Grew up with and love skiing. Spent two winters living in the Alps as a ski instructor/guide and skied in excess of 130 days a year in my early 20's after Uni. I've traded it in for 100+ round of golf a year and even spending a lot of time in Munich now close to the Alps I'm not that tempted really, still love it but not enough to prioritize it above golf.
I guess I now live by golf alone but definitely remember the last weekend I was on skis not so many years back (maybe 5) in Argentiere after a huge storm had gone through and dropped about 3 feet of light stuff. Hadn't skied powder in like 8 years, was talked into renting set of K2 Hellbent's, first lift up in the morning, old habits die hard...first run was dropping into waste deep fresh stuff. Those skis made skiing so ridiculously easy compared to my old 210 cm Kastle Super G's it felt like I was cheating, (maybe comparable to persimmons driver vs. Callaway Epic) That one sunny day with all that fresh stuff is worth a lifetime of chasing ski dreams. It doesn't get better and in the years of skiing 50-100+ days you just don't get more than a handful of those moments. While they may be the greatest experiences in sport, great golf days hugely out-number them and I don't have to worry about taming my crazy self that wants to jump off the next cliff or something like that. On top of that, I'll take links golf in the rain and wind any-day over spending a fortune to ski and have it rain on you.