How do you know someone is a ski patroller? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. Yes, the hoary old joke you might hear around the ski hill is recycled from digs at Crossfitters and vegans, but the crack says something about the cachet that comes with the position. It’s the kind of thing to brag about.
In their signature red jackets with a white cross on the back, ski patrollers serve as a blend of paramedic, traffic cop, bomb expert, and line monitor in a ski resort, marking hazards on the mountain in the morning and clearing slopes before the lifts shut down at night. They
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