Are injuries really that common? I'll go skiing to Zermatt in December. First timer.
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Rent skis for 50$? It is cheaper to just buy them!
When I first started snowboarding, I was a broke college student. Just go late afternoon and buy or ask for day pass tickets from people leaving. I know its illegal, but a college student gotta do what they gotta do to enjoy the slopes.
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I do some pretty reckless shit for fun, but skiing has never appealed to me in any way.
I tried snowboarding once.. I think the rental snowboard was shit, the front of the board kept catching and I'd go sailing through the air.. lucky I didn't break my neck.. I was so done with it
Is this some sort of rich mountain-goers joke? I've never been burned on the ski hill, even as someone who burns very easily
East vs west
Out west you're at such high elevation you can totally get a pretty bad sunburn from skiing.
Meanwhile I live in the east and ski every chance I get and 70% of the population around here is vitamin d deficient because we see the sun 5 hours a week.
If you live in the northeast and ski or surf then you love the sport more than anyone on the west coast. Those spoiled people out west with their good weather, good conditions, and clean breaks would never go out in what we go out in.
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Me but climbing. Bro come climbing with me. I even got a helmet for you you'll be fine.
No lift tickets needed.
I've always held the view that climing up a mountain is the first step of dying on a mountain