How important is skiing to you?

[Greg]

I get the impression that for most members here, skiing is probably the hobby they are most passionate about. Exactly how important is skiing to you? Are you more of a recreational skier; going only a half dozen times per year? Or are you a true fanatic; thinking about skiing every day, even in the summer? Perhaps you're new to the sport, but are quickly becoming addicted?

For me, skiing is very important. I actually get melancholy at the end of the ski season and start to get excited about the upcoming season early in the summer. I constantly talk skiing with my family and friends; some of whom don't ski and probably get annoyed by my rants. But anybody who knows me knows that skiing is the one thing I love to do. Some guys golf. Some guys bowl, or fish, or hike. Me? I ski.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Skiing is my thing, nothing else comes close. Besides my family it is my only great passion.

 

[thetrailboss]

Like you have to ask.....

:lol:

 

[Vortex]

I just started to get into it myself. Any suggestions? My kids are just glad we don't live on a glacier. They like summer. They chose the wrong parents.

 

[skibum1321]

For me, skiing is very important. I actually get melancholy at the end of the ski season and start to get excited about the upcoming season early in the summer. I constantly talk skiing with my family and friends; some of whom don't ski and probably get annoyed by my rants. But anybody who knows me knows that skiing is the one thing I love to do. Some guys golf. Some guys bowl, or fish, or hike. Me? I ski.

That pretty much describes me to a T.

 

[SnowRider]

I am exacley like you Greg.

I am addicted. I talk about it with my friends and family all the time. Wether it is about new gear or favorite mountains, it goes on all summer. My friends will start talking about mountainbiking but it always seems it turns into a snowboard discussion. If in Late June you are still talking about skiing, online, and checking ski reports for Chile, New Zealand and others, you are cetainly addicted.

SnowRider

 

[andyzee]

As of yesterday, the day's started getting shorter!

 

[AHM]

Die Hard

Number one: the 2000 miles of MTB are for ski training, the 80 days in the gym are for ski training, the hiking is for ski training. The job is for skiing, the basement is full of Rossi XXX's (185s one with Fritschi one with Marker), Stockli Stormrider scott schmidts (186), K2 Mad'n AKs (179). The big trips last season were La Grave, Valhalla powder cats out of Nelson, and a week ski touring at the Fairy Meadows hut in the Selkirks. Next years trips are in the works..........and plans for Narvik Norway and Baffin Island are in the planning stages. AHM

 

[SkiDog]

Number one: the 2000 miles of MTB are for ski training, the 80 days in the gym are for ski training, the hiking is for ski training. The job is for skiing, the basement is full of Rossi XXX's (185s one with Fritschi one with Marker), Stockli Stormrider scott schmidts (186), K2 Mad'n AKs (179). The big trips last season were La Grave, Valhalla powder cats out of Nelson, and a week ski touring at the Fairy Meadows hut in the Selkirks. Next years trips are in the works..........and plans for Narvik Norway and Baffin Island are in the planning stages. AHM

Any chance you're looking to adopt a 35 yr old kid??? ;-)

M

 

[tirolerpeter]

Importance of Skiing?

As of yesterday, the day's started getting shorter!

Good point.

I know I could quit this addiction to white powder any time I choose to. I think I'll just ski one more season, and then quit. Of course, if there are some really good dumps, I might just ski two more seasons and then quit. Or, if I have friends who are also addicted, I might ski three more seasons just to help them get passed the need to ski. Of course, if somebody buys my house here on LI, and I have to move to UT, then I will have to evaluate the entire issue further. Maybe I'll just ski four more seasons and then quit. Or maybe just ............................................. Oh hell, what's so great about quitting anyway? Wouldn't it be a terrible shame to let all that snow go to waste? C'mon!

Besides, no matter how hard I try to quit, the first evening or morning that I step outside, and see my breath I start to chant: "I SMELL SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

 

[Marc]

I get the impression that for most members here, skiing is probably the hobby they are most passionate about. Exactly how important is skiing to you? Are you more of a recreational skier; going only a half dozen times per year? Or are you a true fanatic; thinking about skiing every day, even in the summer? Perhaps you're new to the sport, but are quickly becoming addicted?

Skiing is life, man.



Everything else is a hobby.

 

[Greg]

Skiing is life, man.



Everything else is a hobby.

For me, my family is my life. Skiing is indeed a hobby, albeit an important one in my life.

 

[ski_adk]

Hrm, I'm reading this right now and it's June and it's 95 outside. I can only describe in one word - addiction -- well, maybe that's not strong enough.

Everyday, I'm looking at sites like this, admiring the stoke, day-dreaming of being on snow nearly every day of the year. This season was another breakthrough season for and I've learned that it only gets better.

Skiing for me isn't just a passion, but really, it's an obsession...and I have a weird feeling that it's only just beginning. And I only started 6 years ago or so.

 

[Ski Diva]

God help you if you come between me and skiing.

Seriously, aside from my family, nothing else even comes close. I 'm so glad I found this forum where there are other people as obsessed with skiing as I am. It's good to know I'm not the only one.

 

[roark]

Wife thinks I'm nuts still talking about skiing. Last season was the first I went semi-regularly, this season I hope to double the number of days I'm out. Ready for summer to be over...

 

[Grassi21]

I'm addicted. I check in to AZ about 5 or 6 times a day. I haven't been hooked by an activity like this since lacrosse 16 years ago (still playing once a week). I'm hoping to get between 20 and 30 days next season.

 

[John84]

On the list of important things in my life I would put skiing just above eating, and below breathing.

 

[montageskier]

One of the only things i do and think about.

 

[Charlie Schuessler]

Exactly how important is skiing to you?

ummm...LIFE or DEATH...

 

[AMAC2233]

When I first started skiing I hated it. 5 years later, I tried it again and liked it a little better. I was frustrated because I wasn't that good. In the past 3 years I've really started to love it, and have gotten really good. I wasn't obsessed like I am now until about a year ago.

The one problem I have holding me back is that I also play hockey during the winter. I'm torn, since I love hockey almost as much as I love skiing. I want to be able to ski all the time, but I do not want to give up playing hockey-I was born with talent, and it would be a shame to waste it and quit for skiing. I do love hockey, I just wish I could do both easier. As it is I only get to ski about 10 times a year, which is ok, but I could do better.

To answer the question-skiing is very important to me, but there are just to many other things in my life that are just as important.