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Best places to work in CO for the winter

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_vt_
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I am an 18 year old kid from the east coast who wants to do the stereotypical "ski bum" gap year, which actually isnt ski buming at all, more just living and working at a ski resort. I know other people have done similar things, and i would like to know if you have any suggestions on where to work, what job to try to get, how to find a roommate if employee housing is not available, and any tips you might have. Thank you so much if have a good contribution, this is the only debt free year i will have in my life and i want to make it spectacular. Thanks NS
Oct 4 2013 2:32PM
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Gr0mo
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MY buddy has been living at ski resorts for years. He is a chef and travels around with a 5th wheel . All he does is work for the resorts and camps out wherever he can. He lived in the rutland Walmart parking lot for a couple weeks before they called the cops last year lol.
Oct 4 2013 4:56PM
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drumbumocdp
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Last winter I moved to Keystone from CT and worked in the ski and ride school there. I lived in the employee housing right across the st and had an awesome time. The cool thing about working for vail is all of the resorts you can ski any day (a-basin, key, breck, vail, beaver all right there).

To get started with this i went to www.skijobs1.com. This is a site that lets you browse jobs for all of the vail resorts, even the ones in CA and UT. It was a pretty smooth and easy process, mostly just sending e mails.
If you have questions feel free to shoot me a pm and ill give you as much help as i can. Dont hesitate to go out west man, I did it and it was the best year of my life, cant wait to go back in just a few weeks! good luck brotha
Oct 4 2013 5:51PM
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GreenStezz
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Boom....................
Oct 4 2013 5:55PM
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802Valley
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im from VT also, that website seems pretty legit, im living in LA for the time being and plan on moving to Colorado in the near future, thanks bro
Oct 4 2013 7:57PM
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50Kal
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Coolworks.com has a ski resort page. Apply and see where you get offers.
http://www.coolworks.com/ski-resort-jobs/
Oct 4 2013 8:06PM
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ggfski42
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Working for Vail resorts is a great way to get your foot in the door. But if you really want to ski as much as possible, you need to get a job separate from the resorts like a rental shop or restaurant or something. Check the high rockies craigslist. There are a few postings for ski tech's right now and these next few weeks are prime time for finding a job for the season.
Oct 5 2013 1:11PM
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StReEtPIRATES
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try and work in a restaraunt. You will make tips and have more money to spend than if you were to just work at vail. Search craigslist for places as you get more bang for your buck outside of employee housing
Oct 5 2013 1:36PM
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802Valley
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the only problem with not working at the resort is that you have to buy a pass or daily tickets, its a huge relief not buying a pass or ticket, you can work the minimum amount of days at the resort and get another job to maximize your skiing
Oct 5 2013 1:56PM
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ThaLorax
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Eldora. It's the best.
Oct 5 2013 2:04PM
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mooseman077
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Who is this? I worked River Run Kids Ski School the past 2 years.
Oct 5 2013 2:10PM
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E2W13
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depends on what you can afford/connections you have.
Summit county is cool as fuck but its twice the cost of living as somewhere like crested butte.
rent in sumit for me was like $500/month off the resort.. in crested butte 3 of us split a 2 bedroom condo on the slopes for 275/month each

you should also consider where you wanna take your skiing, more park? big mtn? BC? being an east coaster i was really excited for bigger parks.. but then found that I was way more into the epic terrain available
Oct 5 2013 2:19PM
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Film.
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dispensary
Oct 5 2013 5:36PM
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familyjules
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Definitely work in a restaurant, somewhere you could make money at night is so much better, than you can ski all day. I worked in a retail/gear shop at Squaw for 2 years and the opportunity to get to ski was minimal. I had 2 days off, which I always skied on, but if it's a pow day and you're working all day, that can start sucking real fast. All my friends that worked in restaurants could ski any day they wanted. I started working in a brewery over the summer, wish I had done it in the winter when it counted! Just my two cents, good luck! I'm in CO now, it's the greatest.
Oct 5 2013 8:24PM
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imakestickerz
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if you want to work some where with night skiing, work the night shift as a lifty and you get to ski all day and take hot laps at work.
Oct 5 2013 8:57PM
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