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What is the worst thing to happen to skiing?

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_Astro_
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In your opinion what is the worst event or thing to happen to skiing?
Dec 17 2013 6:12PM
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a_burger
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besides his thread, probably whatever company decided skiing needed to be marketed as a rich white mans sport first
Dec 17 2013 6:14PM
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freestyler540
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global warming. thats right I said it
Dec 17 2013 6:15PM
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snowpocalypse
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Women's Competitions
Dec 17 2013 6:22PM
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PKchu
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FIS
Dec 17 2013 6:35PM
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~Gotama~
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snowboarding
Dec 17 2013 6:36PM
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WaffleMaster
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-Large resort corporations buying out every mountain
-Upped ticket & food prices
-Becoming more of a luxury sport
-Basically just how its all "CLASSY" and bullshit

Skiing isn't just a fun activity anymore, for most it's a vacation for rich people who ski until 2:00 in the afternoon then go get fine wine and lobster tails at their favorite fireside lodge.

The ski bum community needs to overpower, no doubt.
Dec 17 2013 6:42PM
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PKchu
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Snowboarding was one of the biggest influences of freeskiing in the beginning...
Dec 17 2013 6:44PM
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Spagett+
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God damn it this thread is stupid. And skiing wasn't marketed as a rich white person sport or as some one stated, using my least favorite word a "classy" sport. It gained that reputation because it is expensive. Getting to the mountains and buying gear inst cheap so not everyone can do it.
Dec 17 2013 6:50PM
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WaffleMaster
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I know. It's economically unavoidable.

Demand is high, therefore prices are high. If they doubled the price, people would still be willing to pay for it.

But at the same time, I just wonder if it's also due to that "corporate mentality".
Dec 17 2013 6:58PM
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@LANTASKI
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The Olympics
Dec 17 2013 7:05PM
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Wulfty
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Cattrack "trails"
Dec 17 2013 7:11PM
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Blake.P
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not really. a lot of resorts have to charge the prices they do just to cover their costs, and barely break even a lot of times. granted that may not be true for vail resorts, but thats how a lot of locally owned ones operate
Dec 17 2013 7:13PM
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a_burger
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classy is kind of what I meant, couldn't really think of the word

The problem is that companies pushing that image back before the internet pushed that shit so hard that it became the only image skiing had, hence why in your post you mention people having to drive to the mountains and buy gear. Back then any town with snow and hills had a ropetow and if they didn't the town next door did. These places also probably wouldn't have batted an eye if you came with homemade gear and leather bindings, the place my dad learned to ski at let people with sleds ride the ropetow. But once people started thinking that skiing only happened at fancy resorts and cost a lot, these places lost a lot of business, had to shut down, and shit just got more expensive.

Dec 17 2013 7:16PM
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Gameday
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Dec 17 2013 7:34PM
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malibufishnsurf
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Rails and XXL hooded sweatshirts.

And the kooks who wear them, and ski like rollerbladers, and can only go straight when there's more than 6 inches of pow...

and INTRAWEST.
Dec 17 2013 8:40PM
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Dr.Dealgood
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Vail Resorts, Boyne Resorts.... the corporatization of skiing.

I think this will become prevalent in the coming decade... there is an ever-widening gap between ski RESORTS and ski AREAS.

Dec 17 2013 8:45PM
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_Astro_
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Soooo park skiing? Whys that the worst thing that happened? I don't like the huge ass sweatshirts that much. But whats wrong with another style of skiing?
Dec 17 2013 8:45PM
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Merica
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Deer Valley skiers
Dec 17 2013 8:51PM
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WaffleMaster
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This is the best way to put it. Its super fucked up.
Dec 17 2013 8:58PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Popularity
Dec 17 2013 9:00PM
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joshua
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These places still exist in the midwest.
Dec 17 2013 9:00PM
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_Astro_
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Yeah I live in WI and I have 2 or 3 parks that have a volunteer park crew but no lifts and are free. One that does have rope tow and is maintained like a real park, and it also costs like 10ish dollars for a pass for all winter.. And all of them are within 30 min of me.
Dec 17 2013 9:04PM
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a_burger
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yeah, thats the one thing I envy about the midwest haha. Still not on the same scale as back then though. I'm being serious when I say every town had a ski area, there are 173 closed hills in Massachusetts alone.
Dec 17 2013 9:06PM
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DR.SHRED
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ticket prices.
had a free ride to mammoth from reno but then i looked up ticket prices and said no way
Dec 17 2013 9:09PM
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_Astro_
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So are they not being used for anything? What is the problem with having like a small park that is maintained by the people skiing on it?
Dec 17 2013 9:11PM
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papermache
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shane mcconky dying

