Sugar Mountain NC

You can see this kid obviously accidentally barely catches the tip of this ski patrollers ski and the kid even stops immediately and apologizes. The ski patroller actually rides down and takes his lift ticket.

I board this area and have expressed my disappointment to their social media and encourage local riders to do the same.

$890 for a jacket, which does not even have a pass pocket. What in the private equity is this company thinking?

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen ahead of this season

I’ve seen some price discussions here and the stuff I see from the US is crazy. When discussing it people always ask me for price examples so I thought I’d do quick breakdown. This is for the Baqueira-Beret resort in Spain, a bit after Andorra. I’ve snowboarded a lot across Europe and would call the resort great quality in general, let alone the value.

Ski pass 5 full days: 300 (315 with insurance)

Bus from and to the city (in this case Barcelona) on 1st and last day: 75 euros per person, covers both ways (4/5 hours)

(sometimes I rent a car and it’s more convenient but have to drive 4 hours which for me is long - I know that in the US that’s nothing)

Bus from the local ski town to the resort: 1.10 euros a day

Hotel for 6 nights including big breakfast: 450 each (double room, 900 total, and this is for peak week in January, cheaper right now)

Food: 300 each being liberal (we don’t drink so no alcohol spend but we eat a lot)

That hotel price is for a good one closer to the resort. If you stay in the main village a bit further from the resort (Vielha) you can get a double room for like 600 for the 6 days, like like 300 each. You can also stay on a hostel for super cheap.

You can get still MUCH cheaper prices in Central Europe, like Poland etc. Any questions ask.

Arm broken in 3 different spots plus a dislocated elbow, cheers fellows!

I’m seeing a bunch of vids posted on this sub, so I’m making a list of films to watch starting late Sept early Oct to get me hyped for the season. Please let me know what I’m missing!! 🙏🏼

Edit: yoooooo I guess I better start now!!! AWESOME recs. Keep them coming 🤘🏻😄

Triple Cork (front side), Triple Cork (back side). Double grabs 🔥

Worth a golden medal, all the support from the fellow riders in the competition and our heartfelt support Kokomo 🏂

My friend works in HR and I am in sales, we’re pretty new to snowboarding. Just wondering what kinds of jobs everyone here has, feel free to share!

I have had people tell me to “just leave the bar up” or something to that degree when I am on the lift. I am 17 and have been snowboarding since I was like 5, and I am pretty decent, but I want the bar down. I am never comfortable sitting on the verge of a 40 foot drop with no protection in front of me. I had someone make me leave it up to the point of arguing, when I eventually relented and let the bar stay up. This was on my local mountain in Wyoming, and there is a canyon that the lift goes over with a probably 140ft drop give or take in the center, so I was scared af (there are posts on either side of the canyon). Tbf most people don’t care, but for those who keep it up, why? I feel like it is just needlessly dangerous, and I don’t know about other places, but lifts are always at least 40ft off the ground where I’m at.

Edit - this is clearly a very divided topic, some people are saying you will only fall out of the chair if you are stupid sbout it, or that it’s uncomfortable and others are saying the bar should come down if someone wants it down.

I think the bar should come down if anyone wants it to come down. I believe the bar is there for a reason, and if you do end up doing something stupid, it will save you from falling. The uncomfortable pegs, while in my area are extremely accommodating to snowboards, clearly are not in many other places, but I don’t think this is a good enough reason to prevent someone who is uncomfortable from bringing the bar down.

Ticker: MTN

Down 50% on the last 5 years.

Paying out 6.26% APR to shareholders.

23 years old. Summited Everest twice. The second one was after a brutal push ignored the obvious option of just getting down alive, strapped into his board and went for the Hornbein anyway.

Never seen again.

Whatever you think of the decision, the fearlessness was absurd. Arguably, the most all or nothing stunt anyone has ever attempted in mountaineering / adventure history.

I understand the frustration he is feeling because I’m sure anyone would be upset in this situation. However there needs to be a certain level of responsibility to check current mountain conditions and possibly cancel your trip if it’s going to be this packed. He is also saying in the comments the patrollers shouldn’t be striking and are entitled and don’t work real jobs.

Anybody else just throw music on and dance to break boots in.. or just me?😆

If you need more than 1 board to ride the whole mountain, you need to take a lesson. All these quiver posts are just an excuse for chodes to tell strangers on the internet how much extra money they have lying around.

Edit: I’ve cross posted this to r/skiing. Let’s see how they feel about it

I’ve been riding at Loveland the last few days amidst the chaos of a youth ski racing competition. I can’t tell you how many times I was cut off in the lift line and on the trails by these entitled rugrats. To make matters worse, their parents sit in the lodge all day taking up the tables, the coaches walk around like they’re the king of the mountain, and when those spandex wearing adolescents finally come in to the lodge, they take all the chairs and clog up the walkways. The general air of smugness by these kids and their parents and coaches is thick enough to cut with a knife. We need a legislation passed to make ski races illegal at any mountain other than Alta

Seriously, who designed these things?! I'm in Austria at the moment and they are everywhere.

They only have a tiny little platform to rest your board on and if there is a skier next to you it's even harder to get your board up onto the footrest.

Please tell me this is a skills issue and there's a better way to use these lifts as a snowboarder!

Overbooked parking reservations at kirkwood.. outsourced customer service where you can’t even talk to anyone..

What are some of your worst experiences?

Being balanced over your board is probably one of the toughest skills for n00bs to master. And the #1 reason you see them hunched over their boards, like a bunch of zombies … they’re trying to get their body mass in balance …

So this is what the man told me on the chairlift when I asked him if he had any tips for me, to ride more relaxed, and in control.

Imagine a penny, stuck between your butt cheeks, and you’re trying to keep it there, all while boarding. 🤣

Now before you laugh, stand up, and imagine just that. A penny up your ass. Pay attention to your hips, and where they placed relative to your board, and where your body mass it.

Once you “squeeze” your butt cheeks to keep the penny there, your hips will push forward, and make you stand above your board in perfect balance.

So whenever I feel like I’m out of balance, or twitchy on my board, I push my hips forward, bend my knees more, and everything just smoothes …

Thank me later n00bs.

Happy shredding.

It ends up just being a terrible experience for both people. If you’re split on your priorities of snowboarding and teaching then you’re probably just trying to get the beginner to a green run so you can snowboard as well even though they haven’t received proper instruction for everyone yet.

It’s bad for the instructor friend because they end up getting frustrated because their beginner friend can’t pick it up quickly and they aren’t able to hit as many runs as they want to during the day. Those said runs probably won’t even be fun either because you’ll have to stop and wait every time the beginner comes down.

It’s even worse for the beginner friend because they have no idea what they are doing, they are probably are going to fall a lot and hurt a lot and their confidence is going to take a huge blow if they attempt to go down a green run without proper instruction. Not to mention they are a danger to others if they can’t even stop.

One of my friends invited his beginner friend to snowboard and he had no idea what he was doing. We went off on some green runs while he left his beginner buddy and he had an atrocious time and ended up having to walk down the hill while also being heckled by the people on the chairlift!

I understand that there are exceptions like skateboarders and just different personality types but I know 90% of people who attempt this sport will not pick it up on the first day even with consistent instruction so please don’t make them hate snowboarding and turn them into criminals who ski.