Photo: Courtesy of Newschoolers And you don’t have to be a dirtbag to be a ski bum. For some reason, the common conception is some scuzzy guy with nasty hair and a creeper van who never actually ...

If you’ve been a ski bum, you’ve been there.In a closet, on a couch or a van. Maybe even in a snow cave. It’s as part of the initiation as a season pass, cold Budweiser at apres ski, frozen burritos ...

It's not always a dirtbag. And they're probably not filthy rich with a sprinter van, either. But here's where we can all agree, because Cy describes what it means to be a ski bum better than--or at ...

“Being a ski bum has become almost a cool thing ... he spent his first three years as a ski instructor living in his van. “We all got into the business that way,” he said with a chuckle.

He lived out of his van at first, saving money and only renting ... but I make good tips." The modern ski bum faces two challenges: the reliability of income and the cost of housing.

the shaggy semi-athlete who lives in a van (or truck or crowded apartment), works a number of crappy jobs (pizza delivery, barback, liftie), and skis 100 days every winter. This is the ski bum: a ...

The unlikely architect of that success was head coach Scott Rawles, a 51-year-old Breckenridge “ski bum” who spends much of his time living out of a 15-passenger van. For the U.S. Moguls Team ...

It’s a road that might seem like compromise to those who declare the lifestyle dead because they require ski bums to surf couches or live in a van—which, in truth, only works for a few months, maybe ...

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 ...

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.