For those suggesting it would be easy to fight off a wolf...

Problem is that in reality those wolves would not even be there. Wolves are naturally timid, shy creatures that tend to avoid humans if at all possible. That area did not look like there would be a scarcity of a wolf's regular diet of hooved animals - deer, moose, I can't think of what else has hooves besides cattle and wolves do occasionally steal from a farmers herd to eat but humans? Just not a likely scenario. Screen writers and fiction writers give wolves such a bad rap and NONE of it is based in FACT on the natural behavior of wolves. That was not a new ski resort so the wolves that claimed that territory would already have set up a hunting perimeter far away from the resort. Those wolves did not look starved (a situation where they WOULD eat a human) and even if they were hungry, they had JUST fed off the first guy so they would already have wandered off away from the lift area.

There is absolutely NOTHING about the presence of the wolves in such close proximity to a ski resort, much less the attack on a human in broad daylight, that is based in fact on a wolf's normal behavior - this was just another excuse for the pubic to want all wolves destroyed... such a shame.