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Who snowboards/skis?
Toba:
I have full gear, but I have accumulated it over several years. I don't have disposable income use all my disposable income on computer stuff.
Lila:
I went to Sunapee yesterday...
I had to ride down the mtn in one of those ski patrol toboggans. At my house, we have the exact same boots in ascending sizes (by half sizes). So, by accident, I brought the boots that were a half a size too small for my bindings. Which I found out at the top, when my ski fell off getting off the lift :oops:
The superawesome ski patrolmen gave me a little thing that gave me free ski rentals. Which was nice. Even so, I didn't really get back on the slopes until after lunch, when everything was skied (sp?) off and the skis I was on were about 5-10 cm longer than my own. + really long lift lines. So, all in all, it was a pretty crappy day.
Snowboarding...
Tried it once. I could only turn right (zoolander :-)). the only way I could turn left was if I hugged my instructor from behind and he held me up. otherwise, I just fell.
BobJoeJim:
My ski gear consists of snow pants and a raincoat, with warm clothes underneath, along with gloves and goggles. I don't think it would qualify as "urban".
jmrz:
I've been skiing twice. The first time in New Zealand and we spent two days skiing The Remarkables. The second time was a week long snow trip with my school. After a week of skiing all day every day, I was incredibly sore at the end of the week and couldn't move for a couple of days. I had fun though!
Uber Ritter:
I've done both Cross Country and Alpine-Alpine is fun as heck, but the whole ski resort thing is kinda off-putting. Not being a terribly expert skiier, the various places I've been, mostly in PA, kinda blend together into a sort of mental mush.
Cross Country skiing is less exciting but offers much better scenery, particularly when your guide is a local and he knows all the cool forest roads etc. All my cross-country skiing experience to date (save that time I skiied around town after the big blizzard in '96) has been in the Allegheny highlands of West Virginia between Elkins and Seneca Rocks (Canaan Valley being the main skiing place there, but we went elsewhere). Though I'd really like to ski elsewhere I can't imagine many lovelier places; this image :http://flickr.com/photos/lwp/38353040/ was taken by some flickr dude fairly near one of the places we went skiing, Gaudineer Knob, and it captures the look of the region pretty well. We rented skis out of a place called Whitegrass, which was very chill and tiny.
That being said, I am envious of those that have gone cross-country skiing in Labrador.
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