Photo: Pally Learmond
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Skiing is life. Everything else is just so many pages in a book. That you should buy. Clear the coffee table and claim your strictly-limited-edition copy now.
The Ski Bum book would not be possible without the generous support of our principal sponsor.
This book comes from a parallel universe where everyone is friends on a powder day.
A utopia where it makes perfect sense to be hopelessly addicted to something that falls out of the sky. A world where the truth never stands in the way of a good line…
This is Ski Bum: shocking tales from the interplanetary snow bohemians and dedicated powder fiends propping up the bar in your local ski resort.
There is only one suitable backdrop for the titanic trials and triumphs of the ski-bum lifestyle: a curated collection of the world’s best ski photography.
A new book from the team behind The Story of New Zealand Freeskiing
Softcover retail
$NZ59.95 inc. gst
Hardcover retail
$NZ99.95 inc. gst
A4 size 208 pages
The majesty. The solitude. The boot odour. Adventure is the one key flavour (and smell) across every ski-bum cuisine.
Photo: Yves Garneau
There is no greater mission, no worthier cause, no higher calling, and no more majestic use of your time than ripping the shit out of powder snow as often as you can. Ski bum, pro, sponsored, industry type, wannabe or just plain talented – Ski Bum has the best ski photos of all time.
Photo: Mattias Fredriksson
Photo: Oscar Enander
Photo: Camilla Rutherford (Far Canal Bar)
It used to be that the dudes drank beer and kept their shirts on.
Photo: Scott Markewitz (Seth Morrison passed out)
Every single book on skiing should have a photo by legendary photographer Scott Markewitz of Seth Morrison relaxing in a state of extreme refreshment. On a couch. Ski Bum sure does.
Photo: Scott Markewitz
Think being a ski bum is a recent invention? Each generation believes that, if they didn’t invent the ski-bum lifestyle, they brought it to a state of perfection. We’ve dug through the archives to bring you the non-politically-correct, wet T-shirt clad, drunken truth of the early years of the ski-bum adventure.
Photo: Wade McKoy
Photo: Marco Shapiro
$5 Royalty per book donated to edenprojects.org to reforest Madagascar. We donated $12,000 for our book ‘The Story of New Zealand freeskiing‘, planting 50,000 trees!