Just thought I would ask everyone on here. Do you prefer to ski, or to snowboard?
I know there are plenty of people from Wisconsin and Minnesota and such, and I'm going to go skiing up near Syracuse tomorrow.
But if you have a preference, why? How long have you been riding? Where do you go?
I personally prefer to ski, I've been doing it my whole life and I like the exhilaration from it and the control you get from the skis.
I prefer to ski. I've skied in about 15 winters over about 20 years (just got back from a week in the Alps), but when I tried snowboarding I found that it was a bit like going back to square one. Suddenly I had to re-learn to do everything that I by-now found so easy on skis, and I found that very frustrating. I'm sure I'd have enjoyed snowboarding if I'd learned it earlier, but the fact that I feel like I'm "starting over" when I snowboard makes skiing the sport for me.
Well skiing was amazing. I went to Bristol mtn, near canandaigua ny. It was everything I had hoped to get from skiing. I haven't gone in a bit so it was refreshing and fun as hell. Can't wait to go again
I grew up skiing, but switched to boarding when I moved out west five years ago. (EDIT: it's actually been eight years since i came out west, wow, time flies). This year is the first that I've decided to retire my board and go back to skiing. It's a more sustainable sport for me, and I've honestly never been totally comfortable on a board. Happy I did it for a bit though. As far as mountains. It doesn't get much better than Vancouver. Every morning on my walk to work downtown, I pass a line full of boarders waiting for the city bus to take them up to Grouse. There are three hills 15 minutes from downtown. Grouse, Cypress, and Seymour. Each about 1100 vertical feet. Coolest part is when the night skiing is on, the mountain looks like a floating, glowing city in the distance. It's almost eerie. Whistler/Blackcomb is 2 hours north. The winter olympics were there in '10. It's good, but expensive. 5200 vertical feet of skiing. They have a peak to peak gondola that's pretty cool. The place I go to most though is Mt. Baker in Washington state. I just like that hill. Fun fact: Baker holds the world record for most snowfall in a year.
I'm going skiing tomorrow for the first time in awhile, I'll tell you how it goes
I prefer to ski. I'm from Minnesota, so we have plenty of ski places around here, but none of them are very big. I've snowboarded, trick skied, mono-boarded, boot skied, etc, but I like skiing the best. Mainly because that's just what I grew up doing, snowboarding wasn't really a thing. I mono-boarded before I ever even saw a snowboard on the slopes around here.
That amazes me, snowboards have been around for my entire life. It's a bit weird to think of a time without them for me
Agreed, but snowmobiling is pretty awesome too if you've ever tried it
You sound quite well traveled, I'm jealous...I want drunk bulgarians to teach me stuff
I've gotten around a bit, but not so far as I'd like. I've been no further West than Detroit (USA), no further East than Moscow (Russia), no further North than Helsinki (Finland) and no further South than Blantyre (Malawi). I'd still love to visit East Asia, Australasia, and South America. I'd love to see more of Africa and of North America. There are bits of Europe I haven't visited yet, especially in Eastern Europe, and I'd like to see more of the Mediterranean countries. I'd love to go back to Russia. I'd like to visit or revisit many of the Scottish islands.
Well you're living my dream. I'm both Scottish and Russian and I would love to visit both of those areas. Any advice as how you made your journeys happen to give to a young traveler?
In my case, I got lucky in that my parents were keen travellers (and happy to do so on a ludicrously-low budget - we went camping and/or youth hostelling around most of the UK and Scotland when I was a kid). Apart from that, all I can suggest is: * Look at sponsored expeditions - my trip around Malawi by bike, for example, was sponsored (in aid of a charity that provides anti-retroviral drugs in central Africa), and was a fantastic adventure.
* Jump on cheap opportunities - if you see a way that you can cheaply get to the other side of the country/world, even if it means sleeping in a dorm room or in a tent, take it. Better to have the story of how you had to drive through the night to return a borrowed car, after spending the day ice climbing (true story), than to sit at home and surf the web. Make friends in distant places, and couchsurf for one another, if that works for you. Don't know if that's actually any use or not: just my experience!
I snowboard. I'm learning as an adult, on my third season, because I never had an opportunity as kid growing up in Ohio. Now, the ski hill is only 15 minute drive (northern New Mexico), so it's a great opportunity. I chose snowboarding because I thought I'd rather break a wrist or tailbone than destroy a knee. Plus, I thought it might translate to skateboarding or surfing someday.
I love the exhilaration of riding down a mountain. It's like a personal roller coaster
I don't live near any of the big "brand name" mountains. If I ever had the chance to go to Whistler I would love it so much.
Snowboarding is very fun, a bunch of my friends love it. I just prefer skiing more. I am so sorry. Haha the skiing in NC must be pretty bad. it snows slush if it snows at all I'm sure.
Ski, but only because I grew up doing it. I'd like to give snowboarding a go but it's so rare that I get to a MT that I don't feel like spending it on my butt. I'm supposed to go to a hill here in North Carolina in February. Not sure if I'm going to go yet or not. cliffelam tells me that the skiing here is awful.