Ski Weekend Is The Best Weekend You’ll Have All School Year

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While my anonymity is paramount to my continued career and the prevention of my eventual suicide, I guess in discussing ski weekend I officially confirm my “Yankee” status. But for those of us who live in a state with actual seasons, when the sky expels its fluffy white diarrhea, there is no better total frat adventure than the snow-covered depravity that is ski weekend.

Now, conventional wisdom would suggest frigid temperatures and the threat of frostbitten nips would have women wrapping themselves in swaddling clothes like the Baby Jesus, concealing the undeniably fun parts of their anatomy beneath layers of Canada Goose feathers with snow pants acting as a de facto chastity belt.

This, in reality, could not be further from the truth. What you first need to realize, which I never did until I was trembling nervous on my way to a chalet thinking my total lack of winter sports ability would render me pussy-less for the weekend, is hardly anybody is actually on ski weekend for the slopes. Well, at least the ones covered in frozen water.

Instead, you’ve got a co-ed mixture of some of the most sex-obsessed and substance-consuming lunatics on the planet with absolutely zero supervision or understanding of future consequences. We’re drinking, snorting, and smoking like the apocalypse is on the horizon, and there’s something about cold air plus a hot tub that has women flashing their tits like they’re the hottest ticket in town.

People are openly performing sex acts that are illegal in some states, with your odds of a quality-ratio threesome (two girls, you degenerates) rising faster than your BAC. Like fucking ‘Nam, there are no rules here, Smokey.

Ski weekend sophomore year, I got my first double blow job. I finished faster than the 0-60 of my car (which I’ll leave open to interpretation). I went home with my first burning-during-urination experience, the beginning of my annual pilgrimage to the student health center — a minor inconvenience for the lifetime of spank bank materials. Ski weekend was the realization that I had made it in Greek life. I had a home in this giant university in which I previously knew nobody, and had no real place to go. Through sordid sexual tales, pretend skiing prowess, and plenty of time spent on another type of slopes, I found a place where I belonged.

Which is why, when your social chair asks what the fuck you guys should do this winter, you say ski trip. Make sure to bring girls; a bunch of dudes on a mountain sounds like a recipe for disaster akin to The Revenant.

Choose a place that affords you free-standing cabins, which eliminate hotel staff supervision and the possibility of noise complaints from far more mature neighbors. Bring more alcohol and your preferred choice of party favor than the biggest tailgate you’ve ever had, and prepare yourselves for an immense post-stay damages bill from the establishment and a probable issue with nationals.

But if you’ve taken anything from this at all, it’s that, if given the opportunity, like Samuel L. Jackson to a role, just say yes.

And PLEASE make sure there’s a hot tub. Trust me.

    1. Brother Gumby

      Bonus with the snow: if it’s soft enough, totally breaks your fall, so you can do more stupid stuff with less ER visits.

      8 years ago at 5:45 pm
  1. Brother Gumby

    Ask a skier I’m actually now curious what Sibling’s mountain of choice is for a ski weekend.

    8 years ago at 5:41 pm
    1. Rudegaze

      Sibling’s just described ski weekend for University of Michigan greek life to a T. So that said, probably northern Michigan at Boyne Mountain.

      8 years ago at 5:54 pm
      1. Brother Gumby

        ah, I respect that. I’m a New England man myself, so for us it’s a toss up between Maine or Vermont (and not New Hampshire, because although it is my home state, Cannon Mountain is an ice trap).

        8 years ago at 6:49 pm
      2. Leary96

        I grew up skiing on cannon. That ice trap will always have a special place in my heart. And in my wrist where I got 2 screws after a wipeout, but mainly my heart.

        8 years ago at 8:31 am
      3. truenorthfratdaddy

        Where you from, Jake, NY or CT? You can keep Killy you day-tripping gaper

        8 years ago at 1:10 am
    1. Red_White_and_Booze

      Not sure about Carolinas but East TN has Gatlinburg which is decent for somewhere down south

      8 years ago at 7:14 pm
    2. FrattyStafford

      Closest spot might be Wisp in West Virginia. It’s a hike but it’s a fun place

      8 years ago at 7:19 pm
      1. JakeFromState

        Meaning a West Virginia native, and having a house at Snowshoe. Go to Timberline, or Cannan. It’s the opposite way of snowshoe, but way less commercialized and there’s no cops or anything. However Snowshoe has a few good brew festivals early and late season that can get..weird.

        8 years ago at 7:56 pm
  2. General_George_S_Fratton

    If anyone is in the west I recommend Heavenly at Lake Tahoe. Its on the Nevada side so you can gamble till you’re broke, the bars don’t close, and you’re in Nevada so its basically illegal to not do drugs.

    8 years ago at 5:50 pm
    1. Drunk Chris Berman

      That’s a great place in the summer, so I bet it’s fucking amazing in the winter

      8 years ago at 1:49 pm
  3. Probation Station

    If you’re less into the mountains and more into everything else that goes into a ski trip, I’d suggest the Black Hills in South Dakota. Your dollar goes farther because a lot of stuff is way cheaper, and there’s Mt. Rushmore, which is FAF. Food for thought.

    8 years ago at 6:15 pm
  4. ChickenEater

    Siblings I want to read an article about Nate Ebner. Please make it happen.

    8 years ago at 8:00 am
  5. Shirtless_Bandit

    Anyone with half a brain will have deduced you’re a Michigander by now sibs. That said, what is the best ski resort in the mitten, and why is it Crystal?

    8 years ago at 8:07 am
    1. Siblings of Mark Wahlberg

      Not a Michigander, from the east coast but have spent a great deal of time there.

      8 years ago at 9:06 am