Is skiing elitist?
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Anonymous
True. I am impressed that this person's flight was only $500, though. As long as PP doesn't test "+," this is a better deal. I did this even more cheaply in my 20s by staying in a hostel, btw. |
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Just paid $175 for a daily lift ticket at Snowbird.
Mid 90’s it was $46. |
Anonymous
Did you read what PP said? Not that Vail was beneath her but that it is more expensive to ski there and so might as well go to Switzerland, where it is cheaper. |
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I grew up in Canada with multiple ski hills under an hour away- not good ones although we did live less than two hours from Tremblant. It was definitely middle class accessible. We got discounted passes through the military (my father was a civilian but worked for national defense) and used equipment (very common for schools and ski clubs to have used winter sports gear sales). We also had ski club through school where we would be bussed to different local ski hills one night a week.
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Anonymous
Yup like all the other stuff listed above. I grew up dirt poor holiday was going to visit grandparents a few hours away in the country and birthdays were McDonald’s and Pizza Hut playgrounds / events. I still have not put skis on or rode a horse or went golfing or went sailing. |
Anonymous
My kid goes to school in New England. His private school has skiing and their own ski lifts. It’s a winter activity that’s like any other sport like ice hockey, squash, swimming, etc |
Anonymous
Tennis is not really elitist anymore. Lots of public courts and equipment isn’t too bad cost wise. Agree with everything else though. |
Anonymous
It takes a lot of time to learn to play tennis reasonably well - much longer than skiing, for example. |
Anonymous
This is a troll right? |
Anonymous
She also criticized the food and said US skiing was for suckers. She has also posted about this one $500 fare a zillion times. I ski in Europe regularly but don’t kid myself that skiing anywhere is cheap. Plus I use miles for most trips and it’s way fewer miles domestically than internationally. I stay at nice hotels but with epic/ikon and free airfare US skiing is not more expensive than France/Switzerland. And the food at a lot of areas is great. Jackson Hole is fantastic. |
Anonymous
Skiing became more expensive in Switzerland too. Everyone used to go skiing as a family several times a year when I grew up. Schools also have a ski camp built into the school programme, where kids and teachers go spend 1 week in the mountains. We always had a dance on the last night and that was best part 
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Anonymous
DP. Omg who tf cares. Why are you so insecure? And yes, that’s exactly what you come across like when you attempt to show your misconceived superiority by belittling someone else because they partake in an activity as often as you do. If it’s all a competition, someone is always going to better than someone else. That said, you’re not a skier either…at least not compared to anyone who’s better at skiing than you are; which, if I had to guess, would be most based on your compulsion to turn this into some sort of weird and endless pissing match. God you’re awful. Stop trying to gatekeep skiing, loser. |
Anonymous
So? I only boat ~3 months a year because I live in a 4-season climate and everything’s frozen over right now. Does this mean I’m less of a boater/owner than those who are able to do it year round? No. Some families can’t afford X,Y,Z for their kids whereas other families can. Does this make the family who can’t afford it less than parents? NO. Give it a rest, Karen. You sound like an insufferable hag. |
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The only thing elitist here are the posters trying to be the unofficial arbiters of what defines a skier. This is true of any sport or activity. There will always be an a$$hole who thinks they’re better than everyone else and feels entitled enough to think their opinion is one of importance. Generally speaking, people avoid them like the plague because they make everyone around them miserable. This alone makes them unqualified to be an adjudicator on the matter.
So sure, if you give any weight to these haughtily contrived and misguided over-inflated egos, then anything can be considered elitist. Strip the wannabe gatekeepers of their self-appointed powers, though, and the illusion of ‘elite’ is defeated. It’s all about perspective. |
Anonymous
By this logic, do you also think veterans aren’t allowed to call themselves soldiers? Is a retired gymnast no longer a gymnast? Is a former Olympic swimmer no longer a swimmer? Is a recovering alcoholic no longer an alcoholic? Get some frame of reference. Aside from that, it depends on how you’re defining equestrianism. Technically, it’s a broad term than encompasses all forms of horseback riding. If you’re trying to define it as vaulting or sport riding, then you’d be incorrectly applying a narrow definition. And if one doesn’t partake in those things, then no they wouldn’t call themselves that if they were using the narrow and incorrect definition. However, if someone rode horses yearly but not daily or even weekly, then, yes, they could accurately call themselves a horseback rider (or equestrian, if you were to apply the term correctly). If there’s a pattern, it’s safe to assume they fit the definition enough to qualify. If they rode a horse one time their entire life, then no. But we’re talking repeated events here — the time line is irrelevant. |