@SorryNoFatChicks its not fake, a little exaggerated for comedic effect maybe, but this was a sincere and accurate representation of how he lived at the time
great collaboration. he is a natural character and the 'scenes' almost don't feel like scenes at all. you guys captured this well. it feels very authentic and representative of 'the times'
Yep, it's all part of his survival, how do you think a man that is homeless obtains expensive stuff such as skis and skateboards? I'm guessing not legally.
I dunno how this randomly came up in my recommended in 2024, and I don't know why I decided to watch it all the way through.. but I loved every minute of it.
bro forgot to turn off auto stabilization. also u can get these fishies easy now. get a few adapters and u can get an MK distortion on a handicam. vignette in this is awful
He lives in Vancouver now working construction. So much respect for Charley, no one can land switch in powder like him. No one loves skiing as much as Charley, legend.
Sounds like as a construction worker he went the “poser” route. I grew up with a dude like this. They actually need money, lots of it. They go around with cute catch phrases begging and getting one way gifts from friends until the joke is over. Then they move and work construction. When he breaks a bone he really becomes a “poser”. Never ends well. Sad cause he seems talented.
Drum rolling tobacco and shredding the nar.........a contentment and peace very few will ever know and even fewer will understand. Epic video from a place in time that no longer exists.
I mean he's not wrong lol, if he was just ur average dude no one would give him money and he'd need a job but since he's fun to be around he could live as a bum
@srithongkun actually, this was filmed years before he made it in the pros. before made it skiing professionally, he lived in his truck for four years, and when he crashed his truck in a ditch, he moved into the tent in this movie. he really was a SKI BUM and was getting no "money and shit".
I hate people like you. Who the fuck cares? It's all painfully southern BC. Everyone out there thinks they're tough. I hear a bunch of talk. Never seen one true story though. Buncha pansies.
I'm so glad the algorithm just randomly decided to resurrect this gem. I used to vibe like this back in the day with the climbing community. I live a "poser" life now according to old school Charley and I'm happy, but wow do I miss those days.
Everybody has some life story like this now where it's like yeah I used to be all wild those were the days. I think 99% of such origin stories are total BS but it helps people to conform to the machine to put false narratives in their history.
Lived in whis like a bum for 2 summers in 17-18 for mtb riding. Learned so many tricks to skate by on the 1500 bucks I brought with me. best times ever. Long live the big green house and Patrik Martin. Nothin beat a long day of riding and heading to crystal lounge for a few pints or going for a swim at lost lake. I cherish those days and the people I met along the journey.
@@Circumnavigate for one make friends, everyone knows someone to hook a homie up. Tim Hortons, day old slices at avalanche pizza. Just pinch pennys and make friends and ride your f’n bike haha
@@ekay4495 Them* Ant produces and Slug raps. Stoked for you to just come across them! I remember listening to them for the first time in 2011. Check out Living Legends and The Grouch & Eligh if you dig Atmosphere
I used to eat table scraps to get by and skip lift lines everywhere I went just so I could board everyday and those were some of the best days of my life
Yea lived three years there (13-16) it was changing quick while I was there and I was already late to the party haha but some unforgettable times ill look back on till im gone
obviously acted out for comic effect ... should have pointed out though that reality is jobs on ski resorts pay fuck all but its easier than freezing to death in a car and only being able to ski 1/8th of the resort without a pass. easy way is finding the easiest job. sorry for the reality check, life's shit
Same. I ended up in WP CO. It's a major reason I pursued being a ski bum. Alterra and the mega ski corps are killing the lifestyle and the love. Saw a dumb Facebook reel about washing ski gear and it made me think of "wash socks? Theses are ski socks bro!"
I see no problem with being a ski bum as long as you don't mooch off friends. I made the mistake of not providing enough on own and relying too much on others. I lost many friends because of it. Only rely on yourself, not your buddies.
All old youtube that is preserved will be golden. It was a time when people uploaded because they wanted to share their life and ideas. Never incentivized by advertisements. Purely from the human soul.
