"We have that concern more this year because people aren't staying at home. "You know a lot of tourists come through here and see a lot of the skiers or snowboarders running out, they're going to be like, 'You know what? That sounds good to me.' And they'll be stuck back there with no help," said Quirk. "We usually do the back bowls over at Keystone or at Breckenridge, but this stuff, this is all new," said Tyler Quirk. He was with friends and said he'd had training a lot of experience skiing back bowls. So things are going to be slower on getting us to you if you are injured," said Wilson. We also have to be concerned about our team members.
"We're going to do the best we can, but with COVID we're going to have possibly less people who can respond. But, we're more concerned about people out here in the backcountry snowboarding, skiing, snowmobiling, hiking," said Dawn Wilson, Public Information Officer for Alpine Rescue.ĬOVID-19 is driving people to seek the outdoors and Alpine Rescue knows it. "You go to REI and they have a sign that tells you they have no skis, or they have no transceivers open right now, and some of that's cross country.
They poked into the snow performing probe line searching, worked on transceivers and trained for managing rescues. They set up teams near the top of Loveland Pass to refresh their avalanche rescue training. It changes all the time," said rescuer Eric Bottjen. "The wind changes, the snow changes, it's colder for us.
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