The growth of skiing

So last week,I decided to skip practice to go skiing for the day. Thought whatever, coach will sit me for a game at most, it'll be well worth it. I got to the mountain, and after an hour of just screwing around, I ran into my center for my line on the hockey team. We were both dying at the fact that we both decided to skip practice for skiing. Another hour or so passes, and we run into 4 guys from the team out skipping practice to go shredding. We pretty much spent the rest of the day having the time of our lives lapping through the park and messing around. I felt like it was crazy that so many people are starting to take a greater interest in skiing, to the point of skipping other sports for it, or cancelling various plans throughout the day. Made me take a step back and realize how much the sport has grown in the last few years in my community, and I wanted to see if this was the case for anyone else out on NS.