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...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 through raffles and equipment sales...
...entered it. People were spread out all along the side of the run, and there was a normal level of noise, except all of us were sitting together, pretty drunk, screaming our heads off. Now, we used to call Joe 'The Ranger,' and Patterson was always 'Tonto.' So these people thought we were nuts, because we were yelling for the Ranger and Tonto...
There were two heats, and in the first one they were the last two guys to go, and in the last heat they were the first two guys to go. Joe came down, had a spectacular run, doing all these amazing stunts off the bumps. Patterson followed him down, skiing far better than he usually could...
...PATTERSON aspired to a lot of things," Jim says, but he didn't put much effort into things he didn't care about. "The goodness of the person is hard to evaluate on paper. He broke a lot of rules he had no business breaking, he was contemptuous of higher-ups, he got into a lot of trouble, and people who didn't know him very well didn't like him. The magic of the guy was his personality and what he could contribute to a group of people...
...Patterson was the oldest child of a wealthy Denver executive, and a graduate of a private school south of Denver. Two years older than Jim, he was a sophomore pre-med at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) when he won the Telluride contest. Bob was a tremendous skier, and well-known in Boulder as an excellent hang-glider pilot. He was bright, and although he did not aspire to academic success, he respected it and sometimes achieved...