Super annoying incident today, which only you guys will understand. I was at Belleayre going down Yahoo, a run which is labeled a double black but in terms of steepness feels to me like a hard blue or an easy black at a bigger mountain. The left half of the run, directly under the lift, was bumped up and the right half was groomed. I’m an advanced skier, and I have zero issues on steeps and with ice, but moguls are really not my strength. I haven’t encountered them much this season and I really wanted to practice, but I was worried about being embarrassed under the lift. I decided I didn’t care what people thought and I was going to ski the bumps and just take it slow. One thing I know about myself is that I can take anything at all if I go slow.
I’m picking my way down slowly and awkwardly, but I was 100% in control, when a man above me shouts “practice your turns where it’s safer!” He wasn’t ski patrol or a ski instructor — at least he wasn’t dressed as one — and something about his tone was incredibly condescending. Then, when I was getting on the lift at the base of the run, I hear someone call out from the crowd behind me, “I see you made it down alive!” I look up and it’s the same guy.
It was that second comment that put me over the edge. He may have thought he was being helpful with the first comment, but the second one was flat out obnoxious. You would never catch a woman acting that way. What makes some men think it’s ok? Grrr.
I’m picking my way down slowly and awkwardly, but I was 100% in control, when a man above me shouts “practice your turns where it’s safer!” He wasn’t ski patrol or a ski instructor — at least he wasn’t dressed as one — and something about his tone was incredibly condescending. Then, when I was getting on the lift at the base of the run, I hear someone call out from the crowd behind me, “I see you made it down alive!” I look up and it’s the same guy.
It was that second comment that put me over the edge. He may have thought he was being helpful with the first comment, but the second one was flat out obnoxious. You would never catch a woman acting that way. What makes some men think it’s ok? Grrr.