Reminds me of me and my boy almost 20yrs ago. We were the east coast surfing equivalent. Surf bums. Life was simple and so, so chill. Well, besides running from the police and trying to feed ourselves lol
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.
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'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.
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.
@@chemiKalzlol 14 years is older then 17% of people in America… that’s pretty long considering the largest part of the country is 30/34 and that’s half there life that’s a long time but continue to be an idiot.
For more of this type of stuff, go search for CKY, Viva la Bam and those sorts. CKY especially will be your taste, i guess! early 2000s skater/punk stuff with pranks and all sorts; loved it back then!
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.
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
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
@@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
UA-cam 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.
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
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
Reminds me of my buddies and I before they all had kids. I miss it everyday.. Also WTF UA-cam? Why did you wait 15 years to tell me about this work of art?
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
@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.
Can't believe just popped on my algorithm. I was a teen in Nelson BC in the nineties and this just brings it all back lol. The gnar and ular?! Absolutely classic
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!"
Man I missed this video. I just spent all summer living in my car in the mountains all over bc I was in Squamish for a while ! Honestly best time I’ve had in my life first time I was truly happy
Lived a whole year like this in Banff back in 2014, good old times! Was living in a van with a blown engine on a side street before it got towed. And I was happier than I am today with a house car and 90k a year job just to pay for it all. 😢
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!! 😅
In the 70s I knew people who lived at 10,000 ft in the winter in a tipi and others who were in an abandoned mine shack that had running water due to a pipe they stuck in the creek upslope. Their passion was gold panning rather than skiing, but same resourceful spirits who just really wanted to be there doing what they were doing.
I lived in Whistler in the 2003 - 4 season and I found a video in the library there called Ski Bums which followed some people who lived like this in Whistler. My boss at the shop knew a few them! Worth a look if you want to learn more about that world :)
@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'
I grew up in North Van. I didn’t fit in there at all. My parents took me to Whistler every weekend and I HATED it. Athleticism may be an aspect of Canadian national identity, but it’s not a personal strength of mine😅 10 years ago we moved to California and I didn’t think I missed the slopes, but when I saw the interior of that lodge, I was back in 2009 and burst into tears. Love you Charlie ❤❤
Your only young once so enjoy every experience to the fullest. I wasted my youth working production jobs. Now I’m old and have less shit but plenty of collection agencies coming for me. Who’s to say how or what is the right way to live. But if it genuinely makes you happy and you’re not bothering family or friends for help, do it.
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.
‘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 ❤
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
I’m just glad I’m not the only one wondering why in the world this is being recommended after 15 years of it being posted but I can vibe w it
Man, not much can make me feel like ive been teleported back to bam and ugk days, but this does.
fr
vibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol crap term
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
The start, the guy, the interviewers, the editing, the vibes, the lack of posers, all of it is fucking perfect. I love it
Rare now, rest is posers
Such a poser thing to say
@06_Gucci_Mane Thats exactly what a poser would say, poser
Reminds me of me and my boy almost 20yrs ago. We were the east coast surfing equivalent. Surf bums. Life was simple and so, so chill. Well, besides running from the police and trying to feed ourselves lol
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.
@@dungeon_metaldont you think youre making a lot of assumptions about this guy?
@@Hoodinator17 shhh. you don't need to tell him. i hope you don't tell kids santa isn't real.
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.
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
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
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.
For a small window in time the internet was amazing. We will never see it like that again...
14 years isn't even that long ago
@@chemiKalzlol 14 years is older then 17% of people in America… that’s pretty long considering the largest part of the country is 30/34 and that’s half there life that’s a long time but continue to be an idiot.
14 years is a long time in computer years
Found this randomly today and I've watched it about 5 times. There's something greasy and magical about it
For more of this type of stuff, go search for CKY, Viva la Bam and those sorts. CKY especially will be your taste, i guess! early 2000s skater/punk stuff with pranks and all sorts; loved it back then!
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Top of the recommended page for me. Hope you're still out there living life Charley!
RIP Charley gone
Yeah right guys like that don't die unless they overdose I mean seriously I highly doubt he uses Fentanyl
Anyone looking to know more about Charley I found this podcast from 6 years ago!
ua-cam.com/video/QW9wvH9dByo/v-deo.html
"We got some Drum" instantly flashed me back to high school how cow I'd completely forgotten we smoked those dirty things hahaha
Opened with Atmosphere. Gonna be a good watch
Exactly what I thought.
Atmosphere FINALLY made a good record…
It finally appeared. The video i've been missing for 14 years. Thank you Charley Ager.
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.
dude I wanna watch more of these. Thank you algorithm, this was a blast to watch
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
UA-cam 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.
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.
@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
Ouch truths hurt brah!
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
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
Reminds me of my buddies and I before they all had kids. I miss it everyday.. Also WTF UA-cam? Why did you wait 15 years to tell me about this work of art?
