Copper Mountain Resort's annual Safety Week, which is held in
conjunction with the National Ski Area Association's Safety
Awareness Week, is scheduled for Martin Luther King weekend, from
January 16th to 18th. The Summit County Rescue Group will
participate in this safety education event for the second time in
2010.
The event is held mainly in the Burning Stones Plaza in Copper's
Center Village, where there will be booths hosted by the Copper Ski
Patrol/Safety Zone, Woodward at Copper (to promote terrain park
safety), Saint Anthony's Medical Center (to promote helmet safety),
Copper Fire Department, and the Summit County Rescue Group. Flight
for Life will land at Copper Patrol Headquarters, at the top of the
Excelerator and Super Bee lifts, at 10:00 am on Saturday, with a
bad weather back-up date of Sunday at 10:00. Guests can get a tour
of the helicopter and talk to the flight nurse and pilot.
SCRG's booth will focus on backcountry safety, and especially
avalanche awareness. Skiers new to backcountry skiing can learn
about basic safety gear and safe travel techniques, and more
experienced backcountry skiers can do some practice drills with an
avalanche transceiver. At 12:45 each day, there will be a live
demonstration by an avalanche dog. That's an event that the kids
won't want to miss!
Booths are open each day from 8:30 to 1:30, and those who visit
all of the booths and get their safety awareness cards punched at
each station will be entered into a drawing. The drawing will be
held at 1:00 each day, and will feature prizes such as lift
tickets, tubing hill tickets, lodging and dining certificates,
parking passes, safety gear and various schwag.
Photo by Chris Sutton.