Pats Peak Patrollers Awarded Senior Alpine Patroller Status

Pats Peak is proud to announce that Patrollers from Pats Peak were recently awarded full Senior Alpine Patroller status.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Bois and Scott Jackson who completed all the requirements for this certification including a skiing and tobogganing module, Outdoor Emergency Care module and 3 electives (such as becoming an instructor, avalanche and mountain travel and rescue courses). The process to become a Senior Alpine Patroller takes place over multiple seasons and requires a time component above and beyond the normal commitment for patrolling.

In addition, Alex Noordergraaf and Jon Surgenor completed the Senior skiing and tobogganing module and Mick Costello completed the Senior Outdoor Emergency Care module.

The goal of the Senior Program is to encourage all patrollers to improve their ski patrol knowledge and skills through a program of continuing education and evaluation. Through the Senior Program, patrollers should develop increased ability and confidence with the goal of improving their own personal service to the skiing public. The Senior Program has been designed to provide multiple forums where patrollers can enhance personal skiing/snowboarding, toboggan-handling proficiency, improve their ability to manage OEC related medical trauma, and expand their overall patrolling knowledge and skills. In addition, the program prepares patrollers for leadership roles within the NSP. For more information on the Senior Program: www.nsp.org.

Over the past several years, 15 Pats Peak Ski Patroller have complete the full Senior Alpine Patroller program and six patrollers have Half Senior Alpine Patroller status with either the Senior Outdoor Emergency Care or Outdoor Emergency Transportation (ski and toboggan) modules completed.