Non-skier arguments about skiing

manhattanskier said:

I know we are all bored so I will bring this up. I was watching a TV show with my family and they went on the gondola at a ski resort. My mother in law starts taking about how much she loves "sky lifts". I proceeded to tell her it was called a gondola but she insists she knows better even though she is from Houston,TX and has never skied a day in her life. Anyone else deal with crap like this lol


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benski said:

I know a lot of people who think skiing with snowboarders is weird. I also know people who tell me things like, there are no steeps in vt but they only ski at Okemo the biggest and tallest mountain in the east. Another person told me this spring "They should build an interconnect between Park City and The Canyons."

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AdironRider said:

To be fair, VT terrain isn't necessarily my first thought when it comes to steep terrain on the East Coast.

They also are currently in the process of building an interconnect for PC and the Canyons, which did not exist previously and will be new this coming ski season. So this past spring they weren't wrong.

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AdironRider said:

To be fair, VT terrain isn't necessarily my first thought when it comes to steep terrain on the East Coast.

They also are currently in the process of building an interconnect for PC and the Canyons, which did not exist previously and will be new this coming ski season. So this past spring they weren't wrong.

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MadMadWorld said:

I'm guessing you think it's NY?

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AdironRider said:

Not saying you can't ski anything steep in VT, but its not my first choice if that is all I am looking for.

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AdironRider said:

Yes, and New Hampshire as well. Sugarloaf also makes most VT hills looks like beginner slopes in a lot of ways also.

Not saying you can't ski anything steep in VT, but its not my first choice if that is all I am looking for.

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MadMadWorld said:

You sound silly

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skiNEwhere said:

I have a non-skiing co-worker who's always asking me jokingly if I've skied any triple black diamonds recently. I always tell him that despite his best efforts to be a smartsass, they do exist in a few places.

I don't think I've ever skied at any place that had one, only 2 I can think of are Smuggs and le massif I think.

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MadMadWorld said:

18% of people that ski triple blacks die

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skiNEwhere said:

I have a non-skiing co-worker who's always asking me jokingly if I've skied any triple black diamonds recently. I always tell him that despite his best efforts to be a smartsass, they do exist in a few places.

I don't think I've ever skied at any place that had one, only 2 I can think of are Smuggs and le massif I think.

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MadMadWorld said:

18% of people that ski triple blacks die

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jimk said:

I thought this thread was about arguments from non skiers about why they never tried it?
Interesting discussion on that topic from slopefillers.com a couple days ago:
http://www.slopefillers.com/why-people-dont-ski/

What are the reasons your friends/family/acquaintances don't ski?
Too dangerous, cold, inconvenient, expensive? How about plain old, NO INTEREST?

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Siliconebobsquarepants said:

Non Skiers ...snap..... Should not be associated with , if they speak to you should not make eye contact and should bow as you pass by .

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