Skiing - do you love it, loath it or simply not interested?

[Beebo]

Been when younger, didnt enjoy it enough to want to pay for the family to go.
The cost of skiing in school holidays is prohibitive for anyone other than the very rich.

 

[coffeejo]

Mountains in winter when it's snowing/snowed? Would love to.
Skiing or in a ski resort? Never gonna happen.

 

[vickster]

I hate snow...why I would want to spend my holidays and shedloads of cash risking life and limb on the vile white c***? I did a week school trip, hated every minute

Shame really as I have relatives in Verbier

 

[User169]

Love it! Cant afford it these days though.

 

[ScotiaLass]

Enjoyed it in my youth - skied in the Italian Alps and mainly Aviemore.
Now? No interest really, prefer my bike!
Edited to add that I love watching the Winter Olympics and the downhill, cross country etc!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Well I love it.

I hate football though - ying and yang and all that

 

[ianrauk]

Tried it once and hated it.
Spent the first morning on the slopes being shouted at by a dickhead instructor. It was cold, I was cold. I hate snow.
The rest of the week I spent in the bars of the town vowing to never Ski or do any wintersports ever again, and I haven't done.

I just can't abide snow. Would be happy never to see it again.

And yes, have also had many people tell me that I would love it if I gave it a proper go. Well I did give it a proper go and I hated it.

 

[London Female]

My daughter dragged me along to an oxford ice rink a few years ago, that was bad enough, I have no interest in skiing.

 

[pplpilot]

Ski bores up there with golf bores.

'Oh but you must got to val d'isere this year the snow is simply wonderful!'

Then theres those that bang on and on about how its a 'different kind of cold' and 'you'd love it if you went' eeerrrr no i wouldn't, i know id hate it with a pathological hatred spending any time in the company of a ski instructor that just went on and on 'benz zee neeze, benz zee neeze!'

Arrrghhh flash back, flash back to a hell of a skiing school trip circa 1980...

Nobbers. Lot of 'em

 

[ScotiaLass]

Ski bores up there with golf bores.

'Oh but you must got to val d'isere this year the snow is simply wonderful!'

Nobbers.

 

[400bhp]

I'm a pretty active sort of fellow, always have been. Surfed, skateboarded, Windsurfed, Canoed, Sailed, Hiked, Camped, Scrambled, Squash, Badminton, Hockey, Fencing, Go-karting yadda yadda yadda ... all kinds of stuff, but I've never ever had any interest in going skiing ... ever. I don't mind watching Ski Sunday or the Winter Olympics in much the same way as I like watching Rugby .... I just don't want to do either.
To make matters worse, Mrs Foodie is going for the first time (as a 50th treat) with daughter #2 and the lad and tagging along with a group of friends who all think me a miserable basket for not participating. Now it seems there are some things in life that you're simply not allowed not to rave about, for example; The Beatles, Mozart etc. etc. Skiing is in that category it seems. I'm bored witless by people telling me how much I'd love skiing and on and bloody on. So, prompted by a lovely bit of anti-skiing polemic by srw I thought I'd ask the question.

That's a very similar story. My OH keeps mentioning the "need" to take my 4 y.o to the local indoor ski slope.

What's the bl00dy point of doing something (not very well) for a week or so each year. Do it, might start to get the hang of it, then come back home. Repeat for the next 30 years or so of my friggin life. I just couldn't be arsed.

I might think different if I lived on the slopes of the Alps-but I live in piggin South Manchester.

Cycling. Go out front door-go to garage-get bike-pedal-get home-job done.

 

[jazzkat]

Why would any one want to strap a plank to each foot and throw themselves down a mountain?
No thanks, I don't even like snow!

 

[Fab Foodie]

That's a very similar story. My OH keeps mentioning the "need" to take my 4 y.o to the local indoor ski slope.
What's the bl00dy point of doing something (not very well) for a week or so each year. Do it, might start to get the hang of it, then come back home. Repeat for the next 30 years or so of my friggin life. I just couldn't be arsed.
I might think different if I lived on the slopes of the Alps-but I live in piggin South Manchester.
Cycling. Go out front door-go to garage-get bike-pedal-get home-job done.

I agree!
Like Jazzkat, I realised last winter after travelling to work in snow covered Switzerland, Russia, France, Hungary I don't like snow and the cold either ....

 

[Doseone]

I absolutely love it and I'm also quite good at it, which came from spending a season ski-ing on the ice of Turoa on Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand.

 

[Peteaud]

No interest.