Snowboarding is a dying breed? - Thoughts

Agreed, and it is frustrating. But in Tignes it was unreal just how many snowboarders did it....a far higher proportion, including 1 sleeping just over the dip on a red, right in the middle!!!!

Don't get many skiers sitting on the lee side of a lip, but boarders seem to do that a lot!

That said, few skiers or boarders seem to know the 'skiers' code, and have any idea as to where they should stop safely.

It may reflect the resorts we choose to go to, but I think the standard of boarding is really good generally - however, I still don't get on a chairlift with a boarder unless it is my son!!

Perhaps the reasons you see less goats on the piste is that they tend to congregate in the snow park? I say lets build one hugh 'stash' in the pyrenees and see them gone for good.
Thats sick.

I always thought it was a matter of age, the younger crowd opting for boards while the older crowd going for skis. Snowboarding seemed to be the winter equivalent to Surfing and skateboarding which attracted a younger portion of the population. But then I am totally new to snow sports so it's pretty much an outsiders view.

Ian Wickham wrote:I am pro boarders, I don't see any decline in the amount of boarders on the slopes ....... perhaps regarding clothing they are doing what I always do .... do I need that new jacket and the answer in most years is no.

d'embarquement bonne

What????

Ian Wickham wrote:

stevie999 wrote:I get confused at the amount of boarders who just seem to sit in the MIDDLE of a slope all day. Is that what they hit the slopes for?

Very few of them seem to actually know what they are doing. The good ones are great, and of course we all need to learn....but why rest in dangerous places? Anyway, rant over.......

But their are an awful lot of skiers who do the same 8)

I agree plenty of skiers stop in silly place a d worse still they then set off without even looking but I've never seen skiers sitting in the middle of a slope

stevie999 wrote:I get confused at the amount of boarders who just seem to sit in the MIDDLE of a slope all day. Is that what they hit the slopes for?

Very few of them seem to actually know what they are doing. The good ones are great, and of course we all need to learn....but why rest in dangerous places? Anyway, rant over.......

Totally 100% correct

If you want to have a rest, go to the cafe
But don't sit just over the brow that I'm doing 60mph over

Or face the consequences
Goats......