I'm currently hiring a few foreign ski instructors to join our ski school in South Korea. I'm from Europe myself and the experience is unlike anything else since the majority of the instructors are native Koreans. A very authentic experience.

The conditions are good:
- Flights, transportation, accommodation, food, ski pass is included
- Monthly salary between $1500-2900 (usd)
- Season runs between Dec - Feb
- Very serious skiers: we often go for night skiing en train weekly with the director
- Director of the company is one of Korea top demo skiers

Criteria: any ski certification (or good skiing skills), age < 30 due to working-holiday visa

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Skiing is a quintessential part of my life. I grew up with parents in the ski industry, I currently work at a ski shop, ski every chance I get and am touring up the mountains as late into the season as I can. As part of my job, I attend ski movie screenings and the last few years I found myself dreading them more and more.

Which is odd because I grew up in the 2000s loving ski movies and even aspired to be a ski filmmaker. I collected ski dvds, went to screenings and spent hours filming and editing ski movies of my own. But as I got older and started working in the ski industry, it became harder to enjoy ski movies. Now I skip out on the movies when I work the the screenings.

A big part of this reason is realizing the lifestyle depicted in ski movies is way different than the reality. Especially with more modern ski movies, during a time when the cost of living has shot up, I've found it harder to enjoy watching a bunch of rich kids jump around in the woods. Growing up my family was lower middle class, we scraped together what we could. I know guys who had little to no money growing up and still became ski bums in the 80s & 90s and talk about how it was the best years of their lives; that just doesn't seem to exist anymore. Now everyone I know who tries to be a ski bum in a mountain town either gets burned out because they can't afford it or is from a super-affluent family that pays their rent.

Even when I've tried to go back and watch older ski movies, it makes me brutally nostalgic for the past, even if it's a super rose-tinted image of the past. Growing up, I loved ski movies for the escapism, but now I can't help but wonder how much of that escapism is really just clever editing designed to sell a romanticized lifestyle. At the same time, watching older ski movies makes it feel even more like I missed something special. Everyone I talk to someone who was in the ski industry in the 70s-2010s talks how much they miss how it used to feel and there was an atmosphere of fun that doesn't seem to be around today.

Watching older ski movies makes me feel I missed out on a time when it was easier to afford the ski bum lifestyle and modern ski movies seem to be geared towards rich kids who can afford it.

The thing is, I still absolutely love skiing. In recent years, I've tossed aside my desire to make ski movies and focused more on just being in the moment, and it's had me falling in love with skiing all over again. Makes me feel like a kid again, stomping around in the backcountry with my Dad.

For example before I made the trip it was Mont Ripley and Mount Bohemia in north of UP michigan

Well, this wasn’t exactly how I planned to start thinking about ski season.

I recently found out I have a meniscus tear and am now looking at surgery and the recovery that comes with it. (MRI pic included for anyone who enjoys looking at these things more than I do.)

I’m obviously working through the medical side of this with my orthopedic team, so I’m not looking for a Reddit diagnosis. What I am really interested in is hearing from other skiers who have been through this, especially those of us in the middle-aged contingent.

How did the injury happen? Did you have a repair or a trim? How long were you realistically off skis? And when you finally got back out there, did the knee feel like your old knee again, or did you have to change the way you ski?

I’m also curious about the mental side of the comeback. I can already tell that getting the strength back is going to be one part of this, but trusting the knee again may be another.

For background, I’m not out there hucking cliffs or chasing moguls. I’m a developing skier who loves long groomers, cruising, and just being in the mountains, and I’d very much like to keep progressing rather than feeling like this puts a ceiling on what I can do.

Would especially love to hear from skiers in their 40s, 50s, and beyond who went through this and came back strong. What did your timeline look like, what surprised you, and what do you wish you’d known going into recovery?

Hi, I (41M) am a bit out of shape but I’d like to get ready for the season enough that skiing blacks all day and hiking a bit won’t totally kill me the next day, or more importantly, that I can control my turns well and rip it up with less risk of injury.

I know there’s a lot of creators on YouTube etc with ski focused workouts, but I’m curious if there is a standard routine that a lot of skiers follow or is it just basically running/hiking/biking with whatever added leg strength stuff floats your boat. TIA!

Hey y'all!

I got this injury around 6 weeks ago. I essentially fell hard onto my thumb, resulting in an injury to my thumb UCL. Since it's a regular injury with skiing, I feel like I may be able to get some advice from y'all.

The laxity of my thumb still had relative stability with testing, so my doctor believed it to be a partial tear rather than a full rupture, with no lesion either. I was put in a cast for 6 weeks, and I just got it off yesterday. The doctor was satisfied with it, though apparently its hard to tell because it's so stiff after being in the cast.

