re: snow skiing for Mardi Gras

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snow skiing for Mardi Gras

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Snobby

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Any of y'all got any suggestions?

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Never been before

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Take lessons the first 2 days....

Get the right pair of boots..make sure they fit correctly you dont want to end up with "shin-bang", it will ruin your entire trip

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Get the right pair of boots..make sure they fit correctly you dont want to end up with "shin-bang", it will ruin your entire trip

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I'd rent, the quality of rental gear is so good anymore that I've stopped buying boots and skis, a lot less shite to lug around

Yeah I fell in love skiing my first time but my shins hurt so bad my eyes were watering.

It wasn't so much when I was skiing, but walking around in the boots.

Are you talking about doing cocaine?

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Yeah I fell in love skiing my first time but my shins hurt so bad my eyes were watering.

It wasn't so much when I was skiing, but walking around in the boots.

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This....you're right, it wasnt so much when I was skiing..it was I was trying to walk around in the boots.....couldnt even walk...

I literally said frick it one day and sat at the bar at the base of the Mountain all day drinking beer on pain pills to make the pain stop...laughing at people coming down the mountain busting arse and running over people...This was in Steamboat BTW

Went one year. It was great, there were plenty of other Louisianians and even people from South America

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snow skiing for Mardi Gras by vuvuzela
I recommend that you go Some place warm, a place where the beer flows like wine, where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.

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I don’t know man. The French are assholes.

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Y’all are making rethink this. Don’t know if I’m up to this! So, a damn lil skiing, a lot of drinking and letting my kid play in the snow......what ya got?

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If you take a lesson and an inkling of athleticism, you’ll be skiing blues by the end of the 2nd day if not sooner. Pick a place with lots of blues and or greens and you’ll have a blast

If you're thinking out West, get hooked up with a ski club relatively near you and do it fast. They'll have information, and they'll be finalizing their scheduled trips soon. If you do it on your own, as a first-timer you're going to get serious sticker-shock, and if you turn out to not like it, you'll be really pissed off at the money you spent on tickets.

Other people have mentioned altitude. Almost every place you'll be recommended in Utah or Colorado is at about 10,000 feet more or less -- that's serious altitude, and can cause problems. Steamboat Springs is about 6500 feet - that's much less likely to give you a bad surprise.

Skiing is fun. It can be intimidating to get started, but it's worth the effort (if you turn out to like it).

Don't expect to be shredding the mountain on your first trip. First day you'll find out whether you like it enough to continue, and not much more. Next couple of days, with at least one 2 hour group lesson, and you'll have some confidence about moving around on easy runs, evaluating which runs you can handle, and maybe understanding the movement patterns enough to learn more on your own.

If you're thinking snowboarding instead, a lot of what I said is still true, but the first day will be much harder (from what I hear; I only ski), but the second and third days will get you much more improvement than the corresponding time on skis.