Learning to live with whippers?

It seems like ski resorts have given up the war against whippers that populate their fun runs, especially early in the season.

They expect users to cut them with their steel edges instead. These pesky twigs aren’t too bad if they’re less than half-an-inch in diameter, but above that size, they can really ruin a skier’s day and create a clear and present danger.

So what’s the big deal, would you ask me?

Well, for one thing it’s making skiing more dangerous, especially when resorts never forget to claim as much “skiable acres” as humanly possible, and also a strong deterrent to spread more skiers on their whipper-infested runs and free a little more space on the rest of their crowded runs during peak periods.

As I have said before, the should cut them on a regular, rotating basis. Perhaps define five or six zones and each year, work on one of them with hand loppers or machines.

Not complicated, just a simple matter of scheduled maintenance.