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An Aspen Highlands skier has died after crashing into a tree, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday.

An Aspen Highlands skier has died after crashing into a tree, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday.

A volunteer of Penrith Mountain Rescue team will be heading to China for a first-aid role within the Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Ski patrollers in Park City are asking for higher pay as the cost of living in the ski town goes up. They want to increase the starting wage to $16.70 per hour for new patrollers.

Why Ski Patrollers at Keystone and Breckenridge Considered Unionizing This past spring, patrollers at each ski resort voted on whether to negotiate for better conditions via collective bargaining. Despite reaching different outcomes, both groups remain concerned about compensation and retention.Elizabeth Miller •   May 19, 2021 Around 2017, Jonathan Cernanec and Patrick Hansen decided they were done working engineering jobs that made them miserable. They left those gigs and joined Keystone...

Ski Patrol at Park City Mountain holds “practice strike” to gather community support Ski patrol calls for better pay, uniforms, sick time and last updated 2021-02-11 22:26:31-05 PARK CITY, Utah — Main Street Park City was filled with a familiars sight for those who ski but to some surprise they were on the street and not on the mountain. Armed with signs that said “NOT ON STRIKE, JUST PRACTICING” the Park City Mountain Ski Patrol enlisted the public’s help in nego...

>> these slide pads dont have a history of hitting the highway. >> reporter: broken and buried trees mark the spot near jones pass colorado. where a back country skier was buried yesterday. teams are out triggering avalanches like this on purpose before they become threats. this spot hasnt seen a slide this big since eisenhower was president. those intentional slides sometimes triggered with explosives. we watched ski patrollers at copper mountain resort working to make the snow safe. >> how muc...

Today. at first, they had no idea how many were trapped. those storms, one system hitting the east tonight. the bigger one hitting this weekend. treacherous travel from snow and heavy rain already. this tractor trailer, unbelievable, out of control there on highway 91 in anaheim. blizzard conditions on californias mammoth mountain. wind gusts up to 100 miles an hour. several feet of snow in some places, and the east tonight now bracing for a dangerous mix of ice, rain and snow. abcs gio benitez ...