After a slow winter in search and rescue, May is proving to be busy. We’ve extracted a subject who fell off a bridge onto river rock, another who broke his ankle sliding down toward the main trail, and a backcountry skier who dislocated his shoulder climbing up the couloir he planned to ski down (pic above—squint to see his partner standing near the snow at the bottom right of the couloir base.) All three subjects are recovering or back on their feet!

Damaged picked up another “runner-up” award last week as it was listed as one of fifty books on the short list for the Hawthorne Prize—an award given to one winner from among the year’s best works of fiction.