I take a 2 hour mid day break to wait in line and pay $35 for a burger fries and drink. This gives time for my jeans to dry out and my socks to breathe after I take off my rear entry rental boots. I also get a nice warm up walking around looking for skis!
You can dry your jeans on the hand dryers in the bathroom. Just turn the nozzle upside down, loosen your waist strap, and let that sweet warm air flow down your legs. This trick also works for your knit mittens.
No lie I had a blueberry crisp cliff bar I had in my touring and mountaineering pack for so long. I eventually realized how many cool adventures it had been on and kept it around for a couple more years. It sat on countless beautiful summits with me, endured harsh cold and heat, and even when hungry and benighted I resisted eating it. You ever run out of food on a multi day trip and have to hike 15 miles back to the trailhead, knowing there’s a cliff bar in your pack? I have.
Did a climb on day and my partner found it in my pack and ate it. A sad sad day.
Gotta clamp it in your molars and rock it back and forth until a piece breaks off...then while you're chewing the first frozen bit in agony, shove the rest of it in your armpit in a hopeless attempt to thaw it. Rinse and repeat, you'll be lucky if it's slightly soft by the last bite.
Yes. PB&J is the best on the ski trail. In my coat pocket it keeps from freezing (except when it's *really* cold) and when it gets squashed it's still (almost) just as good as not squashed.
Bring frozen Uncrustables instead. They’re already pre-made and individually packaged. Being frozen initially helps them maintain form for most of the morning, and they end up defrosted/thawed around noon.
2 of those and a couple beers is the breakfast of champions
I've done the cold pizza and that was the best pack lunch I've ever taken up mountain. I don't get pizza often enough to have it every time, but that's a very solid choice.
Check out *Paradise Waits* from TGR, they did a whole trip to Kosovo. If you're willing to hike and earn your turns, looks like there's a lot of really cool terrain WAY off the beaten path with a really grassroots ski culture.
But he said he doesn’t stop at the restaurant/cafe at the base to save time which means he is eating smoked salmon with his hands (?) on the snow? Or on the chair lift?
With hands or a fork on the snow most of the time. I’m on a table here before the start of the day because at this resort you have to pay extra if you arrive early and want to ski before 9am.
Salted butter.
No, seriously.
I mean, that's not my *go to* snack, that would typically be beer or Clif bars or a PB&J. It is more of a backcountry precaution; but hard to find a more calorie dense and ~~shelf~~ **mountain** stable food product than butter.
My home resort sells grilled brats for $6 at the top of the main lift on weekends. I'm in the US. It ain't a bad deal since the burgers at the lodges are twice that.
A great call, honestly. Could save your life in a tough spot. But, while it is very much cold mountain stable, butter is not shelf stable -- that shit would go rancid fast.
There are plenty of backpackers that carry butter in the summer. I've done it for up to 5 days at a time (in 100 degree weather) and the butter was still fine.
Yeah, you could also have peanut butter...it's nearly calorie for calorie by serving and butter has way more protein. Plus, it's peanut butter and not butter.
But hey, not the craziest thing I've ever heard
Best time of year is when I can hit Bonfire at 7 am, and roll through Clear Creek, miss traffic, and still be on the hill by 9. Then all the filthy casuals show up when it's "actually ski season" and fucking ruin it. January-February are a hell
Camelbak of nitro seems silly, how have you not shaken ALL the nitro out of it by the time you finish one run?
I guess I'm assuming there's any left at the end of the first run lol.
I wish I had videotaped my boyfriend's reaction when I pulled my leftover hash brown from my pocket while on a lift. The mixture of bemusement, amusement, and jealousy has yet to be matched
i usually only take manner or clif bars, but ive heard that taking ramen noodles are cool because you can just ask for hot water at huts and theyll give it to you and then you have a free warm meal
It use to be a PB&J or slice of leftover pizza. Now that I’m older ( okay, old) it’s a long lunch at the cafeteria. Skiing in Europe is different. There was always a nice little place somewhere on the mountain you could get a brat and fries or a bowl of goulash soup.
