The Risks and Rewards of Ski Patrol - A Conversation with Jake Hutchinson
Utah Avalanche Center Podcast
English - January 30, 2019 13:44 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBWilderness Sports Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jake Hutchinson was a long-time patroller and snow safety director at the Park City resort formerly known as Park West, Wolf Mountain, and The Canyons. He's also lead-avalanche instructor for the American Avalanche Institute. He joins Drew to talk about the risks and rewards of managing avalanche risk for the resort-skiing public. Discussed in this episode: mitigation practices; the evolution of ski patrol culture; the pressures of opening terrain; the story of a fatal in-bounds avalanche in 2007 and the ensuing legal battle; the lasting pain of bad consequences.