Fellow Patrollers Join us at the 2018 FIPS Congress Earlybird bookings for the 21st FIPS Congress to be held at Rosa Khutor, Sochi, Russia on 20-27 January 2018 are now open. It has taken longer than we would have liked but it was important to have the process checked...
Visita preparativa per Soci 2018
A tutti gli Associati FIPS, Sono appena ritornato da un viaggio a Sochi con Jean Louis per finalizzare i piani per il nostro prossimo Congresso. Per chiarire, la città è Sochi-zona sciistica a 40 minuti di distanza si trova Rosa Khutor. Sono lieto di comunicare che la montagna, lo...
Sochi 2018 Congress Planning Visit
To All FIPS Members, I just returned from a trip to Sochi with Jean Louis to finalize plans for our next Congress. To clarify, the town is Sochi—the ski area 40 minutes away is Rosa Khutor. I am happy to report that the mountain, skiing, facilities and people all...
XX FIPS Congress Report now available
The 20th FIPS Congress was hosted by Italy and held at Passo Tonale from 2-9 April 2016 with seventeen countries participating. There were approximately 150 international and 40 Italian attendees, with large contingents from both Canada and the USA. The congress opening ceremony featured welcome addresses by regional Lombardia government official...
Dates announced for 21st FIPS Congress – Russia
// Post updated March 2017 // The FIPS Executive and the Rosa Khutor organising committee met last week, and have announced the dates for the XXI (21st) FIPS Congress in 2018. Dates: 20-27 January, 2018 Now you might be thinking that Russia is pretty cold in January, but don’t worry, you...
40 days to go – 2016 Congress Update
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...
Sight and sounds from XIX FIPS Congress in Big White
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!
2016 Congress. Ponte di Legno and Adamello Ski
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...
Patrollers from Around the World Convene in Canada
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...
ABS Avalanche Aribag presentation
Mr. Nicolas Navez joined FIPS meeting in Chatel and run a session presenting their safety device designed to prevent off piste skiers being buried in avalanches. Many FIPS’m member asked to receive his presentation’s handout and he kindly let us have it. Here follow his words and the link.
