How often do you really get to ski in college?

About 12 days during the semester and every single day of winter break for me. Sucks I am three hours from the nearest ski resort at college but living in park city during break makes up for it.
 
Not in college yet, but I think that it depends on the person and location of nearby mountains. I'll be in an area where it's only a 40 minute drive to snoqualmie, 2 hrs to stevens, and 1hr to crystal, so I'll hopefully be able to make it to snoqualmie everyday day after class (community college ) but it really depends on motivation I think
 
Depends on where you go, major and class schedule, and how good of grades you want.

For me COCC, Mt Bachelor 30 min drive, Major: Electrical Engineering and class 3 days a week during winter term and 5 during spring. Winter term I made it up 4 days a week but then spring I could only go 2.

If you have a fairly popular, non-rigorous major at a large school, then it should be pretty easy for you to get all your classes on the same days. But the smaller the school the fewer classes offered which increases the probability that you could have class 5 days a week.

But if you have a really hard major done plan on skiing much.
 
once every weekend- every other weekend. I live 2.5 hours away while im at college, but 15 mins away when im on break. so i think i got about 40-50.
 
I went to Plymouth State in New Hampshire, it is roughly 30 minutes from Loon, Waterville Valley and Cannon. I had the Cannon/ Waterville pass, my best season, I got 94 days. Most of those were before/ after class and on the weekends. My advice would be to work a night job in college so you can still ski when you are not in class.
 
I went to UCONN, friend has house at okemo, so I had a 3hr drive to skiing. Get friday's off and you'll be fine. We did 30 days a year. Haven't skied that much since, and I work at a ski mtn.
 
I skied anywhere between 40-80 days during my degree. There are some weeks you ski everyday, where as others you crush the books its all about time management
 
13056566:treetrunks said:
Does anyone go to Fort Lewis in Durango?
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I don't go there but I live there and have a lot of buddies at the Fort. Most of them ski 4 to 5 times a week
 
If you go to liberty university you can walk 2 minutes and be at the worlds largest snowflex park and big air facility in the United States.

but I dunno if snowflex is considered skiing.
 
Kids at U of U hit 100 days no problem, my freshman year I definitely got in 80 or 90 and slowly decreased from there. Freshman year seems to be the best to get as many in because you're likely to have easy classes and no work.
 
13056602:pussyfooter said:
Kids at U of U hit 100 days no problem, my freshman year I definitely got in 80 or 90 and slowly decreased from there. Freshman year seems to be the best to get as many in because you're likely to have easy classes and no work.
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BECAUSE ITS THE U OF U
 
13056602:pussyfooter said:
Kids at U of U hit 100 days no problem, my freshman year I definitely got in 80 or 90 and slowly decreased from there. Freshman year seems to be the best to get as many in because you're likely to have easy classes and no work.
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I had 75 this last season even after being out for a month with a foot injury
 
It definitely depends on how good your time management, grades, and cash are. My freshman year I went about once a month, my second year I only got out once all season due to breaking my ankle. This coming year I'm hoping to go more do to the major cash flow.
 
Green Mountain College's Killington School of Resort Management is a 3 hear bachelors degree where you don't have to take all the bullshit gen-Ed's, the classes you take will actually help you in the resort and hospitality field plus you earn credits every winter for working at Killington and still get paid which means you graduate with 3 years of experience in your field.

Had 130 days my first year 203 days my second year and 190 this season and started a job at Woodward 2 days after graduation
 
I'm going to be a freshman at montana state bozeman and I will be studying Mech. Eng. in the honors program. I know my schedule and I'm going to ski on the weekends some fall semester and tuesdays and thursdays after classes at 12 once resorts open
 
It's all about priorities. I averaged 50 a year during an engineering degree at USC, about 5hrs from Mammoth
 
You gotta earn your turns in college. Every second I wasn't skiing I was doing work for school. 60+ days in ohio with full time engineering classes. You can do it.
 
I skied at least 3 days a week all four years of college, starting end of October/ early November thru April. (cept for when I was injured all those times)

Vacations I skied every day. Logged between 50 and 75 days a year.
 
Spring semester last year I had about 40 days in at UVM. Only a handful during fall semester. But having a month long winter break is wicked nice to get as much skiing in as you want at home.
 
It all depends on how willing you are to accommodate and if you get lucky enough really.

