With 40 days to go…. We have an amazing 144 international attendees plus local Italian patrollers attending the 2016 FIPS Ski Patrol Congress in Passo Tonale, Italy. If you want to attend, registrations close on 1st March 2016 so get in quick. You can register online from the conference page. Registered...
The main focus of this February newsletter is an update on the upcoming Congress at Adamello Ski Pontedilegno – Tonale, Italy in April. More that 130 attendees have registered and the highlights of the program are detailed. Looking forward to seeing many of you there. The newsletter also provides...
Vacancy: Ski Patroller & Snow Safety At Gulmarg ski resort we are every year hiring the expert services of some foreign ski patroller who is expert in snow safety and ski patrolling and dealing with the explosive for avalanche triggering. If their is any one interested to come for...
This article is available in PDF here. Early Bird Registrations for FIPS 2016 in Italy now open Go to www.fips2016.it for Congress information and to register. There is a €100 reduction on the standard cost by registering early. The Early Bird Registration requires full payment to be made before...
A most successful European Ski Patrol Meeting was held from 22-24 January at Montgenèvre, France. Some 55 patrollers attended with representatives from France, Scotland, Italy, Sweden and Romania. FIPS also welcomed potential new members from the Swiss Ski Patrol and Andorra. Activities included: an on-snow avalanche training afternoon presentations...
If you didn’t attend to FIPS’ Congress in Big White, you missed a lot of great moments. The saying is “A picture is worth a thousand words”, so what about a movie clip? Thank you Duncan for this wonderful movie!
Ponte di Legno is a small city in the central part of Italian Alps and is part of Adamello Ski Consortium along with Passo Tonale and Presena glacier. Ponte di Legno won the competition among other Italian resort which offered to host the 2016 FIPS World Congress and will...
In the second meeting of the Executive Board, FIPS’ Delegates voted to decide in which site the 20th Congress will be hosted. In the days before, Italian and Russian representative showed their friends the proposal for hosting the upcoming FIPS’ gathering.The talks went on in the following hours and...
The title of this post is taken from an article published on ski-patrol.net. The author talks about FIPS, its birth and about our biannual Congress hosted around the world. These are the first two paragraphs: Patrollers from 13 or more countries are gathering at Big White resort in British...
The weather events in Christmas Day and during the next two ones made difficult for the managers to open the ski resort of Piancavallo. The rainfall in those three days eroded the snowpack, partly natural and partly produced by snowmaking system, on the ski runs. The commitment, professionalism and the...
