What Is Your Ski Partner Etiquette

[XXX-er]

At the local hill, I might go up solo or get seperated and ride chair with any number of locals I know, it could be someone different every ride, meet in the bar or sf

[John_B]

My wife skis just as hard as I do. I'm fortunate she waits for me skate skiing. Thank God I can still descend quicker than her on a mountain bike.

[old goat]

What is not ski partner etiquette--holding a place in line unless it's one or two places from the end, especially not before the lifts load on a big powder day, especially not if it's more than one person, especially not ever. You want to ride the lift with them so bad go back to the end with them. Right, I didn't think so.

[plugboots]

I ski with my wife.

[m2711c]

vibes...

[waxman]

What is not ski partner etiquette--holding a place in line unless it's one or two places from the end, especially not before the lifts load on a big powder day, especially not if it's more than one person, especially not ever. You want to ride the lift with them so bad go back to the end with them. Right, I didn't think so.

I don't know you, but I think we'd be friends. One of my biggest pet peeves is the "do you mind if my friend cuts through?" Yes, yes I do. Wait for them outside the maze.

I friend of mine used to say "there's partners that rip, and there's partners that let you rip" I always thought that was a good mantra. My wife and I just agree to meet at the lift base if we are going to split up during the run.

[plugboots]

vibes...

I like her. We met on Sublette chair. She’s a decent skier. She can ski the Hobacks top to bottom w/o stopping. Skied twice w/ me in La Grave. This thread kinda sucks.

[old goat]

Many years ago I took my wife for her first day of powder skiing at Alta. We warmed up on Ballroom and then headed for High Greeley but wound up in Gunsight instead. Untracked, but the top 30 feet or so had slid down to ice. As I gingered down the top of the chute she straightlined it. When she got to the open bowl below she decided it was too mellow so she went left into High Nowhere. I eventually found her two hours later at lunch. She was a fabulous athlete with zero fear and zero ski technique. Now she's too busted up to ski. When the athleticism eventually fails you you need to have technique to fall back on.

[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.

[BC.]

^^^^This is the way

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I agree with plugboots, thread kinda sucks. If I’m on the hill I’m just happy to be skiing and if my partner is with me that’s great, she’s my best friend.


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[schindlerpiste]

gaijin = ding ding ding

[whipski]

I wait for my girlfriend for every lift. However on a powder she says" Go catch you later".

[EWG]

Many years ago I took my wife for her first day of powder skiing at Alta. We warmed up on Ballroom and then headed for High Greeley but wound up in Gunsight instead. Untracked, but the top 30 feet or so had slid down to ice. As I gingered down the top of the chute she straightlined it. When she got to the open bowl below she decided it was too mellow so she went left into High Nowhere. I eventually found her two hours later at lunch. She was a fabulous athlete with zero fear and zero ski technique. Now she's too busted up to ski. When the athleticism eventually fails you you need to have technique to fall back on.

This resonates. My first real actual date with my lovely wife was a 100 mile bike ride. I grew up racing but hadn’t really ridden in maybe 4 years. I spent the first 50 miles riding with her, having a great time chasing town sign sprints with some other riders, dancing around on the pedals, having a terrific date, and generally showing off a little. Then, at about 70 miles in, I totally and completely bonked. Cratered. Legs suddenly had nothing.

Her response: she left me. Said some kind words, flashed a big smile, snickered, and rode on up ahead with the group we were with. Buh bye.

I pretty much fell in love.

I showed up at the end totally trashed but happy, humbled, and stoked to see her. Apparently, it was a test, and that’s what it took to pass.

I love doing shit with that woman.

[Buzzworthy]

I’m happy to wait for your girlfriend if you don’t.

[Percy Rideout]

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.

[JONG SLAUGHTER]

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.. 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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[Buzzworthy]

Fuck off Brett

[Ottime]

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.

[grskier]

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.

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.

[SILENCER]

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.

[Jax]

Singles line FTW