If the industry collapses...

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would you still ski? When the lifts stop running, the ski manufacturers stop making new skis, the ski shops close - will you still ski?

How far would you go to keep skiing a reality? Would you throw in the towel after your local hill stops building a park? Would you stop if all the hills were charging $2000 for a seasons pass and selling skis for over $1000 a piece? Would you stop if you had to get creative and make your own skis in your garage?

What, if anything could keep you away from skiing? Who is now in the process of leaving the sport to join the "real world"? How strong is this community?

What would you do for a ski? Would you kill a man?

Nov 25 2008 3:27PM

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make that two men

Nov 25 2008 3:29PM

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I DO NOT APPROVE OF YOUR RIDICULOUS, YET DEPRESSING HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS~

Nov 25 2008 3:34PM

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Drail

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well think about it dude. of all the petroleum based industries in the world - when it comes crunch time, we're going to have to asses which is necessary, which is voluntary, and which is simply for pleasure. Pleasure will go first, it has to.

If you're stick with the option of driving those trucks full of food to the city or building hundreds of thousands of new skis every year when skier visits across north america are going down - people gotta eat.

Nov 25 2008 3:42PM

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dweezileast

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Good questions. +karma for you. If anything, that situation would invoke a deeper love of skiing for me. I'm a pretty creative, but stubborn person and I enjoy finding different ways of doing things. Reading about ski presses is something that I have wanted to do for a while, but I haven't found the time for it. Building my own ski would allow me complete control over what connects me to the snow, which means I could take it any direction and maybe in the process come up with new ski designs through trial and error. I'm too poor to buy skis for the prices companies are asking for them as it is, and as a result I ride skis that are neither the newest nor the best. Riding skis made by my own hand would be the first time I've ridden skis the year they were released in years.

If resorts were to start charging astronomical fees for passes, I would finally have the motivation I need to drop most of my earthly possessions and head for the hills in search of snow. I'm sure I wouldn't be alone in this endeavor, but if no one else was there to give'er with me, I would still be at it, in search of happiness.

So i guess in answer to your questions, the industry collapsing would show me how to really love skiing.

Nov 25 2008 4:05PM

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DangerToes

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stock up on bc shit and make it happen. Honestly, there will always be some guy pressing some skis, no matter how hard they are to obtain, if you just stock up, get better at ski repairs, etc, you can ski bc and hike rails as long as you want. itd definitely sort out the fatties.

Nov 25 2008 4:13PM

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Drail

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good answers. when making your own skis new problems will arise because I believe plastics will be very hard to come by, or just way out of our price range. Perhaps making some sort of cellulose based plastic? but will it be strong enough? Making skis without P'tex, bindings without plastics, we'll be back to riding heavy stiff wood skis with leather bindings...

I don't know what will happen, but I do know I'll be up in the mountains with ya.

Nov 25 2008 4:15PM

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scott puts an end to truthiness

Nov 25 2008 4:15PM

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Earn your turns. Seriously hike that shit. It just means there will be very few gapers to get in your way of those epic fresh tracks.

Nov 25 2008 4:24PM

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scratchman

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maybe the government would bail us out........

Nov 25 2008 4:25PM

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dweezileast

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I hadn't even thought about bindings, damn. Now I'm going to be all preoccupied at work tonight, thanks a lot man!

Nov 25 2008 4:34PM

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wrenegade

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I seem to remember a thread almost identical to this a couple years ago, and for some reason, I think you were the one to start it then!

But my answer is:

I have 5 pairs of skis now. I'd hoard more. And buy dukes, lots of dukes. Then I'd hike for all my turns.

Nov 25 2008 4:39PM

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MadSteezin

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I'd be going directly to ON3P if companies stopped making skis. And I'd find myself a pair of Marker Dukes and a pair of skins.

Nov 25 2008 4:58PM

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krink

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umm, i feel like i'm pointing out the obvious here but if the ski industry collapses we will all likely have more important problems and skiing will be the least of our worries

Nov 25 2008 5:28PM

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I am rich enough that my pleasure comes before others survival.

But if the industry really closed down, as long as there was snow I would ski, hike up and ski down on a two pieces of wood, I would do it.

Nov 25 2008 5:30PM

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c-j-s

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i would move to the place with the most snow
but alot of husky dogs and some wooden sleds
get as many pairs of skis and boots as i can
make a little house
and any one could come and ride my hand made park and use my dogs and sleds instead of hiking
and i would hope they would bring me some food and porn etc just the basic things i need to live

Nov 25 2008 5:37PM

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SKIBLADING!

Nov 25 2008 5:41PM

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neon1peace

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wurd. I'd move to BC and hike to ski all winter, and if my skis break ill learn how to make my own or find someone who knows.

And to answer the other question, i wouldnt kill someone to keep skiing, so hopefully i never find myself in that situation

Nov 25 2008 5:44PM

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ThaLorax

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I already have my BC setup so everything could collapse tomorrow and as long as there's still snow somewhere, I'll be set!

