Do mostly middle class kids snowboard, really wealthy do the more patrician skiing?

[Anonymous]

The difference isn't really between skiers and snowboarders since there's more and more crossover between the two and mountains allow both and have for decades now. Each resort has its own character though and it usually applies to both the skiers and snowboarders there.

The only skiers I've met who look down at snowboarders are really inexperienced/crappy skiers who are afraid of a collision.

[Anonymous]

Skiing is coming back into vogue. When I was growing up in Alaska - graduated HS in 2009 - downhill skiing was considered pretty dorky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Skiing is coming back into vogue. When I was growing up in Alaska - graduated HS in 2009 - downhill skiing was considered pretty dorky.

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[Anonymous]

When I began college in VT in 2000 skiing had become cool again. There were twin-tip skis and freestyle skiing was big.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skiing is coming back into vogue. When I was growing up in Alaska - graduated HS in 2009 - downhill skiing was considered pretty dorky.

+1

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-40yo pp who learned to snowboard in 1991, in Seattle.

[Anonymous]

Snowboarding rescued skiing. In the 80s, skiing was for lame rich dorks. If exciting, edgy snowboarding had not come along, skiing would've headed toward oblivion.

Don't believe me? Ask outdoor industry folks about sales trends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skiing is coming back into vogue. When I was growing up in Alaska - graduated HS in 2009 - downhill skiing was considered pretty dorky.

+1

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-40yo pp who learned to snowboard in 1991, in Seattle.

I graduated high school in 2000 and skiing was dorky when I was in school, nobody ever wanted to go skiing with their parents on the weekends because it was an old people thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skiing is coming back into vogue. When I was growing up in Alaska - graduated HS in 2009 - downhill skiing was considered pretty dorky.

+1

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-40yo pp who learned to snowboard in 1991, in Seattle.

I graduated high school in 2000 and skiing was dorky when I was in school, nobody ever wanted to go skiing with their parents on the weekends because it was an old people thing.

And my college had a ski team and they were NOT cool kids. Nerdy kids mostly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skiing is coming back into vogue. When I was growing up in Alaska - graduated HS in 2009 - downhill skiing was considered pretty dorky.

+1

+2
-40yo pp who learned to snowboard in 1991, in Seattle.

I graduated high school in 2000 and skiing was dorky when I was in school, nobody ever wanted to go skiing with their parents on the weekends because it was an old people thing.

And my college had a ski team and they were NOT cool kids. Nerdy kids mostly.

The girls who skied in my high school weren't the "hot girls"...mostly they were weird, chubby stoner/hippie chicks.

It was a pretty dorky sport.

[Anonymous]

Skiing for packed powder, hard pack, ice.
Snowboarding for powder (great floating feeling)

[Anonymous]

OP, where are you where "middle-income kids" snowboard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, where are you where "middle-income kids" snowboard?

OP is an idiot who was trying to sound "upper class" and failed miserably.

[Anonymous]

Both are dorky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The only skiers I've met who look down at snowboarders are really inexperienced/crappy skiers who are afraid of a collision.

Such BS. Been skiing for over 30 years and was nearly killed 2 weeks ago by a young snowboarder who was going too fast and did not have control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skiing is coming back into vogue. When I was growing up in Alaska - graduated HS in 2009 - downhill skiing was considered pretty dorky.

+1

+2
-40yo pp who learned to snowboard in 1991, in Seattle.

I graduated high school in 2000 and skiing was dorky when I was in school, nobody ever wanted to go skiing with their parents on the weekends because it was an old people thing.

And my college had a ski team and they were NOT cool kids. Nerdy kids mostly.

The girls who skied in my high school weren't the "hot girls"...mostly they were weird, chubby stoner/hippie chicks.

It was a pretty dorky sport.

Same, we had a ski team and they were mostly stoner/hippie kids who ended up working at ski resorts after graduation.