First time skiing, friend was desperate to get someone to go so I went. Paid for everything like the meme says except the lessons. “I can teach you! Let’s take this lift up to that ridgeline”. I don’t know any better so up we go. Get there and it’s pretty high, oxygen is thin and a blizzard moved in. “Ok, ready?” He says. “What do I do?” I ask. “Just crouch down and twist back and forth to slow yourself. Here we go!” He replied and then off he went.
It started out fine. I’m upright, the snow is powdery so it is helping to slow me down and I kinda got the twisting movement right, for the first 50 feet. Then the ground dropped beneath me and suddenly I’m cruising at what feels like mach speed. There is no twisting anymore, just barrel rolls. I finally stop and my arm is no longer in the socket. I just lay there wondering if I had died and hell really was frozen over. Then a ski guide came up, asked me if I was ok. “Uuuuughhh” I answered him. He then asked me if I could make it down on my own which I answered with a stare of both death and fear. Another dude arrived with a sled. By that time I had regained the ability to talk and popped my arm back in place. At the bottom they offered to call an ambulance but I was largely ok, got the direction to the ski lodge bar instead.
10 hours later my friend finds me. “There you are! I was wondering where you went!” This is a story of the first and last time I went skiing.
you just had an exceptional douche for a friend
Definitely. He ended up making his wealth buying property and raising the rent. We don’t talk anymore but those types of people seem to fit a mold.
I can’t fathom bringing someone to something, losing track of them almost immediately, and not halting everything to find them, let alone doing whatever I want for ten fucking hours
But that’s exactly the kind of response I’d expect from a land
lordleech.
“Just crouch down and twist back and forth to slow yourself.
Oof worst advice ever e
“Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.”
“This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?”
Wtf does that even mean
Twist what?
The knees most likely, in the end at least.
Just run really fast as soon as you hit the ground.
My wife’s uncle took her to a black diamond route her very first time on the mountain and abandoned her, just like your friend. She’s not really willing to try skiing again because of the trauma of that experience.
If the weather is so nice that you could get a sunburn, then you can at least probably see something. But the worst part about skiing, at least in Europe, is that because of Global warming we have to little Snow, so we use a lot of electricity to create artificial snow. Way to go Europeans, at least we can ski for another five years even if the future 20 generations will suffer und this (if they survive).
Hey buddy, Nuclear winter could still happen in our lifetime. So you got that going for you.
Something something patrolling the Mojave
Laughs in nuclear and renewables and sprays snow in your face while skidding to a halt
We’re running out of water though.
Don’t worry, icecaps are melting 😅
That’s a relief.
The oceans are drying up?
The oceans aren’t great to make snow with. Also they’re often far from mountain tops, for some reason.
That’s what waterskiing is for, silly!
The thing with ski resorts is, that they’re at the most distant location from a ocean usually. Also they’re high up.
Jesus christ even in a meme thread about skiing. It’s Lemmy…we all know about global warming you don’t need to point it out in every fucking post.
Like, look…I know it’s important to talk about. But maybe, just maybe, we don’t need to make every single comment section about global warming and eating the rich. Just a thought.
I never understood the whole “don’t talk about bad thing!” thing. It doesn’t make the problem go away if you just ignore it. It just makes it sneak up on you.
So we should just echo chamber it on every Lemmy thread? Do you really think there’s anyone here on the other side of this issue?
There are any number of things you could do that might actually have a meaningful impact if that’s what’s so important to you. Gloom and dooming on a meme comments thread is not one of them. Don’t act like I’m stopping you from changing the world here, I’m just saying feeling bad for yourself on a forum full of people who already agree with you isn’t productive.
Organize a protest or write a politician if you feel so strongly about it. No? Then let people enjoy internet memes in peace without making every single thread about these issues.
“stop talking about the things that impact your life, it makes me uncomfortable!!11”
It is pretty tiresome.
Yep. Tiresome and it doesn’t actually do anything about the issue. You could even argue it gives people a false sense of action and makes them less likely to do basic shit like vote.
“Why don’t you just vacation in Europe like I do every year? That’s your problem, you’re not cultured enough. It’s a life changing experience and you’re missing out!”
The only way it was affordable for me was as a ski instructor, but then general life became unaffordable.
I love skiing so much, but this is funny as hell
I’ve been lucky enough to go skiing and snowboarding a few times when I was younger, and it is totally worth it. Although it was way more affordable back then.
My ex bf last year was a big skier and got me into it. I bought a snowboard because it was a bit cheaper and I already knew how to skateboard, so teaching myself was mostly pretty straightforward
The biggest resort in my state charges $75 on weekends but $40 on weekdays (and there’s a student discount so it’s only $30 on weekdays for me). It was immediately a lot of fun, so I worked a couple hours extra a week to afford going on my weekday off. Defo not feasible for a lot of people but it’s a great experience if you can manage it
If you look around a lot of places have similar weekday passes and nighttime passes (usually like 4-10pm) that are way cheaper. Differs wildly resort to resort ofc
Worth it
It’s ironic, I used to live in a mountainous region and had a season pass so a day of skiing would set me back less than 30 bucks, but if I ever wanted to swim in the ocean, something that’s basically free for many people, I’d have to pay easily more than the person in this post
Who charges you to use the ocean?