Who ever else just ended up here recently, know that this algorithm youtube has to recommend this to each of us shows we all can see a bit of Charley in ourselves XD
Wow. I worked the lifts for a season at Whistler Blackcomb in 1990/91. What surprises most is how the Wizard Lift is still the same in 2009 as it was back then!! 😅
We had a guy like this in Canmore, Alberta living near the "rock pile" next to the bow valley river except he was like 40 but he was the coolest dude ever. He'd hitch hike to Banff or Lake Louise, spend a week then come back to work a few shifts at one of the restaurants to get enough money to do it again a week or two later lol. He'd pay one admission fee for the hill then hide after closing time on t he mountain and just camp out. I miss that time in my life, 2010-2014 in my late teens-early twenties. I'll probably head back out there at some point permanently. This is how alot of people live out there man. People from the east just don't get it. It's super lax in these smaller mountain towns.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. - Charley Ager, Whistler ski bum
As someone that grew up so poor i lived in cars more than once.....I now make a fuckton of money and i can promise evvvveryone....living in my nice built house in the middle of a nice quite woods......is WAY FUCKIN BETTER than living in a car, stealing food, and worrying about being killed or arrested every fucking day. Lol
Unfortunately this type of lifestyle is not possible anymore. Homeless people are ticketed and harassed everywhere they go until they move along to the next town, where the cycle repeats itself.
ok huge respect for Charlie, but I don't understand the roundhouse busboy act for food? It's so easy to just go up to the stand and steal fresh food. I don't know if things have changed since 2014, but I have not paid whistler backcomb for a meal in several years. they don't care. you can just take it.
‘To be young again with not a care in the world’, but these days after having been a slave in the matrix for over thirty years I am fond as for the freedom ❤
So sick Dude, this provides you don’t need to go to no college like my old Man said. I can do what I want, and live for free! All you need is hot chicks, sweet bud and a free lift pass. ……. And dental insurance…….. but thats it. I don’t need anything else…oh and a retirement plan. …..that’s all…. Health insurance, retirement plan and a warm place to sleep, that’s all I need. Oh, and a cell phone. But I don’t need anything else. Health insurance, 401k, place to stay, phone. That’s all I need! Oh , I could use a skate board too.
RUclips has recommended this video to me countless times and I finally just decided to watch it. Crazy how this dudes video went viral after 14 years. Pretty funny and very 2009.
They are rebellions to social norms. They aren't bums because they are lazy, they are bums because they have the courage to stick with what they are passionate about. It doesn't justify some of their illegal activities like breaking into the cinema, but I still find their lives interesting
@@tastedaspear7948 whether their lifestyle is meaningful, that's a subjective view. But what I do admire is their determination to completely disregard social expectations and peer pressure, they just pursue what they love. I find that to be courageous
This guy is absolutely ahead of his time. He was asked what he does for society and without hesitation he knew it was Pulling sick licks every day. Plenty of people live their entire lives without purpose.
randomly in my recommended 14 years later. A work of art
Same
SAME
like digging up an internet time capsule
same
Ya im here have a thumbs up for all the roughneck rednecks in the world who make grind out sweat every day
@SorryNoFatChicks its not fake, a little exaggerated for comedic effect maybe, but this was a sincere and accurate representation of how he lived at the time
great collaboration. he is a natural character and the 'scenes' almost don't feel like scenes at all. you guys captured this well. it feels very authentic and representative of 'the times'
When was this filmed?
It's easy to be a bum in BC. Try being one in Regina Sask. We'd eat him alive back in the day. Southern BC people talk tough, but it's all talk.
2005
im watching this 13 years later and it’s obviously scripted ahahahah
Sneaking into Longest Yard in theaters is a fucking flex
4:20 bro is a beast
Absolutely feral 😂
A bum with a purpose. That’s great!
I sometimes wish I had the courage to live like a bum.
