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Ski resorts battle for a future as snow declines in climate crisis
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoSpeaking as someone who's lived in Denver for 6 years - my highly unpopular opinion is that skiing sucks. People who head up for a grand ski holiday: - Create obscene amounts of traffic - Suck at skiing on the mountain (and create hazards for people who know how to ski) - Are overwhelmingly wealthy (another example of wealthy people destroying nature, up there with excessive air travel) Expensive ski resorts: - Drive up the cost of living for everyone in the area, not all of whom are rich enough to not care about costs - Destroy nature, both in physical footprint and energy needed to operate lifts, snowcats, and all the surrounding infrastructure - Are a way to keep poor people out of public lands - Are ugly af (my opinion) Personally, I've stopped skiing because it: - Requires driving up treacherous, icy roads, often in the dark, for multiple hours - while in rush hour traffic - Is no longer within my risk-tolerance - Is not fun to navigate thousands of tourists who don't know how to ski, as well as worry about a maniac flying by at 70 mph and nearly clipping me - Is an exhausting way to spend a weekend (or weekday that I take off) "What about the poor ski bums?" - find a new hobby. Being poor so you can go skiing every day is a lifestyle choice, not a fact of nature. The ski community contributes nothing of interest to our culture other than stupid catch phrases and music videos of them backflipping for the thousandth time. /endrant