Air Force active duty and skiing

.CJ.

.CJ.

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For those of you who are prior service or active duty, how much time do you have to ski? I know there are a couple factors that come into play like the base you're stationed at, your AFSC, and deployment schedule. But overall how much can you ski, what bases are best for skiing, should I use paid leave, ski on weekends? I ship on the 10th of April so would be nice to get some info.
 
I'm not sure of the specifics of air force, army, etc, but one of ours Alex has been travelling the world while on some form of duty. Looks fucking cool, I'm sure it's hard at times, but that boy was in Austria skiing, and that's cool as shit.
 
I did 4 years in the navy and basically you can kiss skiing goodbye for a while. I skied a little over Christmas leave. I was stationed in San Diego then Virginia, so day trips on the weekend were not a thing. But that said, it was worth it, since school is free now! And I work in the industry and my military experience helped me get the job I have now
 
i am not military or a veteran, but have skied at West Point (they have their own mountain)

cool they open it to the public on weekends
 
I wouldn't even bother, when I was stationed in Whidbey Island and I went to Mt.Baker with a group of buddies. We did hours of paperwork and safety briefs.
 
topic:.CJ. said:
For those of you who are prior service or active duty, how much time do you have to ski? I know there are a couple factors that come into play like the base you're stationed at, your AFSC, and deployment schedule. But overall how much can you ski, what bases are best for skiing, should I use paid leave, ski on weekends? I ship on the 10th of April so would be nice to get some info.
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Hill AFB would probably be pretty dope. If you are looking at bases close to good skiing, I'd just find all the bases out west, and then see which ones are closest to good snow.
 
I'm active AF in Texas, the past 2 winters I've taken 3 weeks of leave and drove up to colorado to ski the whole time. Not ideal but subtracting the drive days and break days I get about 15 days a season.

If you are within a few hours of a mountain just go on the weekends and don't use leave, or I guess whatever days you have off normally because not everyone works m-f, some schedules are weird. And if you get deployed over the winter well then sucks to suck guess you won't be skiing that season.

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Hill AFB would probably be pretty dope. If you are looking at bases close to good skiing, I'd just find all the bases out west, and then see which ones are closest to good snow.
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Not every job can go to every base, some can only go to a handful, none of which could be next to snow. Or you could get super lucky and be stationed in Misawa and ski japan pow every weekend.
 
I'm active duty army and stationed in JBER. I ski damn near every other day if not everyday. There's a little resort called hilltop for the weekdays that has a pretty nice park. Then I hit up Alyeska on the weekends. The military Mondays at Aly are pretty sweet too, you and dependents ski for free.
 
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