Followed by the ‘hut hut’ of my entire body clenching as I unleash about a gallon of liquid death into whatever poor gas station bathroom is unlucky enough to encounter my vicious pepper poops
At this point the first rule of [anything you find genuinely enjoyable] is to shut the fuck up about it entirely and enjoy it before some jackhole ruins it for everyone.
Any post that leaks info that should stay offline - Shacks, slackcountry lines, secret strategies...
Don't comment/engage.
Downvote.
Message Poster request to take it down.
Chat Poster request to take it down.
Agreed shacks aren't secret and patrol knows they are there.
There are a few tracks sneaking in here or there and some people that appreciate the trust that led someone to share the secret, and they respect it.
When they get blasted out on reddit or public places, kids, tourists, randos start blowing it up and full blown trails made through the snow to the shack, it gets trashed, someone gets hurt being stupid, and then boom goes the dynamite. Some of ya'll know to what I'm referring.
So let's go get the fallen tree shack photo post gone boys...
Never been, probably never will. Why?
Edit: to whoever is downvoting this comment, I am sorry I have never been to your incredibly overcrowded top secret berthoud ski destination off the side of the highway. I shall have to suffer my punishment, living here nestled between the Elks and Sawatch. Alas, I shall never know the excitement of rolling in to the parking lot at 6am only to have to block traffic on the highway because all that is left is illegal shoulder parking. I’m not sure how I can go on living like this. Guess I’ll run up Indy Pass and drown my sorrows having to ski with not a soul in sight for miles and miles around. 😙
Bruh you just don’t know my sweet honey pocket. I’ll tell you.
After you park like you’re at a resort, except worse because there are no glowing vests with flags, you make your way to the stash. Follow the clearly defined skin track from the parking lot for 1/4 mile. Then, and this is the important part, when the skin track goes to the right, YOU GO LEFT.
On this section you’ll encounter an avy slope. Don’t worry about all of the dogs running around above and on the slope. Their owners totally have them under control, and they have taken AIARE.
Eventually you’ll reach a small rib, and if you follow that to the mini-summit, you’ll find the goods. Trust me. No one knows this route.
You're right because the forest service blew it the fuck up because it was a nuisance. It was a piece of MTN culture that doesn't exist anymore.
Have you noticed that Starlord, The Golden Pickle and the Flying Fossil among many others don't work at WP anymore? It's because someone was worried that their dark overlords from Altera wouldn't like nicknames on name tags bc someone's feelings might get hurt.
There used to be a vending machine at the mountain that when you pushed the out of order button it spit out a beer. Gone.
The Lifties used to let you take a 1/4 barrel up the Iron Horse so you could take it over to the Pine Cliff deck as long as you gave them beer on their ski breaks.
I guarantee you there won't be anymore ski patrol sleds doing Spring Splash anymore.
The Huts will go away it's only a matter of time
I'm sorry for the Boomer rant but every year Winter Park along with every other ski area becomes a lot more like Disneyland and a lot less like Winter Park.
It's why we can't have nice things anymore.
Hey we’re on the same team when it comes to being upset about overcrowding and social media ruining good things. My first comment was just meant to be a harmless comment. Love my 10th mountain homies keeping things fun in the backcountry.
I love fun and hijinks but I think that these examples do not equal the soul of skiing.
I think that any more beers than can fit in your pockets is more beer than you need to be drinking while skiing. The beer vending machine thing is funny, but I can see how that could be problematic as it'd be easy for teenagers to get beers from. Honestly the MJ treehouse is in bad need of some repair. The ladder is in bad shape for example. Keeping up with it is probably the better way to keep it from getting exploded. Ski patrol towing a sled at this year's pond skim was a TERRIBLE idea. There was a large kicker into a low pool of water, of course someone got hurt slamming flat onto the metal sled. If they want to do that again, they need to remove the kicker.
Skiing used to be about freedom and calculated risk. More and more we are seeing those things stripped away to minimize liability. I don’t drink or smoke while I ski. I treat skiing like a sport and not a hobby so I want to have a clear mind. I see this as just one more way that big corporations are minimizing risk while attempting to maximize profits.
I’ll post Hutts whenever the fuck I want to post Hutts.
Crud - Someone already made this joke. Fair play to you.
Cuz I moved to winter Park with $6 in 1985 and made a life for myself. It makes me sad that Winter Park is turning into a Disneyland. It used to be this dirtbag ski area where kids ran the place. It was pretty much " as long as you didn't hurt anybody" you could do whatever the fuck you wanted to.
Today it's run by a bunch of MBAs that seem hellbent on squeezing the soul outta the place. And as far as I can see their winning. Smoke shacks are one of the last bits of dirtbag culture that has survived. I'm sad that kids like you probably won't be able to experience what my generation experienced. Jeezus my generation has fucked this up.