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
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
@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
These the types of videos that made me love UA-cam
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
We really weren’t ready for this 14 years ago, but now we can truly understand his greatness
Best documentary I've ever seen.
Can't believe just popped on my algorithm. I was a teen in Nelson BC in the nineties and this just brings it all back lol. The gnar and ular?! Absolutely classic
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
Yeah at some point you are basically mortgaging your future
The way that Atmosphere hit was nostalgic AF!!!!
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 🤷♂
Thanks for randomly showing up in my feed. I watched every single second and yearned for more.
3:23 him checking for candy/toys is what a little kid does lol
heavy trailer park boy vibes on this shit
Canada
the canadian way bud
fr
Except it's not even remotely funny even by today's standards
This video made me extremely happy. Being told my whole life I’m a bum.. congratulations you discovered I don’t care about pleasing anyone for money .
Atmosphere song to start it off.. man I’m in!
Man I missed this video. I just spent all summer living in my car in the mountains all over bc I was in Squamish for a while ! Honestly best time I’ve had in my life first time I was truly happy
Just what I needed on this sunny spring day before shredding
I shredded a block of cheese
shred some gnar
Lived a whole year like this in Banff back in 2014, good old times! Was living in a van with a blown engine on a side street before it got towed. And I was happier than I am today with a house car and 90k a year job just to pay for it all. 😢
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
An absolute masterpiece.
this is a cinematic masterpiece
cringe. go outside
Let’s sneak into the movie theatre to watch it
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.
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!!
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
Not sure why I'm here 14 years later, but I'm glad I am
I used to think just like that, before I grew up haha. stay gold.
Pony boy
Seriously a work of art!
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!! 😅
The start was from trailer park boys, like scene for scene up until 1:30
I remember watching this way back when. I was young young. I'm 32 now. Holy smokes the memories this brought up
I bloody love this
crazy… absolute, total, pure, unfiltered gnar
This is beautiful
I shredded a lot of gnar with Charley back in the day!!!
Makes sense this is popping back up. this is what’s popular now. Legend stuff
I needed friends like you when I was younger and hell even now to help me ascend in certain aspects of my own brain
Greatest video ever to grace my eyeballs
Caps it off with the Longest Yard in theaters. LEGEND!
Love the atmosphere at the beginning of the video
In the 70s I knew people who lived at 10,000 ft in the winter in a tipi and others who were in an abandoned mine shack that had running water due to a pipe they stuck in the creek upslope. Their passion was gold panning rather than skiing, but same resourceful spirits who just really wanted to be there doing what they were doing.
Ya man, it was just like this back in the 80's too! WB, using skills to survive!
I lived in Whistler in the 2003 - 4 season and I found a video in the library there called Ski Bums which followed some people who lived like this in Whistler. My boss at the shop knew a few them! Worth a look if you want to learn more about that world :)
Why is this only coming up now? Why did i watch this and love it? I don't even ski lmao
Whether yours’ is a sunshine vibe or a snow vibe…….I wish EVERY person could experience the freedom of beach and ski bumming!!!! 😎
UA-cam algorithm has blessed me again with a rare gem from a better time
So happy youtube recommended me this video, what a fucking gem!!!
@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
We'll this was pretty fantastic
We really need a follow up on where this legend is now!
Incredible. A piece of modern art
I miss these days
fr. fuck a job and house and all that bs. let's ride.
I grew up in North Van. I didn’t fit in there at all. My parents took me to Whistler every weekend and I HATED it. Athleticism may be an aspect of Canadian national identity, but it’s not a personal strength of mine😅 10 years ago we moved to California and I didn’t think I missed the slopes, but when I saw the interior of that lodge, I was back in 2009 and burst into tears. Love you Charlie ❤❤
Your only young once so enjoy every experience to the fullest. I wasted my youth working production jobs. Now I’m old and have less shit but plenty of collection agencies coming for me. Who’s to say how or what is the right way to live. But if it genuinely makes you happy and you’re not bothering family or friends for help, do it.
It’s Charley’s world and we living in it
I’m getting all these cool old videos from the 80 ‘s and 90’s in my algorithm and I’m enjoying them.
This video is from 2010. You suck at maths
That's when it hit me man. I fuckin' live for this shit!!!
Joey Diaz would be so proud of this guy breaking in to see his movie.
Taken the day off work due to bad rain and I’ve just come back home, opened UA-cam and this was at the top of my recommended lol
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.
What a gem! Whistler in the early 2000s was a great time.
I enjoy that the intro is full of pseudo-intellectual ramblings
Was that atmosphere off the bat? Hell ya!
‘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 ❤
one of the greatest videos ever
amazing piece of cinema
The algorithms blessed me today with this gem. Still undefeated.
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
I can't believe this was made so long ago and UA-cam only now decides I am ready to view this masterpiece.
Guy hasn't posted a video in 8 years. I wonder what he's up to now.
When the algo hits it hits
Before the age of cameras..... what a time to live
Jus found this. Hope charlie is doing good in life
Listen to the podcast, he owns 2 homes and is married