Ski Safety Blog

The conditions on Mammoth Mountain Ski Area's Lincoln Mountain last Saturday were picture perfect. The week's storms had dumped more than six feet of snow, and this was a day for exhilaration - and risk.

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A December incident at Devil's Head Resort might lead to new national safety standards that would require resorts across the country to install new equipment on old chair lifts. Authorities say a lift at Devil's Head in Merrimac started rolling backward rapidly Dec. 17, causing frightened skiers and snow boarders to jump from heights of up to 40 feet to avoid being flung from their chairs at the bottom of the hill. A total of 14 people were injured, but none seriously.

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A snowboarder has been found alive and well after surviving a three-day storm in the southern Colorado backcountry with only a single energy bar to eat. A helicopter search team found 42-year-old Wayne Alexander Brown on Tuesday near a U.S. Forest Service cabin where he spent the last two nights, Mineral County spokesman Charles Downing said.

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