What is the one thing that will cut your ski day short?

[Tricia]

While skiing at Snowbasin with @Philpug and @SpikeDog last week, the visibility was horrible up top, then it was nicer about half way down to the base.
Bad visibilty, seems to affect me more and more as I age. I only took a handful of runs and could have skied at least one more before we needed to leave but the poor visibility was just too much. I figured, I have a long season ahead of me and don't need to get hurt because I can't see.

What is the one thing that cuts your ski day short more than anything else?

 

[MissySki]

Yesterday was like pea soup at Sunday River too! Luckily the conditions were great and it wasn’t crowded, so the skiing wasn’t scary in it and there were definitely areas where it was better at different elevations.

I think the things that cuts my day short more than others are obligations off mountain and a few times where I skied in the rain with cold wet hands. I now have rubber gloves for those days which should hopefully alleviate that one some. If it is bonkers crowded that can also turn me off and make me too anxious about safety to have fun.

 

[Tricia]

Good catch on the rain. I added to the weather option.

 

[Posaune]

I ski weekdays only, no holidays, so I don't have to deal with crowds too often, so I voted for weather. Around these parts (coastal PNW) it can get miserable. I must be a wuss, because I can think of a number of things I'd rather do than ski in the rain.

 

[AmyPJ]

I have had days cut short due to all of the above at one time or another

 

[geepers]

Well, for a few of those reasons. But not all. Make it multi-choice?

 

[scott43]

I was in Austria with literally 30' of visibility. I just ducked into the trees beside the run and took it easy. People were still bombing down that run at warp speed.. crazy .

 

[Tony Storaro]

This poll is clearly flawed as there may be more than one answer. But let’s just say if the visibility drops to below 20cm, my right boot broke, I found out that I forgot my left ski at home and it started to rain, that’s it for me, I quit.

 

[cantunamunch]

But let’s just say if the visibility drops to below 20cm, my right boot broke, I found out that I forgot my left ski at home and it started to rain, that’s it for me, I quit.

Now, if it started to rain, and then it dropped to -15 and then you also tore your remaining knee and there was a cute ski patroller flirting with you, and you had a wrinkle in your sock, yeh, OK.

 

[pais alto]

Getting my pass pulled.

 

[Don in Morrison]

There comes a point in each ski day, usually around 2:00 or so, that my legs whisper into my ear, "Dude, that was your last run, time to bag it."

A couple times last winter, I bailed around noon, due to really flat light. There were textures in the frozen surface that I couldn't see that kept grabbing at my skis, After a fall and several awkward recoveries, I decided to hang it up. During brief periods where you could see the surface, it was possible to compensate for the weird surface, but when it's all flat, that's another thing. Even after buying some goggles with a lens for flat light, the ground was still a formless, gray void.

 

[Guy in Shorts]

Missed three days of skiing last week as my foot was too swollen to get my boot on. Please add swollen feet to list.

 

[Yo Momma]

The potential for a good day at work!

 

[Bad Bob]

From the PNW, if you quit for the weather, you don't ski much.

Last time i tossed in was one step short of heart attack.

 

[Crank]

Snow that is really, really good for you - and rain.

 

[Pat AKA mustski]

A number of those reasons would be valid for sure, but visibility is the one that does me in the fastest. I developed vertigo a few years ago and it's quite debilitating. But, let's be honest. A bad ski accident by definition ends the day.

 

[Scruffy]

• Poor visibility ( seeing is overrated )
• Boot issues ( buck up buttercup and deal with it after hours )
• Forgot a critical piece of gear ( ski shop at the base - break out the CC )
• Snow surface conditions, - too icy, too sticky, too rocky ( What you talkin bout Willis? )
• Broken or faulty equipment (tune, binding issues, broken pole, etc) ( see 3 above )
• Too crowded...get off my snow! ( Human Slalom course )
• Just not feeling it, meh? ( What you talkin bout Willis? )
• Ski accident (you or a companion) ( Depends. Was there an helicopter ambulance involved? )
• Weather (too windy, too warm, too wet/rainy [blasphemy]too much snow[blasphemy]) ( Willis? )
• Meetings/work/family obligation ( Need lessons in scheduling )

 

[Yo Momma]

The potential for a good day at work!

Okay this is more of what I was going for but I'm no "Snoop on the Stoop" I guess!!! LMAO Our urban version of "Elf on the Shelf"!!!! Ha ha ha

 

[Tony Storaro]

Now, if it started to rain, and then it dropped to -15 and then you also tore your remaining knee and there was a cute ski patroller flirting with you, and you had a wrinkle in your sock, yeh, OK.

Yeah, I am soft..

 

[Dos-Equis]

I will ski through poor visibility, through crowds, whatever.

But a hangover… a hangover and a bad night of sleep will make me lose all desire to ski and question why I’m even there.