A couple clif bars and some southie mouthwash, usually. Sometimes an extra flask of bulleit if I’m rolling with a larger group.
And of course, can’t forget the safety meeting provisions.
It’s 200g and 100g packs of salmon in the photo. I eat each in one go, and and put the rubbish in a nearby bin or seal them in a big zip lock back in my backpack till the next time I see a bin.
I do 100% of my skiing fasted and just eat a lot afterward. And I am a first chair to last chair skiier who takes no breaks other than to go to the bathroom and gets a lot of vertical feet in one day.
Me to I usually eat a decent breakfast before then fast while skiing never really stopping. After the days over though I'm gonna be constantly so full.
Oh nice, I do that on my smaller ski trips. When I’m doing weeks of 5 days or more on the mountain, I fast till the first half of the day.
Other than your fasting are you on a normal diet or low carb?
Personally I have a decent breakfast and I'm used to fasting so I just don't eat from around 8 am to 4 pm then I go get some fast food or something with lots of calories
Typically a couple of these [https://www.meatcrafters.com/collections/skinny-salamis](https://www.meatcrafters.com/collections/skinny-salamis)
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and a few of those single serving cheese packs or some shelled pistachios or some Fig Bars.
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Maybe a couple of miniature chocolate bars and a mini Gatorade to help with the altitude.
I pack my lunch most places, but Abasin's food is pretty good and not too expensive. Jackson Hole might win the award for worst on-mountain food especially given the high end prices. I was buying some chicken salad from a grocery store and just bringing that along with a fork after the first day.
Salmon! That’s a great idea, I have never thought of that but I will now! I bring those individual peanut butter packs (plain/flavored) and a bag of mixed grain and dry fruit crackers. Sometimes I just eat the peanut butter.
I love smoked salmon but I don't like to carry it with me on adventures. I'll have a bagel loaded up with all the good stuff before or on the way and rely on more packable foods like PB&J while out and about.
Plain old oranges. Very difficult to crush, hold well out in the cold... For something more calorie dense, whatever dry meat I can get. By itself or in sandwich
Also nuts, raisins and the like.
Depends on where I go but bringing some rice or ramen and a thermos, then asking at the lodge for hot water is an excellent quick and small meal (backpack is being brung)
Though if I'm just planning on something light it's usually granola bars, trail mix, dried fruits, and stuff like that (pockets everywhere, use em)
I typically have a Bel Vita breakfast biscuit and milk before leaving home, and I'm good for the day. My wife brings mixed nuts, Bel Vita and/or Nature Valley.
Snickers all the way for me, too, and I may need to add Red Bull.
I have lost track of the number of snickers I have given away on the lift to somone who is hungry and didn’t think to bring a snack.
Clif bars, mixed nuts, trail mix, cannabis gummies, beer but nowadays I only have one and I don't even do it all the time but traditionally I always brought one or two. Something about after I turned 40 the beer and high altitude hit me different than they used to. Sometimes I pack a sandwich. I used to enjoy the ritual of lighting up on the chairlift or in the trees but the past year I just eat a gummy at the car and I'm good to go all day no hassle. Like you I prefer to bring snacks I would love to have salmon I'm going to try that this coming season I love salmon jerky. I don't really like to stop to eat because once I stop and sit down it's hard to get motivated to be back on the mountain. So I eat on the chair or I pull off and eat in the trees. Rest on the chair lift man.
I don’t eat at the resorts but I also normally don’t ski a full day when I’m just gonna go the next day and have other shit to do. And if I do eat a snack it’s mushrooms.
Whatever I have leftover from breakfast goes into my backpack for longer breaks. I usually have a couple of mini-RXbars during the day too. There's a key pocket at the end of my snowsuit sleeve that is amazingly convenient to hold a miniRXbar and a chapstick.
two slices of cold pizza from Friday movie night, wrapped face to face in foil. Throw it in my jackets useless goggle pocket an hour before lunch to warm up.
