Park rats and powder hounds

dweezileast

dweezileast

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forgive me for asking, but why was it necessary to put labels on people likethis? I really like skiing park, and I enjoy skiing outside the park as well, but for me, nothing beats being in the park. I don't see how calling someone a park rat because all they do is ski in park makes them any better than someone who spends all their time in the woods. Thoughts? hate? props?
 
I think that if your only terrain is park, say the east coast, being a so called "park rat" would be fine by me, because what you be doing anyways. If your in a sweet pow place, and only ride park, then I think thats dead wrong. It's all about variation, and doing something different. If you ride park in a sweet pow place, that is just absurd, but east coast is fine.
 
i love park its mad fun and all, but if you've grown up where i have nothing is better than to ski the mountain on a good snow day, i like to have a balance
 
its cause old people like my dad dont beleive park skiing is skiing so they make up names to make park skiers sound bad
 
i completely agree. i live on the east coast and ski nothing but park but i was just outwest and skiied all pow. it was a good choice.
 
i think we just have to realize that some people just really don't like to ski park, and some just really dont like to ski pow. Skiing is too filled with the stereotype that EVERYONE should ski pow if they got some. Do what you want and fuck the haters
 
I just like skiing in general. I ski park all day every day untill it snows. Then I am all over the pow and get mad if my friends want to go in the park.
 
on the east coast since there is not really that much pow i ski more park but when there is pow i try to ride it as much as i can but still ride the park
 
ill stay in the park for like half the day and then im usually out skiing other trails and finding fun things to do. to me the park gets played out
 
I don't really use the term park rat as a disrespectful thing. It's just a name for kids who hang out in the park

I avoid labels by skiing a little bit of everything. One day I'll be in the park, the next I'll be racing...pow if it's there...backcountry... whatevers good that day.
 
I bring this up because i was in vermont, and there was a whole lot of really great skiing outside the park, and outside the bounds of the mountain, but where i ski normall doesn't have the greatest park, and has just about nothing outside of the park, so if i go to a place that has a good park, with legit jumps, sure i'd like to hit the woods, and find some powder if there is any, but i'd also like to get in the park so i can learn some tricks on jumps that won't destroy me due to sketchiness
 
It doesn't have to be a negative label. All I do is ski big mountain anymore, and if you want to come up with a term for that I won't be offended because it's true.
 
i dont think labels are necessarily bad things. who cares if you like to stick to one type of skiing. if you find something you enjoy doing, do it. skiing is what you make it, and its lucky that there are so many options so there's something for everyone. nobody said you had to split your time between pow/bc, moguls, park, trees, racing, whatever to be a great skier. you can be a great skier all around, or you can concentrate on one area. if it makes you happy, do it.
 
sure it's not negative, unless it's used in a negative connotation. If i had gone off to ski park, and left my friends to ski the woods, i would have been called a park rat, in a negative way
 
ahahaha my friend got in a GIANT argument with this chick because she called him a park rat. He didn't care but when he made fun of her for calling him that she flipped shit. ANYWAYS off topic but um... Yea, variation. I have 2 pairs of skis, one for pow and one for park, so depending on the conditions of that day, I'll wear the according skis. If there's pow, you SHOULD go for it, but on the other hand, more for me.
 
that's not true at all. the friends i was with absolutely took me to school in the woods and off of cliffs. I don't know about two of them, but the one that i ski with most absolutely destroys park
 
yea me too, if you'd rather be in the park you should just be there. i can understand though how it would be annoying to be called a park rat in a negative connotation. i actually got reprimanded by this lady ski patroller a few weekends ago becuase i skied switch all the way up tila bout 50 ft from the lift line and supposedly i was goin pretty fast. but she was just like, " now i know you guys are park rats and everything but please keep going forward down here." and it was totally legit, but i was like shiiiit i dont ever ski park, i like to ski sw on groomers cuz its fun. who really gives a shit?? let it irk ya, or dont.
 
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