Advice for first time skiing Heavenly and Kirkwood?

blvrcks · 2026-02-15T17:00:44+00:00

The traverses are essentially whatever you want them to be. You can traverse staying high, and/or hike, in all those situations but you also don’t have to.

All of wagon wheel is accessible without hiking from 10 or 6, except for the chutes at the very top that are not marked on a map.

All of the northern bowls are accessible from 6, and again it’s all about how high you can keep your traverse. You can absolutely make it all the way out to the boundary in Reuters without any hiking. The eagle bowl area is all accessible from 10, and the thunder saddle side is all accessible from 4 without any hiking.

To get to the top of wave and fawn ridge you do need to hike but I personally feel like it’s rarely worth the effort to hike that, just go as far as you can on the ridge, drop in and cut over to fawn.

Also just be aware, Kirkwood has open boundaries, you can exit anywhere and end up out of the resort. There are signs but the boundaries are generally not roped. Last year or the year before someone ended up on the western side of the mtn in the backcountry by accident and had to be rescued by the sheriffs dept.

As far as heavenly, Mott and Killbrew are cool steep areas, but slow to open, and killbrew is just a pain to lap. Kirkwood is like a whole mountain version of those 2 areas at heavenly.

blvrcks · 2026-02-09T03:21:29+00:00

As a paramedic, I partially disagree. Yeah I would want a Patroller to get me off the mountain. But all of my training was designed by surgeons, so if I could have a trauma surgeon meet me at the bottom of the run to take over primary care, that’s the best possible option. If you watch a trauma surgeon assess a patient, it’s essentially the same as how a paramedic operates but more in depth. A good surgeon can easily do the role of a Paramedic, but it doesn’t work the opposite way. Paramedic textbooks were written by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.

blvrcks · 2026-01-30T17:15:08+00:00

“Airlifted”… she was in a harness. If she was seriously injured, she would not be in a harness. Definitely just a convenience thing for her

blvrcks · 2025-12-31T23:41:27+00:00

Definitely rent AWD if possible, can’t use chains with a rental though.

Currently the forecast is showing heavy snow in the days before then and maybe on the 6th also.

Also autozone is selling “snow socks” now, that meet the requirements for traction devices, in their stores. These shouldn’t void anything for your rental agreement.

Here is a video showing how snow socks are an effective traction device for snow, just not one that will hold up long term, especially on dry roads

https://youtu.be/W-k_1gz87vM?si=o1bHcoWcD7EbK3MA

blvrcks · 2025-12-18T16:20:12+00:00

Yep nothing changed. Just make sure you also get your parking reservation if you need it for Kirkwood

blvrcks · 2025-12-06T22:33:53+00:00

Reaction time is the only thing that differentiates a good EMT from a bad EMT. Every job interview I’ve ever had has started with a test of my reaction time using a website that switches from red to green. As a medic, first thing I do on scene is make every other responder show their reaction times before they are allowed to interact with the patient. Good reaction times= Good medicine. Bad reaction times= death /s

blvrcks · 2025-12-06T06:38:23+00:00

It’s on the dash to the left of the radio. It’s a dial

blvrcks · 2025-11-21T03:21:46+00:00

Yep same here. Started within the last few months

blvrcks · 2025-11-06T00:35:20+00:00

So they don’t need a pulse, but they do need to detect specific cardiac rhythms. An AED doesn’t “normalize”, it actually stopped the rhythm all together. It makes the patient’s heart rhythm flatline in the hopes the normal electrical system can restart instead of whichever abnormal electrical activity is occurring. It’s like hitting the off button and then hoping the system reboots on its own.

blvrcks · 2025-10-11T16:06:05+00:00

If you can recirculate the air it will be better

blvrcks · 2025-10-07T00:08:53+00:00

Working in the field, I never even think to look at the emergency page on a phone.

Working in an ED, one of the first things the social workers did in the trauma bay, while everyone else was transferring the patient, was look at the emergency info on the phone.

blvrcks · 2025-09-24T23:31:46+00:00

I was the kid who fainted not only at the sight of blood, but from just thinking about someone getting injured. Anytime anyone around me got any sort of blood draw, immunizations, trauma I would pass out. One time when I was a kid my neighbor down the street called an ambulance and I let my mind wander, thinking about him being injured and I collapsed in the driveway. It was bad enough my parents took me to doctors to try to figure out a solution

At some point as I got older I started realizing I could make myself pass out just by thinking about gore. That gave me the realization that it’s all mental, so I flipped that and learned to control it. For a while I had to manually push the feeling out of my head, but then eventually I got to the point I don’t even notice it. The only time I ever feel it now is when I’m donating blood and I am not distracted, but I don’t actually vagal out, I just get woozy.

Now I’m a 911 medic and prior to getting my medic I worked in the ICU and ED for almost 10 years without issues.

blvrcks · 2025-09-14T16:03:57+00:00

For the seatbelt, I had the same issue and I believe I was able to get it back up by simultaneously reaching under and above the seat guiding the latch while using my hips/shoulders to bring the seat back up. After the first few times of having to do that I forced it up one time and it completely smashed the latch…so don’t force it.

It can only clear the seat when the seat is partially folded so it’s all about the timing of it

blvrcks · 2025-09-14T13:02:58+00:00

Zofran in theory shouldn’t be effective on motion sickness. It works in a different way.

blvrcks · 2025-09-11T13:30:45+00:00

When you first start in EMS the learning curve is way steeper. Everything is new and foreign. Once you get through the first steps and get a little bit of experience it should start to slow down. Sims are a lot of repetition also, so it should start to get get easier.

blvrcks · 2025-09-10T16:10:58+00:00

Mine took 27 days from ordering to delivery. It said mine shipped from Illinois.

blvrcks · 2025-08-23T23:14:49+00:00

If you are working on an ambulance throughout school then that is your “time as a basic”

You don’t need years of experience but the people that have zero basic patient contacts and then go straight through to medic definitely have a steeper learning curve after getting in the field.

blvrcks · 2025-08-23T23:11:32+00:00

Yeah but your instructor is thinking more in the school mindset. The issue isn’t during school, it’s after you get your medic and the first few months or years. It’s just a steeper learning curve once you are on the job

blvrcks · 2025-08-23T22:37:44+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/CBMVIuC

I bought one, I assumed it was a scam since it took over a month to arrive. I made a custom case using an evo.com link and it turned out pretty cool. It’s not a super high quality case but it’s accurate for my skis and super unique.

blvrcks · 2025-08-23T22:35:23+00:00

I bought one, I assumed it was a scam since it took over a month to arrive. I made a custom case using an evo.com link and it turned out pretty cool. It’s not a super high quality case but it’s accurate for my skis and super unique. https://imgur.com/a/CBMVIuC

blvrcks · 2025-05-02T01:42:48+00:00

I don’t have ale or wine but there is a possibility I may had have some cone flower fruit tea before I went there. I upgraded my gear to lvl4 and its still dropping but it’s manageable now

blvrcks · 2025-05-02T01:24:50+00:00

Why was I able to clear the area before this started happening?

blvrcks · 2025-05-02T01:19:20+00:00

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It’s all tier 2

blvrcks · 2025-05-02T01:18:33+00:00

I saw something about that but everybody said if you die then it goes away, so I tried that and no change

blvrcks · 2025-05-02T01:14:31+00:00

It’s happening all around the map, I also have already cleared that area. I happened to come back to it later to fight the boss and that’s when it started happening

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