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Should We Pay Ski Patrollers More?

Ski patrollers are the most important people at any ski resort. The services they provide are beyond value. Patrollers perform avalanche safety, save lives and limbs, reset boundaries ropes and signage after every storm, decide what can be skied each day, answer an onslaught of questions, work long hours, handle high explosives, fire canons, and ski like demons. Patrollers spend everyday on the mountain making sure you’re as safe as possible. What’s fascinating is that we don’t pay […]

Miles Clark | April 25, 2020
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