A ewe trapped in snow just outside the boundary of Tamarack Ski Resort was hauled out of packed snow by ski patrol. A family that was backcountry skiing saw the animal and reported it, and the resort decided it might be good training for some of their rookies. Plus it’ll be good fodder for jokes [ more... ]

The Breckenridge Ski Patrol conducted their annual gondola rescue drills, which require about 50 volunteers willing to sit in stranded gondola cars and wait to get lowered to safety. I suppose you could pack a case of beer for the drill, but it’s not like these things have restrooms. Though it would make it more [ more... ]

A group of people upset with Sunshine Village ski area in Canada have banded together on Facebook to try to marshal a boycott of the resort for firing several of their longtime staff who caught the resort owner’s idiot son skiing out of bounds. I say this with all sincerity: Good luck. Convincing people to [ more... ]

Sunshine Village ski area in Banff fired four longtime staffers days after a ski patroller reprimanded the resort owner’s son skiing out of bounds. The junior patroller busted the kid with four friends and told them to get back inbounds. Twelve days later four of the resort staff were fired by the kid’s dad after [ more... ]

My friend Chris used to jump off the chairlift on the last run of every day and ski to the parking lot. The Ski Patrol would chase him down and take away his lift ticket in the parking lot. There was little else they could do in Upper Michigan. But that might not be the [ more... ]

A 63-year-old mountain guide was on a solo tour in the Pyrenees when he spotted an aluminum tube resting in the snow. He recognized it as an avalanche charge fired from a compressed air cannon, so he gave the tube wide berth. In an extraordinary fit of bad luck, the charge blew up just as [ more... ]