Anonymous wrote:I don't know why anyone starting from zero in both would choose snowboarding, and I'm a snowboarder.

In the 90s, snowboarding was seen as cooler, but that's not true anymore.

Snowboarding has annoying aspects (doing bindings every run, having to skate on flats), and skiing does not.

I started with snowboarding but switched to skiing after a few years. Skiing is so much easier both in terms of actual skiing, and also the gear.

My friends are all 45-55 and we're about half and half skiers and snowboarders.

I go to Colorado. Seems like among the vacationers, kids with snowboarding parents snowboard, kids with skiing parents ski.

Anonymous wrote:Most “wealthy” people on the west coast I think do both but the simple fact is that west coast money isn’t looked at the same as east coast money. This is not a strange conversation, just an uncomfortable one for those who cannot afford to have it. 💔

No. It’s an obnoxious conversation, driven by crippling class insecurity.

I have three kids, 1 prefers to ski one snowboard and one can do both but prefers to meet us for lunch in the lodge only. What group do we belong in?

Skiing is far more expensive because it’s something that takes more time to get good at. Snowboarding is something you can pick up more easily and doesn’t require as much practice. Therefore, skiing regularly= more travel, more money, and higher classes. Snowboarding is like…we go to big bear sometimes, ya know?

Most “wealthy” people on the west coast I think do both but the simple fact is that west coast money isn’t looked at the same as east coast money. This is not a strange conversation, just an uncomfortable one for those who cannot afford to have it. 💔

I grew up skiing (east coast), lived out west in mountain towns for 8 years after college with both skiers and boarders as friends and now live in the Midwest where my kid is on a ski team (very small mountain, but using what we have) but has recently learned how to snowboard as well. Never, ever has any of this occurred to me - I grew up middle class and maybe border on upper mc now, but DS learned how to ski so we could do it as a family. Most of his friends from school ski and some do both if Whatever works for them or their families. What a strange conversation!

It’s generational and also maybe location dependent. The prices are about the same. The rich kids I knew on the west coast all snowboarded.

Ski gear is generally more expensive and snowboarding can be expensive but it usually isn’t. Ski gear also usually lasts longer which correlates to higher class spending habits, spending more money on things of high quality that are going to last a long time. Rather than trendy snowboards that will be unusable after one season of use. Also people who ski usually ski in many different places, whereas people who snowboard usually have a home base where the terrain and conditions are the same almost every time. The experience is just very different.

Anonymous wrote:Sort of seems like it at my dd's school. What is the allure with snowboarding amongst mid income kids? Skiing is seen as too preppy?

This is a new level of navel gazing. LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:I learned to snowboard in 1991, when it was still pretty new and not yet mainstream, after ten years of avid skiing.

I started because I was drawn the counterculture aspect of it, but continued (and still do as a 40yo mom) because it's fun. I've done both. Snowboarding on fresh powder, there's nothing like it. And I know I'm not "cool" for it anymore.

I'm 22:43. Is it really that different than skiing power on really good powder skis?

No, and snowboarders ruin fresh powder.

LOL DCUM never stop being you

In Tahoe, old people ski, young people snow board. It has nothing to do with money

I only see plain hippies snowboarding

In my extended family, the wealthier families had their kids in ski school at 3 or 4, and by the time they were old enough for snowboarding, the kids were good enough that they didn't want to go back to the beginning.

My kids, in our UMC but lower income than theirs family, were older when they started, because little kid ski school is super expensive, and ski vacations are super expensive and not in our budget with kids who would be on the magic carpet for a long time, and since they were older when we went we let them choose and ended up with snowboarders.

So, yes, I guess in our family the richest people ski.

Anonymous wrote:Get a life OP.

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