Funny Ski Hats

Skiing has always been, in the old line, the art of catching cold and going broke while heading nowhere at great personal risk. The going broke part has kept up with the times. Peak-day walk-up lift tickets at the biggest Western resorts now pass three hundred dollars, before anyone has bought a lodge burger. These funny ski hats are for people who pay it anyway. The skier who knows exactly what the art of going broke downhill costs and books the next trip regardless. The one who knows the hardest part of any ski day is not the black run but the walk from the parking lot to the lift and back in ski boots. And the East Coast skier raised on ice, wind and death cookies, who will tell you, unprompted, that anyone who learned there can ski anywhere. They make good ski gifts and the right hat for après: embroidered, unstructured dad hats for the lodge, the drive home and the long stretch of the year when the skis are in the garage and everyone is waiting for snow.