Ending the day with the longest yard 😮💨
This guy was so ahead of his time, the algorithm wasn’t ready to share this with us mere mortals until now. 😮
We’re finally ready as a society. Congrats to everyone here
to anyone wondering they interviews Charlie 5 years ago on a pod cast "TPM Episode 108: Charley Ager, Missing Pro Skier"
@@HydroMind 🤝
faxts lmao
Well said
Homie was really good at discreetly breaking into places lol
Absolutely, I know 10 people just like this growing up 30 mins from a ski town
@@badbadthingssumm ok
Yep, it's all part of his survival, how do you think a man that is homeless obtains expensive stuff such as skis and skateboards? I'm guessing not legally.
@@badbadthingssthe video is dramatized lol
@@Eliment51dont you think youre making a lot of assumptions about this guy?
the cool guys back when i was a small kid
The comment I was looking for
@@thefoonmaster5960 the comment your mother was looking for
These guys will always be the cool guys
i wasnt even born
@@novavi9ttusaatana then I’m getting old
I dunno how this randomly came up in my recommended in 2024, and I don't know why I decided to watch it all the way through.. but I loved every minute of it.
Me to haha
@@poserboy5262 Me three
@@brianwilsonct Weird
@@StephenAndrew777 Me four
@@brianwilsonct No, me
Modern day diogenes... Legend.
Does Charlie take a dump in public?
So true lmao
Exactly what I was thinking the whole video
Diogenes was the original Folk punk / crust punk
Absolutely.
The fish eye lenses were the shit back in the day!😂
bro forgot to turn off auto stabilization. also u can get these fishies easy now. get a few adapters and u can get an MK distortion on a handicam. vignette in this is awful
They were shit alright
Good use of a fisheye on a vx1000 or the like is undefeated for any skate or ski or similar video
Let’s GO! Showers for posers… ❤
Nice editing on the skateboard break.
He lives in Vancouver now working construction. So much respect for Charley, no one can land switch in powder like him. No one loves skiing as much as Charley, legend.
@@slightlytattedupI’m gonna find you
Lol
@@MonumentalDong going out of the effort to find someone because they called you a poser? what a kook.
Sounds like as a construction worker he went the “poser” route. I grew up with a dude like this. They actually need money, lots of it. They go around with cute catch phrases begging and getting one way gifts from friends until the joke is over. Then they move and work construction. When he breaks a bone he really becomes a “poser”. Never ends well. Sad cause he seems talented.
@@stevenshome3970 respectfully disagree. That’s a big assumption. He’s a successful married man and I think he has a family too.
heavy trailer park boy vibes on this shit
Drum rolling tobacco and shredding the nar.........a contentment and peace very few will ever know and even fewer will understand. Epic video from a place in time that no longer exists.
Gnar*
It can exist if you look for it hard enough.
@@ForrestMccroy Agreed my dude.
90s/early 2000s whistler would have been a dream to experience.
It exists if you beleive it does
Damn. That took 14 years to become popular.
I love it.
“Anyone can get a job, but it takes heart to be a bum.”
Damn.
I mean he's not wrong lol, if he was just ur average dude no one would give him money and he'd need a job but since he's fun to be around he could live as a bum
@srithongkun actually, this was filmed years before he made it in the pros. before made it skiing professionally, he lived in his truck for four years, and when he crashed his truck in a ditch, he moved into the tent in this movie. he really was a SKI BUM and was getting no "money and shit".
We did blow one time and tag teamed a Roxys girl in the back of cinnamon bear
Yeaaah this was filmed in 2005
I hate people like you. Who the fuck cares? It's all painfully southern BC. Everyone out there thinks they're tough. I hear a bunch of talk. Never seen one true story though. Buncha pansies.
@@denghyurfhurshureshure289👌
@@denghyurfhurshureshure289 im gonna believe this
I'm so glad the algorithm just randomly decided to resurrect this gem. I used to vibe like this back in the day with the climbing community. I live a "poser" life now according to old school Charley and I'm happy, but wow do I miss those days.
No posers, no lifts
Everybody has some life story like this now where it's like yeah I used to be all wild those were the days. I think 99% of such origin stories are total BS but it helps people to conform to the machine to put false narratives in their history.
