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From KXLY.com:

SPOKANE -- The 44th annual Mt. Spokane Ski Patrol Ski Swap is this weekend at the Interstate Fairgrounds.

The swap is the largest winter sports equipment and clothing event, which offers thousands of new and used items at a discount price. Register to sell your used ski and snowboard gear from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. Friday afternoon. The Ski Patrol charges a $.50 fee for each item registered and the Ski Patrol keeps 20 percent of the sale price, if sold. The money generated by the Swap will go wards the Patrol's operations during the upcoming season, including first aid, medical supplies and training costs.

From an article by Nancy Espelin, for the Norwester, Spring, 2003

The Mt. Spokane Ski Patrol moved into their new aid facility located at the base area on Mt. Spokane near Spokane, Washington in 1993. This all-volunteer patrol, one of the few patrols to receive the Ski Patrol of the Year award from the National Ski Patrol, is extraordinary.

Aside from rescuing injured and lost riders on the mountain each year, patrollers volunteer at many events offering aid and raising funds throughout the year. But the most Herculean effort was culminated in the building of this facility.

For years, the patrol moved from room to room until their building finally was condemned and they found themselves in a musty, rat infested aid room that battled the challenge of keeping the mice excrement at bay each day. A small niche was made in the basement of another lodge and the tiny 3 bedroom once saw 27 patients in one day. Patrollers had no place on the mountain to store equipment and gear so many keep extra toboggans and signs at their homes, bringing them to the mountain when they were needed. As the crowds to the mountain increased, there remained no room for patrollers to bring their families, so many left them at home. It was clear to all, something had to be done. “I can't believe we did that,” Larry Briney gasped referring to a video of he and Craig Lee scaling five-story-high scaffolding.