Community support helps injured ski patroller, first responders

Community support helps injured ski patroller, first responders

Free skiing on his day off, first-year full-time ski patroller Preston Housel remembers casually skiing down the blue run Rainbow below Four Points Lodge at Steamboat Resort. The next thing he clearly remembers is waking up in the Emergency Department at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center. Although he was skiing on the intermediate-level run and not in the trees on Dec. 21, Housel ended up smashing into and wrapping around a tree. He broke his…