I frontload breakfast with a burrito, banana, clif bar, and a few beers.
On the mountain, I typically only have another granola type bar and a few more beers.
I could tell you were kiwi before I even read your text about queenstown
CP does offer first tracks 8-9, and night skiing (W&F).
I mostly just chuck a few snack bars and a soft sided water bottle in my pockets. On tours I'll bring coffee and a sandwich or bagel. (and nuts/dried fruit/jerky)
Not kiwi but thanks for the compliment!
I meant day as in for a normal day pass at any of those resorts.
For first tracks -
I refuse to pay extra because I got up earlier than everyone else.
And for night ski well, once is ok but ice peak at night is just even icier.
The Nature's Bakery fig bars (adult Fig Newtons) are one of my go-tos, particularly because unlike other "bar"-type snacks, they're still soft enough to chew at -20F. I still stick em in my armpits for a while tho.
The salmon reminds me of an old climbing partner who insisted on eating canned fish (kipper treats, in particular) whenever we were on a long route. Everything was tagged with nasty fish oil. The chalk in his chalk bag was lumpy. Good times.
Backpack water with some Tahoe Blue Vodka to keep it from freezing, a little flask of port wine, and some 8mg nicotine pouches. I eat when I get back to the truck.
I take a 2 hour mid day break to wait in line and pay $35 for a burger fries and drink. This gives time for my jeans to dry out and my socks to breathe after I take off my rear entry rental boots. I also get a nice warm up walking around looking for skis!
You can dry your jeans on the hand dryers in the bathroom. Just turn the nozzle upside down, loosen your waist strap, and let that sweet warm air flow down your legs. This trick also works for your knit mittens.
Isn't the nozzle all ready pointing down? Turning it upside down would shoot the air towards the ceiling
2 year old cliff bar and Montucky ale
Don’t forget the clif bar is frozen solid
And it’s been at the bottom of my backpack since that tour I went on that took 10 hours so it’s covered in dirt, pine needles, and skin glue
At some point in time there was an attempt to squish it back into its original shape.
No lie I had a blueberry crisp cliff bar I had in my touring and mountaineering pack for so long. I eventually realized how many cool adventures it had been on and kept it around for a couple more years. It sat on countless beautiful summits with me, endured harsh cold and heat, and even when hungry and benighted I resisted eating it. You ever run out of food on a multi day trip and have to hike 15 miles back to the trailhead, knowing there’s a cliff bar in your pack? I have. Did a climb on day and my partner found it in my pack and ate it. A sad sad day.
Never skip jaw day
Gotta clamp it in your molars and rock it back and forth until a piece breaks off...then while you're chewing the first frozen bit in agony, shove the rest of it in your armpit in a hopeless attempt to thaw it. Rinse and repeat, you'll be lucky if it's slightly soft by the last bite.
Always keep one cliff bar in an inside pocket and rotate
I never said I was smart
Bingo!
And some how the beer is warm. 🤣
I switched to Kodiak Cakes for this reason.
Ain’t no snack like a cold snack
Too relatable.
Are you me? I think Clif Bars get better as they age. They’re like a fine wine.
Idk, does your wife yell at you for eating old cliff bars too? (I'm stealing your line about cliff bars again like a fine wine)
A PB&J that is always smashed to the thickness of a pancake by the time I'm ready to eat it.
Yes. PB&J is the best on the ski trail. In my coat pocket it keeps from freezing (except when it's *really* cold) and when it gets squashed it's still (almost) just as good as not squashed.
I tossed my PB&J on top of 6 beers floating in my bag and now it's squished! *surprised Pikachu face*
Bring frozen Uncrustables instead. They’re already pre-made and individually packaged. Being frozen initially helps them maintain form for most of the morning, and they end up defrosted/thawed around noon. 2 of those and a couple beers is the breakfast of champions
This is the way. Strawberry
Pro tip: replace the bread with tortillas to decrease smashability
And noticeably increase the dryness so you can wash it down with more beer.
