When Northern Michigan University hosted the first full cold-weather training exercise for the Region 5 Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) last March, National Ski Patrol members from Michigan were among the participants. An article about the exercise is featured in this month's "Ski Patrol Magazine," which is distributed to 30,000 patrollers nationwide, and to industry partners such as equipment manufacturers and resort operators.
DMORT Region 5 represents Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Organizers of the training gave NMU high marks for the professionalism of students from various disciplines who participated, and for help facilitating the setup a disaster portable morgue unit in a Jacobetti Complex parking lot (read this related story from March 2025 summarazing the event). The recent "Ski Patrol Magazine" story can be viewed here, beginning on page 98.