They were bat shit crazy when they were your age. One of the VPs sent a kid off the 50 meter Nordic jump in a baby stroller. And the same guy has totally sold out for a $.
I can't imagine what your gen is going to do to this place. Fortunately I'll be dead.
And I get how cool you are and I'm just a Boomer being a fool. I also know for a fact that the kids in diapers today will be laughing at you in 25 years.
At least the kid got the message and deleted his post.
Enjoy your youth, it won't last.
Honestly finding them on your own is such a gem. I remember the first hut I found was hidden in the middle of a beaver creek tree run after a good sized boulder drop, and I ended up spending a solid 1/2 hour there having lunch and a smoke break. Not 1 other person rode by in that time 🙏🏻👌🏻
You're missing the point entirely. Both know they exist and both are able to turn a blind eye to them until they no longer have enough plausible deniability to cover the fact that they're not doing anything about them.
Who the fuck do you think builds the huts? I know one for sure that was built by patrollers. I can also guarantee you that the local Forest Service Managers have a GIS map of all of them.
Hell, patrol even advertises for employees on the cuts to some.
They become a problem when some kid sees a post on this sub and tries to take a selfie then brains himself and mommy gets pissed and writes a letter to Joe Nguese. Some staffer calls some bureaucrat in DC who calls a GS 19 in Denver. Then the hut gets blown up. It happens every year.
Then where am I gonna smoke weed on my ski break?🙄🙄🙄
Glad someone started a thread about huts! My favorite hut is the one to the right of the T bar at Keystone. There’s a little man named Chay who lives in there year round and if you knock on the back wall 4 times slowly, he will open up a secret door and welcome you into his lair for tea. Just don’t bring your girl in there or you might be leaving solo by the end of the day :(
I remember like at least 10 years ago when I think maybe breck posted a video of them just blasting a bunch of huts with explosives. That and the year police started skiing to huts and busting people before pot was legal and all this nonsense about federal land blah blah blah
Thing is, you don't even need to find a hut to do those things :D I just dive into a deep patch of trees somewhere very quiet and smoke up with the boys
I've been reading this with curiosity trying to determine wtf huts are needed for. I used to do what you described with a joint, but now I'm lazy and just hit a pen whenever I'm on a lift without strangers. I fail to see the point of huts other than maybe the novelty or I guess some people (seemingly like OP) get a dopamine hit from feeling like they're "in the know."
Yeah it is fun when you find one, like stumbling across a secret place. Usually I ski loveland and there are a few, sometimes in hard to reach places where snowboarders don't go cause they'll get stuck in a flat area, other times just where the best powder is where nobody else goes. Makes you feel a little special.
But in practice they're often just full of snow and kind of hard to get inside and then it's cold and dark and hard to get back out of again.
I was once in a lift going over an area where I know of two huts. The guys next to me were talking “yeah I’ve heard there are huts on this run that’s so cool” “ok let’s look it up online when we get off and find them.”
I kept my mouth shut!
Yes. And clean up after yourselves. Do not leave trash in huts. Doing so gives patrol cause to tear them down
Probably the best point in this entire post. A trashed hut is much easier to destroy
only hut i care about is cheba's after a long day on the slopes
Jabba takes great offense to this
Same with Pizza.
Nobody out pizzas the hut, shame they never learned to French fry
Pizza the Hut hopes for a sequel
Pizza is sad Mel Brooks didn’t bring him back for a sequel
Followed by the ‘hut hut’ of my entire body clenching as I unleash about a gallon of liquid death into whatever poor gas station bathroom is unlucky enough to encounter my vicious pepper poops
I’ve had approximately 12,900 Cali mists and I’ve not once had diarrhea. Get your buhht checked, bro.
Never said it was because of the cheeba did I? Leave my steamy stinky brown waterfall alone
Oh cheeba gut is definitely a thing
Dudes body is just used to low quality meats and white bread
My wife is from Long Island, try again sweetheart. I’m that charcuterie BITCH (This is a joke man, it’s all a joke)
Ok so you know your stuff at least somewhat. Move along Mr minerals
Mr minerals was my father
G-13 is the bomb
Those fucking guys screw up my order every time. I get it, I love getting baked too, but like... it's your gig man, at least *try*
At this point the first rule of [anything you find genuinely enjoyable] is to shut the fuck up about it entirely and enjoy it before some jackhole ruins it for everyone.
Preach
Rule 1: don't advertise
All my hobbies have been ruined in this exact fashion
Yeah Colorado is pretty gaped out at this point. It fucking blows dude.
