Does everyone but me love skiing?

[RoseberryT]

I don’t really like skiing. I don’t hate it but I can think of a million other things I’d rather be doing. I’ve been about 6 times, can ski but have become less confident as I’ve got older.
I’m led to believe by everyone I ski with, that I’m an exception. That basically everyone absolutely loves it and the only reason people don’t go is because they might not be able to afford it.

So I was wondering out of pure interest, if you don’t go on ski holidays, is it only because of the price or other factors such as pregnancy/ work commitments - ie if you could, you would. Or are there others like me who just don’t really see the appeal? Is there anyone who has been and hasn’t absolutely fallen in love with it and would go at any given opportunity? Everyone I ski with and everyone I ever meet skiing seems to think it’s the best thing ever.

I’ve just returned from a lovely trip to the Alps but I wasn’t really into the skiing so I’m thinking that’s it for me now - but I'm being made to feel like I’m making the wrong decision and there’s something wrong with me!
I’m very interested to hear others options

I love skiing and so does my dh and DH who are 10 and 13.

It's the best family holiday for us. We either have ski-in/ski-out accomodation or very near to the slopes and hire a ski locker so no dragging the equipment around.

Been at half term the last couple of years and the weather has been awesome. Blue skies and sun.

Nothing lovelier than having an Aperol in a deck chair on the slopes.
I'm mid forties and normally ski all day on a 6 day holiday this year I took one afternoon off and felt like I had cheated myself.

I personally find summer holidays really boring and tedious.

I'm far too lazy to don all that gear, and more importantly take it off again! I did try it years ago and fell after a metre (deliberately) so I didn't have to do it anymore.

My friend has a cabin up in the Alps near Mont Blanc, and of course it is the most wonderful wonderful thing to ski up there, course it is, each to their own. I have to say the scenery in that neck of the woods is absolutely stunning and breathtaking (literally), so I enjoyed my time on their sunny deck in the month of March and waved them all off. The apres ski was great too, and I had no injuries, wasn't tired, perfect.

Cities and archaeology and Greek and Roman stuff is my bag. Guess what? My skiing friends cannot understand that. Strange isn't it?

I’m a confirmed non-skier. If you offered me a free skiing holiday, I would politely decline. My balance & co-ordination is so appalling that even attempting ski would be a daft idea. It would inevitably end very quickly & painfully followed by a trip the local A&E department.

I fancy a skiing holiday but one where I sit in a chalet drinking hot chocolate and eating cheese fondue while gazing out over snowy mountains. I'm maybe do a bit of sledging or something.

Same here. It's such a fantastic family holiday. My DC are 17 and 14 and it's such a joy to ski all day as a family.

I didn't think I'd manage to ski more than a couple of mornings after a bad MCL strain but managed to ski all day for 8 days with a knee brace.

I felt thoroughly grateful and loved every minute.

We go to the Alps every year to a village we love and hate deep connections to (FIL lived and died there.) I adore walking in the mountains, the food, the lovely community, old friends, the views, the sky and the snow (it’s a tiny, very French ski station, nothing like the big resorts.) It’s where our family is probably at our happiest.

Skiing for me is the price I have to pay for that. It’s the faffiest experience ever. I have a dyspraxic son who so wants to be good (that kid has had so many lessons, he should be on the Olympic squad), a daughter who is pissed off I ski like a toddler and can’t keep up with her, a husband who loves skiing right up to the point he sustains the same bloody calf injury every year and a best friend who buggers off up glaciers because the local black runs are too tame (taking my daughter with her) So much sweating, lugging and clipping in!

On the other hand, when we get back home we talk and talk for the rest of the year about our skiing adventures. Our holidays do really seem to bond us. I suspect the anecdotes are why we do it!

I’m on a ski holiday as I type. We go every year. Husband and offspring love it. I love aspects of it. I’m a very average skier; as I’m hurtling down the mountain at a crazy speed, I often think it’s miraculous that I’m still alive or indeed that I haven’t killed a small child. I did say to my husband earlier today as I was sitting on a creaking 2-man chair lift with a biting wind howling around my ears, that I might just stay at home next year. But to be fair, I say that every year. Tl;dr I have a love/hate relationship with skiing.

Hi there I am totally with you! I've been a few times.

1st time no kids loved it as got super fit before

2nd time booked hol but didnt go as was pregnant so hubby went with 1st born

3rd time was pressured into going for happy family times. Was tired and was not my idea of a holiday tbh. Youngest in nursery most of time.

