Most Asshole Thing That Ski Patrol Has Done To You

Fell and nailed my balls on a rail as the resort was closing and ski patrol told me to leave without giving me time to recover from my pain...
 
"It's a good thing you guys are skiers otherwise I would have cut your pass"

Racist patroller
 
Some patroller called me out and I skied over to him and asked what the problem was (I didnt do anything wrong) and he told me he didn't trust people that were dressed like "park rats." Apparently its now a crime to dress in baggy clothes...
 
Shit were im from id rather slide down with a broken back then take a chance of ski patrol skiing me down on a sled..
 
I purposely didn't ask if i could ski park in uniform because I knew what the answer was, but I'm two seasons deep and nobody has mentioned yet
 
Fuck you ehv. What makes you better than "dip shit kids" on this website. Is it because you have an exspensive camera? sure you make cool edits, but the reality is that no one values those edits enough to do more with them than to sit at their computer and watch them a few times and then forget about them forever. Its a big problem if you actually think that ski patrolling, what you do, or anything that has to do with skiing (besides the business aspect of the industry) is actual work - check into reality man.

Edit: Ehv makes cool edits but sick of his bull shit comments. Not going to let a 26 year old fat ass ski bum define what work is, or ridicule the "dip shit kids" who make what he does possible (who the fuck do you think watches your edits)?

 
Ha this reminds me of when I was first learning to ride switch and i rode into a patroller stopped on his snowmobile, I had no idea what i was doing. but he was super cool about it. Patrol has always been cool.
 
100% depends on where you work. If you work at a small resort on the EC, you're probably not working yourself stupid. If you work at a resort with a ton of terrain to control, limited resources and inadequate staffing, you're earning your measly check.

I've had a lot of jobs, from carpentry/remodel, to Electrician Apprentice, to day laborer, to LDAC/mentor/activities director at a live in treatment facility, to managing a busy resort town retail clothing store and working fulltime patrol at 12,000ft and above in regular 40mph+ wind days is by far the most demanding job I've ever had.

Don't get me wrong, I love my job and it's incredibly rewarding and gratifying for dozens of reasons, but it isn't close to an easy job. There aren't many jobs where you have to wear so many different hats and one minute can be lowkey and the next be total pandemonium.

For one thing, at my mountain, patrol doesn't tell people to slow down or play any sort of "mountain cop" role whatsoever outside of enforcing terrain closures due to avy danger. Another thing, I don't know where people get this idea that all patrol does is schralp unopen terrain. Couldn't be further from the truth. I spent 2x the time digging up snow fences and running toboggans last year than I did skiing.

Patrol is an amazing job, but we do work hard (most days...) and we aren't paid anything and we're all just passionate skiers like you guys. I'm sure some people gravitate towards it for some less than honorable reasons and want to flex some sort of authority, but those people in my experience are by far the minority.

Not to mention, outside of full-time EMS/ER, not many people deal with the sorts of things that patrol deals with.
 
My experience with ski patrol has been good for the most part, they have saved a few of my buddies asses a few times. I take issue when you get the ones that are just power hungry and looking to boss people around or scare them. There are some at my home hill that will make up rules just to act like they have power, not gonna lie though its pretty fun calling them out on their bullshit since I work at the hill and also know all the rules. Had one last year tell me that I couldn't be in the park filming and that he would clip my pass if I didn't stop, pulled out my staff pass and my filming pass, and skied away.
 
Put my pole thru my lip jumping in the park at Abasin. Skied down to patrol shack at the base, and the first thing the patroller said to me was "don't bleed on the floor". Used to be so cool at Abasin in the spring, but then they. stopped building jumps, maybe too much blood on the patrol shack floor.
 
I've got a buddy in the ski patrol at my home mountain. Before the park was finished we built a little powder kicker, and he rolls up and is like 'so i hear we got ourselves a kicker", at this point we where sure we where in trouble, but then he says "bout time" and proceeds to session with us. that my friend is the best think ski patrol has ever done.
 
Ski Patrol watched 2 men in their 40's pick a fight with me and my bestfriend when we were 17 & 16 skiing at Gore Mountain. We accidentally almost hit his kid when he was laying on a landing. No one got hurt, we appologized, and felt bad but they felt the need to follow us up the Gondola... We got to the top and these guys grabbed us hit us, and were screaming at us. Ski Patrol saw the whole fucking thing and then of course bitches at us for "not being careful enough". Well next time you and your buddy are standing on the knuckle of a jump, pay attention to your fucking kid and give us a heads up that the landing isn't clear. If you care about your kid enough to pick a fight with 2 minors then you think you might care enough to not have us almost land on him. Ski Patrol threatened to take our season passes until we threatened to call the cops, then everyone just kind of went on their separate ways.
 
I guess I should have been more specific, face to top of pole grip upon landing, damn mogul 4 pt. landing technique.
 
Ducked the rope on a trail at big bear, patroller catches me says that its only closed, because there are so many nubs that get hurt on it. Just warns me, pretty cool dude.
 
He missed "am" ;)

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Some little kid part of a ski camp cut right in front of the landing of a rail and i almost hit him. after this old ski instructor told me that they would clip my pass if they saw it again.
 
It really depends on the mountain. Some mountains run things completely differently than others. There are a lot of mountains with really chill patrol staff. Just don't give them a reason to take your pass and they won't. They have to deal with beaters all day long. At home my best friends dad was a patroller and he'd hook me up with free ski passes and let me do backies when I skied with him.
 
Did daily park laps with a Blackcomb patroller on the glacier this summer, in general I think all whis patrollers are sick.

Safety Bob on the other hand...
 
It wasn't a ski patrol guy but some girl from the UK who was on vacation. We where all just messing around and we saw this huge piece of cardboard and thought why not sled down on this shit!? So when she saw us she was just flat out rude, calling us un-successful idiots who will never get a job and dont deserve to be a part of society. It was funny cause we where just messing around (Shouldnt everyone when they ski??) so we just laughed and kept doing what we where doing. #AspenTouristsSuck
 
jumped a rope and ski patrol grabbed me by arm and took my pass. suspended me for a week and to get my pass back i had to pass a safety test...

 
Just make sure you don't get the Whistler Blackcomb staff confused:

1. Ski Patrol: red jackets, fantastic guys, better skiers than 99% of those on the mountain, they save lives all the time.

2. Mountain Safety: yellow jackets, massive douche bags. Stand in front of yellow signs and scream at you for wearing baggy clothes and looking threatening. They're like mall cops with massive egos.

 
This total dickhead put me in his van with red flashing lights and told me he was taking me to a place where I would feel better. Rapists
 
Yeah, Mount Snow has those too on this hill from the main mountain to get to Carinthia, you have to bomb it to make it yet they scream at you every time you go by
 
so glad none of the ski hills in my area I visit regularly have Mountain Safety. that would get annoying fast.
 
Also this just reminded me. Last season I was patrolling on a week day and the hill was always empty so I'd frequently lap the park not doing anything I'd feel uncomfortable doing in case I take a bad fall. Later in the season when they had the big jump set up I was doing 1/3/5s on it pretty much all day one day and this angry guy stopped me at the bottom of the lift and started ranting about how I was being super irresponsible and teaching a bad lesson to others and he said he videotaped me so he could put it on the internet of how irresponsible of a patroller I was. Has anyone seen a video of a ski patrol throwing some spins on a 45ish foot step over? I'd love to see it.
 
I have never encountered ski patrol before because I am a responsible skier who watches out for myself and others in a safe manner.
 
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