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
  Thank you to the staff and patrollers at Whiteface for hosting this years exam on March 3rd and 4th. Your support of patrolling and our organization was evident and made for a very smooth three days. This allowed for the examining staff and candidates to focus solely on the tasks at hand. Also a big thank you goes out to the staff at the The Hungry Trout Resort for feeding and housing us.
   
  13 candidates turned out for the exam including events in skiing, tobogganing, first aid and an interview. Four candidates earned the level of certification and another four became new affiliate members (see below). Congratulations to all of the candidates. Overall the skill level you demonstrated impressed the examining committee and is a testament to the quality you bring to patrolling each and every day.
  Check out the pictures.
   
• 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.

Congratulations to:

	Tom Sutton shows off a good snowplow technique.

New Certified Members:
   Jesse Billingham (Cranmore Mountain)
   Chris Gallagher (Whiteface)
   Rob Kellett (Whiteface)
   Mike Wiltse (Sugarloaf)

New Affiliate Members:
   Chris Thompson (Killington)
   Evan Bassarab (Killington)
   Jesse Bieluch (Sugarloaf)
   Nick Scott (Killington)
  
New Examiners:
    Ted Fitzgerald (Ragged)
    Joe Greenwood (Wachusett)
    Mike Wess (Blue Knob)