Here you go fellas:
http://www.summitdaily.com/news/9661...enridge-patrol
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Here you go fellas:
http://www.summitdaily.com/news/9661...enridge-patrol
Breckenridge posted these images on their Facebook feed Dec. 25th. Clearly shows evidence of several good sized slides in the peak 6 area. Obviously the purpose of the pics was to showcase the Peak 6 opening not avalanches!
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The sluts and crats (brilliant line By The Way) are mostly too chicken shit to explore the notion of seek and destroy behaviors as related to dangerous avy terrain. Because what if they get behind it and things still go to shit? Especially if the cost of control compromises or competes with the notion that riding a chairlift in the freezing cold, and wind justifies having brought your adulterous spouse and sniffling brat children all the way from Kalamazoo to spend a week at the time share. It seems to me they'd much rather use someone who has the smug factor dialed in to perfection, is imbued with cautionary tone, and doesn't realistically expect to ever know shit from Chynoble. The alternative of acquiring someone who's sacrificed many hours developing the ability to tread lightly on slabby terrain, and enabling them does not exist much.
I heard that member of BSP was recently termed for being overzealous with the ordnance, or causing a slide that ran too far. Probably just a long time local being JONG, but if it's true that sounds like some serious douchebaggery:fmicon:
Try $10/hr. Got a job offer from BSP this year and was lined up to be another transient on the 2-3 year program, at most. Nobody's joining patrol to get rich, but $10/hr is crazy for someone with avalanche industry experience. Fact is, there are 100 people lined up behind you that are going to take that $10/hr job without hesitation. It's an employer's market, though cost and price are two very different things. You squeeze on price (of labor) at what cost? High turnover etc... Goal for me was blasting experience and daily operations/snow safety/mitigation work and a high volume of emergency medical calls. I'm told the amount of trauma seen on that hill is incredible.
And the realities of the job have changed over the years, with more responsibilities and professionalism expected but not rewarded. Most resorts pay their lawyers and risk managers well, without acknowledging that the patrol is the front-line defense and deserves to be treated and paid as professionals.
Yep; at my last patrol the starting wage was 11.00 with the top end at around 16.00. I made up for it by building in other perks such as a 500.00 equipment allowance, a pair of skis every other season and I made damn sure my patrollers got to ski their asses off.
In addition I was right there with them doing nearly every shitty job that came up. My crew was happy and turnover was low. Be interesting to see what the rate is after this season. My guess is around 50%.
Posted today on FB:
"Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
Think you got what it takes to patrol at the Legend? We're looking for a few good men and women for our volunteer patrol staff! Tryouts are two weeks from today on Saturday, January 25. Reserve your tryout spot by emailing Darla at mtndarla[at]aol[dot]com. Good luck, candidates!"
The chick in the OP's instagram post's username was hibeams. Does anyone have any pics of her headlights for verification?
Also, I don't remember a time where our good Central CO snowstorms have come in with this much wind. Anyone else?
Patrol for free!!! Bet you get a pass
Don't bet on it.
Peepers don't get a lot of love, least they used to didn't...
More global weirding. Shit is getting fucked up everywhere.
I wouldn't be surprised if this current NW to northern rocky mountain flow shuts off in 2 weeks and everything shifts somewhere completely differently. These erratic patterns are wreaking havoc on our snowpacks and nothing seems normal any longer.
Things now seem to go from one extreme to another.
there isn't much odd about the snow, wind, weather it's pretty normal for year in and year out
I'd say this is all pretty normal, what has been happening right now is that the jet streem from the north (snow) and the southern jet streem (moisture and warm air) are fighting each other right over top of northern colorado week after week, giving us alittle more wind than usual and plenty of snow
I am waiting for that valve to shut off in two weeks like you said, end of january???? then again I wasn't predicting much of winter till january this year and I'm a 4-6 weeks off
soemtime around 97 or 98 there was a wind storm that was pretty much 10x what we've had recently. that did alot of damage and made these recent ones seem pretty mellow
I disagree, however Weather does not = Climate.
So far in SW Montana we are about normal for SWE and our base depths are actually pretty average to above average and it is always windy here.
The odd is the Temperature. One 8 day period of below zero F with 4 days of daytime highs below zero. Still normalish.
But we have also experienced 3 extended periods of Temps in for 40s, I mean 4-7 days in a row. For this area, that is odd.
But it is the extremes that when averaged create the averages we accept as "normal".
I still believe the extremes are bouncing back and forth much more than it used to.
I am guessing that the reason that the avy occurred on Jan 2nd, and we didn't hear about it through local media until Jan 8th is b/c the Evil Empire did not want this in bounds avy to affect their beloved Holiday tourist season. We all know that they strong-arm the local media!