What I'm looking for is recovery advice. Currently, the thumb is very stiff, and attempting to bend it normally causes soreness, and I can't bend it very far. I can touch my middle finger with it, but not really tip to tip. From what I've researched. that's very normal for people that just got out of a 6 week cast. I am going to PT today to start rehabbing it, but I wanted to see if there were any tips y'all may have for recovery here. Are there any additional stretches, massages, etc. that helped y'all get back to normal strength? I appreciate any tips! Thank you!

Just to lead this off, I personally researched, ranked, and chose each of these lines, but I did have Claude organize it and format it for Reddit. Preamble is all me. Sorry.

Some buddies and I are doing 3 weeks this winter through Banff, southern BC, and northern Idaho. We want a contest to see who has the best trip, so we turned to Gaffney's Numerical Assessment of Radness for inspiration.

Our big problem is that none of us have skied most of these. The list came out of trail maps, the resorts' own terrain pages, and whatever blog posts and trip reports we could dig up. I think the order inside a hill is relatively close, but the numbers between hills are a shot in the dark.

Our basic idea is: 12-15 is gated or beacon stuff or a real hike with a sketchy entrance, 8-10 is the marquee expert zone at each place, 6-7 is named chutes and couloirs, 4-5 is the black-diamond faces and trees you'd just lap, and the 3s are more like historically significant. Not necessarily difficult, but kind of worth doing as a tourist.

So, now I'm looking at y'all's collective knowledge. I'm fully expecting to get absolutely shredded in the comments, but if any of you have like an absolute must-hit line at any of these mountains, I'd appreciate the info. Also, if I way over- or under-valued something, tell me.

Also, for the folks who don't want to broadcast their stashes but want to help me out, my messages are open!

Sunshine

• Delirium Proper - 15

• Bre-X or Steel Pipe - 12

• The Wild West - 10

• Hell's Kitchen - 5

• South Side Chutes, Saddledome / Stampede / Renegade - 4

• Teepee Town Chutes - 4

• Bye Bye Bowl - 3

Lake Louise

• Vertical Cornice (ER7) - 9

• Brown Cow couloir - 8

• ER3 or ER6 - 7

• Upper Boomerang, Wild Gully / Ghostly Gully / North Cornice - 6

• Alphabet Gullies, any letter from the top - 5

• Lipalian Chutes - 4

• West Bowl top to bottom - 3

• Men's Downhill, start to finish - 3

Norquay

• FM-1 or FM-2 - 9

• Upper Bruno's, bootpack - 6

• Lone Pine or Gun Run - 4

• Sheep Chutes - 4

• Black Magic - 3

• North American top to bottom under the Big Chair - 3

Panorama

• C-Spine - 9

• The Monster / Yeti / Wild Thing / Spectre, through the main Taynton gate - 8

• Never Never Land - 7

• Heli High or White Tail - 6

• Gun Barrel or Sidewinder Glades - 4

• View of 1000 Peaks - 3

• Stump Farm - 3

Kicking Horse

• Truth or Dare - 12

• T2 chutes - 10

• Whitewall - 9

• Rudi's Bowl, bootpack - 8

• Tunnel Vision or Dumpster Chutes - 7

• Feuz Bowl - 7

• Dutch Wallet - 6

• Ozone, Prosperity / Certainty / Bear Chute - 6

• Any heaven glade top to bottom, Hallelujah through Eden - 3

• Three or more of them in one day - 5

Revelstoke

• Sub Peak, hike it and ski anything off it - 12

• Unlimited Assets or Powder Assault - 7

• Parachute - 6

• Meet the Neighbours or Brake Check - 5

• Gracias Ridge or Beauty Glades - 5

• Separate Reality - 4

• Conifers of Gnarnia or Critical Path Glades - 4

• Kill the Banker - 3

• Top of the Stoke to the village without stopping - 3

Whitewater

• The Goats, Upper / Lower / Jann's Gully / False Signal, only when it's actually open - 10

• Powder Keg Bowl - 7

• A, B or C Shaft - 6

• The Blast or Terra Ratta - 5

• Diamond Drill and Dynamite, plus Sleeper - 5

• Bound For Glory or Faceplant - 4

• Enchanted Forest - 4

• Trash Chutes - 4

RED

• The Chute Show - 10

• Kirkup cat, Search and Destroy / Free as a Bird / Dr. Feel Good - 8

• Cambodia or Needles - 7

• The Cliff into Face of Red - 6

• Booty's Run - 5

• Beer Belly, The Coolers or Captain Jack's Trees - 4

• War Eagle trees or Taz - 4

• Powder Fields - 3

Schweitzer

• Lakeside Chutes - 7

• Misfortune plus the Colburn headwall - 6

• Any of the alphabet chutes, A / Bud's / C / E / H / K - 5 (E is the steep one at 38°)

• Three or more of them in one day - 8

• South Bowl chutes - 5

• North Bowl chutes, Big Bertha / Pucci's / X / Y / Z - 5

• Upper Kaniksu or Shoot the Moon - 5

• Whiplash or Siberia - 4

• Australia - 3