Welcome to the home of the Professional Ski Patrol Association. The Professional Ski Patrol Association is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of ski patrolling. PSPA educates, tests, and certifies patrollers in ski safety, first aid skills, toboggan handling and ski techniques.

News

• 2017 Annual Exam
  A very successful Annual Exam was held at Sugarloaf this year on March 01/02, 2017. We were very lucky with the weather on Wednesday for the S & T portion of the exam. The forecast called for heavy rain, so we prepared to get wet. To our surprise, we only experienced a few light showers and mild temps. All that equaled soft spring like snow, long courses and big smiles! Which also means we didn't freeze our butts off for once. All of the candidates were successful during the S & T portion of the exam.
   
  Mother nature wasn’t so nice on day two. She slapped us in the face with 80 mph winds at the summit and dropping temps. Unfortunately, only to bottom two lifts opened. Thank goodness that our first aid chair had a plan B and a plan C. I think we ended up using plan D to pull off the First Aid Practical. Everything was held outside at the bottom of the mounting. Some of the candidates were successful and others walked away with a good learning experience.
   
  In the end, it was a very good showing by all of the Candidates this year. Congratulations to our two new fully certified members Zach Davis and Dan King; both from Sugarloaf. Both were very determined superb patrollers with a great attitude. A big thank you goes out to the Sugarloaf Ski Patrol and staff for being so kind and helpful. PSPA wouldn’t be successful without the unwavering support from Ski Areas like Sugarloaf.

• 2016 Annual Meeting
  The 2016 annual meeting was held at McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester NH on Friday October 21. The newly elected officers are:
    President - Bob Franz
    Vice President - Ed Sacco
    Secretary - Dave Hill
    Treasurer - Greg Danti
    Director for 1 year - Joe Greenwood
  
  It was decided to hold the 2017 Anual Exam at Sugarloaf USA on March 01/02, 2017. Please click on events for a full list of this year's events.

• Ongoing Call to Members
  Remember that day you achieved your PSPA certification? Most likely it came as a result of lots of hard work and training. The process is not simple and requires candidates to push themselves to vastly increase their patrolling skills and knowledge.
   
  As a member of PSPA you bring these increased skills back to the patrolling world every day. The strength of the organization is the diversity of its membership. As a member the organization is calling on you to promote PSPA within your respective patrols. Often this may simply mean answering questions about the certification process or pointing the person in the right direction to get information. Motivating and helping others to also strive for certification is the best gift you can give to a fellow patroller.

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	Tom Sutton shows off a good snowplow technique.