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INTERESTED IN JOINING SKI PATROL?

POTENTIAL CANDIDATES - For free skiing after you pass the class, please keep reading.

Thank you for your interest in the Bittersweet Ski Patrol. There are two main areas of training for new patrol candidates: emergency care and ski/board and toboggan skills (hill training).

This is currently a 12-week course given from early August to early November. The course meets two evenings per week from 6:30 to 9:30, usually Mondays and Thursdays and a couple of Saturdays. The course is a lot of fun and a great learning experience, but you must understand that it requires a great deal of time and effort, equivalent to a 4-hour credit college course. The textbook, published by the National Ski Patrol, is about 800 pages and we cover all of it. Most candidates spend two to three hundred hours between classroom, study sessions, midterm and final exam. The great majority of candidates who put in the time do pass the course, but please do not underestimate the time commitment. Another perk is that individuals are expected to help out with fundraisers - this is a lot of fun, it's what you make it.

Candidates who pass the OEC course and pay national dues (currently $64 per year), will become Auxiliary patrollers in the National Ski Patrol and are eligible to belong to the Bittersweet patrol. Those who then complete hill training become Basic patrollers. While all patrollers are members of the National Ski Patrol, we function as agents of Bittersweet, under the direction of the ski area management.

Still interested? If so, please fill out the information form in the red notebook in the patrol room titled "New Candidates Log Book". You will be contacted in late June. It is essential that we have complete and permanent information for you. Our preferred means to reach you is by email. We will not contact you if all we have is a phone number or cannot read your writing. If you think your current information is likely to change by June, email us your updated information.

Being on ski patrol is a valuable service to the snow sport public, a great way to hang out with fine people who are as excited about snow sports as you are, and a much better way to spend the winter than growing roots in front of the TV. We look forward to seeing you in the summer and on the hill! If you have further questions, ask any of the patrollers you meet on the hill or in the patrol room.

Bittersweet Ski & Snowboard Patrol
You can contact the Bittersweet Ski & Snowboard Patrol here