Looking to live in Keystone next year.

holytoast

holytoast

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Hey my name is Ben Lauer,

I decided to move to Keystone recently to pursue my passion of freestyle skiing and see what I can make out of it when I give it everything I have. I'm now currently trying to get a job out there that will allow me to ski as frequently as possible. I'm also searching for somewhere to live. I've skied Keystone a lot but I'm not knowledgeable on the surrounding area. Just wondering on a good starting place...any input appreciated!
 
I would get a random job at key, figure out which ones have the best hours for shredding. You will get a pass and can live in employee housing. Once you know some people, you can try and figure out a spot to live. It's expensive coming in and just trying to do it in a home.
 
13690099:ndye said:
I would get a random job at key, figure out which ones have the best hours for shredding. You will get a pass and can live in employee housing. Once you know some people, you can try and figure out a spot to live. It's expensive coming in and just trying to do it in a home.
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Thanks, I appreciate it.
 
Congrats on living the ski life. It's pretty fucking awesome.

Colorado is one of the best states to start a ski life style out in my opinion. Lots of resorts to work at and ton of like minded people.

Almost all major resorts (Vail,Copper, Telluride, Aspen, Beaver Creek, Keystone, and more) offer employee housing of some sorts.

Apply as early as possible to lock down a employee housing spot. I would say even call the HR offices where your trying to work and ask when they start hiring and what positions get offered housing first.

I know my company will prioritize lift operators and ticket takers for housing first cause they are the least paid. In a good ski town housing is the hardest thing find.

I know a few people who have lived in Keystone and I pretty sure they bunk employee rooms but hey your gonna be shredding and spending nights parting anyway so who cares.

I hear a lot of people who work Keystone also live in Dillon or Silverthorne and drive to work. Would be worth it to throw up a ad on Cragslist and local papers for roommates around August I would say.

Finding work in any ski town is not the hard part. Finding Housing is. I can't stress that enough. Sure you can live out of car or van but if your new to the area or a first year, it's tough to figure out the in's and out's of a ski town when it's -20.

If your open to any ski resort in Colorado just keep checking ski resorts "jobs opening page". They tend to post harder to fill positions (lifties, tickets, bussers) earlier in the summer in hopes that will lock people in. I've even saw Aspensnowmass (my employer) had winter Lifty positions already on job board.

There's only gonna be more posted from now on.

Hope this helps. Good luck on your search for winter wonderland!
 
Hey I'm planning on doing a season in CO this winter too. Is working for the resort the way to go? What are the chances of getting staff accom if you can score one of those jobs?
 
13700627:Dan.P said:
Hey I'm planning on doing a season in CO this winter too. Is working for the resort the way to go? What are the chances of getting staff accom if you can score one of those jobs?
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Depends on where your working. Like I said above you need to decide where you want to work and then check to see if they offer housing with the job. Off the the top of my head I know monarch, cooper, powder horn, Loveland don't offer housing.

I know some hotels will offer up beds to employees how work full time.

But then keep in mind when your housing or pass is dependent on your job, you need to keep that job. I know to many people that started blowing off their job and got fired, then kick out employee housing because they are no longer employees.
 
skijobs1.com is a vail resorts hiring page. Narrow the search to keystone and you can apply for several jobs in a few minutes. Any job though the mountain will get you a free pass. Tenderfoot is the best employee housing because you have your own room and can walk to the mountain house base area in just over 10 minutes, or take the 10 minute bus to river run. Now is a good time to start looking so you can get into the housing. Its month to month as far as I know so you can leave when ever youd like.

Look on craigs list for different job and housing options as well and maybe check out the group "one mans junk summit county" on facebook. There are several thousand members and a lot of housing discussions.
 
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