Confessions of a ski bum

Soon their friends wanted the same info and I started to type up organized 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, confessions of a ski bum. 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. 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. Looking back on my life there are the days before park skiing, and the days after.

Confessions of a ski bum

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We had 9 people spend a whole day lapping this zone one day without running out of fresh snow. Not too shabby. Guinea GNFFr.

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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? Baranow, who arrived in Banff 13 years ago has been tootling around the area year-round finding, or rather, documenting ski tours. The rather equalitarian author doesn't necessarily see what he does as something revolutionary, but something almost anyone could do. The idea that these places are secret and unseen is beyond ridiculous at this point.

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. This isn't something I knew back then, at I just wanted powder. I spent a good portion of my senior year in college thinking about it.

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All in all, the trip was fun. Romania RONLei. Hungary HUFFt. I hit the thing three times this is the third but with flat light, snow squalls coming in and out and no one around in case I hurt myself nothing but straight airs were done. Who doesn't? Spending a week ski touring a zone I am very familiar with in the opposite season feels very comforting. 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. Comments Register Login. For the most part, the evolution of my skiing came very naturally, albeit, with many ups and downs. Across a shallow valley from the lodge, this is the go to skiing when alpine isn't good. Steve had is birthday while up at Sol and wanted to get on top of Sol Mountain namesake of the lodge, obvs. Followed shortly by my second proper drop of the season.

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It wasn't until 5 months ago where things changed in my life and suddenly, I wanted something else. Hide 0 low scoring comments. Scenery and shit. Am I any better off now than before? Denmark DKKkr. Register Lost password? 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. Guinea GNFFr. Gabon XOFFr. Who doesn't? Honduras HNLL.