Quote Originally Posted by jimmsch View Post
Snowboarding is certainly Zandar's favorite sport, but we only get 4 or 5 days on a mountain per year as compared to 100 or more days on the water. He started snowboarding (and wakeboarding) at 6 and can do black diamonds in Vermont, blue trails out west. His sister got on skis last year (at 3 years), hopefully she can do more this year. The trapeze thing is just prepping them for aerial awareness behind the boat when they get into the real tricks.

Come to think of it I wish we lived closer to mountains and flipped the time spent on mountains vs water...less expensive. I think I paid more than $2500 for gas this summer and still have about 6 weeks left!!
I can't say that ski/snowboard is any cheaper. We'll be around that $2.5k in season passes and that's before gas to/from the mountain and lodging for all the road trips we have planned this year. The wife is a snow junkie though, so it's easy to justify both the summer and winter expenses. Affording them is a whole other issue!!!