The ocean is free, getting there or staying there, not so much.
But same thing goes for a lot of mountains. The lift company only owns the lift, but if you wanna hike up the slope and then ski it back down your free to do so. There are even special furs that you clamp to the underside of your skies to not slide back down
Many ski resorts are built on private land and you skinning uphill is against the rules and will get you kicked out and/or banned because it creates a safety hazard for other skiers. Even if the resort is on public land you’ll get the boot for being unsafe.
Lots of mountains on public land without resorts you can do that on though.
I’m assuming they’re factoring in travel, lodging, food, etc costs for a trip away from their area to wherever a beach is.
You usually have to pay for parking. When I lived in L.A., that was what I had to do. But apparently they have a train to the beach now.
I don’t know why, but I had to do the math. The total cost was $320.
If they live far away from the beach, I imagine gas would he the main cost.
Let’s assume gas is $4/ gallon, and they’re getting about 20 miles/ gallon:
They’d have to drive 1600 miles for it to be that expensive.
That’s kind of a false equivalency though because you always have to actually get to where a thing is. You can live thirty feet from a mountain and all these costs are the same as if you lived a hundred miles away.
I was just curious if it was going to put them super far from the coast. They would have to be about 400 miles away from one coast, and then drive the opposite direction, 1,600 miles, to get to the other coast lmao. (In the US)
Also, you can find a nice hill and just ski, but you won’t have a lift. I lived in the San Bernardino mountains, and snowboarding and skiing was free. The big issue was safety (making sure the path was free of trees) and avoiding private property.
I used to be an avid skier as a kid. I was at the top of a beautiful powder bowl. I started going down and near immediately hit a chunk of ice hiding under the powder and down down down I went. I tumbled from the top of the bowl until the ground got flat enough for me to slow down. I was the definition of rag-doll physics. People were picking up my equipment as they skied down.
Didn’t get hurt somehow.
Now I shudder thinking of the damage skiing can cause. If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?
If you rag doll again you may be fine, people hurt themselves when they lockup falling. Try penguining next time.
If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?
Generally no, simply because you are now heavier and taller and longer-limbed and as a result all the injury-causing forces are much larger.
I’ve seen kids try and do a backflip and land on their neck and get up laughing. If I tried that? I’d be fuckin’ DEAD.
Second hand cross country skis from a charity shop : 250 NOK
Second hand poles : 100 Nok
Boots: too fucking much, but I have comedy size feet so I can’t get them used.
Access to Norway’s extensive network of cross country trails: absolutely nothing
Risk of injury… Still pretty high, but skiing around under the northern lights is honestly pretty amazing.
Wait, I thought downhill skiing was the risky one. What are the risks of cross country skiing? I would have expected that to be pretty safe, aside from exhaustion and tree wells.
What are the risks of cross country skiing?
møøse
And the occasional bear
Falling in the fjord.
Goddamn I hate norwegians so damn much its almost unhealthy
Don’t blow me up, swede!
I hate us too
I’ll come! I own skis, and don’t need lessons.
You cool with a snowboarder joining??
🤟
Heck yeah boii. Just be sure to keep it stiizy
Lol I’m guessing this person hasn’t checked lift ticket prices in 2023. Any vail-owned resort is like $250/day now
But is it worth it? Asking as a guy from a tropical country.
If you ski a shit ton and pay for the season pass, yea, probably. For a day or two? No lol. Better to just go to a local mountain where tickets are cheaper.
If you’ve never been skiing, and you have some friends who are of similar skill level as you, I would say yes. Commit to at least 3 days of skiing, and make sure you guys enjoy hanging out/bar hopping/clubbing/etc after the slopes close. It’s a great trip.
Whaaattt? Are we talking about 1 day or 6-7 day ticket?
$300/day in whistler this year. Fuck Vail.
Skiing has gotten absurdly expensive unfortunately. I remember when lift tickets were like $20/day. Oh well.
won’t feel your hands
Gloves?
Honestly if you don’t have the money for a really nice pair they will eventually start to absorb moisture and get cold.
A lot of the good winter gloves are a $100+ and the less good ones aren’t meant to be worn for more than a few hours especially interacting with snow and sweating.
That’s what I was told when I said my hands were freezing at least.
You can get a pair of Kincos for $50. Don’t fall for Hestra, et cetera. Good pair of work gloves last years and years.
Were I typically ski in Germany/Austria the most expensive ticket during the season is €44, but it’s considerably more affordable outside the peak months and the tickets get progressively more affordable if you arrive later in the day. And let’s be real, if you’re skiing and aren’t some sort of athlete a 12-4:30PM skiing day is long enough.
Ski rental is around €25.
You could have a skiing day for less than €60.
