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    First time skiing, friend was desperate to get someone to go so I went. Paid for everything like the meme says except the lessons. “I can teach you! Let’s take this lift up to that ridgeline”. I don’t know any better so up we go. Get there and it’s pretty high, oxygen is thin and a blizzard moved in. “Ok, ready?” He says. “What do I do?” I ask. “Just crouch down and twist back and forth to slow yourself. Here we go!” He replied and then off he went.

    It started out fine. I’m upright, the snow is powdery so it is helping to slow me down and I kinda got the twisting movement right, for the first 50 feet. Then the ground dropped beneath me and suddenly I’m cruising at what feels like mach speed. There is no twisting anymore, just barrel rolls. I finally stop and my arm is no longer in the socket. I just lay there wondering if I had died and hell really was frozen over. Then a ski guide came up, asked me if I was ok. “Uuuuughhh” I answered him. He then asked me if I could make it down on my own which I answered with a stare of both death and fear. Another dude arrived with a sled. By that time I had regained the ability to talk and popped my arm back in place. At the bottom they offered to call an ambulance but I was largely ok, got the direction to the ski lodge bar instead.

    10 hours later my friend finds me. “There you are! I was wondering where you went!” This is a story of the first and last time I went skiing.

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        Definitely. He ended up making his wealth buying property and raising the rent. We don’t talk anymore but those types of people seem to fit a mold.

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      My wife’s uncle took her to a black diamond route her very first time on the mountain and abandoned her, just like your friend. She’s not really willing to try skiing again because of the trauma of that experience.

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    Were I typically ski in Germany/Austria the most expensive ticket during the season is €44, but it’s considerably more affordable outside the peak months and the tickets get progressively more affordable if you arrive later in the day. And let’s be real, if you’re skiing and aren’t some sort of athlete a 12-4:30PM skiing day is long enough.

    Ski rental is around €25.

    You could have a skiing day for less than €60.

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    And what are you going to wear? Planning to ski naked? At least I don’t have appropriate skiwear at home, gloves, visor, pants, jacket, etc. I remember the one time I skied as a child, a friend of my mom invited us. It was expensive even then, and not very fun, but I remember the clothes we bought specially for that one trip.

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    I tried snowboarding once… I think the rental snowboard was shit, the front of the board kept catching and I’d go sailing through the air… lucky I didn’t break my neck… I was so done with it

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    I used to be an avid skier as a kid. I was at the top of a beautiful powder bowl. I started going down and near immediately hit a chunk of ice hiding under the powder and down down down I went. I tumbled from the top of the bowl until the ground got flat enough for me to slow down. I was the definition of rag-doll physics. People were picking up my equipment as they skied down.

    Didn’t get hurt somehow.

    Now I shudder thinking of the damage skiing can cause. If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?

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      If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?

      Generally no, simply because you are now heavier and taller and longer-limbed and as a result all the injury-causing forces are much larger.

      I’ve seen kids try and do a backflip and land on their neck and get up laughing. If I tried that? I’d be fuckin’ DEAD.

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    When I first started snowboarding, I was a broke college student. Just go late afternoon and buy or ask for day pass tickets from people leaving. I know its illegal, but a college student gotta do what they gotta do to enjoy the slopes.

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      Not illegal at all. Just against the made up rules of the resort, they can make up any rule they want but that doesn’t make it right or illegal.

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          I think the slope can “ban” you if you get caught. But I didn’t. Now I’m better off, I always give my passes to college kids trying to buy my old passes.

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            Oh don’t get me wrong, morally I completely agree with you. Especially at Vail resorts, which are absolutely criminally priced.

            I was just arguing a technicality because it’s the internet and that’s, you know, what we do.