Miss those days alot
@@woody6791 not a care in the world dirtbaggin in ‘09
weird flex but ok
Lived in whis like a bum for 2 summers in 17-18 for mtb riding. Learned so many tricks to skate by on the 1500 bucks I brought with me. best times ever. Long live the big green house and Patrik Martin. Nothin beat a long day of riding and heading to crystal lounge for a few pints or going for a swim at lost lake. I cherish those days and the people I met along the journey.
How did you afford drinks and get by on so little?
@@Circumnavigate for one make friends, everyone knows someone to hook a homie up. Tim Hortons, day old slices at avalanche pizza. Just pinch pennys and make friends and ride your f’n bike haha
Where did you go for the other three seasons?
@@BeanieKing Mom's house
tips would be greatly appreciated! looking to start this life in whis next summer
Fast forward to today now we have people living in tents everywhere!
Charley was an innovator for sure 🤣
hes different than them though lmaoo. At least he is just doing what he loves and not taking up space on a busy street to smoke crack
He's a strong leader.
@@HolyRare oh yea, much better to be steady polluting some random creek WHILE also smoking crack! You people truly live in a fantasy lmao
You are taking space here too, you human waste
Took some time off after highschool and lived this kinda life... ahah it was awesome but couldn't do it forever.
as least we got to do cool shite
I did it at 14. Was fun but HARD dude. And I was in Sask. Not pussy-ass BC
Best documentary I've ever seen.
Found this randomly today and I've watched it about 5 times. There's something greasy and magical about it
The insatiable thirst for money quote really hits different when u graduated college and now work full time for a living and can’t do this anymore
It is never too late
Being broke when you’re old is a scary thought tho.
Bro you just started lmao.
@@305Flopez the point is last year I was unemployed and could ski every single day now I literally can’t I have to work and make money
@@TmoneyProductionsmaking moneys for posers
Running into this video after 14 years of it being up and hearing Atmosphere made me smile. Minneapolis love
Same. ✌️
Same Wisco kid moved to the PNW.
Atmosphere is extremely underrated, only found him a few years ago
@@ekay4495 slug and ant! Sean and Anthony! They are wonderful people who make dope tracks
@@ekay4495 Them* Ant produces and Slug raps. Stoked for you to just come across them! I remember listening to them for the first time in 2011. Check out Living Legends and The Grouch & Eligh if you dig Atmosphere
2009 was simpler times wow
terrain parks were like an xbox 360 mw2 lobby back then
@@enduroian Fr they still are haha. Realistically behind all the banter are some cool guys and nice people most of the time.
2009 was literally the middle of an economic crisis
@@3pnk ya he probably lost his investments on Wallstreet then ended up by the river due to the housing bubble😅
They were watching the longest yard in the movie theater, that came out 2005.
I used to eat table scraps to get by and skip lift lines everywhere I went just so I could board everyday and those were some of the best days of my life
Why did you skip lift lines?
@@barnyardian22 cuz I didn’t want to pay for a pass just duck the rope and hop in
Damn every so often I stumble across this video in my saved list. Always puts a smile on my face, thanks Charlie. Sick licks for lyfe
The good old days of Whistler. I lived there from 08-12 and honestly the best days of my life!
A single day pass today is the same price as a season pass was back then (with the student discount)
Yea lived three years there (13-16) it was changing quick while I was there and I was already late to the party haha but some unforgettable times ill look back on till im gone
Same bro. Such a wild ride
06-10. Best time of my life
Are yall real
this is a fucking banger. so much rich context with so little exposition. greasy and golden. the people who made this film know how to savor
Greasy. Real greasy.
obviously acted out for comic effect ... should have pointed out though that reality is jobs on ski resorts pay fuck all but its easier than freezing to death in a car and only being able to ski 1/8th of the resort without a pass. easy way is finding the easiest job. sorry for the reality check, life's shit
this video played a crucial role in me becoming who I am and moving to whistler after high school
cool to watch it back after some years
Same. I ended up in WP CO. It's a major reason I pursued being a ski bum. Alterra and the mega ski corps are killing the lifestyle and the love. Saw a dumb Facebook reel about washing ski gear and it made me think of
"wash socks? Theses are ski socks bro!"
