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Thank a Ski Patroller

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RIP_leos_shack
Posts: 710 - Karma: 3,203
These men and women work tirelessly for very little (if any) pay for the one goal of keeping everyone on the mountain safe. Every day they're always the first ones up and last ones down, and what you think of what they do: opening/closing terrain, marking obstacles so you don't hit them, doing avalanche control, setting up and taking down signs EVERY DAY so the groomers can get through, and of course responding to accidents and taking care of injuries, it's a never ending job. So the next time you see a ski patroller, tell them, "Thank you for all your hard work." It might just make their day.
Dec 24 2013 10:36AM
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oil.
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,254
first for bishop
Dec 24 2013 11:25AM
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slav_slayer
Posts: 476 - Karma: 1,821
Thank you for helping me find my dad that one day
Dec 24 2013 12:19PM
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lewis10123
Posts: 122 - Karma: 418
Thank you ski patrollers for when in the inevitable future I will break something on a jump and wet myself
Dec 24 2013 12:23PM
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raull
Posts: 384 - Karma: 2,232
i only have respect for patrollers in areas where there are actual dangers like avalanches and massive cliffs that need marking. but anywhere east of the mississippi river, i think all ski patrollers should suck a dick
Dec 24 2013 1:59PM
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coldcuts69
Posts: 3718 - Karma: 1,888
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Dec 24 2013 3:11PM
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FuckAllOfYou
Posts: 3864 - Karma: 2,518
true to a point, some of them are cockchokes but I've seen some pretty chill ones in MN. Now, the welch ski patrol is a shitshow. They can't help hurt kids worth shit. One time I saw a kid get knocked out in the moguls and it took them 35 minutes to get there. Luckily a ski instructor was there, but jesus fucking christ.
Dec 24 2013 5:44PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,011
wouldn't be much of a job if it was a one and done type thing, would it?

Honestly, I think my patrol friends have an awesome job. Besides responding to the rare gruesome accidents, and the odd freak occurrence where their lives are in danger (which only a small percentage of patrollers will ever experience), they pretty much have a really, really awesome job.

Wake up early and head up the mountain for a mountaintop sunrise and blow shit up trying to make slopes slide. Get legit first tracks while doing such, putting up some signage along the way. Ski the rest of the day, keeping tabs on skiing conditions and meeting up with friends. Close the mountain down and head to the bar at the base for apres. What is there not to love?

Of course, if you are at a mega resort or east of the rockies, well you're job is nothing like that. Instead you act as some sort of fun police and have no real purpose besides dealing with fixing snow fences, accidents, and telling people to stop having fun.


Dec 24 2013 5:57PM
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Mag
Posts: 8155 - Karma: 14,809
From experience I find that while a large proportion of Ski Patrollers can be huge dicks, I can't blame them, it's tiring as hell, cold and shitty.

What's really great is when it really counts they're absolute gods, no complaints, extreme effort and they do everything perfectly.
Dec 24 2013 6:39PM
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NoSkillsCrew
Posts: 1203 - Karma: 2,108
Living in Utah patrollers out here constantly have their hands full. Fucked up terrain in-bounds and all the pushy assholes who don't understand when they tell them that it isn't safe to duck a rope, that it is not safe.

Having been injured a few times I got nothing but respect for them. Never skiied east of the rockies though.
Dec 24 2013 8:03PM
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elm.
Posts: 1495 - Karma: 13,501
Ski patrollers have only helped me in the past, but today there was this real asshole of a patroller who wrote our names down because we were on a 'closed' green run (closed because it was a little icy) trying to get home ASAP because it's christmas eve. Twas BS
Dec 24 2013 8:48PM
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