Crews from Diamond Peaks Ski Patrol and Larimer County Search and Rescue evacuated the injured person on a sled and all rescuers were home before midnight. The skier was taken to the hospital.

The spokesperson explained resort's internal ski patrol staff, trained for emergency ski lift and gondola rescues, carried out the rescue operation at the resort, about 175 miles northwest of Pueblo.

Following the OEC program, patrollers are then trained on using a rescue sled to navigate ... and rescue programs, some ski resorts have a team of highly-trained patrol dogs.

First responders in the High Country must be prepared for anything. From responding to a broken leg on the ski slopes to ...

and the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association, which represents 200 patrol members and mountain safety staffers who provide first aid and rescue, perform avalanche mitigation and otherwise ...

“Patrol lost the patrol shack, our sleds, climbing rescue equipment,” the GoFundMe page reads ... Where candidates became Ski Patrollers. And where friends became family," Mountain High's patrol wrote ...