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i would love to try skiing.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Good? I don't remember. The writing is probably barely competent, but then that's not really the point. V interesting, sobering, makes you realize that snow safety isn't something just experts do, everyone who's going to be out in it should know how to look at conditions, at load, etc, and keep emotions out of it whether that's fatigue or adrenaline or what have you. Good stories, too.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

snow safety isn't something just experts do

Very true. At least 3-4 ppl died in and around Aspen last winter alone, if I recall correctly.

Avalanches are terrifying. Especially freaky when you look at something you skied the other day and there's a 5 foot crown on it.

(jargon watch! five foot crown = the avalanche sloughed a slab that was five feet deep.)

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Europe is ridiculously cheap. I skiied in Austria for a total of $12 Australian dollars ($9 US?) which included equipment hire, a parka and an all day pass. The Austrians, who were probably skiing in the freakin' womb, spent a good amount of time mocking my form though.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i think we should hang out!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh man I want to ski in Europe. Some buddies of mine spent a season out there: season pass in Chamonix is something like $300. Compare to Jackson Hole or Aspen: $1800+. For mountains a billion times larger (bad snow, though).

Plus: Europe. Which is nice.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i completely agree

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― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i thought aspen was only $895. Maybe thats a weekday pass or something

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― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"only"

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

skiing = classic
snowboarding = dud

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Nope. That'll get you a 2 day a week pass, IF you buy it before Sept.

Full pass = $1800. Or work for the Company.

xpost

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

lol i knew as i typed that it was wrong. its the only place someone flies to from doncaster. maybe easyjet or something. you cant fly to barcelona from doncaster yet, which invalidates all other destinations ;)

yikes $900 for a ski pass. ok skiing in europe is dead cheap then., i revise that.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

skiing = classic
snowboarding = dud

Why can't we all just agree to live in peace and harmony and to despise bladers for the scum that they are.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, be nice. My siblings all snowboard, I'm the only skiing holdout in the family.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Bladers I said, bladers! I'm a boarder meself.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

snowboarding looks like so much fun but im told its ridiculously hard to learn. my skiing still needs a lot of work so im hesitant to start from the beginning with something new at this point. also, i dated a sponsered snowboarder who was pretty boring and not as cute as a snowboader should be so that turned me off the whole sport for a while.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

SNOWLERBLADES

http://www.doglotion.com/images/gaper03/blades.JPG

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Snowboarding is cake to learn. The first three days are all concussions and sore ass, but after that you're as good as about 75% of the other gapers out there.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Good heavens. Please, not the teal, I'll do anything you say if you just MAKE THE TEAL STOP.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never skiied or snowboarded and don't have much interest in either, really. Winter is for being inside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

on that same traumatizing ski trip mentioned above, my friend's boyfriend strapped me on to his snowboard. i fell over a few times, he laughed, and that was the end of my boarding career. i think i'm not cut out for winter sports.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Jay, I have a hunch that it's kind of like beating your head against the wall because it feels so good when you stop: I like to feel I've earned my fuzzy socks and fireside cocoa.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

A ringing endorsement.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

skiers/snowboarders: more attractive than than the general populace? defend/refute.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Obviously.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Serious.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Snowboarders: young and gormless, nasty dreadlocks, stupid clothes, overuse of "rad" and "dude". Skiers: old, too tanned, lurid one-piece outfits. Answer: no.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

gbx, pleasant plains and i went to aspen this time last year and got an unexpectedly great deal.

we bought 3 day passes as part of a package through the hotel we were staying at. it included ski hire and a full day lesson. Thing is we had paid the full price which was adjusted by our hotel booker when we arrived in Aspen. When we went to Buttermilk to pick up our passes, they credited our debit card again, I guess not realising we'd already been discounted. so they ended up paying us $5 to ski!

i snickered all the way down the mountain.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Nicely done. Lessons are unbelievably expensive up there, too.

...this time last year...decent conditions, I think?

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

conditions? it was snowing too hard to land the night we arrivedin aspen but the rest of the 4 days was all blue skies and sunshine. the snow was still powdery on our third day (unlike australian mountains where its packed hard on most runs in only a few hours)which was nice. oh and we caught the last night of the x-games - the sled version motocross and snowboard/ski halfpipe. fun!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

oh man i used to be a big downhill skier, i love it so much, but i haven't been in years :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey! I was at the ski halfpipe finals, too!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

-- gbx (in....) (webmail), Today 10:05 AM. (skowly) (later)

have you considered working at a resort for a season?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

get out!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

that was a fun night

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

...I worked for the Aspen Ski C for two years.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

That was a fun night. I was at the top of the halfpipe, right under the first hit, and had to pee so bad that I just went in the empty Gatorade bottle I had with me....ON NAT'L TELEVISION!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Sometimes I worry about you, G.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

xxpost i m dum - you meant work in EUROPE for a season.

Yeah, I'm still thinking about it. I'm an Irish citizen, so getting work in France or something should be cake.

Laurel: I had to go SO BAD. Going to the bathroom back at the Lodge would have been a 35 min roundtrip, no joke.

Simon Dumont was coming up soon. SIMON DUMONT, LAUREL.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

There's always the "behind a tree" approach, there must have been a tree less than 35 minutes' travel away. But yes, then you might have missed...err...whatshisface.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Not with an XScape in RENFREW, no way, it'll be full of neds in Burberry ski wear.

I want to go skiing again, but I don't know that I can be arsed with the place Rumpie is talking about even though it is about ten minutes away from my house. For the reasons Madchen mentioned (about queuing for ages and then going down it in about three seconds).

I love skiing. I wish we could just get a decent snow season in Scotland (even a decent weekend when neither me nor the mister is working) - my skis must be totally rusted through not having used them in forever. Every year we talk about going abroad for a skiing holiday, but we never do it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Skiers: old, too tanned,

I forgot to respond to this earlier. Okay, so you know how people get those little squinty crows's feet from looking into the sun? And then when they smile, the corners of their eyes kind of crinkle up? Sucker for those. Yikes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

No trees, either.

Look, I was BEHIND the little spectator barrier. The only people that could have even figured it out were the guys next to me, who knew me.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I like those, too.

My favorites are the old, tanned, unbelievably fit, ex-hippies that lucked into real estate in the 70s are just chilllllllllllllin'.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I had never skied in my life before sunny and I went last year. It took me a half day of skiing down a hundred yards and then catching the little mini-lift back up. The next day, I had it (for the most part).

Yeah, some skiers and snowboarders are assholes. Assholes also play golf, swim, and drive cars. Some of them sometimes drink beer and get drunk. They vote, too.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Were you guys at BMilk? That's where I worked. Teaching the CHILDREN.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah! i saw the kiddie classes! i always resent kids on the snow because they really seem to have no fear

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

ie theyre way better skiers than me

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

The kids were the best. I taught 3.5-5 year olds. CUET.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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