Trouble with Ski Patrol

So a couple friends and I went skiing yesterday ... at Brighton. Their base not very deep at the time, but they had received a bunch of new snow and so it was deceivingly good! Deceptive because it made you wanna go find some freshies but then you'd hit the rocks and that's where it deceived you. But we had a good time until.....

We came across the unreasonable, poor ski patrol... why he ever chose to patrol at Brighton with all the attitudy snow-boarders is beyond me, but it showed in his reaction to us and his absolute refusal to even reason with us. On the run earlier to running into this ski patroler, we found a fabulous, quiet and untouched little hidden gully - not a single rock was found in the beautiful powder back there! So we decided to do it again and that is when we ran into the ski patroler. Come to find out, the run was closed and we had no clue. There was not a single sign, rope or barrier at the entrance we went through. We tried to tell him that but he would not give us the time of day. There were 2 other parties of skiers back there (okay - one of the parties was snowboarders and we think they are the one that gave him lip and set him off) and so you would think logic would tell him that there must be a spot or two that wasn't marked well, but logic was not reaching this ski patroler's thoughts... only red fury... because he was going to cut our passes and we had to get out of his sight or else he was going to call the sheriff!

Seeing a lost cause, we complied and let him cut a corner off our passes and then we got out of dodge. Thinking they could do no worse to us... I suggested we race all the way to the bottom - which we did... and I won! :) But then Jason and Nate wanted to let ski patrol at the base know where we went in so they could mark it better and so that no one else would get in trouble. That's when we found out that we had only been warned! Good grief! So we went skiing some more and we even hung out by our entrance to wait for ski patrol to say this is where it needs to be marked better... but no other ski patrol came by and 9 other skiers/snowboarders went back there in the few minutes that we waited by it. Good gravy.

So that was a first for all three of us... and it must have shown at the bottom with the ski patrol there because we were telling them our passes were cut and they must have thought we were nuts since a corner cut-off only means a warning! Ha ha! I'm sure we gave them a good laugh.

So meet me, Jason and Nate. We are the Brighton Bad Boys! :)