I used to be soooo jealous of the kids who learned to ski. Back when they had ski school and bussed the kids up to Alpental or wherever at 5 in the morning. The sport of ski was and is expensive
Not really - back in the day (early 70's), skiing was a pretty solid family sport. My folks were by no means wealthy but we bought a season pass at the local ski resort and headed up there almost every Friday night/one day on the weekend. Picked up used equipment at the ski swap and rocked pretty much crap outer gear from a fashion-sense.
Now, white knuckling it down the mountain road after one of my two dads had a few cocktails apres ski...that was horrifying but we didn't wear seatbelts and would have been thrown clear of any danger if he'd have crashed.