Students swap their skis
The Beaver Mountain Ski Patrol is holding their annual Ski Swap this week to allow skiers to sell and trade their old gear.
“Every year it gets bigger and better,” said Judd Preston, a ski patrol volunteer for the past 50 years. The Ski Swap will be held from Thursday, Nov. 16 to Saturday, Nov. 18. at the Stan Laub Center.
Preston said that the ski swap has been going on for since the late 1960s and he has been a part of it every step of the way. He said the equipment has gone from “wooden skis to who knows what they’re made of now.”
Troy Oldham, another ski patrol volunteer and a professor and USU, said, “There’s a lot of experience here for volunteer time.”
There are many other USU professors volunteering for the patrol, said Oldham, some of which include Ken Lyon, an economics professor, John Keith, also an economics professor, and Blake Tullis from Water Resource Management. He said that many students volunteer for the patrol also.
“USU has been good enough to let us do this here for the past four or five years,” Oldham said.
Marge Seholzer, a Beaver Mountain Ski Resort volunteer, said this has been great because they used to do it at the fairgrounds. Many of the volunteers, she said, would agree.
“We have one of the last completely volunteer patrol programs in the nation,” she said. “That’s why this is so good. It’s a quality group.”
Oldham said in the spring they look for new candidates and that there will be postings not only in the Statesman but also all over campus.
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