Most Skibum thing you have done??

Either sleeping in a minivan in Nelson at the top of the long down rail and making pancakes for breakfast before hitting it, or surviving mostly on abandoned french fries in the Mammoth cafeteria for over a month. Or my brother and I sleeping in the minivan in public parks in Calgary on a handrail trip. Backcountry can be pretty ski bum too but I feel like urban ski bumming was more bummy haha.
 
Meals made entirely from the condiment station in lodges. Ketchup soup, garnished with some ranch. Super bonus if you can score some cracker packages.
 
14142419:AlexMartini said:
Either sleeping in a minivan in Nelson at the top of the long down rail and making pancakes for breakfast before hitting it, or surviving mostly on abandoned french fries in the Mammoth cafeteria for over a month. Or my brother and I sleeping in the minivan in public parks in Calgary on a handrail trip. Backcountry can be pretty ski bum too but I feel like urban ski bumming was more bummy haha.
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Lol at first I thought who the hell camps in a park to hit a hand rail? Then I saw your username and its like, "Yeah its Stept, checks out."

Its cool to see some of the OG crew back on NS. I hope you guys are doing well.

Probably the bummiest thing we have done was back at Schweitzer the hotel pool was locked for guests only but you could climb a big snow bank from the lower lot and pop over the side and be right at the hot tub. We used to walk across the village in our swim suits and hoodies, scale the snowbank freezing cold and jump in the hot tub as fast as we could.
 
I've told this story in another thread but I was on a sorta double date/blind date type deal at Stowe once with some friends who were trying to set me up with the one other single girl in the group. Went into the lodge for lunch and it was expensive af (obviously) so I pulled the classic eating chicken fingers/fries from a group that had just gotten up from their table.

The girl was absolutely mortified and didnt talk to me for the rest of the trip hahaha. My buddies thought it was hilarious and I've never felt more-ski bummy. 10/10 would do again. Thats how you weed out the lames.
 
Towards the end of my ski bumming experience I was poor as fuck and I could only afford meals from 7/11. I ended up going to churches around the area that served free spaghetti dinners on Tuesday nights and shit like that.
 
Not the most ski bummy but easiest to explain.

My mountain has free refills on sodas and hot chocolate and coffee. I would grab a dirty cup out of the bin and go get a refill.

Also, there is a club thing where you can pay like 500$ a year to get access to a room full of snacks, but if you found out the code for the room you could just go hang out in there
 
I've slept in my car on trips before, but that's about it. Have eaten multiple day old bakery foods before and slept on a beach. Most of my bum life stuff happened in Israel.
 
14142456:Bened_notnil said:
Not the most ski bummy but easiest to explain.

My mountain has free refills on sodas and hot chocolate and coffee. I would grab a dirty cup out of the bin and go get a refill.

Also, there is a club thing where you can pay like 500$ a year to get access to a room full of snacks, but if you found out the code for the room you could just go hang out in there
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Take cup, tear it a bit, got to counter and say “can I get a new cup mine broke” and you get a new clean cup
 
for a couple months of bumming none of us had our car with us, so each morning we'd fill a backpack with weed, beers, or girl scout cookies to hold out along with our thumbs to attract cars to give us a ride to the mountain

i don't think it ever failed, and sometimes two cars would stop at the same time for us haha
 
Mine have mostly just been the usual poor college kid things, but my favorite was when we would have a very full day in the backcountry and get back pretty late, we'd swing by the Little Caesars and see how many dumpster pizzas each of us could finish. And a few times we lucked out with the timing and just hung out by the dumpster right before they closed and the employees would just hand us the dumpster-bound pizzas so we didn't have to fight the raccoons for them.
 
14142506:patagonialuke said:
Mine have mostly just been the usual poor college kid things, but my favorite was when we would have a very full day in the backcountry and get back pretty late, we'd swing by the Little Caesars and see how many dumpster pizzas each of us could finish. And a few times we lucked out with the timing and just hung out by the dumpster right before they closed and the employees would just hand us the dumpster-bound pizzas so we didn't have to fight the raccoons for them.
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lmao the biggest shock of my first touring trips was finding out that all my buddies, who were TWIGS, would eat full pizzas to themselves on a very regular basis
 
14142506:patagonialuke said:
Mine have mostly just been the usual poor college kid things, but my favorite was when we would have a very full day in the backcountry and get back pretty late, we'd swing by the Little Caesars and see how many dumpster pizzas each of us could finish. And a few times we lucked out with the timing and just hung out by the dumpster right before they closed and the employees would just hand us the dumpster-bound pizzas so we didn't have to fight the raccoons for them.
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Fuck dude lil c's isn't even that expensive damn lmao
 
