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It does sound like the patrol did a great job.
One of our family stories is about poor dad, who was evacuated twice in a day, once at Indianhead in the afternoon, and then again that night, just down the road at Big Powderhorn (both in Michigan's UP). The first time, he was stranded right after polishing off a pitcher of beer with a buddy, and ended up needing new ski mitts. Oops!
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Yeah, I was trying to describe pan-fried perch and walleye to my kid yesterday. Words can't do it.
When were you in the Yooper? When I lived there, it was $6 to ski the Porkies. I try to explain the lake effect at that place, with big snowflakes dropping out of a clear blue sky, and people look at me like I'm nuts.
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I actually got the opportunity to watch a lift evacuation drill during the pre-season a few years back. Really absolutely amazing.
I've also been on a lift where ski patrollers were riding up and down the lifts on snowmobiles after it had been stopped for half an hour really scared me. It was like they were surveying us, trying to figure out where to start.
Luckily, the lift started before they had to do anything other than yell at us to hang tight. I'm glad that ski patrols train for this though, I can't imagine trying to evacuate a lift when the ski patrol had no experience whatsoever.
Kudos to Heather, DcSki's ski patrollers, and ski patrollers across the country.
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