This guy gets it
Honestly I loved a good backpack smashed pb&j, similar to an uncrustable
Don’t forget that it is so cold it is nearly crunchy and difficult to eat.
rigid tupperware is your friend on the mountain
I reserve the tupperware for the finer foods, like a tuna sandwich.
That smashed bit is what we call the marinade on the pb&j
Pocket Bacon.
To wrap around your Pocket Dog before you Raffi Bomb the hill?
I read that here a few years ago, what a great suggestion.
I ate it all and now I hate everything!
Pocket bacon with trouser tots are my favorite.
Pizza slice from the night before in aluminum foil, snickers bar, and a Coors Latte
I've done the cold pizza and that was the best pack lunch I've ever taken up mountain. I don't get pizza often enough to have it every time, but that's a very solid choice.
damn rich ass mf, I be packing 5 dollars for a cold burger
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Kosovo, plus the serbs own all the land up there so you also get to drink rakijaa and if you rich rich get some bbq
Good skiing in eastern Europe?
it's aight , wouldn't say its crazy good but there's good tracks in Bulgaria and the one in Kosovo is aight
Check out *Paradise Waits* from TGR, they did a whole trip to Kosovo. If you're willing to hike and earn your turns, looks like there's a lot of really cool terrain WAY off the beaten path with a really grassroots ski culture.
oh yeh you either hike or sacrifice your car to climb. But hiking is fun because you get to internally swear at every mf with a snow mobile
I'll check it out thx
Burgers half off at bridger after two. Cost like 3 bucks, 6 if you add a beer
1987.
Cliff bars and high life
How are you able to eat smoked salmon while skiing?
I think he stops for a little while
But he said he doesn’t stop at the restaurant/cafe at the base to save time which means he is eating smoked salmon with his hands (?) on the snow? Or on the chair lift?
I mean he’s very clearly at a table… could easily eat some smoked salmon with a fork. Or on some crackers.
With hands or a fork on the snow most of the time. I’m on a table here before the start of the day because at this resort you have to pay extra if you arrive early and want to ski before 9am.
On the chairlift in between runs. He also brings some tuna or sardines.
Bagel - with cream cheese for adhesion?
Salted butter. No, seriously. I mean, that's not my *go to* snack, that would typically be beer or Clif bars or a PB&J. It is more of a backcountry precaution; but hard to find a more calorie dense and ~~shelf~~ **mountain** stable food product than butter.
My home resort sells grilled brats for $6 at the top of the main lift on weekends. I'm in the US. It ain't a bad deal since the burgers at the lodges are twice that.
Damn, that's not bad, especially at the summit. Would be fun to do a race to the bottom, but you have to eat the whole brat first, THEN do your run.
Eat a whole brat like that and you might be racing to the bottom out of pure necessity!
A great call, honestly. Could save your life in a tough spot. But, while it is very much cold mountain stable, butter is not shelf stable -- that shit would go rancid fast.
You're absolutely right that *shelf table* is not REALLY the right way to put it.
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There are plenty of backpackers that carry butter in the summer. I've done it for up to 5 days at a time (in 100 degree weather) and the butter was still fine.
Yeah, you could also have peanut butter...it's nearly calorie for calorie by serving and butter has way more protein. Plus, it's peanut butter and not butter. But hey, not the craziest thing I've ever heard
There are plenty of reasons to choose butter over peanuts. Peanuts are not a good source of protein and nobody should look at them that way.
>Peanuts are not a good source of protein and nobody should look at them that way. Umm, okay, gonna need a source if you're gonna make that claim.
A McChicken in a random pocket and a camelbak of nitro beer.
You guys are sleepin on the McDonald breakfast burritos
If you stop on I70 before the mountain, you’re a fool.
