BeanoNYC
Active member
Is courtesy patrol more like a mountain ambassador or is it a paid position?
-
Welcome to AlpineZone, the largest online community of skiers and snowboarders in the Northeast!
You may have to REGISTER before you can post. Registering is FREE, gets rid of the majority of advertisements, and lets you participate in giveaways and other AlpineZone events!
Patrol at Camelback
- Thread starter BeanoNYC
- Start date
Is courtesy patrol more like a mountain ambassador or is it a paid position?
dmc
New member
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2004
- Messages
- 14,275
- Points
- 0
It's an ambassador thing.. He's retired... Volunteers there...
kingslug
Well-known member
Well they can put me in their database...as someone who will never go there. Sounds like a joke. Time for another beer!
twinplanx
Active member
PA is a strange state I remember something like this happening to my and my bro at Shawnne ...hit some small "jumps" near the edge of the trail maybe a little too close to some "snowmaking equipment" they also try to enforce some kind of bogus "no jumping" rules?
Sounds like Volunteer Fireman syndrome.
But that's what you get for skiing at a ski areas. Ski in the woods and cut your own, that way no one can tell you what to do.
Just don't clear cut. That's a whole 'nother animal.
jaywbigred
Active member
Camelback and Shawnee were notorious for this sort of thing when I skied there during the 90s. Haven't been back much, but it does not surprise me that their ways haven't changed much.
sledhaulingmedic
New member
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2004
- Messages
- 1,425
- Points
- 0
ROTFLMAOSTC!
Some areas seems to be magnets for this kind of garbage. I spend enough time at my job scraping up the sick and injured and dealing with the rude and arrogant. I just want to ski and have fun and hopefully, not need to haul someone down the hill. No one's happy when I'm busy.
Rottefella Masochistics????
Sorry, I'm kinda new at this computer thing and am not up to speed on all the acronyms.
dmc
New member
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2004
- Messages
- 14,275
- Points
- 0
Rolling on the floor - laughing my ass off - scaring the cat
billski
Active member
Check out the patroller's skis. I'll bet you find a whole set of marks carved into their board. Prolly different symbols for boarders and skiers, and a distinction made for clipped tickets. When they get to 100 marks, they get a stun or flare gun.
dmc
New member
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2004
- Messages
- 14,275
- Points
- 0
Check out the patroller's skis. I'll bet you find a whole set of marks carved into their board. Prolly different symbols for boarders and skiers, and a distinction made for clipped tickets. When they get to 100 marks, they get a stun or flare gun.
Actually - knowing my buddy who works there... Probably paint ball guns after 100 marks..
Can't wait to tell him about this thread...
sledhaulingmedic
New member
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2004
- Messages
- 1,425
- Points
- 0
I hate hearing about this nittwitt patrollers/ebassedors/mountain hosts/ski cops. It makes me embaraased to have any affiliation with these idiots. D: I'd be curious to hear your friend's reaction.
campgottagopee
New member
Dude don't sweat it---I have so many freinds that are full-time/part-time patrol and the guys are awesome. i think we all know that 99.9% of patrol are good people and we're lucky to have them around. In this case, one bad apple DOESN'T ruin the bunch.
dmc
New member
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2004
- Messages
- 14,275
- Points
- 0
I know he enjoys F-ing with kids that act like asses... And he says there's lots of them at night...
billski
Active member
perhaps that is the root cause of the draconian behavior. I am pretty lucky to avoid that sort of person, perhaps it's where I ski, or don't ski.
BTW, I overheard a patroller at Cannon talking last month. She was an x-patroller at Camelback I believe. Said that almost all medical evacs take place by helicopter. Apparently 10-20 per weekend day was not uncommon. 2 hospitals competing for business she posits.
dmc
New member
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2004
- Messages
- 14,275
- Points
- 0
I think if you see the same kids doing crap over and over again - you'd F with them...
Wrap that context around it and it doesn't seem too out of line for patrollers to to get a little nasty....
billski
Active member
To make a generalization, some feeder mountains seem to have the most infantile, destructive behavior. Those closest to metro areas are the worst for petty theft.
10-20 helicopter evacs per weekend day? The place must look like a war zone with helicopters coming and going.
I skied there a few times when i was in middle school and high school. I remember it being crazy but nothing like that. I did, however, get my ticket pulled there.
billski
Active member
yeah, and rather frightening to the newbie skiers. Remember, this is 2nd hand information, I don't know how true it is, but she "seemed" pretty credible, in her cannon Ski Patrol outfit...
She said it wasn't practical to go by ambulance., being a half-hour away. I don't know why not; we drove one hour to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock center after a ski accident.
BeanoNYC
Active member
Wow...much opinion on the matter. Just to keep things straight about the incident at hand. He just skied up a pile of snow on the side of the trail to hit a jump. Something many of us do at other resorts often while trying to find an interesting line. He would have been cool with the guy saying, "hey, we try to discourage that here for insurance reasons." The issue I'm bringing up was the lecture and the belittling to a grown adult. I have no doubt that in his lifetime, he's been spoken to before by patrol. He was shocked because he was never spoken to like that and for such minutia. This is something we rarely get from patrol. I personally never met an ambassador or patrol, I didn't like.
Similar threads
