You might be a ski bum if:

[andyzee]

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.

Sorry, but you are not a ski bum if you think about wheather or not they are opened.

 

[loafer89]

Sorry, but you are not a ski bum if you think about wheather or not they are opened.

Not me at all, but the friend I was skiing with kept asking me if I thought they would be opened. How the :argue: do I know?? was the reply.

I think the old lady at the Killington switchboard got tired of hearing my voice, will you be opened for skiing tomorrow?, I am sorry sir I am really not sure about that.

 

[teachski]

When the topic of most (99%) of your conversations is about skiing.

When you visit ski areas even when they are closed to hunt for new stashes.

 

[andyzee]

42) Whenever you meet someone, regardless if it's a new aquaintence or an old one. The topic of conversation always turns to skiing.

 

[Zand]

When you talk about skiing so much, that when it hits April, everyone says "SHUT UP, IT'S OVER!"

 

[andyzee]

When you talk about skiing so much, that when it hits April, everyone says "SHUT UP, IT'S OVER!"

And then again in May
and June
and etc....:-D

 

[NYDrew]

745608 - (good point Austin on the counting) youve been asked if you talk about anything other then skiing....and then replied no.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Ski bums do not live or work more than 30 min to the resort.

 

[teachski]

If your over 50 is it to late in life to become a ski bum? :roll: ...:-o

It's NEVER too late!

 

[Ski Diva]

When you quit your job, move to Vermont from Pennsylvania (leaving your friends and family behind), and start a ski blog.

Or maybe that's the definition of a mid-life crisis.

 

[Lostone]

42 + X It is August. It is 90° out. You're standing in Walden pond. You're talking about skiing. :roll:

42+(X+1) :lol: You're 55. Your boss just said something about personal time. You tell him what he can do with his personal time, quit your job, sell your home and move to Vermont and into your ski condo, making the final move on opening day. 8)

 

[kingslug]

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.

Nope. Stuck here in NYC running a building, dreaming about the mountains.....the real ones, not the glass and concrete ones I'm stuck in.

 

[ga2ski]

>44. You want/own old ski llfts or have furniture made of ski equipment.

 

[snobababunny]

>45. You like the duct tape all over your ski clothes. It shows character.

>46. You wear your goggles as sunglasses because that's all that you have with you to avoid squinting.

 

[PowderDeprived]

>44. You want/own old ski llfts or have furniture made of ski equipment.

Guess I am a ski bum, Nothing makes a better porch swing than an old quad chair, and I wouldn't mind having an old poma tow in my back yard!

Well here is # 47. You have a snowmaking system in your suburban mid adlantic back yard, and blanket it with snow when everybody is moaning about how sick of winter (uhh mild winter) and wishing for spring. (now seriously what happens when the stuff blows into your neighbors backyard?)

48. You wear short sleved shirts and shorts when it is above 38 degrees, and the only winter cloths you own are your ski gear.

49. Your fav mid day snack when skiing is free cafiteria saltines, crushed up and mixed with ketchup, mustard and other free condiments, and you eat dry rammen for lunch( seriously dry rammen is actualy pretty good)

50. You work at a ski area as a liftie (ok lift opererations specialist to be P.C), lift mechanic, snowmaker, ski instructer etc... for a wage that barley pays for your rent (or tent in the woods) and for that seasons tresured ski pass.

 

[loafer89]

Do you actually have a snowmaking system in your backyard? I am thinking about getting one for next winter, maybe a backyard blizzard.

 

[ckofer]

47) You have wondered if you can survive an entire winter in a used Winnebago parked at Walmarts in Salt Lake City, etc

 

[Sparky]

When you quit your job, move to Vermont from Pennsylvania (leaving your friends and family behind), and start a ski blog.

Or maybe that's the definition of a mid-life crisis.

or maybe it's the definition of getting a life.

 

[NYDrew]

47) You have wondered if you can survive an entire winter in a used Winnebago parked at Walmarts in Salt Lake City, etc

I've taken that one to the next level, ive actually contemplated how long I could live in a RV in a resort parking lot before anyone noticed.

 

[ozzy]

skied every month of the year (edit: september wasn't lift served)
skied over 2,000 days
had two knee operations due to skiing
love it just as much as when i was a kid.