There’s like a Venn diagram of requisite conditions to ski, and that usually indicates privilege.
Edit: Thinking lift tickets/passes, gear (which new can be 1350+ for boots, bindings, and board or skis) and lessons as a kid or exposure to it. It isn’t prohibitively expensive, my 25/hr self can make it work, but at the same time, that’s out of reach for people. I love snowboarding, but like anything I feel like you need to acknowledge that some people can’t do it.
Cross country might be more accessible, but my only exposure to skiing has been resort skiing
You don't think you might be an outlier geographically? If you don't live near a nice place to ski (which is most humans) the only type of person you'll meet that skiis is most likely privledged.
So now I'm wondering how it is that "resort skiing" completely colonized the public perception of what skiing is, blocking out the more affordable ways to do it.
Well, at least in :amerikkka: , most of the country is very far from the kind of geography and climate that is conducive to skiing. If you live south of like, Pennsylvania, you probably need to fly to skiable terrain, and get time off work to do it. So while Vermonters and Minnesotans can literally ski to work, skiing is bourgeois decadence to any resident of Texas, Florida, Georgia, most of California - probably at least half of amerikkkans
Resort skiing is insanely high reward for low effort. I mean you gotta learn to ski but other than that it's sitting in a lift for 10 minutes and then you go "wheeeeeeeeeeeee!" until you're down, rinse and repeat. Cross country skiing is "boring" by comparison and hiking up a mountain to ski down is, like, a lot of work.
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There’s like a Venn diagram of requisite conditions to ski, and that usually indicates privilege.
Edit: Thinking lift tickets/passes, gear (which new can be 1350+ for boots, bindings, and board or skis) and lessons as a kid or exposure to it. It isn’t prohibitively expensive, my 25/hr self can make it work, but at the same time, that’s out of reach for people. I love snowboarding, but like anything I feel like you need to acknowledge that some people can’t do it.
Cross country might be more accessible, but my only exposure to skiing has been resort skiing
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The person above is probably thinking about lift tickets at ski resorts, which can be prohibitively expensive. Do you ski whatever hill is around you?
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You don't think you might be an outlier geographically? If you don't live near a nice place to ski (which is most humans) the only type of person you'll meet that skiis is most likely privledged.
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in the us the amount of places with hills and snow and a large population center is basically zero
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Cross country skiing and downhill skiing are very very different.
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Unless people say cross country first, they always mean downhill when they say skiing.
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I just don't think it's fun.
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Counterpoint: It would be a lot cooler if you did.
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So now I'm wondering how it is that "resort skiing" completely colonized the public perception of what skiing is, blocking out the more affordable ways to do it.
Well, at least in :amerikkka: , most of the country is very far from the kind of geography and climate that is conducive to skiing. If you live south of like, Pennsylvania, you probably need to fly to skiable terrain, and get time off work to do it. So while Vermonters and Minnesotans can literally ski to work, skiing is bourgeois decadence to any resident of Texas, Florida, Georgia, most of California - probably at least half of amerikkkans
Resort skiing is insanely high reward for low effort. I mean you gotta learn to ski but other than that it's sitting in a lift for 10 minutes and then you go "wheeeeeeeeeeeee!" until you're down, rinse and repeat. Cross country skiing is "boring" by comparison and hiking up a mountain to ski down is, like, a lot of work.
I don’t think it’s an intentional conspiracy, it might me, but a lot of the big ticket Olympic and Xgames events are all resort based.
Maybe in places where you have to travel real far to get n the mountains