I literally survive on weekends by eating leftovers from tables at Molly Greens while my idiot friends feel the need to spend 10 bucks on a mollys milk. I've bummed breakfast burritos from breck, bummed a meal from a US Alpine Championship catered banquet at sugarloaf.

camping at Hood is probably the most ski bum thing I've ever done tho, shoutout govy gen meals

lotta good times skiing haha
 
Lived in the back of my pickup with a canopy(non insulated) for 10 months through a good old fashioned Idaho winter chasing days to ski back in the 2000's by myself. About as skibum as I have got.
 
14142516:Biffbarf said:
Fuck dude lil c's isn't even that expensive damn lmao
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Haha, yeah, we were fully aware of that. But they throw it out still in the box and if you time it right it's still pretty fresh (by lil c's standards, at least) since they keep them "hot & ready" all day. So we could either spend $5 on a pizza or dumpster dive and spend that $5 on gas or beer instead.

Fortunately, once I was able to work more hours when my classes were a little less crazy, I eventually started paying for my pizzas again. And I know lil c's gets a lot of shit, but damn, inhaling one of their pizzas after skinning a dozen miles was the best thing ever.
 
turned a boiler room at a lodge I worked at into my own personal ski/chill locker room and made sure i was the only one who had access to the key lol besides my maintenance homies of course
 
Didn’t have a job so I slept on my buddies couch in Staff accom (whistler glacier creek) for 6 months. My clothes were in a suitcase jammed between the couch and the window so it was constantly moist and most of my clothes got holes in them from a mouse living in there.
 
Couldn't get a ride tryna hitchhike to my local mountain so I walked into the local animal shelter and asked for a lift. Guy behind the counter told me he'd give me a lift if my friend and I helped him move his crock pots. Was super confused but said yes, 20 or so moved crock pots later we piled into his Toyota with crock pots and skis and he drove us to the mountain. Told us he used to monoski back in the day at the hill.

110% ran a meth lab behind the animal shelter with all those crock pots but super nice dude
 
Not super bummy but Stealing a shit ton of free cookies/hot chocolate set out on a stand by the bottom of the lift every morning before skiing/before work.

Eating breakfast lunch and dinner all at the staff cafe at the local hill for a nice $2, the food was usually good too.

sleeping on a couch in the ski instructor’s lounge and also scrounging for food in the lounge fridge.

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Our car broke down outside mt snow and phone didn’t have service, so we hitchhiked to a garage to get them to come tow us then hitched again to go ski.
 
Saw a couple of racer girls get their food and as soon as they sat down their coach made them leave cause of training.

We saw a full untouched bowl of soup took it and shared it.

That evening we wrote the story to a "Spotted" facebook site and the girls actually responded.

Also went on a camper trip in December and had no showers, so we went to a local indoor pool and scrubbed the dirty of our bodies in the water.
 
Went to colorado mountain college, clippin tickets in the lot, the ol 2 friends go up 1 comes down with both their passes and gets the third up then never go back to the frontside base for the day, delivered food at night for the resort so i could ski all day and get a free shift meal, lived in a house with a slightly tilted car jack holding up a support beam, hitch hiked everywhere
 
I guess this is kind of a ski bum thing but I used to ski with this guy back at CU that was a weed dealer. He was one of the first with a medical card back in the day and would buy ounces from the dispensaries then sell bags to his buddies. Anyway we went to Vail one day and roll into the $20 parking lot. He pulls out a baggie with a fat nug and hands it to the lot attendant. The attendant just smiled and said, "Your money is good with us sir." and waived us through.

He was a chill dude. Another time he had a little leather pouch with his pipe and a 8th of medical chronic and dropped it off the lift. He showed up to the liftie shack to see if they had it and said, "Im looking for a leather pouch I dropped off the lift, if you guys found it you can keep anything inside thats consumable." The liftie came back with a huge smile on his face and handed him the pouch.
 
