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ScottyJack
Our internet ski forum posters obsessed with telling how much they paid to ski?  
I ride with Crazy Horse!
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Highpeaksdrifter
I think it is because a lot of people like to talk about things they buy when they think they got a good deal. Same goes for when they think they've paid too much.

I cna't believe I paid $________ for my new _________.
There's truth that lives
And truth that dies
I don't know which
So never mind - Leonard Cohen
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Re: Why

Telemark Dave
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Personally, my mindset is more in tune with skiing for as little as possible.  Total dirtbag thesis.
That doesn't mean I'll dumpster dive for my equipment, but if the need be.......

I find it very difficult to rationalize paying $XX.XX for a lift ticket to carry me 400' up a molehill that I can skin up almost as fast.   Faster if you factor in a liftline.    Note that I change my tune pretty quickly if that same $ pays for 2K+ of vert that most of you on this forum have access to in your back yard.  

Just some perspective from the glacially flattened Hinterlands.

TD
"there is great chaos under heaven, and the situation is excellent" Disclaimer: Telemark Dave is a Hinterlandian. He is not from New York State, and in fact, doesn't even ski there very often. He is also obsessive-compulsive about Voile Charger BC's.