If you ski any kind of 'back country' you have to hike in and out of, or if you ever ride on flat cat tracks wax is life. If you only ski park and rails, and you don't have any jumps over 40 feet, wax isn't really necessary. Just don't expect your skis to last multiple seasons.
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'I won't be able to vote for like...four more years.' (18 year old Tanner Hall)
'My knee hurts' (Jeff Merat after grinding a lunch table for an hour instead of sitting in the ski patrol shack for his torm mcl and acl which he got earlier that day.)
'I'm not asking for any help, just mabe for you to get off your ass.'(my dad)