Dec 17 2013 9:21PM
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Lou.
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Triples...
Dec 17 2013 9:22PM
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Easy-E
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where in wisco is this? im just north of milwaukee so i ride sunburst and lil switz....
Dec 17 2013 11:20PM
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milk_man
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Who's thread?
Dec 17 2013 11:25PM
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Benson.
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Death cookies
Dec 17 2013 11:27PM
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whoa-dere
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tight pants
Dec 17 2013 11:28PM
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SimplyClean
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People not smiling or having an overall stoked attitude when out on the mountain. I swear sometimes I'm the only one smiling in the park and just happy I'm out on my skis on the snow...park rats get way too serious sometimes about how they look or impressing people around them.
Dec 17 2013 11:31PM
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gohamsam
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skiierman
Dec 17 2013 11:38PM
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milk_man
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I do not agree with this.

On the contrary skiierman may be one of the best things thats happened to skiing. It's just hard to tell because he hates humanity, but he loves skiing.
Dec 17 2013 11:40PM
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stickski
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Absolutely nothing. I go skiing with my friends and it's amazing every day. Not once do I think about the olympics, or tanner hall the cyber bully, or simon doing commercials, or skiierman, or fis, or style vs. tech. None of that actually affects skiing for me. Not until I come home and look at stupid threads like this haha.
Dec 17 2013 11:50PM
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Benson.
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Best reply in this thread.
Dec 17 2013 11:52PM
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John18_6
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Skiing getting taken out of the olympics because it's "too dangerous" bad injuries are part of skiing, they happen because of bad luck and not thinking something through hard enough.

I've been lucky enough to not have a season ender, but the amount of concussions and breaks my friends have had makes their parents tell them that they shouldn't do it anymore. If someone gets hurt in olympic slopestyle, there could be a lawsuit, then olympic freeskiing would be over.
Dec 17 2013 11:54PM
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hot.pocket
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I fail to see how any of this warrants an overpowering by the ski bum community.

Skiing will always be just a fun activity.

Vacations are full of fun activities.

You sound like an idiot.
Dec 18 2013 12:01AM
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Squirrel_Murphy
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Greedy shareholders.
Dec 18 2013 12:59AM
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7springsprod
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The GoPro
Dec 18 2013 1:50AM
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WaffleMaster
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I feel you. That other guy put it in the best words, with how places aren't just ski areas, but ski RESORTS. That's what I was getting at.

Parallel: if I wanna chill on a beach in Mexico, but I have to pay extra because they want a resort area on that stretch of beach.
Dec 18 2013 1:56AM
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El.
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summer
Dec 18 2013 2:08AM
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pghjibber
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agents
Dec 18 2013 2:10AM
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eliaswhite89
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No more pow!
Dec 18 2013 7:23AM
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eliaswhite89
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No more pow!
Dec 18 2013 7:23AM
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TheClap.
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Boom
Dec 18 2013 7:30AM
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Bogs
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Stop wondering. It's not.
Dec 18 2013 7:43AM
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pat_in_the_hat
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newschoolers.com
Dec 18 2013 9:32AM
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linus_deboss
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posing. rich untalented kids. fis & the olympics. tight pants.

sometimes when i get up the hill it's like one big catwalk where all rich kids show off their expensive gear, nobody talks to you but wants to be looked at, yet nobody can actually ski/snowboard.

tight pants because fuck tight pants it's just not my style lol.

last but not least all the commercialist shit like fis, olympics etc, it's just not what the freeskiing image actually is, imagine if they took bowl skateboarding to olympics... lawlz.
tom wallisch selling his ass for the 'murica team, dumont doing softporn greenscreen skiing shots... fucking not straight.
Dec 18 2013 10:00AM
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littlelyonsman
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Shane McConkey's death
Dec 18 2013 10:03AM
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