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Do you ever go boarding alone?

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#1 ·
My wife wanted to send me out snowboarding for the day today (Birthday). I turned down the offer because I have some interview prep I need to do. But then I got thinking that I don't want to spend my Bday hanging out by myself.

Is it common for you guys to hit the slopes solo? I find when I go I have a lot of fun shooting the shit with my buddies on the chair lift. I would find it boring if I were alone.

Anyone else?
 
#34 ·
I ride alone almost exclusively since my friends are total douchebags and would rather sit in front of a video game instead of actually going out and doing something. Fucking jackasses. Anyway, sometimes I hook up with other solo riders on the lift and we ride together looking for jibs and fun lines, which can be awesome, but most of the time I actually prefer my time on the mountain alone. It let's me get into the zone, and I agree with others who have said that to really allows you to focus on your technique, which is definitely a plus.
 
#38 ·
You mean... you guys have... friends?

I've only taken a few runs with someone else, on two separate occasions. Even if I knew other riders, I lost pretty much all my friends a little over a year ago. Snowboarding really helps me spiritually and socially. Great exercise, and it gives me a chance to occasionally interact with other people and takes my mind off any demons. I should get the "SINGLES ONLY" sign and guy tattooed.
 
#39 ·
I ride 90% of the time alone. I started late to the game and don't really know anyone around my ability level to ride with. I do run into some of the guys I work with from time to time and do a few runs, but generally I am holding them back and they take off. With that being said it was a pow day this past Wednesday and I rode a full 6 hours totally by myself and it was the best day I have had to date!
 
#40 ·
Probably 40-60 split only because of my location and knowing many people who are into snowboarding. It's fun with friends on long weekend trips because you can party it up after the day is done. For day trips or an over nighter I don't really care if I am going alone.

Riding with friends (who are better) tend to get me trying new trails or push a little harder, but I find it much easier to work on specific techniques alone since I can focus.
 
#41 ·
This season Ive actually got to go solo a bit more, and with friends actually(found out a job as a snowboard instructor at my local mountain was a pretty good winter gig.) I probably ride alone 60% of my time.

Some of my favorite rides are the morning solo midweek runs, when its least crowded, you can really get some me time. I get some good tunes, get in the zone and try to challenge myself as a rider. try and make the most badass, perfectly balanced carve across the mountain, then try and continue the carve back halfway up the hill, then a nice tight toeside tear drop back the other way, then maybe a smooth heelside c turn and nice and stylish flip switch for the next few.

When riding with friends though, you obviously need to have the most style points haha, and that in itself is something that really develops you as a rider. When you ride with people better then you you just getter better. straight up fact. And the company is usually fun... or not if that one friend comes.


Im a all-mountain freestyle rider. The snow is my playground with its accelerating as fast as possible, braking as fast as possible, Making unnecessarily huge turns just because theres snow over there too, cto completely carve in lue of the earths natural aura, whatever.

Its easier and way more fun to do solo, but not exactly safe to be to erratic when the trail has people on it, but its way better period with bros and hoes
 
#42 ·
I'm also one of the many that ride along almost all the time. Again not a lot of others I know snowboard or who can go when I go. Just me and my tunes. Besides it is kinda of like fishing, that ten inches became fourteen inches and that kicker became.......

Now having someone to go who would pay for gas would help. Whenever my wife says I spend a lot for gas, I just say I need know a snowboard chick who wants go split the gas but then the wife is fine with the gas expense. Darn!
 
#45 ·
I ride alone 90% of the time.

I like getting to the mountain before it opens. Make summit runs until the crowds show up. Then I'll lap the mini park doing the same runs all day. I find the people that I ride with regularly either don't take snowboarding seriously enough, or take it way too seriously to enjoy.

Plus you get the added benefit of getting immediate lift access in the singles line.
 
#48 ·
I ride alone 90% of the time. The only time I ride with friends really is when I take trips out West. I'll be hitting Utah and Mammoth in Feb and March, but otherwise I'll be going solo at the dinky resorts around here the rest of the winter.

The best part about going alone is I don't have to wait for my friends' dumbasses to wake up and end up getting to the mountain at like noon. I like to be there for first chair unless the snow really sucks balls
 
#51 ·
The other problem I find is that most people can't keep up that don't ride every day. My wife gives me a hard time cause I get off the lift, strap in while moving and point my board down hill. I told her it's cause she is slow and needs to step it up a notch, lol, she didn't like that but oh well. It's really hard to slow down, I'd rather go fast and stop to wait at a pre determined point.

A lot of people can not just keep lapping the lifts all day either, not the same runs but just straight riding, they tire out by 1100 when I do ride with them and I'm still good for 15+ more runs....
 
#54 ·
A lot of people can not just keep lapping the lifts all day either, not the same runs but just straight riding, they tire out by 1100 when I do ride with them and I'm still good for 15+ more runs....
Argo has it right. People get tired, have to take a lunch break, change clothes, etc. That's when the lift lines get shorter and you hav less people on the slope. Last time I went with a couple of friends they had to break for lunch and wanted to know if I was hungry. Nope....that's why I have pockets for some food and a drink stash on the hill.
 
#53 ·
Have gone alone once. A bit of a lonely drive there n' back but I had some excellent albums to keep my company :) This was one of the few powder days last season and it was freakin' excellent, I'm glad I went! I tried inviting people but no one was really wanting to go. I went the other day with a friend & his friend who had never snowboarded before. My bud was teaching him while I went on my own most of the day.
 
#55 ·
I ride alone a lot because everyone seems to have opposite shifts to me.
I prefer riding with someone else as I can explore more (trees, areas that I have not gone before that could dangerous for solo riders) and also I am more likely to try things if someone else is also trying them or are more advanced and can help me out. Often I cannot gauge what I am doing wrong technically if I am by myself.
If I am having a bad day and am riding alone I will probably call it a day instead of keep going. If its a powder day I do not mind the serenity of riding alone.
 
#58 ·
I like going on a trip with a group of people, but we dont really ride together. we have eachother's #'s and have a general idea when to meetup at the lodge for lunch etc but for the most part its a do your own thing day and meetup at certain 'checkpoints' etc..

makes for a good day when you want to solo but still have friends nearby
 
#60 ·
I like boarding alone at times. Whenever we make a trip, there's usually about 6-14 of us, and we'll break off in groups depending on skill. I simply can NOT stand riding in a group of 5 or 6 and listening to individuals debate on what slope to hit, where to go, wait for so and so, plan on hitting certain terrain due to lunch soon, whip out the map, on and on and on! It's usually my gf and her friends that want to have a "plan". At times I'd rather just listen to music, hop off the lift, point it and go! That or designate someone and play follow the leader.....
 
#61 ·
I ride alone all the time. I also ride with buddies all the time. I find there is advantages to both. I enjoy the companies of certain others, and I like exploring the mountain and working on learning multiple things when buy myself.

For me there is benefits to both and I enjoy doing each equally.
 
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