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program but today guys we're getting into the  topic of snow sports so i'll just throw it out  

there what are your favorite snow sports do you  guys or do you just like stay inside and stay warm  

under a blanket and just read or just listen to  music or do you go out there and attack the winter  

or something i love snow sports i'm obsessed which  is funny because i'm in arizona where there's no  

snow but i love skiing i love snowboarding  i love sledding i love all of the snowboards  

i want to try snowshoeing and cross-country  skiing and some of the ones i haven't done but  

i think it's so fun to get bundled up and go out  well you grew up in idaho right you grew up in  

a snowy climate right aubry so yeah that was your  childhood going out that might be why i have such  

fun memories because all my experience with snow  was as a kid and as an adult i haven't had to  

deal with it really much sure that makes total  sense what about you guys michelle and jessica  

are you outdoorsy types or do you  like the snow going out in the winter  

it sounds like michelle you look skeptical well  i mean just ice skating count like yeah okay i'll  

take a little skate around you know okay ryan  park or something like that or like not or uh  

uh the rockefeller center like oh like like that  stuff i like i'll be honest um you know i i like  

to go out with my son now and like watch him but  like whenever it is and not as fun as you guys

getting them all bundled up and then they're over  it two minutes later and they spend all this time  

over two minutes later like in my experience kids  could spend all day and yeah they don't need a  

board or don't get cold or something like just  like bundle them up and you like you could just  

make up games for hours first of all like snowball  fights are super fun like you choose bases and you  

you know there's like boundaries and like it's so  fun and then um making um igloos if there's enough  

snow and if not the making snowmen is really fun  yeah like there's so much fun stuff in the snow  

i i get annoyed when i have to walk my dogs in the  snow because that's just like hard but if i leave  

them home and james and i just go play then it's  fun and it's free because how expensive are snow  

sports now right lindsay we've talked about oh  yeah we can talk about this forever but i just  

want to make one point before that i think what  i love about outdoor snow sports is it helps me  

enjoy being inside so when i'm outside half the  day i enjoy coming back inside but if i'm inside  

all the day i go nuts i get cabin fever i  don't want to spend the whole day inside  

so it lets me balance things out and i can do  both and feel good about it but yeah i feel like  

i get enough of that like if i have to go to the  store like i don't like feel like i need to like  

i don't need to like do a whole sport like i can  just like be like okay like i'm outside that was  

and now i'm enjoying being inside no i mean the  thing is the thing is with skiing for example i  

do a lot of skiing uh well i live in colorado so  everyone does here right it's just what you do  

but skiing has become insanely expensive these  days a ticket a one-day ticket at one of the  

big famous resorts is about 225 a day that is  bananas i'm getting silent plus all the deer  

the gear is so expensive too it's bananas  have all the snow clothes and the snowboard  

and the skins or whatever it's so expensive so  much right so it's like become elitist where a  

very small percentage of the population skis now  and i think it's really sad because when i was a  

kid we used to spend 12 bucks to go skiing for an  afternoon in new hampshire 12 did you guys ski as  

kids jessica i think you maybe have been skiing  a couple times yeah i grew up next to lake tahoe  

yeah carson city nevada like tahoe is so famous  yeah yeah i mean there's so many famous resorts  

around there so yeah same thing like everybody  grows up skiing we our parents all drop us off  

at the community center saturday mornings or  whatever and then we all take the ski bus up  

for the ski program then you have like lessons  in the morning and then they set loose all these  

crazy middle schoolers or however old you are  right in the afternoon um and yeah i mean it's  

everybody grows up like that and then as  you get older you just you get a pass when  

you're in high school you know and we're on the  mountain all the time so i grew up skiing and  

then i changed to snowboarding yeah yeah yeah yeah  yeah for sure i mean and it was pretty affordable  

right not being so crazy expensive like 20 bucks  or whatever for like a lift ticket i don't know  

what happened i don't know when this changed  when it became so elitist but for me skiing  

was a way to spend time with my family it was  technically it was our religion because instead  

of my parents they had a choice do we do sunday  school on sundays and separate as a family right  

the kids go there the adults go there or do we go  to ski yeah literally in ski lessons that was the  

choice we made as a family and so we spent our  sundays together so what happens when that goes  

away like those family outdoor experiences become  too expensive that's my question for you guys  

and it's just not fair that it's not available  to everyone it shouldn't only be available to the  

upper class the extremely rich right not i  know as far as i know there aren't really  

there aren't really cheaper lifting because like  affordable coupon days there should be not really  

those are sort of gone away right like i remember  growing up the different resorts would have like  

you know half price tuesdays or you know whatever  things were cheaper or something yeah i don't know  

actually yeah i shouldn't say that because there  are some resorts that have that around here that's  

