Fortunately, where I ski most folk are courteous and helpful; they will stop and help the victim of a yard sale, even if it means skating, or skootching to the lift. The rude and selfish are in the minority.
I have a question related to this. I always help people, but Sunday I helped someone that kept needing help. When do you just make contact with ski patrol?
What happened Sunday?
Sorry for the long read.
Short version if you want to skip the long stuff. I saw him fall 3 times while on the lift 3 different times.
Long version
I went over to find my wife at ten peaks. She was not in the Umbrella bar, so I went to her favorite run prospector. After skiing down and not finding her. I scanned the run on the way up. Toward the top I see a guy take a hard fall on skier right of the run not far from the top. I kept my eye on him as he flailed trying to get up. He got up and just stood there. So i skied down to him. I asked him if was alright and if he needed assistance. His buddy was about 50 feet below him. They said he was ok. I reluctantly left him, I could tell he was not a skier but some that was giving it a shot. He was wearing blue jeans, a heavy wind breaker , sun glasses and a rental helmet. I skied off and headed back up the lift. I spot him again probably 50 yards from earlier. Guess what he calls again, again hitting his head. As he's getting up, his legs goes forward. He falls backwards, hits his head again , and rolls under a tree in the middle of the run. Oh crap did fall into a tree well, I cant see anything except his feet. I get to the top of the lift and my lovely wife is standing at the top. I tell to her to get ski patrol, I will halfway down the run at the tree in the middle. I ski down and luckily he is just head first under the tree. He is standing up he heard me coming to him. I ask him are you ok? His answer "Mike Pompeo" sir are you ok? "Mike Pompeo - secretary of state " ok sir I know who that is but are you dizzy ? Headache? He says " it's the 22nd" . I told him why dont you have a seat, while we wait for help. He starts putting his skis back on. He slowly skis away. I sk uip to him and tell to follow me down and your buddy needs to watch for on coming skiers. He's not from the bridge. I tell come through the bridge and turn left. He comes through and stops in the middle of the trail and under the bridge. I get him off to the side of the trail and just start skiing backwarda, like I did when teaching my kids. We get to the bottom and the liftie said ski patrol was on there way. The liftie said thanks and my wife and I go our way. It's not my nature to just leave without confirmation that ski patrol has him. So I ski down pretty quick, not looking up the lift. This guy was stubborn so i wanted to make sure he was not hassle the kids running lift. He's not at the bottom, I didnt see ski patrol. So ask the nice young liftie if ski patrol has him. He confirmed they did. As I was going back up the lift stopped for a pretty long time. I figured yep they are walking him off the lift. I got to the top and they were rigging him into the gurney. Later at the bottom I saw him walking off without skis. I hope he is alright.
How many times should I seen this without reporting it? I wanted too the second time, but I was being sensitive to his ego.