100+ ski days requires a system as fluid as your on piste turns.
My hope is that some of what you’ll find here brings you closer to a system that actually works for you.
100 Day Skier looks at skiing the same way you’d look at any durable pursuit: by protecting the body that does the work, the money that funds the journey, and the systems that keep everything moving without a hitch. Physical resilience keeps you skiing in March. Financial clarity prevents quiet, season-ending decisions. Functional systems remove the small points of failure that compound into lost days.
One concrete place to start — and where I did — is a standing winter checklist. Not for gear. For friction.
Write down—once—the handful of things that reliably slow or derail your ski days: late starts, forgotten food, wrong layers, parking decisions, bad forecasts. Whatever it is for you. This list is personal.
Once you can see those friction points clearly, you can eliminate them one by one. The fewer failure points you carry, the more days you log on snow.
It’s the same reason pilots use checklists after 10,000 hours of flight time: the systematic elimination of avoidable errors.
A book that helped me internalize this:
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.
It’s a model that stands the test of time. Everything I do starts with a checklist now. Even 100 Day Skier started with a checklist I made in Roam.
If you know someone who could use this — for skiing or any pursuit — pass it along.
That’s all I got.
See you out there.
—Vik