A ski bum goes straight

Many, many years ago, I quit my job, loaded up my car, and, with one of my girlfriends, headed west. I tended bar, cocktail waitressed, house sat, worked in a mountain restaurant, skiied for free and paid off my car early.

My plan, to ski my head off so I could get it out of my system and get on with my life.

It failed. I live in Manhattan now--and I love it. But I keep heading back to the mountains. Here are some of my ski trips as well as the ocassional lesson the mountains still give me.

• Alta
• Family
• Family skiing
• Idiosyncratic skiing
• Mad River Glen
• No snowboards
• Powder Day
• Powder Day at Alta
• Quebec
• Ski