On Monday morning, the ski patrol family suffered a great loss. Steve Bode, one of Cascade's candidates from last year was killed. He primarily attended Cascade's OEC class, but he came down to mine on several occasions, and so we all knew him. He was a really good person, very enthusiastic, always laughing and having a good time, and just quite obviously from the beginning a great fit with ski patrol. He had just completed the first step to being a ski patrol instructor, and was really excited to be able to help out future candidates. Keep Steve and his family in your prayers. Below is what appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about it:

A Sun Prairie man changing a tire on the side of Interstate 94 in the Oconomowoc area was killed about 9 a.m. when a pickup truck veered off the road and struck him, Waukesha Sheriff's Detective Steve Pederson said. Both eastbound lanes of I-94 in the Town of Summit remain closed while the accident is reconstructed, he said. Traffic is being diverted off on Highway F in Jefferson County. The man, 49, died at the scene, Pederson said. His name is not being released pending notification of relatives. The man's wife, 48, was sitting in the front passenger seat when the truck hit their family car and the couple's son, 10, was standing off the shoulder and in the weeds when the crash occurred, Pederson said. The woman and the driver of the pickup truck were taken to Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital. The pickup truck driver, 28, is also from the Madison area. The boy was not injured.