Cheers to professional meteorologist Luke Stone who helped out a young skier stuck in deep snow at Snowbird over the weekend.
Luke was riding powder after 13 inch dump at the iconic Utah ski resort when he saw a boy in distress. It’s regrettable to say, but many skiers and snowboarders in this same situation would have put blinders on and ridden right past this kid to get to secure untracked turns in keeping with the expression “no friends on a powder day” but Luke kindly stopped and helped the boy who had lost a ski and was unable to free himself from the snow.
Luke calmed the young skier as he released the ski that was still attached and probed for the other. After collecting the boy’s gear and giving him a quick pep talk to take a deep breath and reset, Luke was back to shredding powder.
Things can get a bit frenzied and competitive when there is fresh snow a ski resort but remember to maintain your humanity help out your fellow skier, especially kids. Well done Luke!
“Would you have stopped to help this kid right after the mountain opens on a deep pow day?
It was an epic country club pow day Snowbird but on my second run I heard someone screaming on the cat track. This poor guy fell, lost a ski, got stuck, and his dad had already gone down the lift. This kid’s screams made me put the powder on hold but we quickly got him out, found his ski, and (I think) he was on his way.
It sounds cliche and you won’t hear me spouting many of the other ones, but it all changes when you become a parent. I am not sure if I would’ve stopped before I became a dad, but wanting to do anything and everything to make my own kid feel better when he’s sad, I couldn’t leave this kid there.
I remember what it was like being stuck in deep powder as a kid, and with your parents gone, it can be pretty scary. I hope the rest of his day was great. As you can see in the reel, there was a nice untracked section just below the cat track.” –Luke Stone
