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program but today guys we're getting into the topic of snow sports so i'll just throw it out
there what are your favorite snow sports do you guys or do you just like stay inside and stay warm
under a blanket and just read or just listen to music or do you go out there and attack the winter
or something i love snow sports i'm obsessed which is funny because i'm in arizona where there's no
snow but i love skiing i love snowboarding i love sledding i love all of the snowboards
i want to try snowshoeing and cross-country skiing and some of the ones i haven't done but
i think it's so fun to get bundled up and go out well you grew up in idaho right you grew up in
a snowy climate right aubry so yeah that was your childhood going out that might be why i have such
fun memories because all my experience with snow was as a kid and as an adult i haven't had to
deal with it really much sure that makes total sense what about you guys michelle and jessica
are you outdoorsy types or do you like the snow going out in the winter
it sounds like michelle you look skeptical well i mean just ice skating count like yeah okay i'll
take a little skate around you know okay ryan park or something like that or like not or uh
uh the rockefeller center like oh like like that stuff i like i'll be honest um you know i i like
to go out with my son now and like watch him but like whenever it is and not as fun as you guys
getting them all bundled up and then they're over it two minutes later and they spend all this time
over two minutes later like in my experience kids could spend all day and yeah they don't need a
board or don't get cold or something like just like bundle them up and you like you could just
make up games for hours first of all like snowball fights are super fun like you choose bases and you
you know there's like boundaries and like it's so fun and then um making um igloos if there's enough
snow and if not the making snowmen is really fun yeah like there's so much fun stuff in the snow
i i get annoyed when i have to walk my dogs in the snow because that's just like hard but if i leave
them home and james and i just go play then it's fun and it's free because how expensive are snow
sports now right lindsay we've talked about oh yeah we can talk about this forever but i just
want to make one point before that i think what i love about outdoor snow sports is it helps me
enjoy being inside so when i'm outside half the day i enjoy coming back inside but if i'm inside
all the day i go nuts i get cabin fever i don't want to spend the whole day inside
so it lets me balance things out and i can do both and feel good about it but yeah i feel like
i get enough of that like if i have to go to the store like i don't like feel like i need to like
i don't need to like do a whole sport like i can just like be like okay like i'm outside that was
and now i'm enjoying being inside no i mean the thing is the thing is with skiing for example i
do a lot of skiing uh well i live in colorado so everyone does here right it's just what you do
but skiing has become insanely expensive these days a ticket a one-day ticket at one of the
big famous resorts is about 225 a day that is bananas i'm getting silent plus all the deer
the gear is so expensive too it's bananas have all the snow clothes and the snowboard
and the skins or whatever it's so expensive so much right so it's like become elitist where a
very small percentage of the population skis now and i think it's really sad because when i was a
kid we used to spend 12 bucks to go skiing for an afternoon in new hampshire 12 did you guys ski as
kids jessica i think you maybe have been skiing a couple times yeah i grew up next to lake tahoe
yeah carson city nevada like tahoe is so famous yeah yeah i mean there's so many famous resorts
around there so yeah same thing like everybody grows up skiing we our parents all drop us off
at the community center saturday mornings or whatever and then we all take the ski bus up
for the ski program then you have like lessons in the morning and then they set loose all these
crazy middle schoolers or however old you are right in the afternoon um and yeah i mean it's
everybody grows up like that and then as you get older you just you get a pass when
you're in high school you know and we're on the mountain all the time so i grew up skiing and
then i changed to snowboarding yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah for sure i mean and it was pretty affordable
right not being so crazy expensive like 20 bucks or whatever for like a lift ticket i don't know
what happened i don't know when this changed when it became so elitist but for me skiing
was a way to spend time with my family it was technically it was our religion because instead
of my parents they had a choice do we do sunday school on sundays and separate as a family right
the kids go there the adults go there or do we go to ski yeah literally in ski lessons that was the
choice we made as a family and so we spent our sundays together so what happens when that goes
away like those family outdoor experiences become too expensive that's my question for you guys
and it's just not fair that it's not available to everyone it shouldn't only be available to the
upper class the extremely rich right not i know as far as i know there aren't really
there aren't really cheaper lifting because like affordable coupon days there should be not really
those are sort of gone away right like i remember growing up the different resorts would have like
you know half price tuesdays or you know whatever things were cheaper or something yeah i don't know
