And for that I'm truly thankful.

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It’s not up to me to perceive you.

I don't think the guy you were replying to was skiing, he was just hiking. But generally speaking, if you are hiking to ski, you put regular boots on, and if the hike is any significant distance, you get a backpack to put your ski boots in and lash your skis to them. For really short hikes (like a few hundred feet) you can just throw everything over your shoulder, and even hike in your ski boots, but for anything longer a backpack is highly recommended. Depending on the terrain, snow shoes or spikes can be useful.

In what universe are teachers working 6 hours a day?

8 minimum, 10 frequently.

Changes the calculations to more like 17.35-13.89

Yup to both, but none of the dates for either line up with my memory.

I thought it was the winter x games and Sean White was there but the list on Wikipedia doesn't match up. Maybe it was my friend over-exaggerating or me misremembering the actual event. There was definitely a huge halfpipe and a big air event.

I was like 16-17 (I'm 33 now) so it was like 2006?

I remember we printed mapquest directions and it didn't account for road closures and we got my friend's car stuck in a closed-for-the-winter pass and had to dig / push him out lol.

Well shit haha

I think X Games was at both Stowe and Snow on different years.

Yes incompetence is a huge issue, but there have also been a lot of stories recently about the problems with la cop gangs. An intential leak to intimidate people into not talking is a very real possibility.

Not beyond it getting them upvotes no sadly.

I’m don’t want to speak ill of the dead, but holy shit, what the fuck did they think was going to happen? Why didn’t they bail?

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Vermont? Stowe

Oh, they understood, there's just a lot of people on reddit who don't actually care about police brutality and all the other issues surrounding police.

So you seriously think I might feel the entire matter is a little tasteless cause I'm married to a cop who's beating me?

Oh boy you really don't know how this works do you?

It wasn’t a joke?

Yeah I know.

So I'm going to assume your going to tell me how you feel making jokes about the issue is going to help anything?

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Friends of family are more likely to provide some sort of protection, even if only temporary.

Statistically abuse victims don’t reach out to law enforcement BECAUSE of their reputation. Lucky you haven’t had experience with this.

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> Snow sports are already so dangerous, this was really bone-headed.

Everyone thinks they'll be fine until they aren't.

We had a highschool girl die at Gunstock in NH this year and Gunstock is a casual family / you can just straight-line most trails type mountain.

When I was a teenager I went to Stowe or Snow (can't remember, its been like 18 years) to see a winter xgames type event and someone in the big air event popped his bindings off the jump and landed HARD.

Just laid there, no moving. Ambulance came, took him away. Dunno what happened.

That’s the self-reported number; the actual figure is likely significantly higher.