Ride for Free, Fact or Fiction?

Kinda big on the run-on sentence, but we engineers like that.

Good blog, nice eye-candy, well put together and I liked the content. Huzzah!

As for free, back in the day (I have about a decade on you) we used to ski (210cms wood and cable and leather boots thank you) the drainage chutes either side of the giant switchback up Berthoud Pass outside Denver 'cause we were broke. Then you hitch a ride with any motorist (holding your skiis in your hand out the window) because no one wouldn't stop for you.

When we weren't broke we paid $4 for the train from Denver to Winter Park $7 all day because it was a City of Denver park.

You can still take the train to Winter Park, but better to do it with engineer pay, hurts more now. Ski Patrol expectations have gone way up now - professionalism is the key. We were automatically Ski Patrol when we got on the college ski team - but truly were obligated to be patrolmen (persons?) whenever we hit the slopes.

Thank you Richard.

In our world today, sometimes we just need to take a break from the sometimes hardness and tough times to enjoy, have fun, make fun and laugh. I posted to share a moment with all of you so that we could breath some fresh air and return to the past as was eloquently noted by edignan

And greatly appreciated by at least myself!

I found myself smiling at the safety/liabilty conscienceness of today.

My best bud during the period I was getting misty eyed over caught his ski tis under a nearly buried fence. Broke both ankles. We dragged him down to the bottom while he screamed.

Don't remember any lawsuits, and he could afford a doctor.

Well, as you said, you were ski patrol back then. Things have changed but the names remain the same.

Here's what a friend of mine says:

i saw this on snow journal, i believe that's where i met you. very well done. being an ex lifty i know what it takes to get the ski day up and running as well as closing it down. i would say lifties and ski patrol crews are the ones largely responsible for executing a ski day at any mountain. we are pretty much shit on however by the white collar folks behind the scenes. i decided i could pay to play and not slave for a pass like i used to.
keep well darling