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Further to the other thread. Anyway it got me thinking i've no problem going touring for my turns. Last winter i spent the best part of a week in Wicklow ski touring when we had the snow. However i can't see any set of circumstances in which i'd have learned to ski without lifts.
So could you see yourself borrowing your eccentric grand uncle's planks who spent time in canada/norway/the alps (delete as appropriate) if there was never the possibility of a lift system & pistes to learn on?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My first skiing experience was on a patch of snow that was about 30ft by 10ft next to the Glenshee Carpark.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I learned to ski without lifts. I grew up on XC skis in Norway.
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I learnt to ski 'cos my 'rents did. If there weren't lifts I imagine the industry would be a helluva lot smaller, and I wouldn't really have thought about it, or even known about it! I like to think I still would have, but in all reality I would probably have stuck to other sports that the UK is more conducive to, whitewater kayaking, MTB etc
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Good question, I'd be more likely to ski if there was no uplift ever available (I learnt to ski before boarding anyway) and I imagine I may have got into it eventually although probably at a later age. There's a fair few cases of climbers (e.g. Al Rouse, Rab Carrington) who learnt to ski as it made some of their objectives easier so I imagine with the less easy access that would be how I might get into it and hence why I'd be more likely to ski: easier travel uphill etc.
That said I certainly wouldn't have got into it for skiings sake and while it seems a reasonable assumption it's also quite likely I wouldn't have been arsed.
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I would have, still. I started x-c at the same time I started alpine skiing. Enjoyed both. Still do.
Though my first attempt was alpine, I didn't "take" to it on the first outing. But I was in school at a place where winter last 6 months and 5 1/2 of that was snow covered! So I was really motivated to do SOMETHING during the winter. Cross-country skiing was the next option. And I quite enjoyed it!
After a few x-c skiing outings, I got a bit more comfortable with sliding about and thought maybe I'd give downhill skiing another try before conceiting defeat. The second time was considerably better. Though I didn't fall in love with skiing per se. 5 years of long winter was enough to got me into the habit of skiing whenever I see the flying flakes.
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Knowing what I know now - yes.
But, I'd never have got started if there were no lifts. I was bullied into going on my first ever trip as it was (didn't want to be forced into rubbing shoulders with a load of snobby gets for a week) so I just wouldn't have bothered.
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yeah i would never have bothered but if all the lifts vanished over night i would still be going out
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I learned to ski on a dry slope at Pontins. No lifts (or kids skis) spent the entire week lugging skis twice as tall as me up the slope for a 10 second ski down. I loved at the time, but I'm not sure I'd do it these days.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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My first skiing experience was on a patch of snow that was about 30ft by 10ft next to the Glenshee Carpark.
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Ditto - circa 1960. 
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