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I was going to post about this too. Vail currently has 5 Colorado ski areas……..8 Pennsylvania Ski areas

It’s a cultural change/evolution, so it’s not like a switch was just flicked. Late 30s to early 60s. There were cottage industries in places like North Creek during the 1930s, but I’d say by the time that you could find a ski shop in a wealthy city or suburb away from the mountains, and that...

It’s a scale thing. Once it became “the ski industry” the emphasis was on people with disposable income and leisure time. More people skied a couple trails at Killiington last weekend than the sum total of people who rode 100 of those rope tows over a year.

People of more modest means who live close to the hill have always been more likely to at least have the opportunity to become skiers than people of modest means who live in the cities. My grandfather was an early ski customer of the North Creek area. He probably fits a profile. He herringboned...

Ehhhhh. Skiing used to be “more accessible” to the middle class perhaps. And a larger % of people were categorized as such. And of course there will be outlying mountains, families, individuals etc. But I don’t think it has been a “middle class sport” during it’s time in America.

Those Bigfoots were real fun. Definitely the first time I ever layed a ski over and carved a real arc after arc after arc was on them. Early 90s. They were sort of a last gasp by Kneissl skis? Then by 5 years later I was patrolling and seeing lots of spiral fractures on snowblades from the high...

Is this true?

It’s nature at work. Independence and autonomy don’t just happen with the flick of a switch. You want the kids to lay down a base layer of separation and a (to them) independent identity as teenagers so that you are more likely to fledge them when it’s time.

That WOULD be FUN

“Freestyle with Camper” should be a vlog series on the front page some year.

Wasn’t this a Wayne Wong era freestyle term? I’m a middle aged man and my memories don’t go back that far.

Most likely lack of awareness, but one other thing to remember is that standing still, on a slope, on a snowboard, is actually probably an advanced intermediate skill. Which is why there is so much sitting. And sitting makes you less visible to people approaching from above. So there might be...

To be honest, a 540, 720, 900, or even an under rotated 270 could be a heli.

We are easily at least 21 years past time for people to accept that snowboarding is really just a part of the broader sport of skiing. I realize that, not so much in ‘87, but during the period from about ‘94-2000, coinciding with the tech boom, the rise of the internet, and the Clinton...

Pretty cool stuff in the Nordie world. Craftsbury stored enough snow from last year, all spring/summer/fall to spread out a 2K loop. https://www.craftsbury.com/news/winter-opening And Whitegrass got close to a foot out of a 3” storm in their snowfields by having the snow fence in position...

Snow Tires: a Fast Pass for the interstate and access road

It was a Skiology thread that made me make the meme, but it’s prevalent on several.

We got a new dude to learn from the old guy. First doodle for us.