Nov 25 2008 6:15PM

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The responses in this thread prove that this is an impossible hypothesis. If there is a demand for skiing, the supply will always exist. Unless it is physically impossible to supply skiing, in which case, your question wouldn't matter because there is no way for anyone to ski anyways.

Nov 25 2008 6:30PM

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C+Thompson

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I think that we'd have to band NS together into a group and find people who knew how to make skis. And people who have equipment and start our own company. Then get some money together and do a couple fund raisers and start opening a few of our own places up. And slowly build the industry back, the NS way.

Nov 25 2008 6:46PM

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t_walker

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I will do whatever it takes to ski until the day I die.

Nov 25 2008 8:02PM

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triebby

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as long as there are hills on this earth i will be skiing snow or not.

Nov 25 2008 8:21PM

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7-11_Slurpee

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as soon as i hear its coming to a close. i'd stock up on skis for the rest of my life. wheither i have to sell my house, or kill a man. im never gonna stop. oh yeah, and id have a sick as hell backyard setup.

Nov 25 2008 8:27PM

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K.C.Deane

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The ski industry will only collapse on the pro level. The masses of people will still ski and resorts will still be open. The same thing could happen to skiing that has happened to mountain biking. The major national competitions just disbanded , but there are still millions of people that mountain bike. And fuck ya ill still be skiing. Its called hiking/sledding. its better than riding a resort anyway.

Nov 25 2008 8:41PM

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If skiing was banned I'd eventually move out to BC and earn my turns.

Nov 25 2008 8:44PM

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Billiards.

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I agree with Brendan, as long as there are hills, places to gain momentum, I will still ski.

Nov 25 2008 8:46PM

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spotter487

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Ive been skiing before there were even terrain parks at most resorts (18years and counting). If the industry collapses ill still find ways to get on the mountain, no doubt about that

Nov 25 2008 8:52PM

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Mr.Capone

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lulz....this thread cracks me up. It's like we're going back to the stoneage haha....

If the oil runs out/makes passes 2000 dollars or something then ski areas will all have mini nuclear reactors haha. That would be sick.

Nov 25 2008 9:14PM

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Drail

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ok, so a couple of you have missed the point of this thread. if skiing shuts down, there will be no sleds. I think it's safe to say that if the production of skis and operation of ski resorts seasts to exist, the use of sleds as a recreational device will be long gone.

and i'm not talking about skiing getting banned. that just doesn't make sense. i'm talking an economic collapse, where it just isn't profitable to, well be involved in skiing.

Nov 25 2008 9:15PM

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Drail

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and yes, i think i may have made a thread like this before... but hey, why not? makes conversation

Nov 25 2008 9:16PM

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Well you see if you live in Alberta, Canada the chances not nearly as big as you guys in the states. Alberta has quite a hefty supply of oil and although we don't have as many refineries we have enough to get by. As for me, skiing is basically my life. I'm 15 and have been skiing for just over 12 years, all I know is skiing a live 2 minutes away from the local hill, I watched PBP's Propaganda more then I watched the power rangers. I would hike for sure if the industry collapsed. However, if lift tickets became $2000, fuck it, I wouldn't pay that I would just hike. As much as I would like to say I would kill a person to ski I wouldn't. But I would still find someway to ski forever.

Nov 25 2008 9:17PM

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i laughed. haha

Nov 25 2008 9:18PM

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Hiking is a perfectly fine way to go skiing. I'd just do more of it.

Nov 25 2008 9:23PM

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Nov 25 2008 9:25PM

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ataraxia

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i would punch a baby

Nov 25 2008 9:31PM

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C+Thompson

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Heyyy, good idea, that would help a lot.
While you're at it why don't you boil some puppies?

Nov 25 2008 9:39PM

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ThaLorax

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*cough*berthoud pass*cough*

Nov 25 2008 9:49PM

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I honstly dont know what i would do. If the economic situation really got that bad, would we still have to go to school? There definately would not be post secondary education. I would probably have to take apart some old bindings, learn how to build them, find scraps of material and just go out and do what i love. Do all i know and just live off what i have. If skiing collapsed and there was absolutely no way of doing it anymore, i dont think i would have anything else to do. ever

Nov 25 2008 9:50PM

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scofield

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this is pretty much the essential question of the documentary film i'm making for my senior proj

Nov 25 2008 10:15PM

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*Nefarious*

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nor do i.

but to answer this stupidity, ya i'd fuckin still ski my balls off. Who needs resorts? i sure don't. I could care less if resorts stopped building parks. I've been moving further and further away from resort skiing as it is, without this hypothetical situation.

the convenience of lapping lifts is very very very nice though, and i appreciate them. but i could and would adapt.

Nov 25 2008 10:24PM

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Comence hoarding