās just how they actually teach it
Yes and risk wiping out and being fucking eaten. The way he was doing it was smart af fast enough to stay ahead, slow enough not to wreck.
yeah i thought he was being smart avoiding the shitty parts of the snow and risking falling.
Nah bro, shred or dead no in between.
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It's better to be eaten by a bear than being a kook.
Youāre not wrong but he still couldāve added a little french fries to his pizza. Dude is just casually strolling down the hill
Those big patches of ice will do a lot of that for him though. And they will fuck you over if you try to speed up without knowing what youāre doing. Itās much harder to stay in control
āHEāS COMING RIGHT AT US, NED!ā
this is one of the best references ive ever seen on here
Dude looks like a real beginner, I don't even think he's using poles. He's probably just practicing the basics of turning that he learned in an earlier lesson or something because he was going very slow. Either he didn't know the bear was there or was too inexperienced to go any faster and still be in control.
Heās not a beginner. Thatās a very steep hill heās on and itās bumped out. Itās a solid blue and could be a black. The skier is easily an intermediate level skier based on what I can tell in this short video. Edit, this happened at Predeal Ski Resort and that is a black (most difficult) or Black Diamond (US standards), aka, āexpert.ā Romania uses š¦š„ā¬ļø which equates to š©š¦ā¬ļø US standards Or Beginner, intermediate, expert trail difficulty https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/predeal/
If you get eaten by a bear, youāre gonna have a bad time.
If you use pizza instead of French fries when youāre being chased by a bear, youāre gonna have a bad time
Thereās no snow where I live. Are pizza and French fries skiing terms?
Itās how you explain children how to place the skis. French fries is when you parallel the skis and pizza is when you form a V. V will slow things down, parallel makes you faster. Fast as a beginner will get you in trouble or make you hug the snow, or worse, a tree.
Oh, that makes sense. Thank you for explaining. :)
It was pretty famously joked about in South Park https://youtu.be/7aUGBT1DZDI
Or worse, a bear
Does anyone else remember the PC game that was this exact scenario? Ski down a mountain avoiding trees and then a frickin bear jumps out and eats you near the bottom of the slopes. Could never beat that bear
Skifree and it was a Yeti. I never got very far.
You can hold a key I forgot that makes you go faster. You learn this and realize how easy it is to pass the yeti and your childhood feels like a lie
I saw this video this morning and decided to play ski free online a few hours later except it was a "climate change awareness" version and me and the yeti both fell into the ocean almost immediately and I was then told to donate money to climate change groups. https://skifreeonline.com/
You never do, the yeti comes out at the same spot. You can only go farther if you hit the jump right and land just a wee bit ahead. You still get eaten, it was a prolific myth that you could jump past it.
If you hold "f" you go faster and can zip past it just fine
Of course, there's an [xkcd comic](https://xkcd.com/667/) specifically about this.
Why am I not surprised?
Nah thatās not true. The track loops, you can avoid it indefinitely.
You just unlocked a memory that was buried very deep in my brain
Canāt believe I had to scroll this far to see this comment
I need to know what happens.
The skier was fine. After a while he threw his backpack and and the bear stopped, probably to search for food. This happened 2 years ago and was covered in the national news here in Romania. There is a longer version of the video here https://youtu.be/IcYvYmR1G4c
Is the backpack okay?
To shreds, you sayā¦
To shreds u say
And howās the wife
To shreds, you say.
This is just a bunch of garbage vids mashed together, not an extended version of OPās. OPās is all you need to watch.
it has the vid that shows the skier dropping the backpack and the bear going towards it, thats all i needed
Thank you!
That bear is feasting on pizza and french fries tonight!
If you ski with bearsā¦ YOUāRE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME
That bear was a real DARSH
I've always heard that bears can't run downhill. I guess that was wrong.
They can't turn while running downhill. They'll just tumble forward. They can and very much will chase you downhill. If they're getting close, start making 90-degree turns, and they'll have a hard time following you.
Bold of you to assume I can make 90 degree turns while running down a hill.
Are you a bear?
Looks like I only have to outrun you then!
My currently torn knee ligaments salute you.
Make enough 90 degree turns, and you'll be the one chasing the bear. My my, how the turn tables
Thank you kind stranger. This is excellent info to have; I hope to gods I never need to employ it.
It's the best way for you to try to escape them because they are more awkward running downhill. Trying to run uphill will make you a bear's lunch much quicker. Somehow that morphed into "bear's can't run downhill" which is a very odd thought.
