why do you love skiing?

[lax]

i know, i know...very cliche thread, very searchable thread...

but guess what someone talks about this in EVERY FUCKIGN THREAD, so its hard to search for it..

I bet there is already a thread about this, anyone care to point me to it??

i'm writing an english paper about this (sweet right), and it actually fits with the course (also sick), and i was wondering if you guys could identify the underlying reason behind "why you love skiing so much" I don't want "pow/cliffs/groomers (kidding on that last one)" answers, but something about why skiing is such a powerful and attractive force in your life. Why are you drawn to it like a bug to a bug zapper? WHY GADDAMIT? if you're actually going to be helpful, please keep in mind that i'm trying to quote you.

thanks?

[Cyber Cop]

Snowboarding, but....

The thing I like best is that feeling that this is not humanly possible. Sometimes I look up the mountain at what I just surfed and think, "How tha hell can a monkey pull that off?"

[Sphinx]

I hate skiing.

I only ski to pick up chicks. Skiing is gat.

[Cono Este]

Sometimes when I'm up in the tree's and its dumping I stop for a moment and just take in the serenity of it all. The snow falling, the beauty of the crystals just floating down into the pow.

And on the way down, floating through fresh pow must be better than heroin.

[lax]

I like the feeling of skiing fast in a tuck...I like skiing powder...I like blabbing about skiing to people on chairlifts and in bars...I like getting mad steezy air....Snow is awesome....mountains are awesome...I like running gates and the feeling I had getting my first silver in Nasty-R. I like reading about skiing all year long on the internet. I like being writing about skiing all day. I like free style rapping on chairlifts. I like spending time at Jackson Hole every year. I like how women get horny when I'm wearing underarmour. I like skiing in the woods. When I ski alot of days in a season I'm proud of myself.

i hate to be douchey, but why? quotes about that are what i'm looking for mainly, we all love that shit, but whyyyyyyyy?

i didn't want to bias anyone by telling my reasons,but fuckit....i liek skiing mainly b/c of powder...i've concluded that i like powder because its a very close simulation to flying because it changes the terrain completely and it feels like floating. not actauly flying, but the sensation if we could be birds and fly. skiing pow vs skiing is like the difference between driving over some terrain, and then flying over it later in the wright brothers plane; it completely changes everything. THe plane could only fly liek 6 feet above the groud, and thus had to still adhere to the terrain, yet was absolutely different exhilarating experience. if that makes any sense cool, it does to me and the paper is still very rough

[Nohillsnearby]

I don't have much powder experience, so I'd say the feeling of freedom cruising down a hill or mountain. Also, watching my Things race hell bent for election down the same slope i take 100 turns on. It's something outside we can do as a family.

[TJ.Brk]

Skiing gives me peace. It has been that way for me my entire life. And it always will be

[AudioSkier]

Skiing is where you can be all alone by yourself, even if you are with friends. You are just one and the mountain.
Powder is amazing, it's so light and fluffy and when it flies up in your goggles, you don't care that it's cold and opaque, you just want more.
Going highway speed through that is amazing.
Also knowing what you can do on those boards is amazing. Hitting cliffs, going off little ledges, and even going to the park to get air and flipping/spinning/just jumping is great.
It's also hella fun to show off.

[TJ.Brk]

LOUD BUMP. Because this room needs a thread like this at the start of summer. THINK SNOW GANG

[kidwoo]

I tolerate skiing.

I LOVE broadway.

[Mofro261]

I love skiing because I have never known life w/o it. It's like oxygen-something that's just required for my well being. I'm a moody SOB when I dont get to ski - see last year in the PNW. Maybe part of its flying, maybe it's just flat out speed. I really love hauling ass no matter where/what conditions. Some of it is fate- the woman I married now has the initials SKI (no joke). The fact that I have based major life decisions primarily on how they would effect my ability to ski.

An uncontrollable urge. Unsatiated- doesn't matter that I just had 10 amazing powder runs and it's 4pm goddammit I want #11 and then #12. I don't know, maybe a chemical imbalance, endorphine overload, or irrational addiction explains it. I guess it's just something that as fast as I eat it up it still consumes me.

