Some of you know that I am a member of the National Ski Patrol and a volunteer member of the Alyeska Resort Ski Patrol.  I transferred to Alyeska Resort in 1996/1997 after spending a season on the Mount Hood Ski Patrol.  Before that I spent a year at a small area in Utah by the name of Nordic Valley (two chairlifts, night skiing, snow making, and about 1,000 vertical feet).  Odd name for an alpine ski area when I think about it further.  During college I worked as a Ski Technician at Snowbasin, also in Utah and not far from where I grew up in Ogden, prior to their expansion and addition of several lifts in preparation for the Downhill and Super G events in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Management and the paid Patrol at Alyeska Resort did an incredible job this week of getting terrain open.  I am not sure if I've seen this much terrain open at one time.  I had an opportunity to work with the paid Patrol yesterday morning to get the Monies open and then towards the end of the day I was able to shift over to the Headwall.  I got a couple of nice photos I thought I would share:

Hats off to Resort management and the paid Ski Patrol!