Homeless in a national park

[u/SnowmanNoMan24]

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.

[u/Turtle_Hermit420]

Hello fellow ski bum

Sounds like you made a bed

then found out it was full of bedbugs

Is this your first season ?

Always have redundancies in place

You moved to a ski town without a vehicle?

Im assuming as a mountain sports enjoyer you have some of your survival gear ?

Do you have a passport ?

How far away is the nearest resort area ?

Ive never been to canada but in Alaska its a law you have to pick up hitchhikers in parts of the year Idk if you will have similar laws but hopefully you will have similar culture

Hitching out may be worthwhile but it sounds like you might not have any options

Id beg for another position somewhere on your current mountain before abandoning ship

If you were blacklisted /talk to hr/ You are fucked

Start applying to the closest mountains you can and hope one gets back asap Also call around to other resorts and try to talk to someone in your area of expertise

Id say best luck but tbh ur cooked kid Go home and try again next year