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.
“Just crouch down and twist back and forth to slow yourself.
Oof worst advice ever e
Wtf does that even mean
Twist what?
The knees most likely, in the end at least.
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.
You have confirmed for me my suspicions about skiiers
See also: “Just smoke this,” “I’ve been asked to join a band, let’s take a roadtrip,” and “that was my guitar amp I just sold.” Ok wait those last two were pretty specific to my experience.
Lol I’m guessing this person hasn’t checked lift ticket prices in 2023. Any vail-owned resort is like $250/day now
$300/day in whistler this year. Fuck Vail.
Whaaattt? Are we talking about 1 day or 6-7 day ticket?
1 day
https://www.stormskiing.com/p/vail-beaver-creek-peak-day-2022-23
But I’m talking like peak season lol. Right now tickets are probably half off.
Damn, I thought 62€ (66$) was expensive for nassfeld (Austria EU). 4 days ticket will cost 236€ in high season
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.
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.
Falling in the fjord.
There are still small hills that you can wipe out on and the bindings don’t release in CC so your legs have the potential of getting pretty messed up. Same with hitting a tree (and helmets aren’t really a thing in CC either).
Goddamn I hate norwegians so damn much its almost unhealthy
I hate us too
Don’t blow me up, swede!
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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.
If you rag doll again you may be fine, people hurt themselves when they lockup falling. Try penguining next time.
Don’t let this discourage anyone from trying. Yes it sounds absurd when put that way, and yes the costs are getting out of hand at most major resorts, but it can be an absolutely amazing sport/hobby/passion/lifestyle.
The first few times add up cost wise, hard to get around that, but once you figure out what you’re doing and make the decision the sport is for you then it gets better. With a season pass and my own gear I’m <$30cad a day on the hill, and that’s at a major BC resort.
Still a big wad of cash for gear and a pass up front, and definitely coming from a privileged lens to say that it’s affordable, but lots of people spend way more than that on take out, coffee, booze, streaming services, etc. All about priorities!
I love skiing so much, but this is funny as hell
The only way it was affordable for me was as a ski instructor, but then general life became unaffordable.
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.
And what are you going to wear? Planning to ski naked? At least I don’t have appropriate skiwear at home, gloves, visor, pants, jacket, etc. I remember the one time I skied as a child, a friend of my mom invited us. It was expensive even then, and not very fun, but I remember the clothes we bought specially for that one trip.
Skiing has gotten absurdly expensive unfortunately. I remember when lift tickets were like $20/day. Oh well.
Vail bought every mountain and jacked the price.
That tracks.
Downhill skiing is a ton of fun, even though I mostly do regular skiing
What is regular if not downhill?
I think it’s called cross-country skiing in English
What an absurd country, to not have one of the largest mountain ranges in the world in its borders.
Pathetic.
wat
When I first started snowboarding, I was a broke college student. Just go late afternoon and buy or ask for day pass tickets from people leaving. I know its illegal, but a college student gotta do what they gotta do to enjoy the slopes.
Not illegal at all. Just against the made up rules of the resort, they can make up any rule they want but that doesn’t make it right or illegal.
Well, it makes it trespassing, which is definitely illegal.
I think the slope can “ban” you if you get caught. But I didn’t. Now I’m better off, I always give my passes to college kids trying to buy my old passes.
Oh don’t get me wrong, morally I completely agree with you. Especially at Vail resorts, which are absolutely criminally priced.
I was just arguing a technicality because it’s the internet and that’s, you know, what we do.
Sounds good internet friend. Have a good day.
I do some pretty reckless shit for fun, but skiing has never appealed to me in any way.
I love Skiing!
Cheaper here—an 8ball is 150/200 for a rock of fishscale.
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Bay area, lift ticket costs more than getting to the Sierras and can easily be low 60s here when Heavenly and all have 20 feet of snow.
