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We need some new topics! Kicking us off:
How many of you enjoy skiing or snowboarding? Personally I enjoy both, though I've only skid once. I want to ski more so that I can have better control to teach my kids [from what I've heard/read, they can learn to ski well at an earlier age than snowboard] if I ever have any.
I much prefer to snowboard though. I finally invested in a board last season and have only been on it once. I hope to increase that number quite a bit this season. I just hate that the closest "slopes" - and I use that word loosely - are 4-ish hours away.
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Never tried modern snowboarding (with bindings/boots). I had a snowboard as a kid, but it just had grip tape on it, and a rope from the tip that you held in your hand.
Learned to ski at age 5 or so. Local hill (J lift and 3 rope tows) had season passes, so we went about 5 times a week.
Have some fine quality Airborne Infantry knees. That combined with the cost of skiing means I do it rarely. I'm incapable of skiing at a rational pace, so I always end up with my knees a wreck and unable to walk for a week.
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I used to ski a few times a year when I was in junior high/high school but haven't gotten out in years. I prefer to stay indoors and stay warm in the winter.
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I hate snow. Having shoveled it from the time I was 5 years old has made me bitter.
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Never been snowboarding or skiing before. I'd like to try it someday I guess, but in general I hate cold weather so I'm probably not likely to seek it out on my own.
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In the early 90's I was out inner tubing at Union Creek here in Oregon. I had a bottle of Yukon Jack stuck in the snow up at the top of the run. I was doing a swig every couple of runs so was getting pretty ripped. So this local kid we know shows up with this freshly waxed snow board.
So I end up hopping on it. Just a note: If you have never ridden a snow board. DO NOT try for the first time from the top of a really steep inner tube run. I must of hit 50mph in like 2 seconds. The sound my need made when in pooped after I cartwheeled a couple of times could be heard from the top and the bottom of the run. 
But I have no use for going to visit the snow anymore. I love it here in Southern Oregon. It snows a couple of times a year or so and goes away pretty quickly most of the time.
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I'm sorry but what part of the body is your need? :P
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And it must've been a bad wreck if you pooped from it.
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God damn it!
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i absolutely love snowboarding, relatively new to it but i hope to go multiple times this year. agreed with umlap on the "too effing far away" bit 
i'm fine having no skiing experience, but i suppose i will at some point Elkad posted:
I'm incapable of skiing at a rational pace
i was the same way my first couple of times on a snowboard, lol. i would zoom past everyone and eventually wreck hard. now i can mostly control it decently enough
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Milkand posted:
Elkad posted:
I'm incapable of skiing at a rational pace
i was the same way my first couple of times on a snowboard, lol. i would zoom past everyone and eventually wreck hard. now i can mostly control it decently enough
It's not a control issue. Since I only ski every couple years now, I start with a nice bunny hill run or 2. But by the 2nd hour I think I'm an indestructible 9yr old again, and start trying to set a speed record on black-diamond moguls. On those pontoon rental skis.
Must... Go... Faster.....
Edit: I guess it is a control issue. Specifically self-control.
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my snow activities include shoveling and cleaning off my car.
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I work outdoors, so my favorite sports are all of the indoor variety
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Hate snow. Hate, hate hate. Shoveling it, scraping it off my car, working in it all day...yeah no thanks lol.
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InsomWhizzo posted:
my snow activities include shoveling and cleaning off my car.
Lasrael_Hellblade posted:
Hate snow. Hate, hate hate. Shoveling it, scraping it off my car, working in it all day...yeah no thanks lol.
you guys are doing the wrong things with snow
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yep you should be making sweet love to it. with the bottom of a snowboard.
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snow need to die in a fire.
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Daimar posted:
snow need to die in a fire.
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snow way!
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I fricking love snow~ My grandfather used to take me out snowmobiling when I was a child every year and I make it a tradition to continue doing so~ Going to upstate NY 2 weeks from now to prep my baby up~
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Ok, I will admit that sledding and sledding (snowmobiling) is pretty fun.
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I do snowboarding a fair amount when I am in Colorado or in the Northeast. My knee has started giving me problems so I am not sure how long it will last though.
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I'm hoping we get at least one big storm this year... we haven't had a good blizzard for a while.
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I haven't done either. I like tubing though, does that count? Too bad there's not a lot of snow here and I don't have a big hill to go down like I did when I was a kid.
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