Why yes let’s deforest the side of a mountain so we can run down it and possibly hit trees at fatal speeds. Im fucking glad climate change is making this bougie bullshit harder to do. I went skiing once, horrible experience. Everyone in the skiing lodge was a rich white asshole and it felt like I walked into a country club, no a hitler youth recreation club. If you own a timeshare let alone an entire house at a ski resort you deserve the fucking wall!!!

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    It’s also much more dangerous than people think. Because skiing takes place on the snowy ground for the most part (excluding jumps and tricks), people think it’s safe. But that’s an illusion, if you have a fall at those speeds you’re screwed.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if other sports like rock climbing or kayaking are safer.

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      Even the most basic skiing routes you go pretty fast and are uncomfortably close to trees lol. The only thing skiing has going for it safety wise is that speed control is pretty easy for amateurs to master, I find it incredible that anyone learns to snowboard without dying. Like all of the dangers of skiing, except also controlling where you go and how fast has a higher skill requirement.

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        Admittedly I’ve never snowboarded, but it was my understanding that steering was only a little bit harder, and even then failing to steer you’ll probably just wipe out (because the added difficulty is how it impacts balance, along with the asymmetry) whereas failing to steer on skis might leave you accelerating forward.

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        I know someone who died in a car accident. I know someone else who died from being too fat.