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Originally Posted by wwkayaker
A few years ago I calculated how much my skiing habit cost me in a winter. The closest hill is Marmot but their snow is usually not great. Over the course of eight weekends, I travelled to various resorts. I figured it cost between $8-10k for my girlfriend and me to enjoy those trips...not the cheapest pastime if you don't get an annual pass.
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Yeah skiing is brutal cost-wise. My requirements for a sport are: speed, carving, air time, weightlessness/playing with gravity, surfing, accelaration, challenging skill wise, not entirely dependent on physical strength, life long potential and provides fitness benefits with low probability of injury. It needs to be something that my whole family can enjoy together. The only sports that come close to skiing in terms of what I listed are windsurfing or kiting. With those, gas is the only marginal cost after equipment is paid for. We like camping and hiking together too but that isn't nearly as exciting.