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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother lives in Maine.  Skiing is the after school activity.  The mountain is one of the school bus stops.  At the mountain, the kids receive a snack and homework help.  And then they go skiing with their friends for the afternoon.  It costs $80 per child for Jan-March.  Their local mountain is not Sugarbush.  They laugh at me when I talk about skiing there.  It’s expensive and crowded.  They like their local mountain more.

Skiing can be expensive but it doesn’t have to be.[/quote]

This is how I grew up in upstate New York! Every Wednesday we were skiing at night. Bus would bring us, parents gave us $20 and we skied from 4-8pm or something like that. We did this from 4th grade through high school. Now that I am a parent I cannot imagine letting my 4th grader do this but man it was fun! [/quote]

Me too - Western NY - Bristol Mountain.  We used to ski in Jeans.[/quote]

My dad put me on skis when I was 6 in Anchorage, Alaska at Arctic Valley.  It was just a few miles from our house. It is a non-profit ski area right outside of Anchorage.  That was definitely NOT elitist.

When I was in middle school, we moved to upstate NY and my school had a ski club.  We skiied at Greek Peak in Cortland, NY (near Ithaca.)  The club had multiple days/times when you could ski - I used to go on Friday nights.  The really good kids went on Saturdays.  We, too, skiied in jeans.  The town I lived in was very working class and that skiing was not elitist.

My dad moved to Colorado after I graduated from college and I would spend a week skiing with him every winter skiing at many different "resorts" in Colorado.  The big name places, like Vail, Purgatory, Steamboat and Breckenridge are elitist.  Lots of foreigners.  People on vacations from all over the country.  Apres ski just as big a deal as the skiing.  But the smaller places like Winter Park, Monarch, and Eldora are not elitist.  People don't think of Monarch as a ski vacation.[/quote]

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