As we still wait for white flakes...
The topic of this thread is food on ski days for those frugal among us that avoid eating at pricy resort cafeterias, lodges, and restaurants. Yes we that brown bag, tailgate, eat out of food brought in our cars, or carried in our coat pockets. Not always convenient if one's vehicle is parked at a remote resort lot at the base or one took public transportation to the resort. Of course one can rent a locker for $10 or so that I also tend to avoid if all I need to store is some food that otherwise is a wee too bulky for my coat pockets that already has too much stuff.
So what does this person do? Well a small candy bar, energy drink, or nutrition bar if that is all, can easily find a pocket to fit in, however a plastic packaged sandwich from a market among others things like an energy drink bottle do not. So herein am admitting my misdemeanors. I hide such things out in snowy woods areas on ski slopes. Something a resort would denounce but over many years doing such, have never had a problem. Obviously might be an issue if numbers of others began doing same. As someone occasionally going into such woodsy places for skiing and taking breaks, I'm pretty much an expert at such spots at the 2 resorts I frequent. Very easy on first runs down, to hide a Ziplock bag with a little food under snow beside a tree where others are never going to track. Someone might wonder if animals might get at the food but my experience is that has never happened to this person and is probably because it is easy to cover with snow. Even if it hasn't snowed for a couple weeks, snow just below a firm crust is usually loose unless it is late season.
Another issue is what to do with packaging after eating whatever? Well one could of course just carry wrappers in a pocket the rest of a ski day though I rarely do so and instead at the 2 resorts I frequent, there are always trash containers down at lift mazes.
So what kind of food? Well as a lightweight, I more often bring a store bought sandwich, or yogurt, or nutrition bar, and or candy. These days, the only food I actually carry in my pocket all day tends to be a Momma Chia, Chia Squeeze drink as I stash the rest. This winter I've got a more expensive food habit that has developed the last couple summers that I expect to add to my pocket. I began bringing hard aged Gouda cheese on my summer backpacking trips because it keeps well for extended periods of days without refrigeration and has a wonderful rich cheese flavor. In fact such cheese was developed before our current modern era because European people could carry it with them.
The topic of this thread is food on ski days for those frugal among us that avoid eating at pricy resort cafeterias, lodges, and restaurants. Yes we that brown bag, tailgate, eat out of food brought in our cars, or carried in our coat pockets. Not always convenient if one's vehicle is parked at a remote resort lot at the base or one took public transportation to the resort. Of course one can rent a locker for $10 or so that I also tend to avoid if all I need to store is some food that otherwise is a wee too bulky for my coat pockets that already has too much stuff.
So what does this person do? Well a small candy bar, energy drink, or nutrition bar if that is all, can easily find a pocket to fit in, however a plastic packaged sandwich from a market among others things like an energy drink bottle do not. So herein am admitting my misdemeanors. I hide such things out in snowy woods areas on ski slopes. Something a resort would denounce but over many years doing such, have never had a problem. Obviously might be an issue if numbers of others began doing same. As someone occasionally going into such woodsy places for skiing and taking breaks, I'm pretty much an expert at such spots at the 2 resorts I frequent. Very easy on first runs down, to hide a Ziplock bag with a little food under snow beside a tree where others are never going to track. Someone might wonder if animals might get at the food but my experience is that has never happened to this person and is probably because it is easy to cover with snow. Even if it hasn't snowed for a couple weeks, snow just below a firm crust is usually loose unless it is late season.
Another issue is what to do with packaging after eating whatever? Well one could of course just carry wrappers in a pocket the rest of a ski day though I rarely do so and instead at the 2 resorts I frequent, there are always trash containers down at lift mazes.
So what kind of food? Well as a lightweight, I more often bring a store bought sandwich, or yogurt, or nutrition bar, and or candy. These days, the only food I actually carry in my pocket all day tends to be a Momma Chia, Chia Squeeze drink as I stash the rest. This winter I've got a more expensive food habit that has developed the last couple summers that I expect to add to my pocket. I began bringing hard aged Gouda cheese on my summer backpacking trips because it keeps well for extended periods of days without refrigeration and has a wonderful rich cheese flavor. In fact such cheese was developed before our current modern era because European people could carry it with them.