Posted on 03/23/2024 6:23:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin
That number of ER visits is up 50% from 2016 through 2022, the Los Angeles Times reports. However, during that same period, the number of skiers and snowboarders hitting the slopes remained mostly the same in California.
“It’s a wonderful sport, but if you ask me, I notice a bit of a difference in courtesy,” said Joann Shimizu Wood, a Southern California resident who has been skiing since 1976. “We used to say, as we were coming downhill to whoever was downhill from us, ‘On your right! On your left!’ as we’re passing them.”
Wood said she now hardly ever hears that verbal cue or courtesy despite skiers and snowboarders barreling down the slopes, many of whom may be less experienced or capable.
Reckless behavior was made worse by skiers using marijuana, magic mushrooms or getting drunk before hitting the slopes, locals said.
“You’re sitting on the lift and it smells like a skunk up here,” skier James Travers said of smelling weed. “It should smell like pine trees.”
Another major contributor involves people so focused on taking selfies or capturing videos for their social media page that they become unaware of who or what is going on around them.
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They gotta compact in into a glacier so that it will last due to climate change.
Heh.
I just tossed them in there because I am sure the DEI proponents would like to add them to their constituency.
Guys, there’s some good research that merely putting a helmet on an average motorcyclist actually increases his odds of being in an accident. Researchers speculate as to the reasons, but it seems that the feeling of safety the helmet provides might be increasing risk taking. I assume the same may apply to skiers.
A friend told me that Texans are everywhere in the mountains (fancy clothes, too.) Maybe Texicans can’t ski.
It’s either Global Warming, or it’s Trump’s fault. I suppose it could be ascribed to White Supremacy, since snow is white.
A reflection of spiritual and moral cultural degeneration and decline, from the family to local culture to the world overall, in which media and secular schools are the main tutors - of wokeducation.
Nothing but snow bunnies on the slopes. Sounds like some people got high and/or drunk and got injuries.
Some FReepers are openly racist, unfortunately.
How can this be when global warming means less snow?
The same thing happened to surfing. Too many Aholes and JOs out there to have the same experience as it was 30 years ago.
People tend to avoid getting high before they ski.
”Of course, since then, I always wear a helmet.”
I seem to recall a winter Olympian saying something to the effect of “If you can’t snowboard baked, you shouldn’t be snowboarding.”
Did they eventually land a job at Starbucks or Uber?
I remember we were complaining about incivility on the slopes back in the late 70s and early 80s.
Too many young folk inticed by friends to just do it without any lessons beforehand.
I skied when I was young and then didn’t ski for over 30 years. I took a refressher beginners lesson on the first day i went skiing again. The second day I had confince again on the slopes.
No idea. They were pretty high profile, no pun intended. Snowboarders, mountain bikers...a lot of weed-snorters.
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