#Ski patrol

[longreads]

Rescuing the Rescuer: Saving Myself from a Lifetime of Hurt

In this moving essay, Cathleen Calkins examines the cumulative emotional toll on ski patrollers who witness and respond to traumatic injury every day on the job.

"The alchemy between rescuer and rescued is strange: like a romantic relationship, only faster moving. The euphoria of starting simply at hello, I’m here to help before moving on and culminating at what feels like deep attachment. We say my patient, as in they transported my patient to the hospital, or my patient opted to return to the slopes, or my patient is in the bar. I felt possessive of those I spent so little time with because our paths crossed at a moment they needed my help. Perhaps I cared too much.

I used to wonder how the people I’d assisted were doing. Like the college student who snagged first chair to get on the snow early so he could make it home before his afternoon class. He didn’t look like a skier. His cheap snow pants were too big, his cotton hoodie soaked. I remember how crumpled he looked when I skied up to him and how his inaudible moans grew louder when we secured him to the backboard. Had his injury prevented him from leading the life he wanted?"

Read Rescuing the Rescuer at Longreads.

[recreation-law]

Great Colorado Sun article about skiing and board injuries over the past five years

However, there is an inference from the interviews that is incorrect. The ski patrol is not trained, licensed, or allowed to chase down people in skier v. skier collisions. Analyzing 5 years of injuries, crashes and hit-and-runs at Colorado ski areas by Jason Blevins Skier v. Skier collision is the term used to describe any collision between a skier, snowboarder, ski bike, or any other form of…

[daltony]

This photograph shows the 1990-91 Ski Patrol. 5th person from the left: Tony Dalton!

[timetravelingcourtney]

Changes for Izzy: 1994

The family heads to Blackhawk ski area for a weekend of skiing.  Usually Nic charges ahead, racing down the slopes on her new Solomon skis.  However, on her very first run she maneuvers to avoid a fallen child and crashes into a bank of trees.  Izzy sets up her own skis so that no one will run into Nic and skis as fast as she can to alert ski patrol.  Nic is taken by ski patrol in a toboggan off the mountain and to the doctor who x-rays her and casts her broken leg.  The girls agree to spend the rest of the weekend in the lodge together reading and playing cards so that their parents can enjoy some time skiing. Izzy learns that sometimes the best experiences happen when you forget about the plan and leave some room for fun.  

Thanks for reading!

To read the girls' other stories:

Meet Izzy and Nic

Izzy and Nic Learn a Lesson

Surprise Izzy and Nic

Happy Birthday Izzy and Nic

Nic Saves the Day

[the90sweekbyweek]

Episode 2 of “The 90’s: Week by Week” is now up on Podcast, Spotify, Audible and all other major audio streaming services! Join us as we take a look at the week of January 7 - January 13” in the year 1990.

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grubbys-private-bar/id1598471774?i=1000597996318

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BTWCL14Z?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=podcast_episode_detail

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EP6958F0J5wFlY9A8Y9ll?si=N21fhXSUQ4-ZFy5aPJhNpg&dd=1

[i-post-red]

Colour Name : Ski Patrol

contrary to popular belief not everyone has an innate sense of internal gender or care to have one or seek a name for it, some people go their whole lives without questioning their occupation in one of two gender roles, but for some people, if pressed, they don’t feel that internal sense of ‘i am a woman’ or ‘i am a man’, and in that case i feel the switch over to transgender vs cisgender relies on active identification of a gender other than the one they were assigned. if someone’s like ‘idk dude I just work here’ then that’s valid

[schlock-luster-video]

On January 2, 1991, Ski Patrol debuted in France.

[antlerkitty]

Very much hoping I can make junior Ski Patrol at my dad’s work by March. I’m not fully sure how it would work with my disabilities, but am hoping that it can. Because this would be a job (paid job next year if I go to full ski patrol) that is pretty compatible with my mental disabilities (especially ADHD) and the best a sport can be with my physical disabilities.

But I know that there a significant chance I either won’t make it (seems bit less likely option) or I won’t want to do it when time comes (more likely option). Or maybe having a social disability will mean that I can’t do it effectively. I’m not sure, but want to try very much.

