Ski bum Advice: If Skis Could Talk
What powder, carving, and rock skis might say, if they could talk, about winter 2021-22 season in the Northwest.
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Ski Bum Advice ~ Poem: The Night Before Skiing
Seasonal parody poem by OTO’s official ski bum Brad Northrup — a former ski racer, coach, and ski industry professional.
Ski Bum Advice: Stuff I Missed This Season
Out There’s Ski Bum missed three significant components of his usual ski day experience during the 2020-21 COVID ski season.
Benefits of Socially-Distanced Skiing
Ski Bum Advice for the COVID-era and the benefits of social-distancing and masking protocols for the ski mountain.
Powder Predictions This Winter
Learn the snow weather predictions from NOAA and Farmers’ Almanac for the Pacific Northwest during winter 2020-2021.
Ski Bum Advice: Things I Did Not Do This Season
I don’t like setting expectations, mainly because I end up being disappointed. Maybe I should try setting lower standards, and then fail to meet them. A great example would be the tradition of making that New Year’s resolution to get into shape starting Jan. 1. Not me. No, I set the date for Feb. 1, …
Brad Northrup: Ski Bum Advice – The Mountain Translator
Like most folks out there, I am locked up in a cubicle Monday through Friday in order to pay the bills, put food on the table, and keep myself and my better half geared up during ski season. Thankfully, I happen to work with some super nice people, many of whom share my love of …
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Ski Bum Advice: Winter, Oh, How I Have Missed You
I have stashed the golf clubs in the dusty nether-regions of the garage, shoved my wet boardshorts in a far back drawer, and have begun to grow my winter beard. Well, maybe not the last one since my significant other despises my feeble attempt to look like one of the dudes from Duck Dynasty, or …
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Ski Trends I Hope Never Change
They say change is inevitable. I say poopy to that—at least to the idea that all things have to change. Now I’m sure that some change is good, like replacing Marlboro 100s with e-cigs, or making seatbelts required rather than optional. I get it. Things work this way on the mountain, too. New runs and …