I've got a couple from two years living in Crested Butte, one winter I lived on a twin mattress behind a curtain in our living room to save money. Also spent a summer living in a converted attic with no windows
 
14142760:partyandBS said:
Went to colorado mountain college, clippin tickets in the lot, the ol 2 friends go up 1 comes down with both their passes and gets the third up then never go back to the frontside base for the day, delivered food at night for the resort so i could ski all day and get a free shift meal, lived in a house with a slightly tilted car jack holding up a support beam, hitch hiked everywhere
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The two up one down thing is genius. Too bad a lot of resorts scan you everywhere now
 
here's a few:

scrapped totaled car and bought seasons pass

detune my new skis on a metal ski area boundary sign

put a shotgun hole in my beer with a ski pole

dental floss & duct tape to fix the crotch on my ski pants

eaten lodge leftovers from randos

split a ticket at whistler with a "glove drop"

cold canned ravioli for lunch all week, so I could afford gas to drive to the hill

hitch hiked to/from the resort to save gas
 
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Whats a glove drop? I need some new ways to defraud mountains lol. I've only ever done 2 up 1 down.
 
14142984:-arc- said:
split a ticket at whistler with a "glove drop"

Whats a glove drop? I need some new ways to defraud mountains lol. I've only ever done 2 up 1 down.
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You have 1 lift ticket and 1 friend, your friend heads up the chair with the ticket, and drops the ticket inside of a glove. you then pick up the glove and ticket, and use it to get up the chair, where you go up to the summit and split a beer.

jeez I sound like a old math book problem
 
I think I posted this somewhere before, but they used to give out 2-for1 lift ticket coupons for sierra when you bought gas at shell stations. I would wait outside and ask people for their coupons until I had 5 or 10 and then sell them in the sierra parking lot for like $20 a pop to pay for gas/tickets/food. It mostly worked great, but everyone at the gas stations expected me to have some scam when I approached them for the coupon, I had to be like no, it's free - just wondering if can have yours if you don't ski?
 
Worked as a Live in caretaker at mountain top Restaurant.

Was a underpaid job with wack shifts but I got fresh powder after the shoveling was done so not bad.
 
My last two seasons at my home mountain they put a 75 day cap on the normal season pass. The first year they did it, I kept track of my days and around day 71-72 I went in to the seasons pass office and said my pass got ripped off skiing in the trees. $25 later I had a new pass with a new barcode and reset on my days. The next year I tried to do the same thing, but the person at the pass office saw my day count and didn’t let me get a new one. I ended up taking my brothers pass (he had left to start a job across the country) using it for a week before I got caught, kicked off the mountain, and told that if I ever want to buy a pass again I would have to pay $400 in fines plus the cost of the lift tickets for the days I had skied with my brothers pass. I don’t ski there anymore, but they also got rid of that policy the next year, so fuck em.

Also have an uncle who’s move was to get a large cup, fill it with whatever self served food he could find and then top it off with hot chocolate or soda. Basically getting a full meal for the price of a large drink. He said roast beef was a particular favorite.
 
Went to crystal to do a interview and show them my i9 stuff and camped in the b lot with a pop up tent camper. It was way too friggin windy for the pop up that i towed with a 06 impreza. It also started to snow and it was pretty cold in the back of a impreza wagon. Being a ex lift op I know that lift terminals have heaters in them to keep things from freezing. So with it being before season opening knowing that the lift most likely wasnt going to spin I climbed up a parked gondola cabin parked at the drive of the lift and gained access inside the terminal. There was power to all the heaters and cranked them all the way up making the terminal way warmer than the back of the impreza. I set my alarm for 430am to get out of the lift with cover of darkness and to make sure I got out before anyone employed would stroll through.
 
14144354:last_tango said:
Went to crystal to do a interview and show them my i9 stuff and camped in the b lot with a pop up tent camper. It was way too friggin windy for the pop up that i towed with a 06 impreza. It also started to snow and it was pretty cold in the back of a impreza wagon. Being a ex lift op I know that lift terminals have heaters in them to keep things from freezing. So with it being before season opening knowing that the lift most likely wasnt going to spin I climbed up a parked gondola cabin parked at the drive of the lift and gained access inside the terminal. There was power to all the heaters and cranked them all the way up making the terminal way warmer than the back of the impreza. I set my alarm for 430am to get out of the lift with cover of darkness and to make sure I got out before anyone employed would stroll through.
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Holy shit hahah I've always wanted to do this
 
14144354:last_tango said:
Went to crystal to do a interview and show them my i9 stuff and camped in the b lot with a pop up tent camper. It was way too friggin windy for the pop up that i towed with a 06 impreza. It also started to snow and it was pretty cold in the back of a impreza wagon. Being a ex lift op I know that lift terminals have heaters in them to keep things from freezing. So with it being before season opening knowing that the lift most likely wasnt going to spin I climbed up a parked gondola cabin parked at the drive of the lift and gained access inside the terminal. There was power to all the heaters and cranked them all the way up making the terminal way warmer than the back of the impreza. I set my alarm for 430am to get out of the lift with cover of darkness and to make sure I got out before anyone employed would stroll through.
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you are the jason bourne of ski bums
 
