I love skiing. I even love the clomping about in ski boots and carrying skis- all that is actually contributing to the self-sufficiency of skiing, whatever little self-sufficiency most skiers have.
Skiing can be an efficient way to travel in the snow but for the most part it is possibly one of the strangest past-time: you take a lift up to the top of a mountain and then you ski down the mountain as quickly and in as stylish a manner as you can, and then you do it all over again. It is great exercise in great locations, where the air is fresh and the views fantastic, but it is perhaps not the greenest sport.
I often find chair-lifts stressful. You might find yourself sharing one with someone that has different ideas to what you want. Do you keep the wind shield up or down? What do I do if my ski poles are trapped in between my leg and the safety bar? Do you talk or not talk? When do you lift the bar up and prepare to get off? Where is s/he turning when s/he gets off the chair-lift? What about ski poles? Will s/he stab me by accident or plant the post on the ground so that I will trip over it when I try to ski off? Is there any danger of a pile up?
After all that you need the sense of freedom of skiing away down hill to make up for the chairlift experience.
Skiing can be an efficient way to travel in the snow but for the most part it is possibly one of the strangest past-time: you take a lift up to the top of a mountain and then you ski down the mountain as quickly and in as stylish a manner as you can, and then you do it all over again. It is great exercise in great locations, where the air is fresh and the views fantastic, but it is perhaps not the greenest sport.
I often find chair-lifts stressful. You might find yourself sharing one with someone that has different ideas to what you want. Do you keep the wind shield up or down? What do I do if my ski poles are trapped in between my leg and the safety bar? Do you talk or not talk? When do you lift the bar up and prepare to get off? Where is s/he turning when s/he gets off the chair-lift? What about ski poles? Will s/he stab me by accident or plant the post on the ground so that I will trip over it when I try to ski off? Is there any danger of a pile up?
After all that you need the sense of freedom of skiing away down hill to make up for the chairlift experience.
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