Enjoy man! I came on here after a few years NS break just to post this!
I'm in a similar situation. I haven't skied at all this year, and have skied maybe 4-5 times max in the past 3years or so. I, too, most likely won't be going much anytime soon due to the expensive costs of gear, lift tickets, season passes (especially since I graduated from college), and potentially going back to school. Plus I might have to take a cut in location for the next few years.
I've realized skiing will most likely just be a fun side hobby and not a huge part of my life (not an absolute obsession like it was in high school and to a certain degree first few years at college). As such, skiing will happen for me again down the line when I can afford blowing the money for expensive lift tickets, a week trip to a baller resort out west when there's good pow, or when I can sack it up and afford touring gear. Otherwise, I'm pretty content in the time being going a few days a year locally if the conditions are good, friends are around, and good deals on lift tickets.
On a side note, one huge factor for me is that resorts are completely pricing out a large demographic of future skiers. When I read that lift ticket prices are easily $75+ a day, not to mention $100+ for mountains in VT (the east coast...wtf???) I have a stronger urge to boycott the ski industry. Wake up resorts, I don't want to be shredding at a resort where the only demographic is trust fund 20 somethings whose parents pay for their "dope" apartment nearby, or rich families who ski over xmas break once a year!
