Snowboarding and the outdoors

sebseb
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Just got back from a nice little Snowboarding trip in an undisclosed location. What fun.



Looking forward to leaving NYC someday (probably soon).



It was strange, after being in the mountains for a week, coming home, turning on the TV and hearing about War and Terrorism again. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />



Strange how fast a week in nature changes your outlook on things and how fast the human mind can purge itself of media remnants.



Anyone else snowboard?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 13
    No snowboarding but I'm an avid dayhiker/camper and occasional backpacker. Always nice to get outdoors into the beautfiul scenery, get the blood flowing, see some nice scenery, take some purty pictures, see some wildlife etc etc. I don't think I will ever live someplace again that does not offer lots of wilderness oppurtunities.



    Not interested in snowboarding in the least but I'd like to take up snowshoeing someday.
  • Reply 2 of 13
    ...you know what's worse - coming from snowboarding knowing your friend just broke his neck and you had you leave him in the hospital. But at least I didn't have to tell his parents about it.



    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 3 of 13
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    I ski but with living in the UK the season is really short.
  • Reply 4 of 13
    sebseb Posts: 676member
    [quote]Originally posted by Stoo:

    <strong>I ski but with living in the UK the season is really short.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    But Switzerland is only a hop, skip and a jump away! :cool:
  • Reply 5 of 13
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    i ski...my girls board...













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  • Reply 6 of 13
    trick falltrick fall Posts: 1,271member
    Seb, I know just how you feel. I've been living in Manhattan for eight years and last summer almost on a whim decided to buy a very modest summer house in upstate New York in the Catskills. As soon as I get up there everything just melts away as I look out over the mountains. As a matter of fact this winter's been killing me because I haven't been able to go up as often a I would like.
  • Reply 7 of 13
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    I don't snowboard but I do enjoy spending time in the outdoors. In fact one of the reasons I moved to Dorset was because of the coastal scenery and countryside. Unfortunately there's only a couple of mountainous regions in the UK south of the Scottish border, the Lake District and Snowdonia (in Wales), though I'm sure Stoo and Scots inparticular would call them hills.



    [ 03-16-2003: Message edited by: RodUK ]</p>
  • Reply 8 of 13
    Anything greater than 2500 feet in relief ( relief not elevation of course) is a mountain IMO. Granted that if you only have say 3000 feet tall mountains and in particular if they have foothills and aren't a nice craggy granite school then they won't look very impressive. But still, that's a mountain.
  • Reply 9 of 13
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    Well, I'm proud to say I've conquered the highest mountains in the land, <a href="http://www.lowefoto.com/lakes/lakes13.html"; target="_blank">Scafell Pike</a> (England) and <a href="http://snowdonia-information.co.uk/snowdonian-photography/gallery/mountains/snowdon/36.Snowdon from the Pyg track.htm&quot; target="_blank">Snowdon</a> (Wales), all 3,210 feet and 3,559 feet of them.
  • Reply 10 of 13
    [quote]Originally posted by RodUK:

    <strong>Well, I'm proud to say I've conquered the highest mountains in the land, <a href="http://www.lowefoto.com/lakes/lakes13.html"; target="_blank">Scafell Pike</a> (England) and <a href="http://snowdonia-information.co.uk/snowdonian-photography/gallery/mountains/snowdon/36.Snowdon from the Pyg track.htm&quot; target="_blank">Snowdon</a> (Wales), all 3,210 feet and 3,559 feet of them. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    ...how much of them are snow trails or are they suicide-friendly (snow wherever you want)?
  • Reply 11 of 13
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    [quote]Originally posted by /mandolux/:

    <strong>



    ...how much of them are snow trails or are they suicide-friendly (snow wherever you want)?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    The pictures in the links, especially the Snowdon one, are quite misleading. For most of the year you wouldn't find any snow at all (and there's even a railway running up the back side of Snowdon, with a cafe on the summit). <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



    [ 03-16-2003: Message edited by: RodUK ]</p>
  • Reply 12 of 13
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    [quote]But Switzerland is only a hop, skip and a jump away! <hr></blockquote>



    I've been skiing in France (the Three Valleys, "the largest ski area in the world" ) but the last couple of years were my degree's honours years, so I was a little busy . I'm still watching for last minute baragains for this season.



    A mountain is a mountain, wherever it is, but the only UK (snow) ski areas are in Scotland .



    The UK doesn't have year round snow/glaciers anywhere. There are exceptional seasons: my parents have been skiing on the 25th of May :eek: in Scotland (sometime in the 1970s)!
  • Reply 13 of 13
    That is a mountain. It is not a large mountain by any stretch but it is a mountain. Snowdon reminds me that one frequently photographed mountain near Moraine Lake in Banff whose name escapes me at the moment. Although it might be just a tad shorter.



    A shame that you miss out on year round snow and glaciers. Glaciers are the win. Too bad all of the midlevel ones around 5000 feet or so are melting out due to global warming. But the ones higher up seem to be doing just fine, at least here in the US. One nice thing about being in an area with mild temps, lots of precipitation and some respectable elevation is that you can find snow in August, it still strikes me as odd everytime I see it but it is quite fun. On the bright side, you must have a longer hiking season. Here, if you go above say 4 or 5 thousand feet the snow doesn't melt out till June or July in most places.
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