Replying to It really is sickening the way drinking and smoking has taken over the skiing culture

There's really no other way to put it.  If you get offended reading this, it's cause it describes you. I'll be totally honest, this is relevant to so many.... and it throws light on how skiing is represented.  To a lot of you, it's all about the so called lifestyle and less so the actual skiing.  People hiding beers with them on the chairlift or smoking weed on the way up....are you serious?  How is it that you need that extra buzz just to enjoy skiing?  You can't enjoy the turns in fresh pow sober?  You can't accept that it's a PRIVILEGE to be able to live somewhere in proximity to a mountain with lift service and have the actual cash to afford it?  You're taking it for granted, plain and simple...and diluting your experience.  Stop ruining skiing by attaching the drinking and smoking to this sport.