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Big ski resorts have gotten into a trend of recruiting foreign skiers and riders to work their mountains for the season. As many as 400 of them wind up on any one mountain. We thought it would be fun to get a group of these young people together and find out what life is like as a traveling ski bum.

The group we talked to is working Copper Mountain in Colorado. They gathered in the computer room, where they check e-mail from home. We put them on a phone and this is what they had to say.