What was it like when you got your first pair of skis, skiblades, snowboard?

I was too young to really remember for skis unfortunately. For snowboarding. I remember seeing one as we drove buy a garage sale. When you're a kid you have nothing better to do than stare at all the stuff outside as you drive by it. Begged my parents to go back. This old beat up rossi racing board for 5 bucks. Ended up getting it. Don't think I ceased smiling the whole drive back from vt.

Ended up being completely un mountable and I had to buy another board before the season to actually be able to ride the upcoming season but it was still a moment that changed my life.

I think that beat to hell, scratched up, blue and neon yellow rossi board was more meaningful than any christmas ever.

My first true twin tips I was so pumped

I was pretty happy, however it was just because I got a toy snowmobile (I was 2 at the time and spent my first day pushing them around in my front yard like a hotwheels car)

I got a pair of used rentals, with boots 2 sizes too big when i was like 12, best birthday present ever.

I got a pair of red plastic skis for christmas in like 93. Remember laying on them and riding them down the snow tubing hill. Think I only tried to ski on them a couple times and no idea how well that worked, probably awful.

First taste of freedom. Best gift Ive ever gotten, and I was only 4.

An orgasim

i got twin tips a while ago and they were awesome. then i got a new pair center mounted and then i was mad because i couldnt ski backwards because i would catch my edges becuase i was used to being farther back. then i mastered skiing backwards and i can go backwards down the longest trail.

My parents got me just awful used and abused rentals twice when I was really little. I used them each probably 5 years at a time, upgrading boots in the process. (I only skied a few times a year when I was in elementary school) Then in middle school I started skiing with my schools ski club, and in 7th grade me and my buddy decided to sack up and hit our hills biggest jump. (Pretty much first table we ever hit.) We just lapped that thing for days, doing like the simplest grabs possible haha it was so fun. I came home and told my dad, and then he came up with the idea of getting my a season pass for my birthday. I never thought of the idea and was super stoked when he told me. Then in the summer, we went to a ski swap to get my 3rd pair of skis ever. I was 13, and it was 2010. I ran around frantically looking for twin tips, and to my disappointment I couldn't find any. I was pretty upset. Then at the last second I saw these 175 Dynastar nothing but troubles from 2008, and not a scratch on them with bindings.

After doing 2 years of renting skis for ski club, my parents realized how much i really loved skiing and bought me a pair of line invaders in 09. I was so stoked on not having to go through the rental building. Pretty awesome feeling for sure. I just get pumped up the day that new skis come in the mail. Fucking stoked!

Well I was 24 when I bought my first pair so it stung spending $1200 on skis, boots, bindings and getting them installed but then I went on with my life so yah.

Rode on a pair of really old Vokl Karma 169's all last year. The boots were about 2 sizes too big. Started out as something to do while waiting for snow for snowmobiling season but I pretty much fell in love with riding and being on the mountain. Rode all year, wen't to Vermont once during a snow storm for my first ever pow day and since then I've been hooked.

I was to young to remember when I got my first skis, but my first twins it was the best day of my life.

I got rental skis until i was about 10 then rented snowboards and when i was 12 I got my own board holy sweet jesus was it a feeling in that store.. I still have that board
last month I got my first own skis (fujas) at 17 after selling my current snowboard without really thinking about it to a teacher.. holy shit it was tits when those came in the mail!
I'm so happy to have switched to skiing.. the progress is skyrocketing compared to boarding

Same exact thing for me too, but for Christmas. They were size 29 Salomon boots, when I really should've been wearing a 27.

I started doing 180s with my skis and skiing backwards, so some dude suggested I get twin tippers. I bought a pair the next year.

Here's a pic of those awesome skis. I'm sure everyone has at least seen a pair of these skis before.