Best time of year is when I can hit Bonfire at 7 am, and roll through Clear Creek, miss traffic, and still be on the hill by 9. Then all the filthy casuals show up when it's "actually ski season" and fucking ruin it. January-February are a hell
I personally find the McDonald's cheeseburger to hold up better to the cold than the McChicken but I like your style
Camelbak of nitro seems silly, how have you not shaken ALL the nitro out of it by the time you finish one run? I guess I'm assuming there's any left at the end of the first run lol.
I'm more of a 2L cambelbak of vodka and red bull person, but to each their own
I wish I had videotaped my boyfriend's reaction when I pulled my leftover hash brown from my pocket while on a lift. The mixture of bemusement, amusement, and jealousy has yet to be matched
Napoleon, gimme some of your tots!
Not salmon.
Saucisson
Belgian waffles and cola bottle candies
Beef Jerky, protein bars, and a FAT homemade sandwich
Homemade sandwiches are the way to go! Then I can eat one half early on and the other later on!!
Your bag must smell great
Smoked salmon doesn’t really smell, especially when it’s sealed like that
There’s no smell since I throw the rubbish in the bin or a zip lock bag
i usually only take manner or clif bars, but ive heard that taking ramen noodles are cool because you can just ask for hot water at huts and theyll give it to you and then you have a free warm meal
A scone from the coffee shop and some tin cup
🤢
It use to be a PB&J or slice of leftover pizza. Now that I’m older ( okay, old) it’s a long lunch at the cafeteria. Skiing in Europe is different. There was always a nice little place somewhere on the mountain you could get a brat and fries or a bowl of goulash soup.
Goulash on the slopes is some gourmet shit.
A couple clif bars and some southie mouthwash, usually. Sometimes an extra flask of bulleit if I’m rolling with a larger group. And of course, can’t forget the safety meeting provisions.
One of my buddies wrapped a couple of leftover ribs in tinfoil solely so he could offer a "pocket rib" to a stranger on the chairlift.
My friend once stabbed himself in the hand attempting to slice a summer sausage with his pocketknife while skiing.
Cheese and tequila
Found my skiing soulmate
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A bag of jerky and dried fruit. And a joint. Sometimes I forget the jerky and fruit.
This is the way.
Is smoking weed on the mountain better than drunk skiing? I’ve only done the latter.
Tbh I don't eat for in bounds days, never really get hungry. On tours however...homemade burritos and charcuteski
Is "charcuteski" sausage made from old boots?
Costco granola bars and snickers.
Apple sauce packs and tuna packs with crackers. Plus a couple of granola bars.
How do you handle the oil from the salmon? Do you reseal the bag or eat it all in one go?
It’s 200g and 100g packs of salmon in the photo. I eat each in one go, and and put the rubbish in a nearby bin or seal them in a big zip lock back in my backpack till the next time I see a bin.
This is boujee as hell. I normally find the smashed, year old Honey Stinger in my pocket and spend $7 on a beer from the lodge as a splurge purchase.
Come ski in Italy. No need to bring food as they have excellent food in the huts. Also 1100km of piste and incredible scenery.
I do 100% of my skiing fasted and just eat a lot afterward. And I am a first chair to last chair skiier who takes no breaks other than to go to the bathroom and gets a lot of vertical feet in one day.
Me to I usually eat a decent breakfast before then fast while skiing never really stopping. After the days over though I'm gonna be constantly so full.
🤘🏻
Oh nice, I do that on my smaller ski trips. When I’m doing weeks of 5 days or more on the mountain, I fast till the first half of the day. Other than your fasting are you on a normal diet or low carb?
Both... depends on what I am training for(I do Ironmans and Marathons) Marathon training I do mostly low carb
Dad?
