Senior Alpine

This year's Regional Senior on-hill events will once again be held on the fine slopes of Cascade Mountain.  The candidate clinic is now a 2-day event scheduled for the weekend of January 10^th, with the toboggan clinic on Saturday and ski pro on Sunday.  The evaluation will take place a month later, on Saturday February 14^th.

A big push has been made in recent years to refine the quality and uniformity of Senior events across the Division.  These efforts are reflected in the Central Division Senior Manual available for download at http://www.nsp-southcentral.org/Library/Library/library.htm.  This manual clearly describes the expectations of and requirements for becoming a Senior patroller. 

I'm particularly proud of the progress we've made within the Regional Senior program.  We now have upper level PSIA alpine, telemark and AASI snowboard instructors throughout our ski pro calibration/evaluation team and incorporate video analysis in the candidate clinic.  The toboggan team has benefited greatly from calibrating yearly with other divisional evaluators and instructors at the Divisional Ski Trainer Workshops at Granite Peak.  

If you're up for the challenge and benefits of taking your patrolling up to the next level, please consider participating in this year's events.  An application is available in this SWEEP, or online at the same web address as the manual.  The deadline for application submission is December 30th.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about the program and we hope and look forward to seeing you in January.

Steve Loukin,

Tyrol Basin Ski Patrol

(608) 669-5257

shloukin@wisc.edu

The registration form for these courses can be found on the Library page