What Is Your Ski Partner Etiquette

Got lucky and basically Robin the radio host from Aspen Extreme found me and decided I'd be a suitable partner in life and skiing. Similar personality too.

We ski together in the winters, and enjoy similar terrain and pace. We do a lot of separate outdoor activities in the summers based on our different interests. All good.

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Originally Posted by schindlerpiste

When you ski with your partner, and when I say partner, I mean your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other partner, do you have a practiced "ski etiquette"?
I will try to explain mine, so that you understand what I'm talking about. The Mrs. and I have been together for almost 40 years, and we have skied together for as long as we have known each other. She is a competent skier, who has great form and the skills to ski whatever she likes. She has no aggression or drive to conquer anything that is not a groomer.:fmicon:. There came a point when we would argue about how to spend our ski day. Overwhelmingly, the discussions concerned where to ski. She urged me to leave her on her own, and ski where I'd like. On the other hand, I have always thought that we decided to ski together, so I was not leaving her. She skis with me 2x/wk. and rarely with her friends. This year, I have decided that on the days when I ski with my wife, I will allow her to pick the lift and piste. Upon getting off the chair, we say our good-byes, and meet at the bottom of the lift. Both of us like to ski from chair to chair without stopping, but we ski at much different speeds. I feel confident that she has no problem getting down anything groomed and looks good and fluent while doing it. She just is comfortable doing it at her own pace. There is a lot of time waiting at the bottom.

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Fuck off Brett

Depends on day and partner.

I'll ski with MashedPotatoes any day and don't really ever wait. We ski essentially the same speed and lines. That is nice.

When I ski with my 13 year old, we stick together. Rarely is ever are they out of sight. My kid has okay technique, but could really use lessons. OTOH, they have amazing snow and terrain sense and can work themselves down anything with out a mandatory air or (long) straight-line. And they ski relatively fast, especially of smoother (groomers, buff, powder) terrain.

When we ski with my wife, she tends to be the slowest and tamest. Great technique, no desire for gnar - loves ending her day with a long carver. Sometimes I'll split off, of me and the kid will, for a run or two and then meet back up. That was the way before the kiddo.

I'm less antsy these days and enjoy socializing and skiing with friends, groups, etc. I've had so many powder days hanging with my kid from age 2, that I am now used to not getting to the goods and skiing the tracked up, and I also know the spots that tend to stay uncut later in the day. We have always scored a good amount of low angle pow.

gaijin has is down. I don't get nearly as many days, more live so close, but skiing is fun. If I need to get on it, I'm either solo or with someone my speed. And actually, most days my ski slower ski partners don't last a full day, so I get an hour or two to rage.


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post script... only posted cause I think Brett really wants to know.

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Originally Posted by gaijin

Whoever my partner is that day chooses where we're skiing. I just follow in the shadows, maybe guide them along. I've been doing this shit forever and I don't need "My day."

If I want to go skiing, then I'm going alone. None of this "waiting for each other at the lifts." BS. If we're skiing together, then we're together and it's awesome. I quite enjoy that.

But if it's 6:30am and it's been storming all week, and I'm going skiing... I'll see you later when I come home and cook you dinner.

Maybe this is because we live 20 minutes from the chairs and frequent the hill 1-3x a week with different kids in rotation. If we were traveling for a "ski trip" my perspective might be different. But considering we wake up on Saturday morning, throw our shit in the car, go lap it up for 2-3 hours and be home by lunch... "Partner Etiquette" is not really a thing we even think about.

By the way, nothing more enjoyable than hanging out with your spouse and kids as they have the times of their lives. My best ski days were following my family down a blue intermediate run hearing them hoot and holler.

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This is our profile as well. 12 year old can ski nearly everything I throw at her, wife has a lower risk tolerance now, but 10-15 years ago we got ourselves into some interesting situations. 9 year old would jump off anything, so he doesn't come with me all the time.... yet.

If I am lucky enough to be out with them, I'm stoked on the day.

I also don't need to be chasing vert on those days, I go out on my lunch to grab a few runs and keep my legs going during the week.

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Originally Posted by AK47bp

Mach looney down the groomer for a hundred yards, stop, wait for her. Repeat until she’s had enough then I go solo for a bit and meet up later.


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I LOL'd, this is exactly what I experience.

Singles line FTW :cool: