Junior ski patrol volunteer hours

Rock_Inhabitant

Rock_Inhabitant

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For my IB program I need to have volunteer hours and i wanna do junior ski patrol for my nearby mountain. Is it any fun or is it just a buncha boring work that the patrol themselfs don’t want to do
 
start your day at 5am , in -10* blizzard, your golden retriever dolphins thru the fresh two feet of powder, touring/working under a headlamp, getting to the cornice at 730am, dropping avy bombs and clearing the terrain for 9am first chair!

BORING!

seriously, this job is not for the weak at heart, and should be paid exponentially, at least breck has the union started.
 
He's asking about junior patrol volunteering though. No kid will ever be the one cutting cornices and throwing bombs

14573370:Forrest.Gump said:
start your day at 5am , in -10* blizzard, your golden retriever dolphins thru the fresh two feet of powder, touring/working under a headlamp, getting to the cornice at 730am, dropping avy bombs and clearing the terrain for 9am first chair!

BORING!

seriously, this job is not for the weak at heart, and should be paid exponentially, at least breck has the union started.
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i would do it. it can't hurt you. i'd imagine it's real interesting learning how to run a mountain and what goes into it, you'll probably pick up a bunch of skills. i want to at my local but the patrollers suck there.
 
I did all the oec classes and stuff for it my junior year of hs, but I ran track in the winter and spring so I only really had a couple days on the hill but I had a friend that was up there all the time. Basically what went down was we’d get up to the hill decently early ~2 hours before opening and do sweeps and put up signs, ropes etc. Then afterword there would be like a bit of a briefing and then we’d to intervals of sweeps all day. The juniors were supposed to be paired up with someone but we were a small hill and the never really happened. If we found someone that was injured we were supposed to do the primary assessment and vitals and stuff and radio for someone else to come and take over. Again small mountain, so there was kinda an expectation that we’d do most of the same stuff as a normal patroller. Depending on the size of your mountain they might actually have a set youth program.
 
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