Anyone have any good rescue stories that have happened to yourself or to others?
Last season I dug out some guy who was headfirst stuck in the snow up to his waist. We had gotten a lot of wet snow and one of the chairs wasn't running, so when they opened it back up everyone was riding over deep, heavy and slightly compacted snow: basically the last thing you want to have a bad fall into because your not getting back out of it. At first I didn't even see the guy, just these two dumbass skiers who were staring at him.
Once I realized it after I had gone slightly past him, I had to click out of my bindings and commando crawl up the hill to him since you would just sink the snow. I started digging him out and I think at that point the skiers realized he was probably going to blackout and start suffocating so they started helping me. Thankfully he must not have been there too long because he was still conscious, though gasping for air and not all there. Couple minutes later he rode off, no ski patrol necessary. Pretty cool to be a part of saving someone's life, you can see the rush people like fireman get from doing stuff like that.
Last season I dug out some guy who was headfirst stuck in the snow up to his waist. We had gotten a lot of wet snow and one of the chairs wasn't running, so when they opened it back up everyone was riding over deep, heavy and slightly compacted snow: basically the last thing you want to have a bad fall into because your not getting back out of it. At first I didn't even see the guy, just these two dumbass skiers who were staring at him.
Once I realized it after I had gone slightly past him, I had to click out of my bindings and commando crawl up the hill to him since you would just sink the snow. I started digging him out and I think at that point the skiers realized he was probably going to blackout and start suffocating so they started helping me. Thankfully he must not have been there too long because he was still conscious, though gasping for air and not all there. Couple minutes later he rode off, no ski patrol necessary. Pretty cool to be a part of saving someone's life, you can see the rush people like fireman get from doing stuff like that.