4th time absolutely hated it. Scared of the heights, breaking a bone, carrying heavy stuff and hard work.

Finally put my foot down. Husband and kids have daddy daughter time and I get a week of peace.

Plus I get a week in Ibiza with my friend as compensation. Everyone is happy. It's your time, your money, your life. Don't waste it by trying to please others!! 😜

You said it so well!! 🤣🤣🤣

You couldn’t pay me enough to go skiing.

Then again, I grew up having a shit week in a damp caravan in Wales every two years if we were lucky.

It’s a marker of class really if you grew up going on ski holidays.

i hate skiing.

id rather fly to sunshine or go on a cruise

Went skiing once. Hated it. It is also one of the three most boring topics of conversation on Earth, just behind golf and slightly ahead of cars.

I absolutely hate it. You’re not alone

Always seemed like an expensive way to get cold and hurt yourself. Never been.

I'm actually delighted to see all this hatred for skiing. Please stay away and keep the queues and prices down.

Going up a mountain in a ski lift - fear. One of those ridiculous lifts you just squat over and it takes you up the mountain - fear. Plummeting down the mountain, with my coordination- fear. I’d be the one airlifted off to hospital with a broken leg. Honestly I’d rather stay at home in the rain for a week. DH and DS love it but are very sporty and very well coordinated so it’s comes naturally. I went ice skating once with DS and it was the worst hour of my life. I just shuffled round the edge trying to cling onto the smooth metal wall with nothing to grip onto.

It's never interested me, not even a little. Infact if I won a free trip skiing I'd not even go lol 😂 just not for me

I hate it. You'd have to pay me a significant amount to get me on another ski holiday! I went as a late teenager and hated it then too, so not an age thing in my case.

If I somehow found myself in a ski resort (unlikely) I would just sit in the hotel.

I do love horse riding though which is another middle class, potentially dangerous sport. I hate sailing though 🤢

I can afford it but don’t go, I’d far rather spend the money on some February/October sunshine

What’s the point of paying for flights to trudge around being freezing and falling over? Pah

It's the ones who talk about stopping for some wine and a quick chill out mid ski. This makes me think there is a subset of pissed people balancing on planks, on a steep incline. I have never been skiing but I get to hear all the stories from relatives. Then they moan about how expensive it is mainly. It sounds like the least fun you can have.

I hate it. Makes my shins hurt.

I think there probably are quite a few pissed people on planks 😂.

I definitely ski better after a drink.

I’m from a cold country and have always been on skis yet I’m very averige skier 😳🤣 But I love it, skiing just takes your mind of from your everyday problems. Being in the mountains is life affirming and makes you appreciate how beautiful nature can be.

Skiing makes me feel like accomplished person (I’ve never been good in other sports, especially ball games).

I’m never cold, not even in Lapland in -27 (apart from your nose if it gets exposed).

Skiing is a great way to holiday with teen DC (mine are now bored with beach resorts) as PP said, when skiing they are outside & being active and not on their phones.

Ski buss is hell though!!

I think you're right that there is a certain (and large) subset of people that are actually quite addicted about their annual ski holiday.

I enjoyed it in my teens when someone else was paying for it. I did it once in my twenties paying for it myself, until it dawned on me that for the price of a week's skiing I could have a week's diving in the Red Sea in the winter plus a week's holiday in Greece in the summer.

Plus when I was paying for it myself I wanted to be getting my money's worth so it became more of an endurance than a holiday- how many hours of skiing I could pack in a day, so that I could hardly walk in the evening and just wanted to go to bed early only to do it all again the next day. Plus because it was in winter it got dark early, plus it was wet and cold. Plus the bars and restaurants have a captive audience (can't really travel that far) which is reflected in the price and quality of food / drinks.

I then did it one last in my early 40s when I realised how dangerous it was - not just injuring yourself but other people injuring you and even worse the potential for you to injure in
others especially children.

That said I still get a complete look of total shock from friends or other parents when I explain that I have absolutely no interest in skiing as if "I'm no longer one of them ".

So nah it's not for me, I think it's overrated and overly expensive for what it is and for many it seems to be more of a "social statement" than an actual holiday.

Discovered skiing 10 years ago (in my early 40’s) and I bloody love it!

I am really sporty.

Nothing better than being in the mountains, the fabulous scenery, fresh air & adrenaline rush.

I bloody love the après as well - praying like I’m in my 20’s (only in Austria, France is shite).