What is the "skiing lifestyle?"

**traviswolfeskiing** · 03-11-2011, 10:44 AM

What does "lifestyle" mean to you? Is it what you do? Who you are? The way you live your life? Where you live your life? Or all of the above? I'm trying to figure out how to describe the lifestyle of a skier. I want to know who we are, what we are all about, and the community we represent. There are many types of skiers out there living many different life styles but who are the "true grit skiers?"

**herr_stoiber** · 03-11-2011, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by traviswolfeskiing

What does "lifestyle" mean to you? Is it what you do? Who you are? The way you live your life? Where you live your life? Or all of the above? I'm trying to figure out how to describe the lifestyle of a skier. I want to know who we are, what we are all about, and the community we represent. There are many types of skiers out there living many different life styles but who are the "true grit skiers?"

oh, that's easy, just read this http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/f...-Ski-Snowboard and you'll know

**jrbd** · 03-11-2011, 11:10 AM

So, are "we" writing a magazine article, or doing market research?

**SKIORFORGETIT** · 03-11-2011, 11:12 AM

school paper?

**grrrr** · 03-11-2011, 11:18 AM

Hookers and blow.

**advres** · 03-11-2011, 11:22 AM

http://www.sugarbowl.com/travis-wolfe

**regct** · 03-11-2011, 11:28 AM

I'm the skiing lifestyle.

...and hookers and blow.

gunit130 · 03-11-2011, 11:43 AM

Honest answer, search any thread started by 'Downbound Train'. That dude lives the lifestyle every skier dreams of.

**atkinsonvt** · 03-11-2011, 01:11 PM

A pioneer of the sport, Ken Quackenbush, once remarked, "It's not a lifestyle, it is a way of life." Lifestyle is cosmetic, way of life goes to the bone.

Semantics? Yup, but I can't hear the word "lifestyle" without thinking of this quote.

John

**BrianH** · 03-11-2011, 02:41 PM

A marketing concept intended to separate you from your money, i.e. hookers and blow.

**BigDaddy** · 03-11-2011, 02:44 PM

This is an inspiring and uplifting thread of genuine mountain life and the struggle for survival: http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...rke?highlight=

**45hill** · 03-11-2011, 02:51 PM

Lifestyle means you live in the city and go skiing on the weekends. You wear arcteryx, drive a land rover, miss all the mid week pow days, and consider yourself a local because you own a condo in town. I appreciate your business and don't mind giving you a taste of the good life since you have financed me living here for 16 years.

**sfotex** · 03-11-2011, 02:58 PM

It's all about keeping it real, yo

**SILENCER** · 03-11-2011, 02:59 PM

I would say it has something to do with arranging your life in whatever way is possible to ski as often as you can. This ranges from folks who work all summer to have winter off in whatever means they can muster, to family folks who do everything they can to get up the odd weekend, or better yet to share it with their kids.

**kevok2** · 03-11-2011, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by gunit130

Honest answer, search any thread started by 'Downbound Train'. That dude lives the lifestyle every skier dreams of.

Can I sig this plz?

**SILENCER** · 03-11-2011, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by sfotex

It's all about keeping it real, yo

That's about right. No chicks present!

**TheRealPoop** · 03-11-2011, 03:09 PM

yea not just the life, but the lifestyle. for real yo. deep.

it definitely does not envolve spending any part of your day in a cubicle.

**miahw2828** · 03-11-2011, 03:46 PM

sitting in an office gear whoring on the internet

**nickwm21** · 03-11-2011, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by TheRealPoop

yea not just the life, but the lifestyle. for real yo. deep.

it definitely does not envolve spending any part of your day in a cubicle.

Bullshit. I am sitting in my cubicle right now and have 54 days on the hill this season. That's more days of actual skiing then I had when I lived 20 mins away from the mtn and bumped chairs for a living.

**Slaag Master** · 03-11-2011, 04:09 PM

you started out asking one thing but then changed it without defining the change. the skiing tribe is diverse beyond imagining.

**traviswolfeskiing** · 03-11-2011, 09:46 PM

No; no school work is involved. I posted this thread wondering what type of replies I would receive and whom best describes the life that is skiing.

**traviswolfeskiing** · 03-11-2011, 09:48 PM

No this is not for any type of publishing. I woke up this morning wondering what the skiing life style means to other fellow skiers.

Hugh Conway · 03-11-2011, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by traviswolfeskiing

No this is not for any type of publishing. I woke up this morning wondering what the skiing life style means to other fellow skiers.

Not babbling about it to fucking idiots on the internet

skiing's fun. Full Stop. It's not a lifestyle, it's not a commodity, it's not dickswinging dumbasses, it's not messageboards, it's not magazines, it's not movies, it's not doubledildoedrocker skis. NOW FUCKING DIE

**tone capone** · 03-11-2011, 10:24 PM

I can tell you it definetly involves serious injury and subsequent down time. When will your number be up? Hard to know but be assured, you will eventually wreck an important body part. Hopefully not your head, spine, or neck.

**grrrr** · 03-11-2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

Not babbling about it to fucking idiots on the internet

skiing's fun. Full Stop. It's not a lifestyle, it's not a commodity, it's not dickswinging dumbasses, it's not messageboards, it's not magazines, it's not movies, it's not doubledildoedrocker skis. NOW FUCKING DIE

I like Hugh. Hugh're funny.