Snowboarding is a dying breed? - Thoughts

Al&Clo wrote:I ski, and i snow baord. when the snow is soft, snow boarding is better. when its icy i'd take either. When it is slushy boarding is better. off piste in pow pow, boarding is so much better than i cant even begin to descibe to a skier what it feels like.

This post isnt meant to annoy skiers or poke fun, becuase there is nothing like carving down at speed. I just hope that it motivates someone, at least one person, to take up baording so that they can feel that undescibable feeling of floating down the mountian on pow pow.

I take it you like boarding then :shock:

I love skiing, baording, snow! I love the mountains and the cold and the apres. I am literally an adict. I go for at least 3 trips a year. if i ever get gardening leave I am gonna do a season in canada or the US.

But I love fresh powder the most of all! :D

Al&Clo wrote:I love skiing, baording, snow! I love the mountains and the cold and the apres. I am literally an adict. I go for at least 3 trips a year. if i ever get gardening leave I am gonna do a season in canada or the US.

But I love fresh powder the most of all! :D

Hopefully you won't get gardening leave just yet , but enjoy your skiing.

One of my best mates is a boarder and we have banter..those that take the banner serious have a problem....or a guilty conscience?

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/travel/has-snowboarding-lost-its-edge.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&

I very rarely visit this forum but through following a new topic that was sent to my email box I came across this topic about snowboarders. I have been skiing for many years and thoroughly loved it but my husband who is younger than me wanted a go at snowboarding. At the time I was 57 years old and thought it a bit daft to be learning something that looked pretty dangerous but gave it a go anyway. It was the most difficult thing I have ever tried but I perservered and after many very painful falls I started to enjoy it once I got the hang of it. Now when we go on our holidays I actually find skiing rather boring and end up boarding most of the holidays as it is more challenging and more fun. I am a 62 year old woman now and probably don't have many years left as a boarder, but I will always be pleased that I gave it a go and somewhat mastered it.

Anne Cochrane wrote:I very rarely visit this forum but through following a new topic that was sent to my email box I came across this topic about snowboarders. I have been skiing for many years and thoroughly loved it but my husband who is younger than me wanted a go at snowboarding. At the time I was 57 years old and thought it a bit daft to be learning something that looked pretty dangerous but gave it a go anyway. It was the most difficult thing I have ever tried but I perservered and after many very painful falls I started to enjoy it once I got the hang of it. Now when we go on our holidays I actually find skiing rather boring and end up boarding most of the holidays as it is more challenging and more fun. I am a 62 year old woman now and probably don't have many years left as a boarder, but I will always be pleased that I gave it a go and somewhat mastered it.

Good for you .... you keep boarding as long as you can :thumbup:

Thanks for giving me a laugh. I did forget how much I missed reading this forum. In saying that, I'm sending the link to my daughter( skiier turned snowboarder)