Do skiier's hate Snowboarders?

[dmc]

This has probably already been addressed, but why isn't there a rule for where snowboarders can sit when they get off the lift or a marked off area where they should be?

I have nothing agains snowboarders. Snowboarding looks like fun, I might try it someday, I just don't understand why ski areas can't designate an area snowboarders need to be in after they get off the lift. I skied Crotched christmas eve day. Almost every time I got off the lift on the left side of the mountain I had to hike to get around a wall of snowboarders who were strapping up (or whatever it's called). I encounter this kind of thing everywhere I go.

Check the other side of the wall of snowboarders... there's usually a group of skiers blocking their way.. Snowboard are not as easy to move around on before strapping in... Given moving around a group of skiers that "have nothing against them" or just stoppung a putting on the boards - they will take the path of least resistance..