But skiing put you on mountains,” Chris said. Sure, baseball and football allow for playing catch in the yard or the park. “Not too many sports promote this kind of father-son relationship. At Copper, he started a children’s ski school called the Copper Choppers.Īll the while he perfected his craft as a jewelry maker. Vino was one of the first ski instructors at Copper Mountain when it opened, working with Andy Daly and Kent Myers. “My dad had to be one of the more creative.” At least this is how I was taught,” Chris said. One of the bites hit a major artery in the leg, according to Sulim.“Their agenda may be to get their son or daughter to fall in love with skiing so they can ski more. As he tried to grab the animal, it bit him several times. The fisherman, who has not been named at the request of his family, was driving with friends toward the Shestakovskoye lake, west of the capital, Minsk, when he spotted the beaver along the side of the road and stopped the car.

Officials have responded to some calls by sending out crews to drive away the animals, often by spraying them with water from a fire-hose.

The Belarusian emergency services said that this year, for the first time, they have received a rash of reports of aggression by beavers, which can weigh up to 30 kilograms (about 65 pounds) and stand about a meter (three feet) high. That has caused beavers increasingly to wander into populated areas, creating more grounds for conflict.

In Belarus, a former Soviet nation between Russia and Poland, the beaver population has tripled in the past decade to an estimated 80,000, according to wildlife experts. Once hunted nearly to extinction in Europe, beavers have made a comeback as hunting was banned or restricted and new populations were introduced. “We had never run into anything like this before.” “The character of the wound was totally shocking for us medical professionals,” recalled village doctor Leonty Sulim.

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