Pajarito Mountain Ski Patrol

02/04/2022

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We're grateful for our amazing crew of patrollers! Recently LANL's "Community Connections" newsletter highlighted Hans Hermann, one of our patrollers who works the mountain with his son Max. “I’ve created a monster,” quips Hans. “When Max completed his training here in Los Alamos, he immediately told everyone that he was certified to deliver a baby in a ski-hill emergency!” Read all about Hans here: https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/connections/2022-february/hans-herrmann-ski-patrol
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04/27/2020

A school homework to paint three kindness rocks turned into a treasure hunt at the ski hill. We have hidden 21 rocks for you to find. If you find one, please post a picture!

01/18/2020

Opening Aspen for business on a frosty powder day!

12/24/2019

Pajarito Ski Patrol Heli Ops refresher training...

3rd of November 2019 Following the OEC refresher we did our helicopter operations refresher. This was a truly awesome experience. I missed out on the heli landing last year due to the weather, but …

12/09/2019

Patrol refresher training...

2nd of November 2019 Unbelievably is now over a year since I had my first unfortunate run of spinal injuries and the OEC refreshers at the time backboarded the bejesus out of me! This time round I …

11/26/2019

https://boydsvest.home.blog/2019/11/26/snow-mobile-training/

20th March 2019 This was the training that I’d been looking forward to the most! Lift evacuation is pretty high up there for the James Bond factor, but this gets maximum Bond points.. I had asked E…

11/06/2019

Last February a new team of toboggan runners were trained...

Most patrollers know the subject of this post as S&T… which isn’t kinky, far from it… it stands for ski and toboggan training. Or standing and talking as it became known in th…

10/18/2019

Some words about OEC class of 2019. I hope the 2020 class have as much fun as we did!

I am going to cover the vast majority of the course in this post, so it’s going to be brief (the coverage, not this post!!) … Here’s a quick intro to some of the topics… Ana…

09/06/2019

New lift evac team trained!

This has to have been my second favorite day of training on the hill! Lift Evacuation is something that ski hills would rather not have practical experience of, but need to train for anyway. Last y…

08/13/2019

Congratulations Eric!

Pajarito Mountain ski patroller Eric Schaller with his dog, Gnar, during the off-season. Photo by Maire O’Neill/losalamosreporter.com Eric Schaller of Pajarito Mountain Ski Patrol. Courtesy p…

08/05/2019

Just some ramblings about OEC...

Now that I had met this lovely bunch of coconuts, I was looking forward to getting on with the OEC training. As a reminder OEC is Outdoor Emergency Care. It’s the minimal requirement for bein…

03/04/2019

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Ski patrol doing a new type of snow dance and it's working! 3" is in the forecast!
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