jamesdeluxe
Administrator
Instead of turning this into a sexist don't-bring-your-wife-skiing thread, I'll open this up to any bitching you'd like to make about people you ski with.
Here's mine: my wife cannot take any kind of, euh, directional direction. She can't seem to follow me, even if I'm only 50 yards ahead of her. Even if there's no geographic possibility to make a wrong turn, she'll figure out a way. We stop in the middle of a run and I'll say, "take a left at the bottom and we'll meet at the Tomahawk lift." Almost half of the time, no joke, she'll turn right and I'll have to go on a search mission for her.
In North America, this is generally a minor annoyance and costs me 15 - 45 minutes depending on if the hill has decent cell coverage. Regardless, a while back, I put her on notice that if it happens more than once per day, she's on her own until we cross paths again. But try this in the Alps -- where a wrong turn won't just put you on a different lift or trail pod, but literally into a different county 5-10 miles away -- and your whole day is shot.
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Here's mine: my wife cannot take any kind of, euh, directional direction. She can't seem to follow me, even if I'm only 50 yards ahead of her. Even if there's no geographic possibility to make a wrong turn, she'll figure out a way. We stop in the middle of a run and I'll say, "take a left at the bottom and we'll meet at the Tomahawk lift." Almost half of the time, no joke, she'll turn right and I'll have to go on a search mission for her.
In North America, this is generally a minor annoyance and costs me 15 - 45 minutes depending on if the hill has decent cell coverage. Regardless, a while back, I put her on notice that if it happens more than once per day, she's on her own until we cross paths again. But try this in the Alps -- where a wrong turn won't just put you on a different lift or trail pod, but literally into a different county 5-10 miles away -- and your whole day is shot.
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