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I don't get snow skiing.
It's cold as shit, always cold. Either blindingly bright or snowing and you can't see in front of you. I always get separated from my group, and can't find anyone. Normally you have to drive/fly to the middle of nowhere. It ends up just being exercise to me, and I can go for a run anywhere for much less. And full disclosure I have been to Park City, and yeah if I liked skiing it would be pretty awesome to literally ski into town for lunch.
But it's not really for me.
I think you can like or dislike an activity, but my point was more about the overhead time to even DO it here.
For reference, I don't resort/downhill ski at all anymore, for that reason. Nordic skiing provides a better ratio.
You can go skiing (if you live somewhere vaguely near skiing) with a quick drive. Cost is at most $1500 for a season pass, and in most cases much less.
So let's say you go skiing for a half day (full day would do better, but let's say you just want to ski a few hours). You'll spend a couple hours in the car and a couple hours on the lift and get a couple hours of actually moving downhill on snow, for a ratio of overhead time to activity time around 2:1. I guess some people would count socializing/heckling from the lift as part of the activity, but not me. Depending on the exact circumstances, it could be a little better or a little worse, but you'll be in that ballpark.
If (this is my experience) you go boating for the day:
-30 minutes - 1 hour - getting trailer hooked up and boat out of storage/driveway.
-30 minutes - put gas in boat
-1-2 hours - drive to lake (same as skiing)
-30 minutes - 1 hour - get boat into lake and park truck. If crowded, add an hour of wait time.
-Sit in boat for 3-4 hours. If we're counting sitting in the boat as the activity, not bad. If only counting wakeboarding/waterskiing time, 10-20 minutes.
-30 minutes - 2 hours - wait in line to remove boat from lake/dump ballast/etc
-1-2 hours - drive back
-1 hour - park boat, boat maintenance (probably a low estimate)
I'd only count the wakeboarding time (just like I don't count time sitting on the ski lift) so the ratio is somewhere in the ballp'ark of 24:1 for overhead time/activity time. I wouldn't call that a wakeboarding/boating trip. I'd call it a boat-moving and fueling "adventure with a side activity of wakeboarding.
That's why I quit riding dirtbikes - all the trails near me closed (I had a kinda-sorta street legal 2-stroke back then so I'd just ride to the trail) and that meant multiple hours of trailering bikes to go ride. The bikes require a LOT of maintenance, too (f'ing KTM!) So the fun time/not fun time ratio got too low to be tolerable.