Replying to Job availability in the winter

I've been thinking about taking a gap year in college, because I haven't been able to ski for a couple of years now (more or less). I was wondering to any of you that live in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Washington, or Oregon, how easy is it to acquire a job at a mountain resort in the winter? It doesn't matter what it is, I simply want to know how easy it is to score a job because I live on the East Coast and have no clue how jobs out West work on mountains. Any help or info would be much appreciated