Exact opposite. I started snowboarding before anyone else was at my local hill.
Everyone skied, back when everyone skied.
It was kinda cool though, everyone wanted to ski with the snowboarder, even though I sucked and held everyone up cause I would fall all the type.
Pretty much learned by eating shit trying to go down the steep chairs.
Oh, and my mountain had a tbar at the time for the main lift. that thing was death to learn on. The cable ones that pull out, not the fixed ones like most bunny hills.
When a lot of people started snowboarding there that thing was carnage. You would literally have to jump over snowboarders on the steep hill to get up without falling off the lift.
good times.
Now most of the kids I ride with ski again. Idk, I'm used to being in the minority with my friends