{"id":803740,"date":"2020-02-02T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378412"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:06:25","slug":"shejumps-teaches-summit-county-girls-ski-patrol-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/shejumps-teaches-summit-county-girls-ski-patrol-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"SheJumps teaches Summit County girls ski patrol basics"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
Volunteers from SheJumps work with girls aged 8 to 17 to introduce young girls to the basics of ski patrol. Pictured are volunteers and seven participants, left to right and back to front, Addison Keese, Lily Olivenza, Julia Writt, Vivienne Ottele, Courtney Van der Linden, Rosa Kosiba, Reese Rieke and Josifiina Hyland.<\/strong>
Taylor Sienkiewicz \/ tsienkiewicz@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

ARAPAHOE BASIN SKI AREA \u2014 On Sunday, Feb. 2, Summit County girls aged 8 to 17 gathered at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area to learn mountain safety and first aid as part of a junior ski patrol program. The SheJumps Wild Skills Junior Ski Patrol is hosting their program in two Colorado locations this year: A-Basin and Loveland Ski Area. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wild Skills is a relatively new program so we\u2019re still working on getting more of those into Colorado,\u201d SheJumps Colorado Ambassador Sarah Foster said. <\/p>\n

Foster explained that the organization puts on several programs throughout the year for all ages, but Wild Skills is part of SheJump\u2019s youth programming. <\/p>\n

\n
\n
The nonprofit SheJumps set up a program in collaboration with Arapahoe Basin Ski Area to teach young girls mountain safety and first aid on Sunday, Feb. 2.<\/strong>
Taylor Sienkiewicz \/ tsienkiewicz@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe do a ton of different stuff like education as a focus, as well as when we get to a little bit of the older age just trying to foster a female community, maybe encourage them to get into something that they haven\u2019t done before,\u201d Foster said, noting that the nonprofit recently hosted a wine party that taught people how to wax their gear.<\/p>\n

While the Wild Skills event teaches the basics of ski patrol to young girls, Foster said that the main goal is to expose these girls to female role models in the outdoor industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur whole thing is getting more women and girls outdoors,\u201d Foster said. \u201cSki patrol and just the outdoors in general is very much a male dominated industry. We\u2019re just trying to give them female role models that, even if they don\u2019t necessarily want to do ski patrol, to just see women in these positions and say, \u2018Yeah, I could do something (like that).\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Several female volunteers came to guide the girls through the program as A-Basin ski patrol members gave lessons on mountain safety and first aid. The girls got to work with avalanche dogs, snowmobiles and learned about avalanche safety. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a first-aid station, a toboggan station, we also have a weather station and avy station so they\u2019re going to get to practice with beacons and probes and shovels and we\u2019re actually heading up to a beacon area so they have to find little hidden donuts underneath the snow,\u201d volunteer Courtney Van der Linden said. \u201cSo it\u2019s pretty advanced stuff for little kids which is cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

As someone who worked in outdoor education and is currently a teacher, Van der Linden said she is drawn to these types of programs and has volunteered with SheJumps before.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love skiing and I\u2019m a teacher, I love teaching and it\u2019s cool to combine the two into one and inspire the next generation of women and I thought I would learn a couple of things too,\u201d Van der Linden said. \u201cI got to go in the first-aid room and hold a toboggan and learn more about how they do things here at A-Basin, and I ski here all the time so it\u2019s good knowledge for me as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the girls, both Foster and Van der Linden commented on how high their energy was and how excited they were to be at A-Basin that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of smiles, they loved to ride the toboggan, the weather helps, there\u2019s no cold toes or anything, so everyone\u2019s pretty stoked,\u201d Foster said, referring to the bluebird day with a high temperature of 49 degrees. <\/p>\n

When talking with the young participants, many girls commented that they want to be on ski patrol when they are older. After lunch, they recounted their favorite parts of the day so far, which included riding and pulling the toboggan, riding the snowmobile and seeing a shoulder injury in the first-aid area.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favorite part is when we got to get pulled on the sled that people who are injured on, up and down, and we got to pull it ourselves,\u201d said 12-year-old Addison Keese.<\/p>\n

The girls also described what they learned so far, which was mainly first-aid based.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned the most common injuries are your shoulder, leg, ankle and wrist,\u201d the girls said in unison.<\/p>\n

There was a resounding \u201cyes\u201d when asked if the participants wanted to come back to the ski area learn more.<\/p>\n

The next Colorado Wild Skills Junior Ski Patrol program<\/a> will be from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, at Loveland Ski Area. Registration is $45 for season ticket holders and $70 for participants who need a lift ticket.<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volunteers from SheJumps work with girls aged 8 to 17 to introduce young girls to the basics of ski patrol. Pictured are volunteers and seven participants, left to right and back to front, Addison Keese, Lily Olivenza, Julia Writt, Vivienne Ottele, Courtney Van der Linden, Rosa Kosiba, Reese Rieke and Josifiina Hyland.Taylor Sienkiewicz \/ tsienkiewicz@summitdaily.com […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 22:44:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803755,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803740\/revisions\/803755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}