Article: High-tech gadgets are ruining skiing

Bring back the simplicity of a tech-free ski trip, says Helen Coffey Once upon a time you would head off on a ski holiday and cheerfully wave goodbye to technology for the next seven days. Mobile? You wouldn't get any signal in the mountains. Laptop? Your tiny, purpose-built apartment certainly d...

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Thoughts?

Well, OK, how about lifts, then.

Total fluff piece. You could replace the word skiing with, hiking, camping, canoeing, etc. and write basically the same article.

^ lol

*tents fingers*

Excellent.

Five bucks says she composed that on her laptop in a condo during a ski vacation.

I ski 20-30 days a year all midweek.  If I didn't have my work phone with me I probably wouldn't be skiing that much.  It sucks, but carry it and sometimes answer email in saddle lodge or on the gondola.  If that is what I have to do to be out of the office with a clear mind then so be it.  

Also, get an ipod shuffle and a mute switch for your headphones and be done with it.  All of the helmet kits have that.  Game changer in my book.  

I also carry a phone and run GPS tracking.  No reason why, just like to see it.  

I didn't read the article.

The functionality for me of txting is the key.  I've got Verizon which means minimal coverage/bars in the mtns, but I can text from the Gore gondi once I get a few hundred feet up above the base.  It helps me find friends.

Sometimes Facebook is fun, but I'd be fine without it. Same thing for the blog or forum.

Like Footer, if I can follow along on things from work it makes life (and skiing) easier.

IMO the big technology isn't lifts these days it's guns. Big strides in recent years.

Or maybe it's the financing. Everyone is going Low E.

Back in MYE day, we didn't HAVE ski lifts.  We hiked up the mountain and skied down.  On planks from trees that we CUT with our own two hands.  And you got blisters and sores on your hands so bad that they bled in the cold.  And you LIKED it!  

BenedictGomez wrote

Back in MYE day, we didn't HAVE ski lifts.  We hiked up the mountain and skied down.  On planks from trees that we CUT with our own two hands.  And you got blisters and sores on your hands so bad that they bled in the cold.  And you LIKED it!

Pretty much sums it up. These days, I ski with a whistle when I am alone at Jay. If I crash catastrophically, I figure I can blow three times until someone, maybe, hears my call. I do have a cell phone (not smart) but it doesn't work in the Exited States, and only works somewhat in the Hinterlands. I am a big believer in both unconnectedness and personal responsibility while recreating in the outdoors.

I like using a ski app to track ski days. That way I don't have to add them to a signature or start a thread to keep track.
I also enjoy listening to Pandora while skiing.

+1 and having blue tooth takes it up another level.  Answer the phone, hear when a text comes in, listen to music all with a push against the ear piece.  

The article is really incomplete, because nowhere does the author explain precisely whom it is who holds the gun to her head and forces her to use a smartphone while at the mountain.   I'll bet it's that SAME nay-doer who also makes her constantly check Facebook.

tjf1967 wrote

+1 and having blue tooth takes it up another level.  Answer the phone, hear when a text comes in, listen to music all with a push against the ear piece.

I agree. I got the bluetooth as well. Did you end up getting the Chips?

It's nice not having to take your gloves off!

BenedictGomez wrote

The article is really incomplete, because nowhere does the author explain precisely whom it is who holds the gun to her head and forces her to use a smartphone while at the mountain.   I'll bet it's that SAME nay-doer who also makes her constantly check Facebook.

Hahaha...Money!