@@24karatHAMSTER🤦♂️ 🤫
@@carterlemcke9036 🤷♂
I see no problem with being a ski bum as long as you don't mooch off friends. I made the mistake of not providing enough on own and relying too much on others. I lost many friends because of it. Only rely on yourself, not your buddies.
All old youtube that is preserved will be golden. It was a time when people uploaded because they wanted to share their life and ideas. Never incentivized by advertisements. Purely from the human soul.
apparently im a poser.
It's ok bro, posing is for posers.
Classic Atmosphere, my heart.
Atmosphere forever underrated ;(
Who ever else just ended up here recently, know that this algorithm youtube has to recommend this to each of us shows we all can see a bit of Charley in ourselves XD
This is the type of shit that made RUclips. The new algorithm ad tev chasing trash ugh . Thank you for some realness
Top of the recommended page for me. Hope you're still out there living life Charley!
3:23 him checking for candy/toys is what a little kid does lol
Wow. I worked the lifts for a season at Whistler Blackcomb in 1990/91. What surprises most is how the Wizard Lift is still the same in 2009 as it was back then!! 😅
We had a guy like this in Canmore, Alberta living near the "rock pile" next to the bow valley river except he was like 40 but he was the coolest dude ever. He'd hitch hike to Banff or Lake Louise, spend a week then come back to work a few shifts at one of the restaurants to get enough money to do it again a week or two later lol. He'd pay one admission fee for the hill then hide after closing time on t he mountain and just camp out. I miss that time in my life, 2010-2014 in my late teens-early twenties. I'll probably head back out there at some point permanently. This is how alot of people live out there man. People from the east just don't get it. It's super lax in these smaller mountain towns.
“How I’d rather live in a tent than bust my ass to pay the rent” -Slug
for anyone wondering the guy left whistler and had a run in with drugs then broke his ankles at a construction job, he doesn't profesionaly ski
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. - Charley Ager, Whistler ski bum
this is a cinematic masterpiece
cringe. go outside
Let’s sneak into the movie theatre to watch it
mayo relish mustard ketchup with fries on a sub roll for breakfast ....... demon
Just what I needed on this sunny spring day before shredding
I shredded a block of cheese
shred some gnar
As someone that grew up so poor i lived in cars more than once.....I now make a fuckton of money and i can promise evvvveryone....living in my nice built house in the middle of a nice quite woods......is WAY FUCKIN BETTER than living in a car, stealing food, and worrying about being killed or arrested every fucking day. Lol
Ya man, it was just like this back in the 80's too! WB, using skills to survive!
I enjoy that the intro is full of pseudo-intellectual ramblings
We really weren’t ready for this 14 years ago, but now we can truly understand his greatness
Cringe. From start to finish.
crazy… absolute, total, pure, unfiltered gnar
The way that Atmosphere hit was nostalgic AF!!!!
Followup, Chrley lives under a bridge in LA . Though the scenery is different not much has changed for Charley
Canada’s like a little cutesy pretend version of The US
Unfortunately this type of lifestyle is not possible anymore. Homeless people are ticketed and harassed everywhere they go until they move along to the next town, where the cycle repeats itself.
Greatest video ever to grace my eyeballs
ok huge respect for Charlie, but I don't understand the roundhouse busboy act for food? It's so easy to just go up to the stand and steal fresh food. I don't know if things have changed since 2014, but I have not paid whistler backcomb for a meal in several years. they don't care. you can just take it.
The algorithm blessed us boys
Watching a video when it comes out is for POSERS
Watching a video randomly 14 years later is NAR
I’m glad the color isn’t clear so i couldn’t see what was on his sandwich
He took skateboarding video culture film style and put it into skiing. Was he the first? I don’t know. Dope non the less
Modern man’s hustle by atmosphere in the first second of the video playing. It’s going to be a memorable video
Too short ! lol
some things i learned in this video:
rent = posers
locks = posers
work = posers
sick licks all day = contributing to society
he's not wrong
‘To be young again with not a care in the world’, but these days after having been a slave in the matrix for over thirty years I am fond as for the freedom ❤
So sick Dude, this provides you don’t need to go to no college like my old Man said. I can do what I want, and live for free!
