Confessions of a ski bum

Soon their friends wanted the same info and I started to type up confessions of a ski bum documents and climb nearby peaks to get route pictures. Before I knew it I found myself binding homemade books to sell to stores and the public. Years later I have now written 4 books covering modern backcountry skiing in and around Banff National Park. I believe that sharing route and condition information creates a safer and more fun backcountry skiing community.

If you are reading this, it means you are really into skiing. Why else would you take time out of your day to read the opinions of some ski bum? If you are a fellow 'ski bum', maybe you can find solace in what I say. If you are aspiring to be one, young and curious about the future, or always wondered what life of a ski bum would have been like - this is for you. My life has had a fairly directional path since an early age.

Confessions of a ski bum

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Cameroon XAFFr. With that I didn't end up taking nearly as many action shots as I normally do. Uzbekistan UZS.

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The latter seems fitting for this fastidious ski tourer, whose only real motivation is pure curiosity. I like exploring. So do other people. So, I guess my motivation is that I do what I like and now I'm helping other people do what they like to do. So why not?

Confessions of a ski bum

To be a ski bum requires the ability to not take oneself seriously, which, even if it's not your equilibrium, is a good state of mind to understand. A surprising number of year-olds take themselves quite seriously. I know this because I've hired a few of them, and because I suffered from this foible myself. But I got lucky. I had to swallow that ill-placed sense of accomplishment, that sense of importance. A ski bum can't exist any other way. Having a false sense of importance isn't compatible, not for long, with ski bum living.

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Kyrgyzstan KGSsom. Over the course of the winter I will be exploring within and come to terms with the fact that this may be my last winter of 'living the dream', and sharing with you the trials and tribulations of what it's like to live this life. Hungary HUFFt. And for the record, I have no plans on actually quit skiing entirely I don't even think that's a choice, is it? As this is early in what I have told myself to be my last season of ski bumming my mind has been thinking about what lies ahead both short term and long , and what I have learned and accomplished over my 12 years of ski bumming and the greater 25 years of my life as a skier. Across a shallow valley from the lodge, this is the go to skiing when alpine isn't good. Years later I have now written 4 books covering modern backcountry skiing in and around Banff National Park. Getting a feel for our home for the next week. As explained earlier, Steve was on a photo taking mission all week. Indonesia IDRRp. Now, during my skiing life I have for the most part done a very good job at shying away from the industry side of the sport. A quick word on blocking ads. Growing up in Ontario as a skier from a young age I naturally jumped on the park movement from the beginning in the late 90's.

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Scenery and shit. I felt like I was apart of. Did I gain any true spiritual insight into myself on this trip? Sol Mountain is the peak on the right, this picture taken from the lodge. Tanzania TZSSh. Probably not. Getting bored of just standing around watching pictures being taken I decided to do a little behind the scenes style photos. Consider this an intro to the upcoming season where I will try as best as I can what I do, but more importantly, why I do it. Albania ALLL. Waking up in the dark at treeline, having a nice breakfast and hitting the skin trail in the morning alpenglow has to be one of the best ways to get your emotions going while in the mountains. I'd like to think so. Growing up in Ontario as a skier from a young age I naturally jumped on the park movement from the beginning in the late 90's.