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.

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• 2010 Annual Exam Information
  This years exam will be on March 3 and 4 at Whiteface NY. Lodging is available in Wilmington (close to Whiteface and 10 miles from Placid) at The Hungry Trout Resort, 1-800-766-9137. Room rates are $69 (most have two queens). Tell them you are with PSPA. More information to follow as we get closer to the exam on March 3-4.
  Board of Directors Meeting will be at 08:30pm on Tuesday the 2nd of March at The Hungry Trout.
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• 2009 Annual Meeting
  The 2009 Annual meeting was held at the Puritan Backroom Restaurant in Manchester, NH on November 20, 2009. Congratulations to the following elected officers:
  
  • President - Marc Abend
  • Vice President - Carl Chaplin
  • Treasurer - Steve Guertin
  • Secretary - Emily Hinman
  • Director for Three Years - Joe Greenwood
  Other agenda items included setting the agenda of events for this year and the formation of committee to recommend changes to the associations bylaws. Thank you to all who attended and contributed to making the annual meeting so successful.
  This years events have bee posted on the events page.
  Please contact us if you would like more information about PSPA or would like to schedule a precourse; we will come to you.
   
• PSPA will come to YOU
  In addition to the scheduled precourses PSPA is offering to come to you. Interested ski patrollers should contact Marc Abend. Precourses cover the prerequisite for taking the certified exam. These one day training events cover all aspects/criteria for the exam and orient prospective candidates to the requirements and benefits of the Professional Ski Patrol Association.
   
• 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.
   
• 2009 Annual Exam
  Another successful exam was held at Killington, VT on march 4-5, 2009. Thank you very much to Killington Patrollers Doug Thorne, Joe Kulina and Patrol Director Tait Germon. Nine candidates participated in the exam. It was a very challenging exam with most of the S&T being held on Bear Peak and the bumps on Outer Limits. In other business the following members have completed all of their requirements as candidate examiners and were voted in as full examiners; Andy Borghese (Loon Mountain), Greg Danti (Loon Mountain) and Ed Sacco (Loon Mountain).
  
  Congratulations to:
  New Certified member Jeff Hutchins (Nashoba Valley) and new affiliate members Jesse Billingham (Cranmore Mountain Resort), Chris Gallagher (Whiteface), Mike Malkin (Cranmore Mountain Resort) and Kendall Riley (Dartmouth Skiway).
   
  Thank you also to the Summit Four Seasons Resort for their hospitality. http://summitlodgevermont.com.
  

Congratulations to:

	Tom Sutton shows off a good snowplow technique.

New Certified Members:
    Jeff Hutchins (Nashoba Valley)
 
New Affiliate Members:
   Jesse Billingham (Cranmore Mountain)
   Chris Gallagher (Whiteface)
   Mike Malkin (Cranmore Mountain)
   Kendall Riley (Dartmouth Skiway)
  
New Examiners:
    Andy Borghese (Loon)
    Greg Danti (Loon)
    Ed Sacco (Loon)