Mike M. Miskulin wrote:

My greatest annoyance with skiers, in general, revolve around
their ability to stop in the middle of a run &/or stop, and stop
often on a bumped run.

This is hardly a skier-only behaviour. At least they don't tend to do
this in packs like young snowboarders do, sitting on their asses in the
snow in groups watching each other go off the same little hit they've found.

Stopping on a bump run is often necessary, if only to catch a breather.
I know I'm not usually in good enough shape to ride them top to
bottom, at least not at the large vertical western hills I frequent.

Neil