Back in the day Wells Fargo had a deal where if you opened a checking/savings account combo you get a 2 for 1 season pass to Copper/Winter park. There was a loop hole where if you already had an account you still got the deal if you opened more accounts. By the time I graduated from CU I had like 4 checking accounts and savings accounts. It got complicated because the bank automatically transferred $15 from each checking to saving every month so I had to set up this auto transfer system for each account to move the money back so I didnt overdraft. It was kind of funny because you would have to grab a buddy who also wanted a Winter Park pass and mob down to Wells Fargo together to get it set up each fall. I think there were even Craigslist ads posted for people to team up with lol
 
14144358:SuspiciousFish said:
Back in the day Wells Fargo had a deal where if you opened a checking/savings account combo you get a 2 for 1 season pass to Copper/Winter park. There was a loop hole where if you already had an account you still got the deal if you opened more accounts. By the time I graduated from CU I had like 4 checking accounts and savings accounts. It got complicated because the bank automatically transferred $15 from each checking to saving every month so I had to set up this auto transfer system for each account to move the money back so I didnt overdraft. It was kind of funny because you would have to grab a buddy who also wanted a Winter Park pass and mob down to Wells Fargo together to get it set up each fall. I think there were even Craigslist ads posted for people to team up with lol
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Wells Fargo and sketchy-ass extraneous accounts, name a more iconic duo!
 
14144253:JupitahJosh said:
My last two seasons at my home mountain they put a 75 day cap on the normal season pass. The first year they did it, I kept track of my days and around day 71-72 I went in to the seasons pass office and said my pass got ripped off skiing in the trees. $25 later I had a new pass with a new barcode and reset on my days. The next year I tried to do the same thing, but the person at the pass office saw my day count and didn’t let me get a new one. I ended up taking my brothers pass (he had left to start a job across the country) using it for a week before I got caught, kicked off the mountain, and told that if I ever want to buy a pass again I would have to pay $400 in fines plus the cost of the lift tickets for the days I had skied with my brothers pass. I don’t ski there anymore, but they also got rid of that policy the next year, so fuck em.

Also have an uncle who’s move was to get a large cup, fill it with whatever self served food he could find and then top it off with hot chocolate or soda. Basically getting a full meal for the price of a large drink. He said roast beef was a particular favorite.
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What resort are you at that puts a cap on season passes?
 
We brought a hit plate into the lodge at crotched like 10 years ago. We didnt eat all the spaghetti. I refused to throw it out and put it in a plastic bag, like a store bag and ate it that night and in the morning. It looked like a sketchier opertaion than it was.

Otherwise your usual sleeping in car, eating bullshit food. Brad dipped in ssuce, crackers, ramen, etc.

Slept in the car drinking and doing whippits at liberty right after they opened. We forgot it was a christian school but yolo.
 
14144385:theabortionator said:
Slept in the car drinking and doing whippits at liberty right after they opened. We forgot it was a christian school but yolo.
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Dude I've always wondered about this. Somehow the most uptight evagelical christian university in the world also has the the best park setup/dry-slope on the East Coast? What's the deal with that??

And for others who don't know about Liberty University this should paint a picture of how wacked out they are...

From the Student Handbook: (Im not fucking making this up)

- Hand holding is permitted

- No kissing

- Hugs may not last longer than 3 seconds

- No R Rated movies on campus

- 12:30am Curfew

Can you imagine going to college at a place like this?!?!

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14144387:GrandThings said:
Dude I've always wondered about this. Somehow the most uptight evagelical christian university in the world also has the the best park setup/dry-slope on the East Coast? What's the deal with that??

And for others who don't know about Liberty University this should paint a picture of how wacked out they are...

From the Student Handbook: (Im not fucking making this up)

- Hand holding is permitted

- No kissing

- Hugs may not last longer than 3 seconds

- No R Rated movies on campus

- 12:30am Curfew

Can you imagine going to college at a place like this?!?!

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But like how can you have any self control without middle school rules. I think there's rules about guys not being allowed in girls dorms etc. Idk.

When they opened they only had a flat box and dfd box and the jumps. Rich ass christians donated a bunch of money to build it. I think they planned on it being more for students but ended uo being way more popular with park rats. So they kept building more features. Now from the looks it's like 100% park almost. Even the baby slope on the otherside has rails.

But yeah i can't imagine paying a bunch of money to go to a college thats all rulez
 
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