“Skiing is Life.” Agree or disagree?

[Coño Frío]

Skiing es mi pasión! The reason I moved my family 1,900 miles across the country from an urban hell on the EC to the paradise that is the Rocky Mountain West. The reason I share the stoke with my offspring. And the best thing I do with my wife (and she is sick in the sack)!

[PB]

trick question; should have asked "Is life skiing???"

Answer: of course not. Life is rye whiskey.

But the mere fact that such a dildo question is asked by DSM, and adding insult to injury answered by those that know better, makes Baby Jeebus cry.

[XXX-er]

if you think skiing is life

you need to get a life

[MrMan]

Oh Greg.....

[lemonhead]

Yes

[old goat]

To what extent is skiing your life?

I thought you were leaving.

[yellofin]

at 49, i have been through a wife, and numerous girlfriends who can not understand my passion for skiing.
Guess i will be riding that gondola alone the rest of my life.

You can always join Deep Suck Mafia's crew

[tango uniform]

Yup...

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[deepsouthmafia]

It certainly occupies my thoughts more than anything else....

but due to “real life,” ie job, wife, location, blah blah,
no. Not really.

I wish it was a bigger part of my life.
Maybe when I retire.

[hutash]

if you think skiing is life

you need to get a life

Quoted for truth.

Don't get me wrong, I love to ski, but it is just a part of an otherwise great life. I think more important then skiing is just being in the mountains, or outdoors in general. Being in the desert and at the ocean is pretty great as well. Skiing is just another way of experiencing life.

[core2]

if you think skiing is life

you need to get a life

What does this mean? What is this "life" I am supposed to get? A job I care about? Kids and dogs? Money? Skiing is just an activity for some but it is also a passion pursuit for many others. In order to live a fulfilling life that has purpose and meaning you have to pursue your passions to some degree. For some people, skiing is one of the things that keeps them going in life and makes it worth living.

[El Chupacabra]

Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family,
Choose a fucking big television
Choose washing machines, cars,
Compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol
And dental insurance.
Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments.
Choose a starter home.
Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage.
Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase
In a range of fucking fabrics.
Choose DIY and wondering who you
Are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing
Sprit-crushing ga me shows
Stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all,
Pishing you last in a miserable home
Nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish,
Fucked-up brats
You have spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future. Choose life.

[nateski]

it sure as shit WAS life, for the dozen years i lived a five minute walk from the base of big sky.
these days?
not so much

[XXX-er]

how many where-to-move and ski threads have you ever seen on TGR?

A ski town is probably the worst place to move

besides for most people skiing is 5 months of the year if yer lucky and then summer is just bad skiing

so what else do you do, bike, paddle, fish, work, have a family, do shit in the community ?

Is skiing really the meaning of life for the average skier ?

[Not Neil_Armstrong]

This made me laugh

It keeps me from killing myself so yeah I guess it is life.

Skiing sucks

[NW_SKIER]

Weird.

I live in the gray, rainy PNW. Skiing, mountains and our winters get me through the misery of our summers.

I live on the desert side. If it wasn't for winter, I'd get the hell out of here. Is way too dang hot here in the summer

[east or bust]

answer: no

used to think so but I was wrong. I still get ugeeee enjoyment out of it though. and it is definitely a factor in where I choose to live.

[b0ardski]

Glisse is my life this time around,
started alpine in the 70's, xc then tele 80's, snowboard 90's, carvingboards 00's, still bummin thru the teens with my ski instructor wife of 25 years; she knew what she was in for from the start, so yea, I still work all summer/fall to ski a snowboard all winter,
pretty much our life

[Buster Highmen]

It used to be.
I was a fiend about it years ago, completely and absolutely obsessed. Raced, etc, etc, etc.
Fucking loved it.
Loved it so much I didn't ever want to have to depend on it for money.

So when the time came, went to school, did shitty night job construction, lived low.
Did not ski much.

Eventually made money, skied immediately, still love it like mad.

But there's lots of dimensions out there and so that's not the way it is now.

But yeah, skiing fucking r00ls.

[reckless toboggan]

... 35 years ... literally revolved around...

You must be fucking dizzy.

[Viva]

I ski, but I'm not a skier. No fucking way. I'm still a runner, though, even though I haven't done any for a year. I'm also a slayer of MILFs and young ladies with daddy issues, so I manage to stay busy.

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[MrMan]

Skiing is serious bidness, therefore skiing is life yo.

[TownPump]

how many where-to-move and ski threads have you ever seen on TGR?

A ski town is probably the worst place to move

besides for most people skiing is 5 months of the year if yer lucky and then summer is just bad skiing

so what else do you do, bike, paddle, fish, work, have a family, do shit in the community ?

Is skiing really the meaning of life for the average skier ?

Plus there are a number of different ways to scratch the same itch. A good test is, Could you be happy in Oklahoma?

Yes, dirtbikes.

You can also be miserable riding dirtbikes in Oklahoma, same as skiing in Sandy for people who will be miserable living in Sandy and skiing.

[GPP33]

Skiing might be my most favorite of all my hobbies and the one I spend the most money on, most of my weekends doing and most of my vacation on but is it life? It's a big reason why I couldn't move away from the mountains, but even if I couldn't ski I'd still base my home on it's surroundings. Access to the "backyard" I have is way more important than money, you could offer me twice as much and I wouldn't live somewhere that I couldn't easily get away at altitude. Skiing is what brought me here but it's only part of why I stay. Skiing is certainly the most important extra curricular passion I share with my kids but I wouldn't say it's more important than my kids. If I had to leave the mountains to care for my kids I'd do so without hesitation. Skiing is important, but it's not life.

[reckless toboggan]

Live is life...