100% Agree.. I use to really enjoy skiing (well I never liked the cold) but since I never was much for "cruising the blues" I don't bother to go anymore... Can't afford the down time it I were to break myself...
I loved snow skiing, (not cross country, way to much work)
I loved 'the wall' at Kirkwood, black diamond vertical for the 1st 1,000 ft (IIRC)
you had to cut back & forth, carve your way down or you were toast
that dumped you down into, a black diamond expert moguls run at the bottom
big *** bumps
I used to ski 100 days a year some years
now maybe 3
I hate snow pretty much now, I deal with enough just to live
I do still ski every so often, funny how I can still do it well
even at 63, like I never stopped...
I can still ski, when I can't hardly walk
I did some crazy **** on skis, back when 205s (80s 90s) were for hauling *** downhill
(my 20s & 30s) & I used them for everything,
I was that guy (asshole) skiing backwards, showing off on 'the flats'
green diamonds & groomed slopes
I still used them for moguls slalom powder thru the trees
or just carving up groomed slopes, hauling ***...
Now everyone's on like 160 or 180 max, pre-arched all composite skis, really easy to turn
just barely lean into them you go, that a way...
I'm still out there on my 205s working it, sharpening edges & waxing
picking up my uphill ski to turn & getting on my downhill ski's inside edges
& passing them...