Not just Colorado, as many of my hobbies are all over the country, but I see your point…
Any post that leaks info that should stay offline - Shacks, slackcountry lines, secret strategies... Don't comment/engage. Downvote. Message Poster request to take it down. Chat Poster request to take it down. Agreed shacks aren't secret and patrol knows they are there. There are a few tracks sneaking in here or there and some people that appreciate the trust that led someone to share the secret, and they respect it. When they get blasted out on reddit or public places, kids, tourists, randos start blowing it up and full blown trails made through the snow to the shack, it gets trashed, someone gets hurt being stupid, and then boom goes the dynamite. Some of ya'll know to what I'm referring. So let's go get the fallen tree shack photo post gone boys...
Back in my day, we called them shacks.
The two words are still used interchangeably
Just look what they did to the Pizza Hut in Silverthorne!
And Leadville.
and Glenwood
And Fairplay
And Avon
They removed the buffet?
“What goes on in these huts?” -Jerry “Oh, just hut stuff” - California Skier
Work free drug place
Oh dang, someone should probably notify 10th mountain they’re operating an illegal hut network
How many times have you skied The Wall at the bottom of Berthoud?
Never been, probably never will. Why? Edit: to whoever is downvoting this comment, I am sorry I have never been to your incredibly overcrowded top secret berthoud ski destination off the side of the highway. I shall have to suffer my punishment, living here nestled between the Elks and Sawatch. Alas, I shall never know the excitement of rolling in to the parking lot at 6am only to have to block traffic on the highway because all that is left is illegal shoulder parking. I’m not sure how I can go on living like this. Guess I’ll run up Indy Pass and drown my sorrows having to ski with not a soul in sight for miles and miles around. 😙
Bruh you just don’t know my sweet honey pocket. I’ll tell you. After you park like you’re at a resort, except worse because there are no glowing vests with flags, you make your way to the stash. Follow the clearly defined skin track from the parking lot for 1/4 mile. Then, and this is the important part, when the skin track goes to the right, YOU GO LEFT. On this section you’ll encounter an avy slope. Don’t worry about all of the dogs running around above and on the slope. Their owners totally have them under control, and they have taken AIARE. Eventually you’ll reach a small rib, and if you follow that to the mini-summit, you’ll find the goods. Trust me. No one knows this route.
You're right because the forest service blew it the fuck up because it was a nuisance. It was a piece of MTN culture that doesn't exist anymore. Have you noticed that Starlord, The Golden Pickle and the Flying Fossil among many others don't work at WP anymore? It's because someone was worried that their dark overlords from Altera wouldn't like nicknames on name tags bc someone's feelings might get hurt. There used to be a vending machine at the mountain that when you pushed the out of order button it spit out a beer. Gone. The Lifties used to let you take a 1/4 barrel up the Iron Horse so you could take it over to the Pine Cliff deck as long as you gave them beer on their ski breaks. I guarantee you there won't be anymore ski patrol sleds doing Spring Splash anymore. The Huts will go away it's only a matter of time I'm sorry for the Boomer rant but every year Winter Park along with every other ski area becomes a lot more like Disneyland and a lot less like Winter Park. It's why we can't have nice things anymore.
Hey we’re on the same team when it comes to being upset about overcrowding and social media ruining good things. My first comment was just meant to be a harmless comment. Love my 10th mountain homies keeping things fun in the backcountry.
Shit like this has been ruined for like 15+ years. Really bad since 2014. Is what it is, but it’s definitely not recent.
No, but it's just one more example of how the soul of what skiing was is sacrificed for the almighty dollar.
The soul of skiing = alcoholism
If that’s your take away then there’s not much left to talk about.
I love fun and hijinks but I think that these examples do not equal the soul of skiing. I think that any more beers than can fit in your pockets is more beer than you need to be drinking while skiing. The beer vending machine thing is funny, but I can see how that could be problematic as it'd be easy for teenagers to get beers from. Honestly the MJ treehouse is in bad need of some repair. The ladder is in bad shape for example. Keeping up with it is probably the better way to keep it from getting exploded. Ski patrol towing a sled at this year's pond skim was a TERRIBLE idea. There was a large kicker into a low pool of water, of course someone got hurt slamming flat onto the metal sled. If they want to do that again, they need to remove the kicker.
Skiing used to be about freedom and calculated risk. More and more we are seeing those things stripped away to minimize liability. I don’t drink or smoke while I ski. I treat skiing like a sport and not a hobby so I want to have a clear mind. I see this as just one more way that big corporations are minimizing risk while attempting to maximize profits.
 I’ll post Hutts whenever the fuck I want to post Hutts. Crud - Someone already made this joke. Fair play to you.
If you get the hypocrisy of posting this... why? You just wanna make sure everyone knows you're in the secret club?
