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Originally Posted by pylon

I am 35, and could never get into snow boarding. Its kinda fun, but lacks the finesse of skiing. First off its too slow and cumbersome. You get off the lift, have to fiddle fart with your stupid binding, and get in the way of the skiers that are ready to go off right off the lift.

Snowboarders irritate the hell out of me, and they are a safety hazard on the hill. I can't count how many times I have been on a black run and almost collided with some moron sitting in the middle of the hill trying to find a good greenday tune on his Ipod or set up for a siiiiiick trick.

I have a couple friends that snowboard, and they litterally drop 30 IQ points and start talking like Shawn White when they are at the hill, when in reality they are well spoken people. Something about being some try hard "snow surfer dude" wearing camo pants, with a $2000 worth of gear, when you can't even carve on your front edge, screams poser to me. And unfortunately that describes at least half of the snowboarding population.

Don't be hating grandpa, you just don't have the skillz to pay the billz.