All you need is hot chicks, sweet bud and a free lift pass. ……. And dental insurance…….. but thats it. I don’t need anything else…oh and a retirement plan. …..that’s all…. Health insurance, retirement plan and a warm place to sleep, that’s all I need. Oh, and a cell phone. But I don’t need anything else. Health insurance, 401k, place to stay, phone. That’s all I need! Oh , I could use a skate board too.
Atmosphere song to start it off.. man I’m in!
Everyone finding this in 2024 is crazy
The sheer amount of people not realizing that this is largely satire & exaggeration is actually insane...
You have no freakin clue !
90s and early 2000s.. the golden age
I’m from western Canada and lived the ski bum life. I can assure you this is true to an extent
""Locks are for posers yo!"
I love high trust Canada.
I miss these days
14 years later Buddy's prolly homeless on the streets of Victoria.
Probably the most successful homeless guy there is though. Guy knows all the strategies
@@samxyx he not homeless, there's updates I saw after commenting, heh
A man living for nothing but his passion, this is how life should be.
idk man i nice hot shower everyday is pretty fucking sweet
Hell, no, @WW3DGen - passion is for posers!
@@MLPAbraxas1we should be able to live and breathe our passions and have a hot shower everyday
@@sage8573 this isn't star trek dude, you can't have everything, sacrifices need to be made and those choices are up to you
Shower is for posers!!
The more I watch this the more I can see the staging of it all. MTV pushed the ‘reality’ genre onto the alt heads too
RUclips has recommended this video to me countless times and I finally just decided to watch it. Crazy how this dudes video went viral after 14 years. Pretty funny and very 2009.
makes me laugh all the people that have to work harder for lazy ducks like this to exist. enjoy little kid
He still has his skateboard at the movie theaters haha
That is why we have houses. Protect against bears and wild Animals
Thought it would be real, obviously fake
Comments section is wild. This is some kind of performance art, and they don't get it
Jus found this. Hope charlie is doing good in life
Listen to the podcast, he owns 2 homes and is married
Something diabolical changed in the 2010s
these guys are adults btw
They are rebellions to social norms. They aren't bums because they are lazy, they are bums because they have the courage to stick with what they are passionate about. It doesn't justify some of their illegal activities like breaking into the cinema, but I still find their lives interesting
@@bigman6333 well i dont c the courage in role-playing a teenager... somehow they end up being what they despise, posers
@@tastedaspear7948 whether their lifestyle is meaningful, that's a subjective view. But what I do admire is their determination to completely disregard social expectations and peer pressure, they just pursue what they love. I find that to be courageous
@@bigman6333 agree to disagree, it is not that deep
wait bro put ketchup, mayo and bbq sauce on whatever that is?
This guy is absolutely ahead of his time. He was asked what he does for society and without hesitation he knew it was Pulling sick licks every day. Plenty of people live their entire lives without purpose.
How the fk is that good for society
@@RentInNewYork 3at 5hit bootlicker
In 2024 all you have to do to live this lifestyle is work 60 hours a week.
Opened with Atmosphere. Gonna be a good watch
"ive got some drum!"
hahaha..charley's the shit!!
what is drum?
@@dylanisley4873a rolling tobacco
Why is this only coming up now? Why did i watch this and love it? I don't even ski lmao
Then hydro goes out cuz everyone took his advice n lived just to have fun n ski
We’ll played. Good to see the ski bum culture alive and skiing. Skiing is life.
This was 14 years ago
Ya it's not like this anymore. Them were the glory days.
As much as I agree, no one can sustain this lifestyle if they aren’t a trust fund baby. you need money for everything nowadays, which is sad
This man was born to be a snowboarder
see that's what i thought.
he is me when i go skiing
Rents for posers - word!
that garage door better be unlocked next time im up there...
from the thumbnail i thought this was a kyle mooney video
1:19 What is "Drum"?
A type of tobacco
@@Alongcamegavinbicycle Thank you!
Charlie the zen master
Gnarly Charley got signed by armada and went pro