Despite growing up within a day's drive of some of the best skiing in the world, I have never - not once in my life - strapped boards to my feet, stood upon nature's version of ice cream, and allowed my body to succumb to the forces of gravity.
I am a big skiier. I live a few hours away from Sunday River and Sugarloaf. They are both great,and offer a lot of variety.They are probably 2 of the best mountains on the east coast. Sometimes the top banner has an ad for them
I love skiing! Best and most famous place I've ever been to has probably been Snow Basin in Utah, where the winter olympics were a couple years back. I live on the East Coast though, and the best skiing around is the Poconos, which is nothing compared to Snow Basin.
Snowboarder here. It's sweet, I also get a 75% discount on boards due to having an uncle who's, shall we say, pretty high up there in the Burton ranks.
Totally pumped, very fun stuff. I don't go nearly enough though.
I have gone boarding once both of the past two years and could easily do it every other weekend or more if I lived on a mountain and had the money. It could easily become my favorite pastime.
knapplc wrote:Despite growing up within a day's drive of some of the best skiing in the world, I have never - not once in my life - strapped boards to my feet, stood upon nature's version of ice cream, and allowed my body to succumb to the forces of gravity.
I'm usually pretty good at most things, but I could NOT ski. I had reconstruction on my right knee and I just couldn't keep my feet in alignment. My right leg kept going off in all kinds of different directions. The last time I crashed, I fell awkwardly and felt my knee almost blow out. After that, I took off my skis and walked to the bottom of the mountain. It was kind of funny because I was right by the ski lift and was so embarassed about walking down the mountain, I kept looking at my ski and moving the clip where your feet click in pretending it was broken.
My buddy I was with told me the slope we were on was too hard for a beginner so that made me feel a little bit better.
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knapplc wrote:Despite growing up within a day's drive of some of the best skiing in the world, I have never - not once in my life - strapped boards to my feet, stood upon nature's version of ice cream, and allowed my body to succumb to the forces of gravity.
I'm usually pretty good at most things, but I could NOT ski. I had reconstruction on my right knee and I just couldn't keep my feet in alignment. My right leg kept going off in all kinds of different directions. The last time I crashed, I fell awkwardly and felt my knee almost blew out. After that, I took off my skees and walked to the bottom of the mountain. It was kind of funny because I was right by the ski lift and was so embarassed about walking down the mountain, I kept looking at my ski and moving the clip where your feet click in pretending it was broken.
My buddy I was with told me the slope we were on was too hard for a beginner so that made me feel a little bit better.
Aw man that sucks. I never had balance problems with snow skiing but I think that was because I never snow skied till I knew how to water ski. The whole balance thing is similar I guess but something about water skiing was always tougher for me. The sudden pull when the boat punches it still catches me off guard. I probably could have saved myself choking down half the river if I learned balance on snow skis first then tried to water ski.
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