I can't take it anymore

**rwski** · 07-20-2008, 03:36 PM

I am about to change my entire life. I thought I'd be able to handle the "suburbia" life style. You know a wife, 40 hours a week at the job. Skiing only on the weekends. I'm going back to being a ski bum, only this time I'm gonna be a succesful ski bum. Started my own business, I think I'll be able to take winters off, and I think I'm moving back to Little Cottonwood Canyon. Any one else ever do anything this extreme for skiing. O yea, a divorce started this all.

thanks

**Huckin eh?** · 07-20-2008, 05:26 PM

Yeah, I fired the wife too and moved out west?
Welcome to the club and enjoy the skiing!
Real world sucks and is overrated eh?

**NeigeÉternelle** · 07-20-2008, 06:34 PM

I ski at will all winter with my job.
I am landscaping designer.

**rideit** · 07-20-2008, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by rwski

Any one else ever do anything this extreme for skiing....

Nope.
Certainly no-one here.
Someone's got to clean them teeth.

**guermo** · 07-20-2008, 06:58 PM

Curious as to how old you are and how many seasons you've done prior to this. Been through this a few times myself.....

**rwski** · 07-20-2008, 07:10 PM

I just turned 34. Spent half of my 20s' at Alta. Met a girl, got married, and stopped going to Utah for the winters, settled down in Boise ID, and that was it for my 100 plus days a year of skiing. I just started a lawncare business and its going really well, hope to move it to SLC.

**NeigeÉternelle** · 07-20-2008, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by rwski

My 100 plus days a year of skiing. .

You should take that as a minimun acceptable.

**72Twenty** · 07-20-2008, 07:36 PM

Check you PM's dood - I may be have some helpful info for your new business.

**rwski** · 07-20-2008, 07:52 PM

WOW,, thanks 72Twenty!

**72Twenty** · 07-20-2008, 07:55 PM

No problem! Just drop me a PM when you are set-up in Salt Lick.

**powstash** · 07-21-2008, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

Nope.
Certainly no-one here.
Someone's got to clean them teeth.

POTD!

I guess there are fewer Dentists around here these days with the influx and all...

**TROLL-HOLE-E-O** · 07-21-2008, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by rwski

I am about to change my entire life. I thought I'd be able to handle the "suburbia" life style. You know a wife, 40 hours a week at the job. Skiing only on the weekends. I'm going back to being a ski bum, only this time I'm gonna be a succesful ski bum. Started my own business, I think I'll be able to take winters off, and I think I'm moving back to Little Cottonwood Canyon. Any one else ever do anything this extreme for skiing. O yea, a divorce started this all.

thanks

If you don't mind me asking...What kind of business did you start up?

**enlosandes** · 07-21-2008, 05:28 PM

Congrats on your new beginnings! While you are on a roll, move out of Utah to a cooler part of the world!

**tahoegnar420** · 07-21-2008, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by enlosandes

Congrats on your new beginnings! While you are on a roll, move out of Utah to a cooler part of the world!

dude, could you be anymore of a dick? He is about to live his dream. We all are not as fortunate as you...must be a trustafarian

**stuckathuntermtn** · 07-21-2008, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by tahoegnar420

dude, could you be anymore of a dick? He is about to live his dream. We all are not as fortunate as you...must be a trustafarian

I'm pretty sure:
1. You're wrong
2. enloseandes is not a dude. So you're definitely wrong.

glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks about powder all summer.

**enlosandes** · 07-21-2008, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by tahoegnar420

dude, could you be anymore of a dick? He is about to live his dream. We all are not as fortunate as you...must be a trustafarian

Gnar, I am not a trustafarian. I am fortunate in that I think outside the box. I moved to a second world country in order to get ahead.

And I am just saying, if this dude has a new leash on life, why not expand beyond Utah.

**tahoegnar420** · 07-21-2008, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by enlosandes

Gnar, I am not a trustafarian. I am fortunate in that I think outside the box. I moved to a second world country in order to get ahead.

And I am just saying, if this dude has a new leash on life, why not expand beyond Utah.

i guess i should have used a smiley, as I think utah is pretty fucking lame myself

Stay out of tahoe too, the snow sucks here. I think summit county would be ideal.

**72Twenty** · 07-21-2008, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by enlosandes

Gnar, I am not a trustafarian. I am fortunate in that I think outside the box. I moved to a second world country in order to get ahead.

And I am just saying, if this dude has a new leash on life, why not expand beyond Utah.

Heh, when you said "cooler" I figured you were referring to the summer heat.

**Mani_UT** · 07-21-2008, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by tahoegnar420

i guess i should have used a smiley, as I think utah is pretty fucking lame myself

Damn you guys have high standards. I have worked and lived in France, Canada and the US, visited many many other countries and Utah is what I found to be best!

Am I missing something?

