Ski bumming

[Marc]

Many envy, few do. I wonder why that is?...... Well not really I guess we all know.

Because I'd rather retire early and cruise around the world on a 30 - 40 foot sailboat and ski where I want, when I want.

It's a gamble, but we'll see.

 

[prisnah]

GSS- I'm going to Boulder cuz he's already got the place there and I got a season pass to Eldora which is 20 minutes away, and a bus runs there from literally his front door. And I gotta stick around the NE till then due to a few family issues that I'm gonna hafta help out with.

Snoseek- I'm already hitting the SR forums, some good looking options so far.... I was wondering though what exactly is connecting rentals?? Website?

*** Nevermind, I found connecting rentals ( I love you google), looks good, thanks!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Cool beans...ski-bumming at Eldora????? O.K. no comment

 

[L2RAFO]

GSS- I'm going to Boulder cuz he's already got the place there and I got a season pass to Eldora which is 20 minutes away, and a bus runs there from literally his front door. And I gotta stick around the NE till then due to a few family issues that I'm gonna hafta help out with. !

Don't know anything about Eldora except what I just saw on their website, but you might also want to consider having your brother snag you some King passes for Copper, or elsewhere before they run out. Always nice to have some options, and check out some different terrain.

 

[prisnah]

I hear ya... I will hit nearly everything on I-70 on the regular also, but I figured I'll grab a season pass for there cuz it's close, cheap, and convenient. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be doing it in somewhere like the Bozeman area or JH for the whole winter, but, alas, I have previous commitments out here so I'm gonna hafta settle for a split season between here and there...and the most economically viable way to do that is gonna be in the bro's apartment and skiing wherever I can, whenever I can. And Eldora will allow me to maximize days on the hill. So it's really just gonna be my fallback hill when I can't or don't have the time to get anywhere else. Maybe Bozeman or JH next year tho.....

 

[prisnah]

Don't know anything about Eldora except what I just saw on their website, but you might also want to consider having your brother snag you some King passes for Copper, or elsewhere before they run out. Always nice to have some options, and check out some different terrain.

Good call, I'm on the horn with him right now seeing if he can wrangle something up for me. Wish I was gonna be out there sooner so I could jump on a Colorado Pass.

 

[L2RAFO]

I hear ya... I will hit nearly everything on I-70 on the regular also, but I figured I'll grab a season pass for there cuz it's close, cheap, and convenient. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be doing it in somewhere like the Bozeman area or JH for the whole winter, but, alas, I have previous commitments out here so I'm gonna hafta settle for a split season between here and there...and the most economically viable way to do that is gonna be in the bro's apartment and skiing wherever I can, whenever I can. And Eldora will allow me to maximize days on the hill. So it's really just gonna be my fallback hill when I can't or don't have the time to get anywhere else. Maybe Bozeman or JH next year tho.....

I get it. Besides, Boulder's a great place. You'll have a blast!

 

[Kerovick]

Eldora was the first resort I ever skiied in CO. My buddies sister is a ski instructer there.

 

[K2Trav]

Ive been a skibum for the past 10 years at Sugarloaf, probably gotten in 1300 days, many epic powder days, for the past 3 years Ive barbacked in a restaurant 3-4 nights a week and ski all day. Used to work for sugarloaf but not anymore, I get to ski more that way.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Eldora is a sweet local hill totally ignored by the masses going up I70. You'll learn to love the place. Hidden Valley which became Ski Estes Park was also a sweet local hill to Boulder. If I remember you parked your car, took a bus to the base and it was a narrow layout but decent vert. Think it closed several years ago.

 

[snoseek]

i would easily rather be at eldora than breck or keystone with a foot of fresh.

 

[jimskime]

I went out to Aspen in Feb 69 my junior year of high school after school vacation week sleeping in the parking lot at Sugarloaf. Stayed in a runaway shelter and washed dishes and prepped food for room and board and packed snow for lift tickets. Somehow managed to be a senior the next fall but left again after a month. Wasn't until I was approaching 50 when I finally got my skiing days back above 40 days a year, what a waste of 30 years, eh?

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I went out to Aspen in Feb 69 my junior year of high school after school vacation week sleeping in the parking lot at Sugarloaf. Stayed in a runaway shelter and washed dishes and prepped food for room and board and packed snow for lift tickets. Somehow managed to be a senior the next fall but left again after a month. Wasn't until I was approaching 50 when I finally got my skiing days back above 40 days a year, what a waste of 30 years, eh?

All is good..as long as you have no regrets...

 

[crank]

I ski bummed a few winters long ago in the late 70's and again in the early 80's.

1978 I think it was in Park City. I worked in the Summit House on top cooking burgers, washing dishes, shoveling snow, bussing tables. Good points: I got at least one run down every day. My schedule often started at 11AM so I got a couple of hours in before reporting to work. (I almost got fired for showing up late on powder mornings!) Free food. Bad points: Had to work 5 days a week.

In 1982/83 I worked as a liftie and on lift maintenance crew at Sierra Ski Ranch in Tahoe. '82/83 was an epic, Donner Party winter. At one point it snowed something like 29 out of 30 days. That was a sweet job because while on the maintenance crew this was my job 3 days a week; collect lunches for all the lift ops at the cafeteria (brown bags), ski around to every lift and deliver the lunches, then, ski around to many lifts and spell the ops who worked alone for their lunch breaks. And that was it. Also since there was so much effing snow part of the job was just skiing around with a shovel and shoveling out lift shacks, ramps and the backup generator. I was basically getting paid to ski!

A friend of mine in Tahoe had the best ski bum job though. He was a groomer at Heavenly. He reported to work at 4PM, Drove around the mountain in a cat until 11:30. He could then go home and get a good night's sleep or go out and hit the bars. Plenty of time to ski every day.


Also, all the areas in the Tahoe region let any ski are employee ski free, so on days off I hit Squaw, Alpine Meadows, Kirkwood, Mt. Rose...

 

[pepperdawg]

i would easily rather be at eldora than breck or keystone with a foot of fresh.

Ditto!!!! Eldora doesnt suck....

 

[DJAK]

One benefit of working at the mountain part time is that you will meet a lot of the locals quickly (which is also true at a bar), but at the mountain you get a pass.

If you want to ski or ride a lot, restaurant work is a good call. That's what I did a lot of in Vail for many years in the mid 90's. Also lived in a truck, tent and storage unit in those days. You don't want to do that. Affordability is much less of an issue at SR. You should have no problem finding whatever housing situation you want.

Kbroderick does have a point regarding natural snowfall. But for Nov, Dec, and even Jan, it's a crapshoot and snowmaking often takes the cake that time of year.

 

[prisnah]

Alright, so I'm not the only one who thought Eldora wasn't a bad call....I actually think it could easily be one of the CO gems. Even if I only hit it on the weekends so I don't have to deal with the traffic on I-70 I'll still easily cover the cost of the pass in a few weeks.

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

don't live in Rumford...too far to the hill and a totally different vibe...waay mill town atmosphere, a little depressing...no ski scene in Rumford like there is in Bethel.

 

[prisnah]

Think I found the place, 2 bedroom second floor apartment right smack in the middle of bethel for $3000 for the season. Think I'm gonna take it asap....I don't need the other room though......anyone interested?? :-D

 

[Vortex]

Another Riverite. Cool.