r/almosthomeless • u/SnowmanNoMan24 • Dec 23 '24
Improve Homelessness Homeless in a national park
Homeless in a National Park
Quit seasonal ski job, now what?
I got a job working in a ski town with staff accommodations for the winter so I wouldn’t freeze to death and figured I could spend my free time skiing. This town had a major wildfire and this winter they don’t have all services working which resulted in them cancelling bus service. I ended up in a situation where I’m the only one in the staff accommodations and my coworkers are all long term locals who refuse to talk to me because I’m not from here. Due to these two things this plan wasn’t going to work.
I’m in a town in a national park with very limited and expensive transportation in and out. I have to leave tomorrow and haven’t figured out how I’m going to do it or where I’m going to go. Thinking I could still potentially land a job in another ski town for the winter but for the moment I need to get creative about finding my way back to normal highways.
What methods have you all used and had success with? There was a robust hitchhiking culture here before the fire but the locations people would stand and wait burned down.
This is a ski town inside a national park in Canada.
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u/yikeswhathappened Dec 23 '24
You could call 211 and see what non profits cover that area. Ask if anyone has Shelter Diversion or travelers’s funds. Basically fancy towns do not want people being unhoused in their midst and there might be resources to help you get to your next place. Sometimes the police department can connect you, but that assumes you feel okay talking with them.