{"id":970,"date":"2009-02-09T22:36:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-02-09T22:36:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T06:36:21","slug":"skiing-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/02\/skiing-snowboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiing\/Snowboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/advice\/\">Personal Wyszdom<\/a>\u00a0request:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Skiing\/Snowboarding &#8211; Mountain Virg<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">From:\u00a0NIGHT HAWK<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have never been skiing, or snowboarding&#8230; \u00a0in fact, i&#8217;m<br \/>\nnot even sure if snowboarding is one word or two. \u00a0I&#8217;m going tomorrow<br \/>\nfor my very first time ever. \u00a0Going to do what you ask? \u00a0There in lies<br \/>\nthe question&#8230; what am I to do? \u00a0Ski or Snow Board?<\/p>\n<p>In addition to not knowing which art of winter rec sport to engage, I<br \/>\nam also uncertain as to what I will need to ensure maximum<br \/>\nsatisfaction from the experience. \u00a0Particularly with regard to<br \/>\napparel. \u00a0I&#8217;d imagine I need snow pants and goggles (not googles) at<br \/>\nthe very least.<\/p>\n<p>Any other advice for mountain virgins?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I must begin my answer by apologizing to Mr. HAWK. His question was submitted back on January 23rd, and I didn&#8217;t notice it until today since my advice queue had been so stagnant. Hopefully things turned out well for him without my advice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only been a skier, but as far as I can tell, skiing and snowboarding are both pretty similar. Here are some differences to keep in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skiers and snowboarders do not mix well on chairlifts. Skiers keep their skis facing forward, while snowboarders relax with their boards at an angle. If you&#8217;re going to be hanging out with a group of all snowboarders or all skiers, just do whatever they&#8217;re doing.<\/li>\n<li>Snowboarders spend about 90% of their time just laying on the middle of the hill for no reason.<\/li>\n<li>Snowboarders don&#8217;t have poles, which is pretty inconvenient if you have to deal with flat terrain.<\/li>\n<li>Some snobby resorts do no allow snowboarders.<\/li>\n<li>Skiing is probably more dangerous, because there&#8217;s a lot of stuff that can get tangled up, and your legs can travel in two different directions.<\/li>\n<li>If you wipe out while skiing, you may have to hike up the hill to retrieve several items.<\/li>\n<li>Ski boots are really uncomfortable, even if you&#8217;ve had them custom-fit for your feet. I don&#8217;t know how snowboarding boots feel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding apparel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ll probably fall a lot as a beginner, so if\u00a0you try to ski or snowboard in just jeans you&#8217;ll get soaked pretty quickly.\u00a0Make sure you get snow pants and a good jacket, both waterproof. They should block the wind well too, since that can really chill you. If you don&#8217;t mind looking a little dorky, get a one-piece jumpsuit which will virtually eliminate the chances of the snow getting up under your jacket when you fall. If you go with separate snow pants instead, you are taking a bigger risk but you get to wear suspenders. Life is full of compromises.<\/li>\n<li>Get a hat that you&#8217;ll be comfortable wearing all day and that keeps your ears covered.<\/li>\n<li>Get a comfortable neck warmer, but only wear it over your face if it&#8217;s too cold to do without. Otherwise, keep it around your neck only or\u00a0substitute\u00a0it with a scarf.<\/li>\n<li>Get some goggles. If it&#8217;s cold, sunglasses won&#8217;t do because you&#8217;ll want to block your entire face from the wind. Sunglasses also aren&#8217;t ideal when you&#8217;re starting out and falling a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Hand and toe warmers are wonderful if you need them, but don&#8217;t use them if they&#8217;re not necessary because they&#8217;ll make you sweat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other things to bring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phone (if you find out that you don&#8217;t get service on the mountain, buy some radios with your friends)<\/li>\n<li>Camera<\/li>\n<li>Tissues<\/li>\n<li>ChapStick<\/li>\n<li>Food (granola bars work pretty well)<\/li>\n<li>Wallet<\/li>\n<li>Trail map<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have fun! And NIGHT HAWK, please let me know how everything turned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted via the\u00a0Personal Wyszdom\u00a0request: Skiing\/Snowboarding &#8211; Mountain Virg From:\u00a0NIGHT HAWK I have never been skiing, or snowboarding&#8230; \u00a0in fact, i&#8217;m not even sure if snowboarding is one word or two. \u00a0I&#8217;m going tomorrow for my very first time ever. \u00a0Going to do what you ask? \u00a0There in lies the question&#8230; what am I to do? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/02\/skiing-snowboarding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skiing\/Snowboarding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}