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.
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.