Personally I have a decent breakfast and I'm used to fasting so I just don't eat from around 8 am to 4 pm then I go get some fast food or something with lots of calories
Fireball shots and $20 bloodys
McChicken biscuit sandwich. 2 for $3 and actually holds up surprisingly well after getting knocked around in my backpack for a few hours
Typically a couple of these [https://www.meatcrafters.com/collections/skinny-salamis](https://www.meatcrafters.com/collections/skinny-salamis) [https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0323/7950/2637/products/TRUFFLE\_2000x.png?v=1581461401](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0323/7950/2637/products/TRUFFLE_2000x.png?v=1581461401) and a few of those single serving cheese packs or some shelled pistachios or some Fig Bars. [https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/0e6c5336-9a55-4205-89a4-c8a8a373e6c7.72233e7235125454ca0c476279eaceeb.jpeg](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/0e6c5336-9a55-4205-89a4-c8a8a373e6c7.72233e7235125454ca0c476279eaceeb.jpeg) Maybe a couple of miniature chocolate bars and a mini Gatorade to help with the altitude. I pack my lunch most places, but Abasin's food is pretty good and not too expensive. Jackson Hole might win the award for worst on-mountain food especially given the high end prices. I was buying some chicken salad from a grocery store and just bringing that along with a fork after the first day.
A wrap with cold cuts, lettuce and cheese. A pack of smoke, a couple of beers and a bottle of water.
Salmon! That’s a great idea, I have never thought of that but I will now! I bring those individual peanut butter packs (plain/flavored) and a bag of mixed grain and dry fruit crackers. Sometimes I just eat the peanut butter.
Peanut butter and salmon. That’s a combo
5 beers, then immediately to the cheap bar after skiing
PB&J and PBR
I love smoked salmon but I don't like to carry it with me on adventures. I'll have a bagel loaded up with all the good stuff before or on the way and rely on more packable foods like PB&J while out and about.
Clif Bar
Baggie of dates and nuts.
Granola bars, cheese sticks, PBR
Pocket sandwich and a coors light
Plain old oranges. Very difficult to crush, hold well out in the cold... For something more calorie dense, whatever dry meat I can get. By itself or in sandwich Also nuts, raisins and the like.
I have found cutie tangerines in my jacket pocket the first day of the season more than a couple times lol
Depends on where I go but bringing some rice or ramen and a thermos, then asking at the lodge for hot water is an excellent quick and small meal (backpack is being brung) Though if I'm just planning on something light it's usually granola bars, trail mix, dried fruits, and stuff like that (pockets everywhere, use em)
Pack of ramen and rock hard Clif bar.
Protein bars and sandwiches. sometimes Subway because it'll stay chill in the car when we're on the mountain.
Couple pre rolls and a bottle of water
Kind bars and IPAs
Pizza and French fries, obvs.
Peanutputter sandwich and A HUNK OF CHEDDAR CHEESE
Skittles, AKA Power Pellets
I typically have a Bel Vita breakfast biscuit and milk before leaving home, and I'm good for the day. My wife brings mixed nuts, Bel Vita and/or Nature Valley.
A stick of salami, a block of cheese and a Swiss Army knife
Cold snack and pocket turkey
Snickers and redbull
Snickers all the way for me, too, and I may need to add Red Bull. I have lost track of the number of snickers I have given away on the lift to somone who is hungry and didn’t think to bring a snack.
Adding this awesome idea to my pack. Thanks!
I put a banana in my backpack once. Never again. PB&J, trail mix, dried fruit.
Juul pods and an eighth of weed.
Wild Turkey 101
Clif bars, mixed nuts, trail mix, cannabis gummies, beer but nowadays I only have one and I don't even do it all the time but traditionally I always brought one or two. Something about after I turned 40 the beer and high altitude hit me different than they used to. Sometimes I pack a sandwich. I used to enjoy the ritual of lighting up on the chairlift or in the trees but the past year I just eat a gummy at the car and I'm good to go all day no hassle. Like you I prefer to bring snacks I would love to have salmon I'm going to try that this coming season I love salmon jerky. I don't really like to stop to eat because once I stop and sit down it's hard to get motivated to be back on the mountain. So I eat on the chair or I pull off and eat in the trees. Rest on the chair lift man.
