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But last year's ski season wasn't over for Zachary Marlowe. The 24-year-old ski patroller hiked up the mountain until the third week of April just so he could ski down.

Now, it'd be tough to find Marlowe doing something that's not outdoors - between skiing, mountain biking, whitewater rafting, sky diving, cross county running, back packing and hiking, Marlowe keeps pretty busy.

In the drafty patrollers' station at the bottom of the slopes, Marlowe sits comfortably with his legs stretched out, revealing his clunky blue plastic snow boots.

He says the cold doesn't bother him. In fact, Marlowe says he's only wearing a t-shirt and shorts underneath his non-insulated patrollers uniform. Outside, where he's spent most of his day skiing, snow and sleet have been falling all afternoon.

The first rescue Marlowe did on the slopes was when a little girl broke her leg. He put a traction device on her and got her down to the bottom of the hill safely by pulling her on a sled behind him. The patrollers' station is outfitted with beds and first aid stands, but if injuries need more care, the patients are sent to the hospital.

Surgeons put in two rods and seven screws to get his legs back to normal, and Marlowe was on the slopes again as soon as he could ski. The patrollers there know him by name, since he's the only one who's ever broken both tibias, he said.

He's living in Frederick now, and he's not sure if he'll move back to Pennsylvania anytime soon. But he says he spends a lot of time at Liberty Mountain anyway.

"It makes the mountain big again," he said. "It's more up and down motion than (the traditional) alpine. It's more dramatic and more involved."

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