SheJumps x Crystal Mountain Ski Patrol | Calling Women In | WA

Join SheJumps for a unique behind-the-scenes experience with Crystal Mountain Ski Patrol! You’ll join Crystal's female ski patrollers and experience the day-to-day of their jobs, from the first run to closing sweeps. Learn all about mountain safety, first aid, avalanche control, toboggans, and more – all while skiing with the rad female patrollers at one of Washington's most iconic ski resorts.

Calling Women In events are structured as a full day experience. You will get the “highlight reel” of what it is like to be a patroller at your favorite resort. Throughout the day, women are taught a range of outdoor skills that are utilized by ski patrollers to keep the mountain safe while also learning mountain orientation, patrol landmarks, and local patrollers’ favorite runs. You will work alongside female patrollers to learn more about the many facets of mountain safety and first aid. You will not be participating in actual calls on the mountain or rendering any aid of any sort while participating in this event.

We will provide personalized female mentorship engaging in the sharing of knowledge and understanding while connecting experience, energy, and love for our natural places and fostering women’s inclusion and our vital roles in ski patrolling.

Who can attend? We want to extend a warm welcome to all women and any nonbinary skiers/riders who center their education in women-focused spaces. This event is intended for intermediate to expert skiers & snowboarders. As part of the registration process, participants will be asked what skill level they identify with most to help us determine which team they are best suited for using the categories below. This event is 21+.

• Beginner/Intermediate: Is comfortable skiing on green and blue runs, may be dabbling with groomed black diamonds.
• Advanced: Is confident skiing all groomed run levels, comfortable and dabbling with most varied terrain and snow conditions.
• Expert: Is comfortable and confident in skiing all types of terrain and snow conditions.
  

Schedule for the Day
The event registration opens at 7:30 am promptly and is located in the Crystal Mountain base area plaza. On the day of the event, you’ll check in at registration and meet up with your team for the day.
At 8 am patrollers will escort participants up the gondola for an 8:15 am Ski Patrol Morning Meeting. We start the day at Mountain Top, where the patrol meets daily, with a morning meeting covering ski patrol basics and our agenda for the day along with coffee and pastries.
From there teams will break out and proceed to various places throughout the mountain, skiing and cover topics including mountain safety, mountain orientation, radio protocols, gear caches, weather and avalanche basics & prevention along with other fun topics.
A pizza lunch will be hosted by our friends from the Crystal Mountain Founder's Club. The afternoon will wrap up a mini toboggan clinic, free ski and sweep.
Timeline:
7:30 Registration/check in
8:00 Start to load the gondola
8:15 Coffee/Meet & Greet and Morning Meeting with Patrol
9:30 Mountain Orientation
11:30 Lunch hosted by Crystal Mountain Founder's Club
1:00 Toboggan Clinic
2:30 Free Ski
4:00 Sweep/Debrief & Raffle

Cost: This event is $50 to attend, all of which will be donated to SheJumps.

Lift Tickets: If you do not have a season pass, we can offer a lift ticket priced at $79 plus tax for attendees of this event. The ticket can be purchased at checkout when purchasing your ticket for the event.
Helpful Tips

• Bring items you usually ski with such as your backpack, snacks, water, extra gloves, etc.
• Bring your avalanche gear (this is optional, not required. Avalanche gear is for practicing any rescue drills that patrollers perform when needed)
• Be honest about your skier ability when filling out our registration page.
• Purchase t-shirts or beanies to support SheJumps and make sure more programs like this happen! https://www.shejumps.org/store
• Link to Calling Women In: Ski Patrol virtual event:

Parking: Parking at Crystal Mountain now requires a reservation on weekends. Please reference their parking reservation portal here to make a reservation. As always, please carpool if you are able to! There is a shuttle bus that runs from Enumclaw up to Crystal Mountain, but the schedule isn't currently on Crytal's website to reference.

Facilities: Crystal Mountain primarily has gendered bathrooms in the base area.

We want to support all participants in enjoying this event to the fullest. Please let us know if you have any accomodation requests ahead of the event or during checkout and we will provide accomodations as we are able to.

Questions? Contact Heidi at [email protected].

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All participants must sign the r prior to participating in this event.

Spanish version of our waiver: Todos los participantes deben firmar la antes de participar en este evento.

To prioritize the health of our community, please do not attend a SheJumps event if you are experiencing any cold-like symptoms.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made 7 days or more in advance of the event date will receive a 100% refund on the ticket price. Optional donations made during registration will not be refunded.

Cancellations made within 3-6 days in advance of the event date will receive a 50% refund. Optional donations made during registration will not be refunded.

No refunds will be given for cancellations within 48 hours of the event, as this does not give us adequate time to fill the spot.

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SheJumps increases the participation of women and girls in outdoor activities to foster confidence, leadership, and connection to nature and community through free and low-cost outdoor education.

SheJumps is an inclusive organization. We welcome all women and girls—transgender and cisgender, as well as non-binary people.

SheJumps strives to fight against racism and acknowledges that our events and programs take place on traditional, unceded Indigenous lands.

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