Anyone else try (and fail) to like skiing?
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Anonymous
| Dh doesn't like skiing, DS and I do. We do ski trips and DH will hang out and read while we are skiing and we meet up for breaks in the lodge. |
Anonymous
| Takes way too long to do. I’d rather go outside and run |
Anonymous
| I like skiing I just can’t handle the crowds and the etiquette |
Anonymous
| I struggle with this. I skied a few times in high school and never really got the hang of it. Now as an adult my DH has learned to ski and my kids have learned to ski and want to go on several ski trips a year. I will only ski greens (and generally only the easiest ones). I hate going fast and feeling out of control. I have taken lots of private lessons but can't see myself enjoying it. I'm starting to wonder if its worth the cost for me to rent skis and get a lift ticket. I'm happy to go on the trip but would like to just stay at the house/resort relaxing. But my DH is worried if I stay back at the house the kids will also want to stay home and our whole ski trip will fall apart. (This sometimes happens when I try to bow out of skiing at lunch or in the early afternoon.) So I'm stuck riding the lift up with everyone then skiing alone on the greens while they hit blues and blacks together. We meet at the bottom or 30-45 minutes later and ride the lift up again together. |
Anonymous
| I loathe it. Can’t wait until spring |
Anonymous
This. I'm not scared of it, but it's not enjoyable at all, and as a value proposition it stinks. I refuse to pay for lift ticket to stand in long lines just to take crowded, icy, 45 second runs. We go out west for a week most years, and that's a great time. |
Anonymous
| OP here. I hear you on the local skiing. DH grew up skiing in NE and me Massanutten and Wintergreen (I’m from southern VA.) He wants to try Utah, but I’m struggling with spending thousands and taking PTO to do something I’m not excited about. |
Anonymous
Utah is so nice though! Nice powder and big long trails. I wish I could ski more often! |
Anonymous
| Op it’s completely fine not to enjoy skiing! Just own it. My family loves to ski and I don’t and it’s a non-issue. Would you expect your husband to enthusiastically go on embroidery/horseback riding/bunny husbandry (or whatever your personal hobby is) vacations with you? You do you. |
Anonymous
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I hate downhill ski and any sport that has a sliding component. They terrify me. However, I love mountain climbing, and hovering above precipices thousands of feet in the air, rope bridges, those activities where you hang off tall buildings... I appear to need that adrenaline jolt. To each his own. |
Anonymous
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Hey Katie, we know you don't like skiing and are bad at it. You post a LOT.
maybe you should just be okay with this. Signed, A friend. |
Anonymous
| Hate it. I tried many time to like it. I skied in Utah and Colorado hoping powder would be better. It is way better skiing conditions. The weather is nicer. Nice sun. Feels warmer but I just don’t like it. I tried to do it for my husband and then with my kids. No I just drop them off and go shopping. |
Anonymous
You think it’s only one person who hates your activity? |
Anonymous
OP here. This is my ultimate goal. However my younger child still can’t do everything DH and my older child can do, so she needs someone to ski with while they do those trials. She is still getting lessons and improving, but I feel I need to keep skiing with her until the three of them can just hang together all day. Also, she and older DD bicker… But one day, I will drop them off and get a massage or go see a movie. |
Anonymous
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I hate it. Everything about it. I don't like being cold, I don't like feeling all bulky in the gear, I am risk-averse and am terrified even on easy runs.
The very last time I ever skied we went with friends and took a wrong turn at the top of the lift and ended up on a black diamond. It was awful. Never again. |