actually yeah i shouldn't say that because there are some resorts that have that around here that's
the closest one it's small they have a night skiing which is like cheaper and super fun yeah
um like it doesn't exist you can you can so that's a whole issue we could solve for another day right
how can this industry turn around or doesn't want to turn around and address the mainstream
america because most millennials are not are not skiing like they're not really learning to ski
um but have you guys ever been injured really badly out there in a a snow sport out of the world
yeah what happened i was skiing and i tried to stop and sort of over corrected my turn so i was
facing facing up the hill going down backwards and it was a very steep like black diamond hill and i
couldn't get myself turned to stop and i ran into a snow making machine like a big metal machine
that makes the snow oh my god like worst case scenario going very fast are you serious i like
woke up in a pool of blood on the mountain it was just very bright against the white snow that's not
funny oh my god i got a cut like right here and they had to take me down in the toboggan oh yeah
kind of a little snow yeah and they stitched me up at the bottom of the hill but the doctor said it
was like a millimeter from like brain damage your brain you know some real close calls it was a very
close call and just that i wasn't injured more severely if i had hit a tree people died hitting a
tree oh yeah it could have been so much worse you could die hitting a flipping snow machine too yeah
that's insane was it padded usually those things are padded but you're hitting it hard anyway so
it doesn't mean it's any less of an impact but was it do you remember what they're looking at
vitamins evidently kind of metal or something enough that i got cut but it was a small minor
cut just like that that's terrifying could have been so much worse it probably was padded because
you can't have sharp metal right there no you can't you can't that's terrifying did you get
back on this well obviously not that day but did you go back the next year did you stop skiing
yeah i didn't stop i didn't stop but i was more i stopped skiing i started snowboarding after that
because snowboarding is easier to just like sit or like make yourself crash and stop
right and when i was like i don't know if i can do this anymore because i felt so
out of control when i was going fast down the hill and was trying to make my butt
and i just couldn't there's nothing i could do whereas snowboarding you can make yourself stop
okay so okay so that's my question so like for since i'm not quite into the snow sports like i
um what for a snow sport newbie person who's who doesn't like going too fast
um and doesn't want to be out of control that much uh what would you recommend i think snowshoeing
i would recommend for you or cross-country skiing because you know snow showing is hiking basically
it's just like you have a way you don't post hole like you don't go deep into the snow so
you stay above the snow okay you don't have to go up hills on the snow shoes but it's not dangerous
in the same way yeah okay i like a good safe activity yeah i wouldn't go snowboarding or
skiing they both are dangerous they really are wrecked um snowboarding and got a bad concussion
it could yeah be so hard when you can hit your head yeah dangerous and i also hit a
tree on skis when i was in middle school yeah i skied right into one and bounced off the other
it's like i don't know where are you in german uh i was a little bit you know i laid down and i was
you know kind of a little disoriented i mean there may have been brain damage we don't know
so yeah it is dangerous and it's you know i wasn't paying attention i was just skiing and watching
someone else and all of a sudden my skis were veering into the woods oh my gosh yeah this kind
of thing okay last last question what do you guys think about sledding that is a snow sport that we
haven't talked about yet and and like it's so fun and it can be free yeah sleds are cheap there's
all these snow parks around mount hood i'm looking out the window you guys can see where i'm pointing
but like there's all these snow parks around here and yeah it's like it's free you buy a sled
or i take an inner tube like i use the same thing on the river and the mountain and it's so fun do
you guys go sledding that can be really dangerous too my brother broke his arms because we would
pull sleds behind a tractor or a four-wheeler and probably go way faster than we should have like
just going down a slope safe pretty safe that's good don't don't go behind motorized vehicles
that's not wise ill-advised oh i won't we always did i think that's a great alternative to spending
all that money on a ski ticket you could take your family out right bring hot chocolate make it a day
or it could just be a couple of hours skiing is a huge commitment like the whole day you're up there
right oh yeah yeah snowing uh sledding could be a couple hours i think it's great why not
yeah it is um it's you can feel the difference uh if you're a an adult and not a kid
going off jumps getting any air and then landing your spine is like your neck
like you're so sore the next day seriously you are you're like sore from sledding it's ridiculous
yeah kids have no fear right because they don't know what it feels like to get injured so they
don't know james's third trip skiing he'd only he like learned got a couple lessons his third trip
skiing this kid was flying off jumps like spread eagle in the air just like zero fear of anything
awesome of course it's amazing awesome i love it guys this has been a great topic that i think
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