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Single. Too most, it means unmarried. To some, a wish, and for some, tired of being. To a skier, a quicker way to get on a chair, to avoid those lines, those lift lines, those lines that deter from the reason to come to a ski resort. At European ski resorts, local skiers push and [...]

Lean on me. Sometimes we all need to lean on another. For an individual that is used to doing things on their own, asking for a shoulder can be at times not in the focus of success. MauiSkiBus had a long term goal to ski 100 resorts and it happened. 100 different ski resorts in [...]

Modern day ski bumming is tough. Tough compared to what? A hot shower everyday. Or even twice. What about EZ access to a jacuzzi? Fireplace that lights itself or a remote controlled thremostat that warms your home before you even crawl out of bed. An electric blanket as easy to use as easy to plug in to [...]

Chains. Chain gang. Anchor chain. Neck chain. Rigging chain. Chain letter. Chain of command. Tire chains. A must for mountains, especially snowy icy conditions going up mountain passes. MauiSkiBus drove 13,000 miles on its quest to ski 100 different ski resorts and did not have to put chains on once. Sad, but true, so sad, [...]

In the 1800, thousands upon thousands of settlers from the east made their way west to find wide open spaces and a dream of a better life. Their mode of transportation? The soles of their boots. Possibly a horse. Maybe a covered wagon. What ever they used to cross the Great Plains as transportation, nothing would compare [...]

MauiSkiBus is behind schedule. Will get on ASAP. At #97 and only have had two days off in the last twenty. Tired legs.

On the island of Molokai is a heiau, a temple, nearly the size of a football field, that was used as a “luakini heiau”. A temple that has a very eerie feel, one that is not inviting at night, one that has sounds of screams still echoing through the dense jungle that had grown around [...]

Ideas come to some and some have no ideas. Often a question can be asked, “What do you want?”, while the answer may be, “I don’t know.” What kind of answer is that, something in the middle of the road, not really an answer, but a sense of still in confusion. Many just pass an [...]

A million dollars is a thousand thousand dollars and that may seem like a lot of money, but in many ski resorts, a thousand thousand dollars does not buy much slopeside. Whistler, Aspen, Vail, Sun Valley, Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, and then try go to Europe with a thousand thousand dollars try to buy ski in/ski [...]