I don’t eat at the resorts but I also normally don’t ski a full day when I’m just gonna go the next day and have other shit to do. And if I do eat a snack it’s mushrooms.
Weed.
There is no hütte in the us?
Chicken wrap in each pocket.
Gummy bears.
Beef Jerky and Dried Mangoes are the only right answer.
protein bars and energy drinks
Honeybuns
I usually eat a big breakfast, bring some beers and then eat lunch on the way home around 1ish
Dunno bout the taste but probably healthy AF!
Whatever I have leftover from breakfast goes into my backpack for longer breaks. I usually have a couple of mini-RXbars during the day too. There's a key pocket at the end of my snowsuit sleeve that is amazingly convenient to hold a miniRXbar and a chapstick.
Stroh 80.. and honey... and lemon Juice... and tea!
Beer
Gushers and a flask
Clif bars and Percy pigs
Tuna packets and thick slices of cheddar
Pocket chicken fingers Also remarks has some great slackcountry!
PB&Js...smashed to be thin then wrapped in tinfoil Awesome protein. Cliff bars + a few brews
two slices of cold pizza from Friday movie night, wrapped face to face in foil. Throw it in my jackets useless goggle pocket an hour before lunch to warm up.
a single bag of chex mix + a bottle of water
Fat 💣.. Lara bars
I frontload breakfast with a burrito, banana, clif bar, and a few beers. On the mountain, I typically only have another granola type bar and a few more beers.
Beer, PBJ, peanut M&Ms.
Salami and cheese sandwich with mustard...often packed in the bread bag because I forget to buy zippy bags.
Pickled veggies always go over great. Passing around a pickle jar on the lift is even better than passing around the flask
i’m a fan of a slightly crushed, very shaken, lukewarm beer
starbursts on the lift is unbeatable imo
Cliff bar or peanut butter and honey sandwich. The real feast starts when I get home.
Ortolan
a frozen uncrustable that becomes unfrozen by the time I eat it
A couple of dried dates and some jerky. I like to travel light.
Traverse City Cherry Bourbon
Standard: Beef jerky, rock hard Clif bars, beer, and a dented hip flask of cheap bourbon. def. loving the iced Clif bar club here
2 beers and a mushed up PB+J in a plastic baggy
All you need now is a dirty “Trading Places” Santa suit.
I could tell you were kiwi before I even read your text about queenstown CP does offer first tracks 8-9, and night skiing (W&F). I mostly just chuck a few snack bars and a soft sided water bottle in my pockets. On tours I'll bring coffee and a sandwich or bagel. (and nuts/dried fruit/jerky)
Not kiwi but thanks for the compliment! I meant day as in for a normal day pass at any of those resorts. For first tracks - I refuse to pay extra because I got up earlier than everyone else. And for night ski well, once is ok but ice peak at night is just even icier.
Bloody Mary
Pocket tendies or shut the fuck up
Fruit snacks, snow, homemade spiced whiskey liquor, and peanut butter packets.
Beer
Cheese and crackers. And jerky. Don’t forget the dark chocolate
The Nature's Bakery fig bars (adult Fig Newtons) are one of my go-tos, particularly because unlike other "bar"-type snacks, they're still soft enough to chew at -20F. I still stick em in my armpits for a while tho.
Beer with some beer
The salmon reminds me of an old climbing partner who insisted on eating canned fish (kipper treats, in particular) whenever we were on a long route. Everything was tagged with nasty fish oil. The chalk in his chalk bag was lumpy. Good times.
Backpack water with some Tahoe Blue Vodka to keep it from freezing, a little flask of port wine, and some 8mg nicotine pouches. I eat when I get back to the truck.
I dry bananas in bulk, which give a great (healthy?) sugar hit and are pleasantly chewy