And now because of this (and the avatar):


That look is what I love about skiing, the one I always have on my face.
Passing that on is what I love (sorry kids, not on a powder day)- must be what my parents must have loved when they put me on skis at 2.

Pure Bliss.

[Schmear]

That Mofro man can ski. But I swear he looked a little older than that when I met him.

[Cyber Cop]

The fact that I have based major life decisions primarily on how they would effect my ability to ski.

here here.

And that is beautiful. I thank god for my uncle that introduced me to the passion at 7.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Because it beats hookers and blow.

I love skiing because it gives me an idenity, it lets me be free, I love it

[GheePup]

Because it beats hookers and blow.

I love skiing because it gives me an idenity, it lets me be free, I love it

Hookers and blow are for after skiing.

[soul_skier]

I love skiing not only because of the glorious feelings that come with sliding on snow, but for the adrenaline and anticipation you get right before dropping into a gnar line, a feeling difficult if not impossible to duplicate. The friends i've made through skiing are some of my closest....



Also, lets not forget the perma-grin that comes after a day of skiing, only beaten by sex, but not by much...

[seatosky]

sleepness pre-pow day nights.

turns.

[Mofro261]

That Mofro man can ski. But I swear he looked a little older than that when I met him.

Okay, not that I remember too well (loss of short term memory and all with the old age) but usually I get the younger than I look while the body sounds older than it is.

[leroy jenkins]

Pure Bliss.

Dude, i remember the TR you posted this pic in, (if you ever did, if not im thinking of soemthing else). It brought a smile to my face then, as it does now.

For me skiing is all about pushing your limits, and the bonds you form with people who share the desire to push thier limits. I love the thought that skis allow me to do things that bend the laws of physics for normal mortals. Its about being dedicated to something, about being focused on something, then stopping for a moment amidst all that focus just to look around you and appreciate the beauty in life. Those are some of my favorite memories of skiing, the times when I've just looked around me for a moment and seen my freinds so excited to be enjoying life, seen beautiful mountains all around me felt lucky to be alive.

[GheePup]

I ski because I love to yell "Leeerooooy Jeeeenkiiiiins!" while I am in the air. It is still a goal of mine to complete his name while in the air. I think that at the most I have gotten out "Leeeerooooy Jeee...umph" followed by "shit, shit...that hurt".

Seriously, I ski because I love the feeling of sliding down the mountain. Its gets my adrenaline going which makes my synapses fire more crisply. It really does not matter if its a pow day, huck day or even a groomer bombing day. I just love being out in the mountains and I love the cold, combined that with the rush of skiing and I am a happy man.

[Altaholic]

I just love the feeling of skiing super fast, sticking gnar air, endless faceshots. Too many things too list, but just so much fun tat summer so times seems too long, but makes the winter seem ultra special.

[ak_powder_monkey]

skiing saved my life, easily, if not for skiing I'd weight 350 pounds

[Nohillsnearby]

here here.

And that is beautiful. I thank god for my uncle that introduced me to the passion at 7.

And that's why I wanted my Things to learn at 6 & 10. (And the hub at 40-something)

[BeanDip4All]

Originally I loved skiing because, as a little kid, it was a cool way to hang out with just my dad. We took so many day trips to crappy eastern mountains (Otis Ridge, Butternut, Berkshire East, etc) and I loved the car rides with him and just being his buddy.

Of course, there is the speed, the thrill of slamming a bump line, etc, etc...

I think the #1 thing I love is being in nature and the serenity of it; like when you are in the woods and feel like you're the only person on the mountain, or the last run of the day when you have that low blue light and it's so quiet.

The satisfaction of a cold beer after a long day of ripping is pretty sweet, too!

[bdog]

It's not just skiing .. it's the environment .. it's the mountains. The mountains are home, soul and church. Skiing is the expression of devotion to that. It is about freedom, the pursuit of joy. Skiing is about spirit, but perhaps, if you need to ask the question you would not understand the answer.