I have no classes on weekends but have Mon-Fri all in school. I got around 30 days in this year with a seasons pass that included two mountains. I also didn't work a "normal" part time job or anything just my freelance designing. Didn't pay for any food on the hill, brought my own lunch. Pretty much just paid for bud since I drove majority of the time. It's also a little over a 3 hour drive from RI compared to barely 2 from CT like I'm used to.
 
http://www.sierranevada.edu/aspire-higher-fall-2014/

Sierra Nevada College - closest 4 year college to a ski area (0.5 miles)...why go anywhere else, north star only 20 mins away, also got boreal, alpine, squaw, sugar bowl, heavenly, homewood, kirkwood, Sierra-at-Tahoe and Mammoth about 3 hours away.

Seriously there is not a better school to go to if you want to ski as much as possible - simply said
 
and you can easily get 50% off tuition for 4 years for any new student and transfer students can easily get 50% off as well
 
I got in 50 something days this year, and that was without a car, and a bad back injury that took me out for six weeks.

it really depends on if you want to go ski or not :P
 
13056862:swordsandpens said:
I got around 30 days in this year with a seasons pass that included two mountains.
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Your season pass is only good for one season therefore it is a "SEASON PASS" not a "SEASONS PASS"

The level of idiocracy is way to high
 
Around 3 -4 days a week my freshman year when I was 35 minutes from Stratton / Okemo. Took all my classes on 2 days during the week (9-9 all day some breaks)..the rest o fthe days off were either hw a lot of the time or skiing.
 
13056424:Espen519 said:
Not in college yet, but I think that it depends on the person and location of nearby mountains. I'll be in an area where it's only a 40 minute drive to snoqualmie, 2 hrs to stevens, and 1hr to crystal, so I'll hopefully be able to make it to snoqualmie everyday day after class (community college ) but it really depends on motivation I think
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Where is this?
 
Finance major at UCONN and I got in about 30-40 days at Mount Snow. When you're not skiing you really gotta get your shit done and can't put it off cause that's when you screw yourself out of bluebird days. I've learned from experience...
 
You could do what I did and go to school only part time in Spring semester (December/April) and ski about 5 days a week. Now that I am done with school I have a position managing a ski shop and only have one day a week that I can't make it on the slopes.
 
Having a car is also one of the biggest factors in frequent skiing at uni.

At UBC there is a ride share, but it is filled with moochers for the most part. So no matter what I fill my car and gas is all paid for the Whistler trips.

Night skiing is also another way to increase the miles on your season. You get shit done all day, then have a few hours under the light. Realistically, I never studied after skiing, you're just too tired.

Giving up partying is probably the easiest way to conserve your energy for early mornings and late nights. You save money on booze too.

This last year I worked 25 hrs a week, studied full-time as a grad student and was on the mountain 3-5 days a week. It is a very do able. If you have it down to a science.
 
I got about 20 or so days in maybe, although if I had a car it would have been a ton cheaper/much more frequent.

The guy above's got it just about right, and I'll probably do the same when I finally get up to UBC for a semester or two
 
I skied about 70 - 105 days each season through all of college and grad school - the variable that exists was based on snow conditions and injuries.
 
I go to Lyndon state in Vermont and ski almost every day at either Jay Peak or Burke. Burke is less than ten minutes away and a combined season pass is only $200
 
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Giving up partying is probably the easiest way to conserve your energy for early mornings and late nights. You save money on booze too.
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What, you can't party till 3am then get up at 7 to ski? You're not college-ing hard enough, man!

Seriously though.
 
Went to Central Washington University. It's located on the east side of the Cascade mountain range, so there was zero traffic up to the Summit at Snoqualmie and it only took 35 to 40 minutes to get there. I majored in History and Political Science, graduated in 4 years and averaged 60 days a year on the hill. It also helped that I worked at the mountain on the weekends.
 
Just graduated from CU in May (as a 5th year) and I usually got about 2-5 days in a week throughout college with and average of 50-60 days a season and was able to break 90 my sophmore year. Depends not only where you go/major/job, but mostly who you surround yourself with. My advice, surround yourself with people more motivated to ski everyday than yourself. Top 3 schools I know that have programs most condusive to this are CU Boulder, USC, UVM, and Sierra Nevada College
 
It all comes down to time management. I skied over 100 days my first three years, and 80 or so my last. I had one or two days off a week (still full time), and would night ski fridays, do hw, then ski all weekend. Would also take a ride with anyone and everyone. Went to CU Boulder so there were a lot of people headed up, which definitely helped. Also, putting skiing before partying is pretty necessary, but you can still have fun.
 
I'm going to Montana State, which is 25 minutes from bridger bowl. You can ski as much as you can handle physically/mentally. If you get your schedule right, it's really easy to go ski after classes for a few hours. I got in about 75-80 days this season, with a full courseload.
 
Freshman/sophomore year I skied twice a week. Senior year I skied a total of two days throughout the season.

So yeah, I pretty much quit skiing for school. Feelsbadman.
 
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