You might be a ski bum if:

[sledhaulingmedic]

20: Your ski rack is still on your car in June and it's not because you're lazy or in denial.

21 You get annoyed when the Hiking forums are moved above the skiing forums, even though you're hiking now (with skis, of course.)

 

[NYDrew]

17. You continue to wax your skis weekly despite the fact that it is August.

 

[awf170]

17. You continue to wax your skis weekly despite the fact that it is August.

22. You skipped so many days of school to go skiing that you think that 17 comes after 21

 

[eatskisleep]

22. You skipped so many days of school to go skiing that you think that 17 comes after 21

:lol:

23.) You go away to a foreign place with no snow, and look at the mountains, all of which look like bowls (Tux) and you think how great if would be if that country got more snow (Ireland)!

 

[ski_resort_observer]

24. You buy mac&cheese and Top Ramen by the caseload.

25. You spent more on your goggles then your portion of the monthly rent.

 

[andyzee]

19. You re-read your own trip reports from the previous season all summer.

26. You write new trip reports in June even though you haven't skied since May.

 

[riverc0il]

man, i hate to be the nay sayer, but most of these have nothing to do with ski bumming.

 

[Phildozer]

27. - You read nelsap.org and try to decide which closed area makes the most sense for you to bring back to life.

 

[Phildozer]

man, i hate to be the nay sayer, but most of these have nothing to do with ski bumming.

True.

But it is a fun thread nonetheless.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

man, i hate to be the nay sayer, but most of these have nothing to do with ski bumming.

I didn’t want to say anything either. When I started the thread I was hoping people would have fun with it, which seems to be happening, but it’s a ski fanatics thread now, not a ski bums.

I’m not a ski bum, like almost everyone in here I’m a fanatic. I have a family, job, house, etc.
The ski bum doesn’t have those things in his/her life, he/she just scrapes by to put himself/herself on the slopes every day. He/she can’t really have a family either, because a family could get in the way of skiing.

I admire them, but don’t care to emulate them.

BTW-I’m trying to be PC with the he/she stuff.

 

[kingslug]

If I was as fanatical about skiing 10 years ago as I am now I might have ended up a ski bum. I sold my business and floundered around for a while. I would have moved west and got a job at Snowbird.

28. The only time you have ever seen another country or state is when it was covered by snow.

 

[wintersyndrome]

You might be a ski bum if

##) If It is adviseable to wear slippers inside your shared apartment so you do-not accrue any of the crumbs from lazy roomates who cannot clean up their spilled Cherrios

##) The cat was drinking beer because there was no milk

##) Your amazed at how much you can pack into an '86 volvo and still see out the back window on your cross-county sojourn to Colorado-and when the Volvo breaks down in North Platte Nebraska where it takes four days to get a part "overnighted". somehow, someway you still make it to Vail for Opening day of Blue-Sky Basin and still havent bothered to secure employment yet (That's what mondays are for)

##) As you mature you begin to relaize the power of modern communication devices by making sales calls from the ski lifts to important clients or your boss explaining that the chatter he just heard was not the lift going over the tower wheels but excrutiatingly painful gas and you have to leave the phone now (unbeknownst to him its time to unload)

##) Your co-ordinating installation of your projects via cellphone from the summit lodge because thats where the best reception is

##) You cant remember the last time you made friends with someone who didnt ski or snowboard

##) you break off an engagement because she wouldnt want the kids to do "Ski-Wee" classes and she didtn like the cold...it would never have worked anyway who was I kidding

##) its barely MLK day and your family has used all of your comps for the season

##) the wheels on your car are about as slick as the bottom of your snowboard

##) you know where the speed traps are on I-91, I-89 and I-93 and know how to cross reference them by time of day and week of the year.

##) you can identify fellow former lifites by the phrase "It's like hearding cats"

##) your surprised that mt.snow doesnt have an "open woods policy"-- figuring that a mountain this tame cant have any restrictive rules on fun

Ill cut it short here guys---I have more By the way--hope you enjoyed

 

[riverc0il]

BTW-I’m trying to be PC with the he/she stuff.

i prefer the third person "they" in most cases, even in the singular. i recently read a book in which the author insisted on using "she" for all third person singular terminology instead of the more typical "he" (the author was male, btw). this is kinda like switching out one problem for another trying to be "fair" instead of utilizing a gender neutral term. /soapbox

 

[ALLSKIING]

When your water skiing and the wake of the boat makes you think of a bump run.

 

[ga2ski]

You might be a ski-addict if:

30. You post a topic on another board regarding skiing-related baby names.
31. You post on three or more ski-related message boards
32. You pretend to ski down the slides when hiking.
33. Your car can only drive north on powder days.

more to come later

 

[Greg]

Like I said. It seems like a thread full of "pisssed" skiers...

 

[ga2ski]

33. You look at steep gravel/sand banks along the roads in the summer and wonder if you had you skis how turns you could get in.

 

[alpinemorg]

34) You secretly put your skis in the box the morning your wife is having her gall bladder removed, knowing there is a hill 20 minutes down the road. Sneaking out once she's out of surgery and sedated, to go steal an hours worth of runs.....in December...in Michigan.

**Great list! Very glad to not be alone in what she affectionately calls my "end of winter blues"

 

[loafer89]

35) You wake up at 3am on October 1st to drive 250+ miles to Killington with a friend just as crazy as you are for first turns of the season without knowing for certain that they are even going to be opened.

36) You ski the June 1st slalom in a blinding fog complete with a downpour for the coveted ticket/tee shirt.

37) Meet up with my brother , who I only see a few times a year and we manage to talk about nothing but skiing, even in July.

38)You go skiing when your wife is due any minute, discover she is in labor while skiing, talk with her and get her approval to continue skiing as there is "plenty of time left before she is going to give birth" - true story.

39) You have trouble driving the car in a southerly direction after skiing for a day, weekend or for a full week to get home.

40) You dream about skiing on a hot night in August.

41) You come close to skiing every month in one calender year.

 

[ckofer]

If I was as fanatical about skiing 10 years ago as I am now I might have ended up a ski bum. I sold my business and floundered around for a while. I would have moved west and got a job at Snowbird.

28. The only time you have ever seen another country or state is when it was covered by snow.

Are you the guy who works in the tiny integrated convenience store in the bottom of that great big concrete hotel (in the evenings) and brags about his 140 days on the snow each year? You may qualify.