The Pros & Cons of Skiing & Riding: “Skiing and riding giveth and skiing and riding taketh away.” – genisis 3:16 Skiing and Snowboarding are incredible sports, but they do have their pitfalls. Over time, these pitfalls become more and more apparent. It’s not uncommon for one person to intimately experience both blades of this double-edged sword we call skiing and riding. At some point, one has to sit down and weight the good verse the bad and measure where one lies. SnowBrains | May 15, 2020 5 Comments
How to Become a Ski Bum in 5 Easy Steps: First of all, I’d like to say that this is my personal view of how to become a ski bum. Obviously, there a few ways to pull off the ski bum thing. In my experience, the elements listed below are key to making it happen. I’m certainly eager to hear how others have made it work. 1. Get Rid of Your Car Cars are expensive and unnecessary to a real ski bum. If you wanna be a ski bum, you need to get rid of that gas guzzling, money burning, stress inducing, metal nightmare that society […] Featured Article Miles Clark | May 7, 2020 30 Comments
VIDEO: Aspen Skiing Co. Awards 98 Ski-Bums With 1,000-Day Pins | 100 Days Every Year for 10-Years [arve url="https://youtu.be/AdsjMHPgCVY"] SnowBrains | June 21, 2019 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
7 Reasons to Quit Your Job & Become A Ski Bum: Ok, so maybe I’m longing for winter a little. First, it’s been hot here. So hot, in fact, that much of the province is under an extreme fire danger rating. Second, all I seem to see on social media these days are reports and videos of people shredding never ending deep pow in South America and New Zealand. So I’m in the mood to ski. That deep seated, powder addiction has crept back to the surface of my consciousness. Because of that, I thought I would feed that fire a little for anyone contemplating a life in the mountains, away from their office job, where they can ski every day. Featured Article D’Arcy McLeish | July 11, 2018 21 Comments
10 Vanity Plates Only Ski Bums Would Have Ever play the license plate game near a mountain town? Yes? Then you’ve probably already seen some Grade A ski bum vanity plates roaming the open roads on the hunt for snow. A witty plate always gets a good laugh, and in a mountain town if the plate makes any reference to skiing then you have spotted a true ski […] Industry News Lindsay Hayden | August 28, 2017 2 Comments
New Canadian Prime Minister Was Once a Whistler Ski Bum Staying in a Van Canada just elected a new Prime Minister on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015. The new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was once a bit of a ski bum who, in the 1990’s, went to school at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and crashed on his buddy’s couch in Whistler while snowboard instructing at Whistler ski resort on weekends. Justin is […] Industry News SnowBrains | October 22, 2015 5 Comments