national ski patrol

I'm considering a year of volunteer patrol at my home hill -- a smaller hill in the Front Range. Currently, I ski about 50-60 days per year. This year about a 50/50 break out between lift-served and backcountry. The big question to me is am I going to regret the time commitment. Fall medical...

Someone needs to know it's safe! ;-) my son, doing what he does.

We are still provisional until the end of the year. We start our duty weekend next week! Cheers, Steve.

You ski to have fun, so you don't often think about when things go wrong for someone and they need help. Whether someone has an injury, illness, is over-terrained, or just tired and needs help from the patrol consider these points. When you see someone that requires patrol’s help, it is...

Should you wear an avalanche beacon in bounds? Ultimately each person needs to make his own choice but I thought I’d provide my logic since a lot of the discussions seem to not be based on empirical evidence. Avalanches inside ski areas are extremely rare Less than one person per year dies due...

There’s a new Ski Patrol member in the making. PisteOff’s prodigy started his classes tonight So proud of him for answering the call to keep our slopes safe. Yay Kevin!

Since we are starting to segue into the off season I'm interested in what continuing education courses everyone is involved in. What's the next step for you in NSP Certifications? For me since I've only been doing this for a few years I'm at the beginning of my extended learning. On Saturday I...

So I'm kind of in the market for a new work ski and could use a little help from all you folks that are much more educated about ski characteristics than I am. As you can tell from my user name I'm down here in the Carolinas so we have a little different type of season than folks in the rest of...

Arapahoe Basin is going with 100% paid patrol going forward. I'm not sure what the ramifications are of this, but I have some National Ski Patrol friends who are not thrilled with this decision. I'd like to hear more from Pugski patrollers End of an era: Arapahoe Basin volunteer ski patrol...

Since there seem to have been a couple Ski patrol threads already put here I figured I would ask here if this is the wrong place, mods please move it. I just passed my OEC exam and will be a patrol candidate at Lee Canyon just outside Las Vegas this season. I know more then a few members here...

I don't recall seeing a patrol shack forum area. Please move this if there is such a venue that I just missed. Dumb question here. Do ski patrol often, or even just occasionally give a sled ride to a skier or rider that got in to a trail way over their head? I mean, the person isn't hurt but...

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