Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday morning everyone got up and patrolled. The weekend was often capped by a grand prix of sorts that evening: the six or seven cars carrying junior patrollers raced each other over Berthoud Pass, drove into Empire and stopped in a restaurant for ice cream or shakes together. Since the patrol drew people from all over Denver, the group split up there. "And you'd start looking forward to next weekend...
...junior, senior and professional patrolmen swept the mountain--skied every trail, open or closed--looking for injured skiers. Then the senior and professional patrolmen filtered out to their homes for the night, and the juniors had the patrol room to themselves. "We'd mess around. Sometimes people would do homework. A lot of grabass went on, a lot of dope smoking and some drinking. No adult really had too much control. There was a caretaker who lived up there, but he didn't give us any shit if we behaved ourselves as far as noise. Around...
...used to get a little exciting sometimes when the sheriff would pull into the parking lot. These guys would all be in the patrol room smoking like crazy, and somebody would have to go out and say 'How you doing Sheriff Henderson? Howseverythingtonight?' He'd say, 'Hi, you guys staying up here again?' 'Yeah.' 'Well, everything okay in there?' And you'd say, 'Yeah, no problems.' Then he'd get back into the car and leave, and you're sweating, dropping bricks, afraid he's going to come inside and look around, and that would be it for everybody...
Despite, if not because of, such Bacchanalia, the Winter Park junior patrol was the finest in the country. At the annual National Ski Patrol Jamboree, the Winter Park juniors took first in the competition for best overall junior patrol in 1972 and again in 1973, the year Jim joined and the year Bob Patterson was president. In 1974, when Jim was president, they didn't compete. They'd raised so much hell partying in 1973 that they were asked not to return. By that time, though, the tradition of an annual group trip was established. In 1974, with money raised...
...When we got there, there were signs that there was going to be this world-class freestyle tournament, the last day we were going to be there. We thought we were pretty hot, so we decided we'd enter two or three people. We entered Baldwin [the patrol advisor], Joe Ward and Bob. Baldwin got sick and couldn't compete...