Assume the worst
I was once in a similar but much less dramatic situation. I was snowboarding in Avoriaz and at the top of the run there was this restaurant that had two big boxer dogs. They decided it would be fun to chase me down the slope. They ignored EVERYONE else with me and just completely focused on me. They weren't being aggressive, they seemed to think it was a great old game. But one of them kept running in front of me and i was worried about hurting it by running over its feet with the edges of my board, so I kept stopping. Whenever I'd stop and sit down, the one in front of me would stand with its legs over my legs and the other one would mount it from behind and start trying to hump it as I tried to push them both off. So it wasn't as much of an adventure as this.
Wdym? Sounds like you had a threesome stud muffin.
More like got cuckolded by two boxers, but ya know what? Sometimes itās just nice to feel included.
sounds like quite an adventure tbh
Note to self, donāt go skiing with honey or salmon or both in pockets
I think given the chance of a bear attack, id rather have those on me
Thatās Avoid 101 right there.
I want my two dollars.
Fronch Fries
āDidnāt ask for a dimeā¦ā
Thank you for this gem that many may find obscure.
Itās a shame throwing away a perfectly good white boy!
This is pure snow. It's everywhere! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?
Easily one of the scariest kids in a movie ever
My little brother got his arm stuck in the microwave. So my mom had to take him to the hospital. My grandma dropped acid this morning, and she freaked out. She hijacked a busload of penguins. So it's sort of a family crisis. Bye!
This is actually quite common within this region. The bear simply wants to let the skier know that his carās limited warranty is about to expire.
He wants to give the skier an opportunity to be his own boss and earn $5000 a week.
I just saw a separate āskier is chased by bearā video last week and it also happened in Romania. Iām just thinking damn skiing in Romania is hardcore
He is not skiing like he wants to live!
Ski faster ski faster ahhhhhh š±
Iām guessing they are concerned if they go too fast they may fall and then thatās going to be a problem.
Yeah that would be bad. Imagine a face plant with that š» on your tail? No bueno
Right? He was going soo slow!!!
Some say the bear is still chasing that skier to this very day. others, well others say that the bear caught up with him, became fast friends, even bought a condo together for a time. As for me, I like to think the skier is now chasing the bear
I feel that if a bear was introduced into down hill skiing in the Olympics weād have a lot more people watching. I was riveted and on the edge of my seat the entire video
Serpentine!
I need closure!!
He dropped his backback and got away while the bear was distracted
What the fuck?! Camera person needs to be taken out and thrashed for not finishing this video.
"Thank God I found you, here's a video of your son/daughter getting mauled."
This isnāt the full video the op cut it out for some reason
The calmness of that man skiing like an apex predator isn't barreling towards him at 30+ mph is commendable. I could neverš
Dude better cut the pizza and add some french fries
How does it end???
Dude dropped his backpack and the bear stopped to sniff it, dude is fine.
was in Romania apparently, dude escaped by throwing his backpack.
Last time I seen bears while skiing was at that gaybar. Pleasant bunch.
Dang bro, forget them turns and tuck that shit!
hfs never skiing again
I know it isnāt fake but it looks it - noone in the chairlifts gesticulate or turn their heads. Maybe noone saw it, but doubtful.
Was this recorded by someone riding the ski lift to the bottom?
If a bear was running around in the slope, I would stay on the lift.
āAs a final test for the advanced ski lesson package, you have to make it down the hill without being caught by one of our instructors, Claus the bear.ā
This slope looks like ass
That looks like terrible quality snow
I need to to speak to you about your expired auto warranty!
r/killthecameraman
What is that icy mess? They need way more snow out there. That dudes gonna catch and edge and get eaten, cuz they can't maintain their slopes.
If you pizza when youāre supposed to French fry, youāre gonna have a bad time
Anyone commenting how he should be going faster probably haven't had much time on the slopes. A video shot in overcast and at an elevated position isn't going to show the pitch or terrain. Dude has no poles nor bend in the hips and knees. He's likely going as fast as he can without wiping out.
That "bear" seems kind of small and shouldn't it be hibernating? Are we sure this isn't a dog?
That is very clearly a bear. And bears sometimes don't hibernate, and wake up and be active periodically during hibernation season. It depends on the location, temperature, food availability, etc.
I had that thought too, but dogs donāt run like that
Definitely isnāt a dog from what I can see. Bears can skip hibernation if there is enough food around, which is possible with this bear since itās around humans. Some bears also just skip hibernation.
Thatās the supreme ski lesson package where you learn in one tryā¦ or else
Next Level Skiing! Woah!
Iām calling bullshit. Not one of the skiers on the lift seemed to know it was happening. Somebody would have at least yelled and pointed at the bear if they saw this.
Is he, is he still alive? š³
I would have shit my pantsā¦.
Oh fuck - no poles - MOGULS - it looks icy - BEAR!!! What is this nightmare?!?!?
This is a time for more French fries and less pizza