Skiers tend to have lofty ideals, the loftiest being the illusive ski bum, a mountain town caricature that, at least once in our lives, most of us have wished to become. First and foremost, the ski ...

The ski bum has been called "the soul of the sport" and "the North Star" of ski culture. Mardi Fuller is challenging the glorification of the ski bum archetype. You may have heard of the ski bum.

Finally, I was part of it. Many years earlier, however, sometime in high school, when I was surrounded by skiing families, I encountered ski bum mythology. I remember being struck when considering ...

I was reminded of a time when my responsibilities were as small as my bank account, and my life as a ski bum was in full ...

Nearly two decades ago, I moved to the mountains to be a ski bum, chasing snow. I was a stereotype — an East Coast kid pulled west by the promise of bigger adventures and higher mountain ranges.

Professional freeskier Alex Beaulieu-Marchand went on a hunt to find the "ultimate ski bum" in Whistler, Canada. But before we spoil the surprise (okay, it's not much of a surprise, Alex writes it in ...

The name Jackson Hole has become synonymous with all things steep and deep skiing. Over the years, ski bums have flocked to the Tetons to get a taste of "living the dream," and while not all have ...

Wright points out at the start of A Town Built by Ski Bums: The Story of Carrabassett Valley, Maine. There’s Sugarloaf, of course, the state’s tallest ski mountain and the reason that the local ...

A smile is forming as I write these words. These are the confessions of a ski bum. “Once Upon a Time… I was a Colorado ski bum for three winters.” It sounds a lot more glamorous than it really is. A ...

Call it an awakening, part of a ski bum uprising. Cochrane and Porter called it Mt. Bachelor Community Inc. and assembled a loose team. Powdr, a Utah-based outdoor-recreation company that has ...