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Originally Posted by blueski
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.
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I enjoy mountain biking too. How about whitewater kayaking? I see a lot of kids on the rivers and they are good kayakers. Lots of people thing of kayaking as high risk but not everybody needs to run class 4-5 rivers. Very similar to skiing in terms of initial investment followed by only gas money to continue the sport.