I hate snow boarders - vent

[Anonymous]

You have no control. Pretty much every time we go skiing, one of my kids or I get run over by a snow boarder. And half the time, you don't apologize. Rarely happens with skiers.

You clog up the top of the slope while you sit to put your board on - you all sit there in one big line, and we have to find a tiny gap to get through.

Please stay on the green slopes until you have better control.

Makes me nervous now to going skiing. I wish the ski resorts could make one slope for skiers and one for boarders, then you guys can crash into each other.

That is all.

[Anonymous]

I'm with you even though it makes be feel like an old lady to say that. Been hit by a few who were out of control - poles bent, ski pants torn, even a boot buckle broken as a result. In all cases I was either moving and hit from behind, or standing still (in one case at a slow sign/fence). I am an expert skier and ski straight down the fall line so I'm not weaving slowly across the hill which would make me more of a target.

[Anonymous]

Oh, look it's Glenn Plake. Sounds like you should stay in the jacuzzi at the lodge if you can't handle how hard we rip.

[Anonymous]

PS - we love Alta (and to a lesser extent Deer Valley) thanks to the skier only rule.

[Anonymous]

As a lifelong skier, I agree. Having said that though, I do give credit and am fine with the boarders who are in control and navigate the slope and others well.
I still hate how the boards scrap the snow and result in long stretches of ice.

There's a ski resort in Utah -Alta, I think, - where only skiers are allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, look it's Glenn Plake. Sounds like you should stay in the jacuzzi at the lodge if you can't handle how hard we rip.

Seems to me some of you guys can't handle how hard you rip, either, judging by how many of you wipe out and hit someone.

PS I hate jacuzzis and saunas

[Anonymous]

They are too slow. The skis are so much faster and they are in the way. It's too popular and won't be banned but they do totally fuck up the snow , basically plowing it downhill.

[Anonymous]

What's the deal with sitting down all over the slopes?

[Anonymous]

Ugh!!! And as a boarder - and an older one - I hate skiers. I understand how skiers work so I try to be cognizant of them. However, most skiers do not try to be careful of boarders. In general you need more room to turn than skiers so we are not trying to "hog" the slopes but we need more space. My reaction time to an errant skier - and that would include lots and lots of children - is slower. Narrow runs are especially hard for us - I do try to avoid them but sometimes... So, my rule would be the same for everyone - ski in a consistent pattern when the slopes are croweded.

Finally, it is much, much, much harder to exit a lift on a board. Only one boot is strapped in and you do not have as much control - particularly if if the lift has a tricky/uneven exit pattern.

And why do we sit? Because you can't ever rest on a board in a standing position like you can in skis. You have to always be up a little so that you don't catch an edge and fall over - even when standing still. Which is a constant day of calf workout. So, if we are waiting - we sit - much more comfortable and it is very easy to get up from a seating position on a board unlike with skis. Oh yeah - and your skis don't ever fall off either

If you are venting about boarders...you are most likely a bad skier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh!!! And as a boarder - and an older one - I hate skiers. I understand how skiers work so I try to be cognizant of them. However, most skiers do not try to be careful of boarders. In general you need more room to turn than skiers so we are not trying to "hog" the slopes but we need more space. My reaction time to an errant skier - and that would include lots and lots of children - is slower. Narrow runs are especially hard for us - I do try to avoid them but sometimes... So, my rule would be the same for everyone - ski in a consistent pattern when the slopes are croweded.

Finally, it is much, much, much harder to exit a lift on a board. Only one boot is strapped in and you do not have as much control - particularly if if the lift has a tricky/uneven exit pattern.

And why do we sit? Because you can't ever rest on a board in a standing position like you can in skis. You have to always be up a little so that you don't catch an edge and fall over - even when standing still. Which is a constant day of calf workout. So, if we are waiting - we sit - much more comfortable and it is very easy to get up from a seating position on a board unlike with skis. Oh yeah - and your skis don't ever fall off either

If you are venting about boarders...you are most likely a bad skier

Get yourself some Flow bindings and you won't need to sit down so often

[Anonymous]

The one time I was forced to "crash" was because of an inconsiderate skier...I guess it goes with ways.

[Anonymous]

Silly post. I have been hit by both inexperienced skiers and snowboarders. It has nothing to do with being a skier or boarder and everything to do with people being on trails that are way too difficult. Stay on the beginner slopes until you know how to stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with sitting down all over the slopes?

+1, why sit right in the middle of the slope? Can't you plop down on the side? Please??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with sitting down all over the slopes?

+1, why sit right in the middle of the slope? Can't you plop down on the side? Please??

Or at least not right on the backside of a crest/bump in a run where you're totally invisible.

Look - not all snowboarders are horrid. Like 90-95% seem to be able to do it in a way that's no more disruptive than skiers, although with a different rhythm that doesn't mesh with skiers (same is true vv).

But there are enough snow boarding idiots who seem to have no awareness of other skiers, safety or common sense - well in excess of the number of skiers that way - that it gives boarders a bad name.

[Anonymous]

I am with you op. I hate snow boarder too. My younger DC gave up skiing because a snow boarder plowed into her and hurt her knee. A friend of my MIL had a snowboarder land on her head and it was lucky she didn't die.

When we ski I used to love Deer Valley and Alta.