wow that was kind of scary
It sucks that skiing like boating has basically become impossible for working class people. Like yeah they generally did tend to always skew toward the wealthy, but it was possible to afford as a blue collar person. Like a lift ticket to snowbird/Alta was like 50$ two decades ago, one of the best resorts in the world. Now a days your paying 200$ for a ticket, and that's not even considering equipment costs.
Dad ans I used to go up to Vermont and spend a week skiing, food and board, for like 1k. We would sleep in the absolute shittiest places, one time it was a converted attic above a bar that had holes in the floor straight to the bar, and eat the shittiest food. But like we had a great time.
Fuck, man, once upon a time Jackson Hole was pretty slack. For longer college breaks you could take the train from Atlanta or Chicago out to western Wyoming, eat, drink, sleep, smoke weed and ski for weeks on a few hundred bucks, and dress up like a cowboy while doing it. Now it’s the wealthiest place in the nation.
Small boat sailing is sad too, agreed. I got into lasers through Boy Scouts. Had to quit because the crowd sucks now, all trust fund brokerage kiddies and shit.
List of things that have caused struggle sessions on Hexbear (probably incomplete):
- Veganism
- Astrology
- Pumpkin spice
- Bidets
- Outdoor cats
- Pronoun display options
- Skiing
It basically falls into the same category as golf. The amount of land that needs to be set aside for a sport that costs thousands of dollars is unacceptable.
there is the land use concern, but it's a lot less environmental impact afaik because they're not monoculturing/irrigating/fertilizing
Also, in general you aren't going to be using a frozen slope at 3500m for farming (unless you're Swiss or Nepalese)
Sure on the environment impact hierarchy it’s less than golf, or equestrian sports, or motor sports. But it’s still above an acceptable level of land use which is why I’m in favor of banning it.
You don't need to go to a resort to ski. You can just go down any hill.
The land set aside is pretty small and in the side of a mountain at relatively high altitudes.
Expensive ski places suck but cheap ones exist. Kinda depends on where you live. $100-$200 season passes are still a thing many places and are (at least) a lower middle class kind of thing, like driving a slightly nicer Toyota.
