It is always nice when they throw you a rope and pull you across the cat track to the cirque.Quote:
Originally Posted by samuelf
I'll also cast my vote for alta. Awesome patrollers.
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It is always nice when they throw you a rope and pull you across the cat track to the cirque.Quote:
Originally Posted by samuelf
I'll also cast my vote for alta. Awesome patrollers.
My vote is Jackson. No attitude, only advice.
While I can't really dispute this...maybe keep in mind there are 2 maggots on their patrol. Don't confuse shitty patrols with a few shitty patrollers.Quote:
Originally Posted by shmoesmith
I'll throw my vote to Alta...I hear nothing but good things about those guys. I've hung with them a few times when they've helped on "sidecountry" rescues between Brighton and Alta...always professional.
Snowbird...
-Was in bad accident in tiger bowl last march and the Gad 2 patrollers response time was instrumental in rescuing me. Took great care, tobaggoned me through the woods out of there and gave lots of feedback as to what possibly happened as I have no memory of what happened.
At Park City the weekends tend to be largely staffed by the part-timers. The saying is "If you get hurt on the weekend, just lie there quietly until Monday."
Maybe things have changed since I was more in the loop but somehow I doubt it.
Well, I'm a rookie working at northstar. I recognize that my job as a patroller is far different than at most of the resorts I like, those guys are in a different league. I can say that from the medical standpoint we are up there, or at least have to be. We run more calls than any resort in Tahoe, but only throw a case of bombs a year. There were a few deaths last year, but credit patrol with one save. I think that's what counts.
But my vote goes for snowbird/alta, I've wanted to do that job for years, I don't think it will happen, but I will always admire them.
Big Sky gets my vote. Had a pretty nasty ragdoll episode on Lone Peak. Not only was the first patroller to show up a woman, she was HOTT and helpful. The second one to show up helped me find my long board that was buried above the tip.
Same thing with a lot of patrols, mountains just can't afford to staff full-timers all weekend and the busy holidays. The funny thing is those part timers are trauma surgeons, er nurses, firefighter/paramedics, life flight crews, etc. I think I'd feel pretty confident in the abilities of most part timers.Quote:
Originally Posted by StinkyD
Not Steamboat. Storm Peak broke down the other morning,
"As many as eight Ski Patrol crews worked different sections of Storm Peak Express to evacuate the 65 stranded skiers and snowboarders. The last riders were rescued a little more than three hours after the lift stopped operating."
That's pretty sad, it's a good thing the lift was not full.
You ever participate in a chair evac? You have any idea how dangerous it is? How much care has to be taken to ensure the safety of the guests? 65 people probably equates to anywhere between 17 - 30 chairs depending on how full the lift was. I would say 3 hours is not a bad time. Did everyone get down safe? THAT is the key.
and while its pretty normal for the lifties here at michigan's caberFae to be smokin butts while they're bumpin chairs, I was slightly surprised to see a 'troller up top gettin whooped tryin to wrangle some bamboo while the smoke from the cig in his mouth wafted about his cross-emblazened figure...
it sent me a mixed message and I bought a pack on the way home, just to be safe
are you kiddin me with another page top biznachos?
guess not... gotta light?
3 hours? thats FAST. But all dependant on how many trollers and how much evac gear they broke out.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiEvil
And liftees/trollers smoking?
Bad form.
Did you separate from your snowboard? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by dk_alaskan
Squaws be best as ski patrol ! !!!!! !!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by minddoc
Lech guy who trained national team gave me free one on one lesson for a week.I think that would cost you 4000 Euros in Cham with much lower quality !Quote:
Originally Posted by StumpJumper
Cham worst - spoiled the park and caused my accident but heli guys made up and got me out.
Engelberg guys COOL but lifties BAD.
Himalaya - scary AKs but prob. all mean well.
Highlands - patrol was on Tornados giving me thumbs down signal to climb down ! Unusual, but quite the English way to be polite and worry and no Scottish greed flying two Tornados up.
Death Valley - F 18 doing in canyon flight like in Star Wars- impressive.
In Hawaii as I tried to 2800 m or 3800 m vert I ran into US nuclear sub - prob. chance !
Where I saw this lion.Or they knew and got the big guns out.
Yosemite rangers impolite I felt.
I'm sorry, Steamboat has the best patrol. The are so good they evaced 65 people off a lift in over three hours.
"No injuries were reported as a result of the lift breakdown. Stranded riders were given a free lunch and a one-day lift ticket."
They are really good at yelling at skiers to slow down, and excell at throwing bombs on flat terrain.
Oh yea, they are great at shutting down any event on the mountain where people actually have fun.
Viva la BUMP OFF.
Truthfully, I had the pleasure of some early access days at Toas a few years back, and those guys are the shit.
How good a she ( e) patroller is you can maybe tell at 4 or 5 PM in the morning !
Moonlight Basin has a cute little blonde troller. Don't know if she still works there, but shes hot, and being a patroller just makes her that much hotter.
I will pass that on Leroy, she still works here, is working today, is still cute and is a P.A. as a Bonus.
She does get negative points for being happliy married to a damn nice guy.
I have yet to read a reason for why a patrol is good or bad that has much credibility. Some examples but mostly opinion.
From what I have seen.
The Good
Alta/Bird/JHMR/Squaw(some yes, some maybe). All large patrols.
Smaller patrols
Bridger Bowl/MLB (naturally) /Solitude/Taos/A-Basin
There are no bad patrols, only ass-hat patrollers.
Not Kicking Horse. I did 9 days work for them and they refused to pay me after saying they would, not good form considering I was an ex-employee who would often fix their skis at no charge. :nonono2:
Living on Heavenly now. Although this place is gaper central, god bless the patrol here for dealing with all those yahoos. On another note my van sucks to drive every day (www.myspace.com/bluefishtaxi) so I hitchike down the grade to work at a casino. 90% of the time I have been picked up by a Heavenly patroller, word up!
Also the few times I have been to kirkwood the patrols I have talked to have been very down to earth....
I'll second Kickinghorse patrollers being shit. I've found them to be largely unhelpful and impolite, they're also bomb happy.
Mammoth patrollers were really nice and helpful when I lived there. Sunshine has a great patrol too, especially working with them closely. Brighton trollers are hit and miss, some are really great, the majority seem to be incompetent asshats.
I don't see any mention of any EC patrols. Well I gotta give props to Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol. I see them in action every day and yeah, they pretty much know what's goin' on. Watching the rooks do the sled test on the frozen ass headwall of National gets my respect.
Kinda random, but I saw a sticker on a pair of skis in Highlands Bowl today that read:
"Patrollers, save the snow, stop the awful bombing."
I'd like to see him try and ski the bowl if it never got bombed.
That's pretty quick evac. Depending on the terrain and the number of chairs, evac can take forever, just figure raising a T-bar and lowering one person takes at least 5 minutes. Mulitiply that by 65, add tower climbing, rope flipping, hang ups. 3 hours sounds about right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dam Skier