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teamdummyKetchup soup, garnished with some ranch.
AlexMartiniEither sleeping in a minivan in Nelson at the top of the long down rail and making pancakes for breakfast before hitting it, or surviving mostly on abandoned french fries in the Mammoth cafeteria for over a month. Or my brother and I sleeping in the minivan in public parks in Calgary on a handrail trip. Backcountry can be pretty ski bum too but I feel like urban ski bumming was more bummy haha.
Bened_notnilNot the most ski bummy but easiest to explain.
My mountain has free refills on sodas and hot chocolate and coffee. I would grab a dirty cup out of the bin and go get a refill.
Also, there is a club thing where you can pay like 500$ a year to get access to a room full of snacks, but if you found out the code for the room you could just go hang out in there
patagonialukeMine have mostly just been the usual poor college kid things, but my favorite was when we would have a very full day in the backcountry and get back pretty late, we'd swing by the Little Caesars and see how many dumpster pizzas each of us could finish. And a few times we lucked out with the timing and just hung out by the dumpster right before they closed and the employees would just hand us the dumpster-bound pizzas so we didn't have to fight the raccoons for them.
patagonialukeMine have mostly just been the usual poor college kid things, but my favorite was when we would have a very full day in the backcountry and get back pretty late, we'd swing by the Little Caesars and see how many dumpster pizzas each of us could finish. And a few times we lucked out with the timing and just hung out by the dumpster right before they closed and the employees would just hand us the dumpster-bound pizzas so we didn't have to fight the raccoons for them.
BiffbarfFuck dude lil c's isn't even that expensive damn lmao
Kylesoup888Got drunk, hid beers all over my little mountain. Smoked a joint and went easter egg hunting as it warmed up
Butter4dayzTake cup, tear it a bit, got to counter and say “can I get a new cup mine broke” and you get a new clean cup
highpeak110% ran a meth lab behind the animal shelter with all those crock pots but super nice dude
partyandBSWent to colorado mountain college, clippin tickets in the lot, the ol 2 friends go up 1 comes down with both their passes and gets the third up then never go back to the frontside base for the day, delivered food at night for the resort so i could ski all day and get a free shift meal, lived in a house with a slightly tilted car jack holding up a support beam, hitch hiked everywhere
-arc-split a ticket at whistler with a "glove drop"
Whats a glove drop? I need some new ways to defraud mountains lol. I've only ever done 2 up 1 down.
last_tangoWent to crystal to do a interview and show them my i9 stuff and camped in the b lot with a pop up tent camper. It was way too friggin windy for the pop up that i towed with a 06 impreza. It also started to snow and it was pretty cold in the back of a impreza wagon. Being a ex lift op I know that lift terminals have heaters in them to keep things from freezing. So with it being before season opening knowing that the lift most likely wasnt going to spin I climbed up a parked gondola cabin parked at the drive of the lift and gained access inside the terminal. There was power to all the heaters and cranked them all the way up making the terminal way warmer than the back of the impreza. I set my alarm for 430am to get out of the lift with cover of darkness and to make sure I got out before anyone employed would stroll through.
last_tangoWent to crystal to do a interview and show them my i9 stuff and camped in the b lot with a pop up tent camper. It was way too friggin windy for the pop up that i towed with a 06 impreza. It also started to snow and it was pretty cold in the back of a impreza wagon. Being a ex lift op I know that lift terminals have heaters in them to keep things from freezing. So with it being before season opening knowing that the lift most likely wasnt going to spin I climbed up a parked gondola cabin parked at the drive of the lift and gained access inside the terminal. There was power to all the heaters and cranked them all the way up making the terminal way warmer than the back of the impreza. I set my alarm for 430am to get out of the lift with cover of darkness and to make sure I got out before anyone employed would stroll through.
SuspiciousFishBack in the day Wells Fargo had a deal where if you opened a checking/savings account combo you get a 2 for 1 season pass to Copper/Winter park. There was a loop hole where if you already had an account you still got the deal if you opened more accounts. By the time I graduated from CU I had like 4 checking accounts and savings accounts. It got complicated because the bank automatically transferred $15 from each checking to saving every month so I had to set up this auto transfer system for each account to move the money back so I didnt overdraft. It was kind of funny because you would have to grab a buddy who also wanted a Winter Park pass and mob down to Wells Fargo together to get it set up each fall. I think there were even Craigslist ads posted for people to team up with lol
JupitahJoshMy last two seasons at my home mountain they put a 75 day cap on the normal season pass. The first year they did it, I kept track of my days and around day 71-72 I went in to the seasons pass office and said my pass got ripped off skiing in the trees. $25 later I had a new pass with a new barcode and reset on my days. The next year I tried to do the same thing, but the person at the pass office saw my day count and didn’t let me get a new one. I ended up taking my brothers pass (he had left to start a job across the country) using it for a week before I got caught, kicked off the mountain, and told that if I ever want to buy a pass again I would have to pay $400 in fines plus the cost of the lift tickets for the days I had skied with my brothers pass. I don’t ski there anymore, but they also got rid of that policy the next year, so fuck em.
Also have an uncle who’s move was to get a large cup, fill it with whatever self served food he could find and then top it off with hot chocolate or soda. Basically getting a full meal for the price of a large drink. He said roast beef was a particular favorite.
theabortionatorSlept in the car drinking and doing whippits at liberty right after they opened. We forgot it was a christian school but yolo.
GrandThingsDude I've always wondered about this. Somehow the most uptight evagelical christian university in the world also has the the best park setup/dry-slope on the East Coast? What's the deal with that??
And for others who don't know about Liberty University this should paint a picture of how wacked out they are...
From the Student Handbook: (Im not fucking making this up)
- Hand holding is permitted
- No kissing
- Hugs may not last longer than 3 seconds
- No R Rated movies on campus
- 12:30am Curfew
Can you imagine going to college at a place like this?!?!
**This post was edited on May 27th 2020 at 2:53:52pm