[beutlerdesign]

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[granonine]

Sunday Afternoon Coffee: A Story of God's Grace

It was my turn to share a testimony this morning of God’s grace in my life. I chose to tell this story: When I was 10, we moved to western Oregon. When I said that this morning, I think I said eastern, which is wrong. Anyway, we moved to Portland, which put us within driving distance of the ocean and Mount Hood, which is where my story took place. I was 12 by this time, and I had finally become…

[ihatebrainstorm]

Scrapped (?) thingy I made back during winter break lol

Concept was sorta based off of how bc Delphi was in a snowy region, it'd probably make sense for First Aid to be able to navigate in the snow? My other idea was redesigning First Aid and giving him a snowmobile altmode- (Might come back to it some day, but looking at my current WIP pile... unlikely ;v;)

[godofstupidsentences]

Never felt the need to make a character Italian more than i feel it every time I think about Tim Drake

[danggirlronpa]

Mikan never had any interest in learning to snowboard. Even when she had started to work for the local Ski Patrol, her work was in the aid room, not on the mountain - just a little extra use of her nursing skills, in a setting where she can volunteer alongside her friends. She was so clumsy she'd never even considered learning - not skiing like Mahiru or snowboarding like Ibuki. She just wasn't suited for it.

That was before Akane Owari.

To say Akane was a sensation wasn't quite right. She was certainly a sensation to Ibuki, who actually kept up with pro snowboarding and insisted that Akane would be an Olympic favorite if she just had any desire to go to the Olympics. But Ibuki thought lots of people were great that no one else had even heard of. Despite that, even Hiyoko had been excited when they got the news Akane was visiting Hope's Mountain Peak.

"No stupid pig is keeping me from seeing her in action," Hiyoko had announced to the group when deciding to watch her come down from the bottom of the stunt park. And that was Hiyoko's way of saying "Mikan should come, she'd really like it."

So there Mikan was, in the frosty 9 AM air, standing at the bottom of the mountain. "It's cold, huh?" Mahiru asked sympathetically, and Mikan nodded, stuttering - for once, not because of nerves, but because of her teeth chattering - "H-how long until she c-comes down?"

Just as Mahiru opened her mouth, another snowboarder crested the ridge. There were probably fifty people visible on the mountain, but this one demanded attention; she came into view in the middle of a flip, landing facing downhill on a rail. Slips, slides, weaving and bobbing - distantly, Mikan could hear Ibuki and Hiyoko whooping next to her, but all that Mikan could think about was the lines that snowboard carved in the snow.

At the bottom of the hill, Akane Owari pulled to a stop. And when she pulled up her goggles to talk to her coach, Mikan Tsumiki decided she needed to learn to snowboard.

[nmnomad]

Photographer - Aaron Blanc Photos , aka @aaronblancphotos on Instagram - "Dawn Patrol - Someone’s gotta be up early to test the skies. 🆎"

[lesbikill]

it’s not gonna happen but if they do end up going in the direction of the next arc coupled w ivypool’s heart & whatever the second part is being involved with the return of the double dead cats in some way, & that’s where the voice in moonpaw’s head comes from, id love to see bristlefrost as the sinister voice over someone like hawkfrost or any other already evil cat. every single aspect of warrior life was used against her. she saw the warrior code weaponised, her vague ambitions & genuine compassion to contribute led her to a position in which she was ostracised and isolated under the power of an active threat to the safety of everything she loved, she spent her short life suffering for the sake of the clan and she never got her own future. she is absolutely a giving cat but i can see being stuck in some kind of purgatory for as long as she has been driving anyone to extremity. and it would be a lot fresher then just having Evil Cat #3 Returns! as the main issue.

this isn’t my ideal id much rather we do the twin thing or the moonpool thing & bristle staying dead is for the best but Scary Ghost Cats Again & Bristle Back are both things i can see them doing and this is a more interesting way of doing that? then generic evil cat & bristle returns to be a loving mother or whatever

[schlock-luster-video]

On December 1, 2016, Ski Patrol debuted on Polish television.

Here's a new portrait of George Lopez to celebrate!