the closest one it's small they have a night  skiing which is like cheaper and super fun yeah  

um like it doesn't exist you can you can so that's  a whole issue we could solve for another day right  

how can this industry turn around or doesn't  want to turn around and address the mainstream  

america because most millennials are not are not  skiing like they're not really learning to ski  

um but have you guys ever been injured really  badly out there in a a snow sport out of the world  

yeah what happened i was skiing and i tried to  stop and sort of over corrected my turn so i was  

facing facing up the hill going down backwards and  it was a very steep like black diamond hill and i  

couldn't get myself turned to stop and i ran into  a snow making machine like a big metal machine  

that makes the snow oh my god like worst case  scenario going very fast are you serious i like  

woke up in a pool of blood on the mountain it was  just very bright against the white snow that's not  

funny oh my god i got a cut like right here and  they had to take me down in the toboggan oh yeah  

kind of a little snow yeah and they stitched me up  at the bottom of the hill but the doctor said it  

was like a millimeter from like brain damage your  brain you know some real close calls it was a very  

close call and just that i wasn't injured more  severely if i had hit a tree people died hitting a  

tree oh yeah it could have been so much worse you  could die hitting a flipping snow machine too yeah  

that's insane was it padded usually those things  are padded but you're hitting it hard anyway so  

it doesn't mean it's any less of an impact but  was it do you remember what they're looking at  

vitamins evidently kind of metal or something  enough that i got cut but it was a small minor  

cut just like that that's terrifying could have  been so much worse it probably was padded because  

you can't have sharp metal right there no you  can't you can't that's terrifying did you get  

back on this well obviously not that day but did  you go back the next year did you stop skiing  

yeah i didn't stop i didn't stop but i was more i  stopped skiing i started snowboarding after that  

because snowboarding is easier to just like  sit or like make yourself crash and stop  

right and when i was like i don't know if  i can do this anymore because i felt so  

out of control when i was going fast down  the hill and was trying to make my butt  

and i just couldn't there's nothing i could do  whereas snowboarding you can make yourself stop  

okay so okay so that's my question so like for  since i'm not quite into the snow sports like i  

um what for a snow sport newbie person  who's who doesn't like going too fast  

um and doesn't want to be out of control that much  uh what would you recommend i think snowshoeing  

i would recommend for you or cross-country skiing  because you know snow showing is hiking basically  

it's just like you have a way you don't post  hole like you don't go deep into the snow so  

you stay above the snow okay you don't have to go  up hills on the snow shoes but it's not dangerous  

in the same way yeah okay i like a good safe  activity yeah i wouldn't go snowboarding or  

skiing they both are dangerous they really are  wrecked um snowboarding and got a bad concussion

it could yeah be so hard when you can hit  your head yeah dangerous and i also hit a  

tree on skis when i was in middle school yeah i  skied right into one and bounced off the other  

it's like i don't know where are you in german uh  i was a little bit you know i laid down and i was  

you know kind of a little disoriented i mean  there may have been brain damage we don't know

so yeah it is dangerous and it's you know i wasn't  paying attention i was just skiing and watching  

someone else and all of a sudden my skis were  veering into the woods oh my gosh yeah this kind  

of thing okay last last question what do you guys  think about sledding that is a snow sport that we  

haven't talked about yet and and like it's so fun  and it can be free yeah sleds are cheap there's  

all these snow parks around mount hood i'm looking  out the window you guys can see where i'm pointing  

but like there's all these snow parks around  here and yeah it's like it's free you buy a sled  

or i take an inner tube like i use the same thing  on the river and the mountain and it's so fun do  

you guys go sledding that can be really dangerous  too my brother broke his arms because we would  

pull sleds behind a tractor or a four-wheeler and  probably go way faster than we should have like  

just going down a slope safe pretty safe that's  good don't don't go behind motorized vehicles  

that's not wise ill-advised oh i won't we always  did i think that's a great alternative to spending  

all that money on a ski ticket you could take your  family out right bring hot chocolate make it a day  

or it could just be a couple of hours skiing is a  huge commitment like the whole day you're up there  

right oh yeah yeah snowing uh sledding could  be a couple hours i think it's great why not  

yeah it is um it's you can feel the difference  uh if you're a an adult and not a kid  

going off jumps getting any air and then  landing your spine is like your neck  

like you're so sore the next day seriously you  are you're like sore from sledding it's ridiculous  

yeah kids have no fear right because they don't  know what it feels like to get injured so they  

don't know james's third trip skiing he'd only he  like learned got a couple lessons his third trip  

skiing this kid was flying off jumps like spread  eagle in the air just like zero fear of anything  

awesome of course it's amazing awesome i love  it guys this has been a great topic that i think  

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