Maybe you should walk a kilometer in someone else's moccasins.
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I'm really not seeing your point here. Why can't people who are capable of driving drive? I understand that some people would prefer to be chauffeured around, but that doesn't seem like a great reason to not drive to me. Again, if there's some valid reason not to drive (age, physical limitations. etc.), that's different. If you are capable of driving but choose not to, don't expect others to cart you around. What am I missing?
Sure, and the other side of this coin is a double whammy for teenagers wanting to drive, where they don’t NEED to occupy the same physical space to have high context interaction with their friends and peers. Anybody who has witnessed a group of teenagers in a living room all silently working their phones, with the occasional giggle or callout, knows this.
Given how unsafe they are on the roads I consider this a good thing, on balance. It wouldn’t bother me too much if my kids were a little less excited to be able to drive, but both my oldest have worked the system such that they are fully licensed by day 0 of their legal driving age.
Over exaggerated pow slashes that aren't even turns but more like quick hockey stops to blow snow up in front of cameras. It just isn't that nice to look at.
I've seen video clips recently where every other "turn" is one of those. I'm not a fan.
My IG feed is loaded with "pow-slayers" like this. I remember in the old days we made fun of those who locked their ankles together and tail-gunned their way down the mountain; not unlike this latest crop of skiers.
As a bumper I have no problem with no daylight getting through the legs, but you still gotta make a turn; you're not snowboarders for God's sake :fmicon:
Basically the same as every Warren Miller movie the last fifteen years. I stopped watching them cause I’d get bored every time.
Nah, those aren't what I mean. Most Hollywood turns that would be on the cover of pow are staged, yes but they were actual turns. I'll actually do those for photo work but we indeed trying to capture real turns. Maybe a little exaggerated but I'll do those even if there isn't a camera around.
I'm talking about the feet together, unnecessary pow jab.
I got off the lift a few weeks ago and saw this kid hiking up a closed run. He was really going at it like he was booting a couloir, I had seen the same technique out of snowboarders at Silverton, throwing their board in front of themselves for leverage. Well, he get about 50 feet up the trail and stops. I’m thinking, has he never ridden pow and wants to give it a try? Wonder if he’s going to be able to make a turn? It was a reasonably steep pitch and probably 2 feet of snow had accumulated. I start out the cat track all the while watching him and notice he has a buddy…. Aha! They’re filming for their social media. Sure enough the dude links these to big slashes with pow going everywhere. Ironically the riding of actual open terrain that day wasn’t that good. So these two twats spend a half hour to set up a little mock photo shoot to fool their followers. So rad.
I hate to break it to you, but that’s how lots and lots of ski content is procured. Has been like that forever.
Maybe not the hiking into closed terrain thing, but the rest of it.
Since the thread has gone there, I'm just going to say it. 99% of POV sucks.