CWHappyRN":rq7umrxu said:
I won't be bullied. I am entitled to my opinion! I work in the ER with boarders and their victims. I see their drug screens and causualities, professionally and as a ski patrol. I have the right to voice my thoughts about the dangers of boarding that are well known. They don't have snowboard free resorts for nothing. You fail to see that the comment was about success, not boarding. It is consesus that helmets would make a difference for the boarders. Arms and legs heal, not heads. You don't get it that we are concerned about their heads, they are not, not are managements concerned with $ not lives. We have had skiing and boarding doctors go and talk to them about better safety laws. I get it that you don't care about other's welfare. Hate on! Not a problem to me.
You won't be bullied? So if someone disagrees with you, they are bullying you? I didn't know that Judz was trying to deny your right to hold an opinion. That's some thin skin you have, mama. You dismiss our entire sport as [insert your preferred term here] because you work in an ER where there's apparently an endless line of head-smashed boarders. I'd say that's closer to bullying. I guess at this rate, Boreal, Mountain High and Bear Mountain are going to lose customer base due to debilitating injuries suffered by their patrons. The point was that you, uh, broadened the diversity topic into an opportunity to - again - declare snowboarding a danger to society. Isn't there an occassional price to pay for the thrill of skiing? No danger there, eh? None of those two-planking bombers at Mountain HIgh is posing any threat to other customers.
Would you hold the same opinion of football, especially youth FB, if you worked ER in, say, Texas? Besides, you appear to be writing off all boarders as careless park rats when plenty of us do very little of that.
The following is my first response, written this morning. I had kinda decided not to get into it, but what the hey.
More digs at snowboarding, shocker. You kinda remind me of the cop who brands an entire neighborhood of folks as criminals because he deals with the bad seeds. To think, if I only kept skiing, I'd still have some lifelong dividends ahead of me, and possibly some bad knees to boot . (I'm 30, BTW.)
Yes, being close to a major metro area - a super one at that - helps, but it was more about the demographics that MH is attracting, and if being close to L.A. guarantees success, why hasn't MH always sold 500,000 tickets a year? Why is it, apparently, no longer second fiddle to Big Bear? And what about Bear/Summit's demos? What about the NY resorts? That's a pretty diverse state, at least a key part of it. Are they attracting a far more diverse demo than the industry norm?
Only opening themselves to boarders? Isn't MH pretty much reflecting where the interest lies, freestyle riding and skiing? (Yes, there are skiers in the park. Traitors.) And MH's east mountain is virtually devoid of jumps and metal, but the place is usually empty, so empty that the mountain started closing it on weekdays the past couple of weeks. And I don't remember MH ever doing that in the good snow year of 04-05 when they probably had biz cause to do so. We freeriders were lucky to even have to place somewhat open in a season with less than 3 feet of snowfall. Even in the 200" 2004-05 season, when I went, which included weekends, the east side was rarely, if ever, what you could call crowded. A lot of it was overflow from the far more popular west side. How can MH increase its skier population if the people coming want to snowboard instead? Is it all about the kids being duped by marketing?
Oh, I can't seem to make out your helmet in your avatar.
Tony, don't places such as Mammoth and Vail sell more than a million tickets a season? Some of us can't help but exaggerate in our rush to disagree.
Carol who is way too serious! If it were my kid they would not be allowed to go without a helmet. Some of my coworkers practice this with their kids.
