You’ll start out with good intentions. You’ll be catching first lifts or a squeezing a quick run in between work shifts.

A month later? You’ll be too hungover and knackered to make it onto the chairlift everyday.

Yes, you love riding more than ever. But by the end of the season, if the snow isn’t absolutely perfect, you’ll just sack skiing off altogether.

People say that ski resorts are full of scruffy layabout bums with commitment issues and borderline drinking problems.

Well, these people are wrong.

Have you noticed how many couples there are in ski resorts? Fast forward ten years – how many of these one night stands turned into three kids, a dog and a full blown chalet company business in the Alps?

Lots. Welcome to the mountains people.

You arrived with high expectations. You would carefully put away a sum of money into your savings account each week, like the responsible human being you are.

Instead, all of your money has gone on toffee vodka shots, late night cheese pizzas and those ski boots you just couldn’t do without.

By the end of the season, you’ll be paying for drinks out of your overdraft and maybe a casual trip to errrr….. Vietnam as well. ‘Cause that’s what overdrafts are for, right?

Plenty of folk think seasons are for 18 year old gap year kids who’ve just escaped the clutches of mum and dad and want to drink lots and run riot.

Those seasonaires exist, but there are also plenty of people who are in their 30s, 40s and 50s doing a season for the first time.

They’ve done the years toiling away at a desk job – and they’ve realised the best things in life involve snow, mountains and lots of time in the outdoors.

One minute your excitedly waiting for the first dump of snow. The next minute, the sun is out, the snow is gone and you’re packing up your bags to leave again.

You will never be able to anticipate how quickly a season ends. It genuinely feels like you skipped winter. Well, at least the sort of grim, grey, drizzly winters that you used to know in the UK.