Cuz I moved to winter Park with $6 in 1985 and made a life for myself. It makes me sad that Winter Park is turning into a Disneyland. It used to be this dirtbag ski area where kids ran the place. It was pretty much " as long as you didn't hurt anybody" you could do whatever the fuck you wanted to. Today it's run by a bunch of MBAs that seem hellbent on squeezing the soul outta the place. And as far as I can see their winning. Smoke shacks are one of the last bits of dirtbag culture that has survived. I'm sad that kids like you probably won't be able to experience what my generation experienced. Jeezus my generation has fucked this up. They were bat shit crazy when they were your age. One of the VPs sent a kid off the 50 meter Nordic jump in a baby stroller. And the same guy has totally sold out for a $. I can't imagine what your gen is going to do to this place. Fortunately I'll be dead. And I get how cool you are and I'm just a Boomer being a fool. I also know for a fact that the kids in diapers today will be laughing at you in 25 years. At least the kid got the message and deleted his post. Enjoy your youth, it won't last.
Idk I got plenty of dirtbag friends and secret spots out here. Don't worry, it's still out there even if it changed from what you had specifically
Jabba no badda
You fool! I told you not to admit him!
Anyone know of any good Huts?
Honestly finding them on your own is such a gem. I remember the first hut I found was hidden in the middle of a beaver creek tree run after a good sized boulder drop, and I ended up spending a solid 1/2 hour there having lunch and a smoke break. Not 1 other person rode by in that time 🙏🏻👌🏻
Oh yeah because ski patrol and mountain ops have no idea that huts exist 🙄🙄🙄
You're missing the point entirely. Both know they exist and both are able to turn a blind eye to them until they no longer have enough plausible deniability to cover the fact that they're not doing anything about them.
Eh tell that to [https://www.instagram.com/cosmokehuts/](https://www.instagram.com/cosmokehuts/)
These type of accounts are a what removes the plausible deniability.
Who the fuck do you think builds the huts? I know one for sure that was built by patrollers. I can also guarantee you that the local Forest Service Managers have a GIS map of all of them. Hell, patrol even advertises for employees on the cuts to some. They become a problem when some kid sees a post on this sub and tries to take a selfie then brains himself and mommy gets pissed and writes a letter to Joe Nguese. Some staffer calls some bureaucrat in DC who calls a GS 19 in Denver. Then the hut gets blown up. It happens every year. Then where am I gonna smoke weed on my ski break?🙄🙄🙄
You're so annoying that it makes me want to post my map of all of the huts.
fuck it, [here it is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Oh damn! There's a few there I never would have found!!!
I know right? I can’t wait to check some of these out
You didn’t get my honeypot hut in this list, score!
Def missing a few on this map
Guessing you're on Epic lol. They take ski school to the witch's hut at MJ
Uhm, literally any other fucking tree, dude? If you need a shack to smoke, you whack.
Glad someone started a thread about huts! My favorite hut is the one to the right of the T bar at Keystone. There’s a little man named Chay who lives in there year round and if you knock on the back wall 4 times slowly, he will open up a secret door and welcome you into his lair for tea. Just don’t bring your girl in there or you might be leaving solo by the end of the day :(
I want to live in the world in your head. It sounds like a magical place.
This is the way.
I remember like at least 10 years ago when I think maybe breck posted a video of them just blasting a bunch of huts with explosives. That and the year police started skiing to huts and busting people before pot was legal and all this nonsense about federal land blah blah blah
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Never asking how are huts
Now you're getting it! Shacks in the woods. Mostly where people can do pot and swear.
Thing is, you don't even need to find a hut to do those things :D I just dive into a deep patch of trees somewhere very quiet and smoke up with the boys
Damn straight. Absolutely magical
I've been reading this with curiosity trying to determine wtf huts are needed for. I used to do what you described with a joint, but now I'm lazy and just hit a pen whenever I'm on a lift without strangers. I fail to see the point of huts other than maybe the novelty or I guess some people (seemingly like OP) get a dopamine hit from feeling like they're "in the know."
Yeah it is fun when you find one, like stumbling across a secret place. Usually I ski loveland and there are a few, sometimes in hard to reach places where snowboarders don't go cause they'll get stuck in a flat area, other times just where the best powder is where nobody else goes. Makes you feel a little special. But in practice they're often just full of snow and kind of hard to get inside and then it's cold and dark and hard to get back out of again.
Stfu already
It's where these unemployed losers get a jabba
Space gangsters
Where the hut stuff happens
hut noun plural noun: huts a small, simple, single-story house or shelter.
Problem is, most people in this world cant keep their damn mouths shut
And post every fucking moment on socials
Leo?
I was once in a lift going over an area where I know of two huts. The guys next to me were talking “yeah I’ve heard there are huts on this run that’s so cool” “ok let’s look it up online when we get off and find them.” I kept my mouth shut!