**neck beard** · 07-21-2008, 07:57 PM

Hope the divorce doesn't cause too much pain.

I also left my job and career to set up a life in the mountains, but not solely so I could ski 'n snowboard more: I wanted to make a bigger commitment to backcountry for both fun and also for improving skill in what I think is a deeply rewarding and 'noble' natural lifestyle. And that requires absolute time freedom. I also wanted to live a life worth remembering. I also wanted to become a small time farmer in summer. No divorce in my case though, we actually go married after I left work, but my wife keeps a career job 3 hours away and comes up to the mountains each weekend to see me and the dog and our vegetables.

Good luck with the new life. Its your life, no one else's. Every decision you make belongs to you and so do the consequences and compromises. I was one year older than you when I made the change.

Also, don't call yourself a skibum. There are millions of people doing 40 hours a week of utterly meaningless work and living almost meaningless lives full of meaningless junk and meaningless entertainment and taking responsibility for nothing that happens to them during their brief period of existence. And they don't call themselves "life-bums", but that's exactly what they are.

**skiman** · 07-21-2008, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Mani_UT

Damn you guys have high standards. I have worked and lived in France, Canada and the US, visited many many other countries and Utah is what I found to be best!

Am I missing something?

The "one and only thing" that I found best in Utah was the Quantity of Powder in LCC and BCC. I would like to know what else you have found to be best in Utah, considering that both you and I have have lived in many locations?
Am I missing something?

**tahoegnar420** · 07-21-2008, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Mani_UT

Am I missing something?

Mormons, 3.2 beer and BC schwagg utards like to call dank.

**Mani_UT** · 07-21-2008, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by skiman

The "one and only thing" that I found best in Utah was the Quantity of Powder in LCC and BCC. I would like to know what else you have found to be best in Utah, considering that both you and I have have lived in many locations?
Am I missing something?

Immenses outdoors allowing amazing biking/skiing/climbing... within minutes of a town with plenty of good jobs?
Uintahs / Moab / Zion / Arches / Jackson / Fruita / Yellowstone / WindRiver range / Cedarbreaks ... a stone throw away?
An international airport that allows one to be skiing in the Alps one day and in the Wasatch the next?
An unbeatable cost of life / paycheck amount ratio with plenty of cheap housing?

What's missing? The people are less welcoming/open than in many parts of the world but we'll all agree there are still plenty of "coolish" people in Utah right?

**skiman** · 07-21-2008, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Mani_UT

Immenses outdoors allowing amazing biking/skiing/climbing... within minutes of a town with plenty of good jobs?
Uintahs / Moab / Zion / Arches / Jackson / Fruita / Yellowstone / WindRiver range / Cedarbreaks ... a stone throw away?
An international airport that allows one to be skiing in the Alps one day and in the Wasatch the next?
An unbeatable cost of life / paycheck amount ratio with plenty of cheap housing?

What's missing? The people are less welcoming/open than in many parts of the world but we'll all agree there are still plenty of "coolish" people in Utah right?

I think that wages are subpar in Utah because of the abundance of young people, aka LDS. Many jobs here pay what I was paid for similar work more than a decade ago in other rocky mt states. Yes, there are many amazing outdoor opportunities, but no better than in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming.
Salt Lake City, like a taste of vanilla ice cream, no toppings permitted.

**Mr. Altagirl** · 07-21-2008, 10:26 PM

Mani, everyone has different taste; some people actually think that only their choice is the right answer for everyone. It isn’t, it is only right for them alone. Let the narrow minded see only what their blinders allow them to see. The rest of us (everywhere) can live with open eyes and enjoy our small place in the universe, wherever that may be. Like you, I've lived all over the world, Utah is where I "settled down". Doesn't mean I don't like other places but for me (and you, and AG, and many many others), this place works pretty damn well. Balance is a term that comes to mind for me; fun, life’s necessities (actual work/career’s, cost of living, housing, traffic, crime, etc..) affordability, ease of combining all of the dynamic aspects of an active lifestyle balance well here. I think we would all live in Whistler if we could but we all can't, for many different reasons. I don't think you are missing anything. Actually, I know for a fact you are a good example of someone enjoying the shit out of living here.

"Mormons, 3.2 beer and dank weed" - great reasons to chose a place to live (or not).
What is so ironic about that premise is that this past weekend, I drank and "par-took" in Utah (with Mormons!) and it was the same as anywhere else. Freakin' Good. In other words, don't worry what other people are doing or believing in, drink an extra beer, grow your own.

The bigger difference, no matter where you live, is what you bring to the table. If you are a professional or relevant tradesman, you are employable anywhere. If you are not, you will have issues. Simple life equation.

RWski, I would say most of the folks around here have done the same thing you are planning on doing. Be it here, in Jackson, Colorado, Tahoe, wherever they chose, at whatever time in their life that worked for them. Good luck with your goal, it is definitely worth pursuing.