When: 2-3 Feb 2008 (Sat & Sun) -- Deadline to Register: 4 Jan 08
Where: Day 1 = Pinetop-Lakeside City Hall, Pinetop AZ, Day 2 Sunrise Park Resort
Registration Contacts: Call Mike Koehlmoos/480.540.0689 or Glenn Minuth/520.378.0144LEVEL I AVALANCHE Course Description
Sunrise Ski Patrol is associated with the National Ski Patrol organization.
We patrol at the Sunrise Park Resort on the White Mountain Apache Tribe
Reservation between Greer and Pinetop–Lakeside, Arizona. Our patrol has
about 60 members who come from Pinetop, Springerville, Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson,
Sierra Vista and Flagstaff.
We are skiers and snowboarders. We all start thinking snow in
October and hope to be on the first chair up in the morning to cut through
fresh powder.
Our primary job is to help make mountain recreation safer for everyone who visits.
There are two types of volunteer ski patrollers at Sunrise. The main difference is that some have passed the on-hill training and some have not. Some of us are Auxiliary patroller and others are Hill patrollers, but we all belong to the National Ski Patrol organization..
| Hill patrollers are volunteer patrollers who have qualified as a on-hill patroller. Hill Patrollers are first responders - investigating reported problems on the slopes - and pull loaded, as well as empty toboggans. |
| Volunteer patrollers who have not qualified
as an on-hill patroller are called Auxiliary
patrollers. Auxiliary patrollers help care for injured guests in the patrol
room. They may ski well enough to haul empty toboggans to the scene of an
injury and be first responders, or they may be novice skiers. They are
always encouraged to join an “on the hill” patrol class and improve their
skills. |
If this sounds interesting? Find out how to become a patroller