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Jeff Lyon is the son of a truck driver and preacher’s daughter. He grew up in Irving, Texas, earned a Communications BA from the University of North Texas and then went ski bumming in Colorado. Jeff returned to Texas to work for the City of Lewisville before heading to Florida to become a licensed yacht captain. Jeff spent twelve years teaching sailing and captaining charters on Lake Michigan. During Chicago’s harsh winters he wrote travelogues, books, short stories and screenplays. Jeff has returned to Florida to write and captain boats. His adventurous tales are based on personal escapades and filled with extraordinary characters.
Reviewed by Michael McManus for Readers' Favorite
Ski Bum Chronicles by Jeff Lyon is a complete delight. I never skied in my early years, and I never had the pleasure of working in a resort, but Jeff presents the episodes of his experiences as a resort employee and ski enthusiast with such relish and joyful passion that I feel I was there alongside him, taking it all in. From the moment he arrives at the EVR, the acronym for Elk Valley Ranch, the mythical resort in Jeff Lyon’s story, when he gets a job at the gigantic gymnasium that houses a roller rink and basketball court, you are drawn into a youthful introduction to work and responsibility that is the means to an end – the end being a constantly stimulating free-time lifestyle in the Rocky Mountains. Jeff paints a picture of his time in Colorado - and he admits that most of what he writes about is based on actual events – that will make you wonder how he survived.
What is so special about the writing in the book is the way the characters are handled. You get to know them very quickly, the ones that were around all the time, and you fall in love with each of them for the strengths and quirks. Then, as the seasons change and the temporary help is introduced, you want it to continue. You want to see how they will replace the ones you think must be indispensable. You want to see how the misfits are winnowed out. Mr. Lyon has done a great job of taking us back to spend time with him in the 1980s, when he did survive a couple of years in paradise, living free where the limitations were few.
