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March 13, 2010 Ski with Snow Summit Patrol- Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Ski-With-Patrol March 13^th

We can use some more patrollers next year for BBVNSP. Come find out what it takes to be part of one of the best patrols in the nation. If you would like to participate, contact Krista Fisher at snowsummitnewpatrol@yahoo.com to get on her list. You’ll get a lift ticket for the day, we’ll feed you lunch, and you get to hang out with the patrollers all day. See you on the hill.

Ski with Patrol 2010

Big Bear Valley

Snow Summit

Annual Ski-With-Patrol

March 13, 2010

Snow Summit’s award winning team consists of 140 members that volunteer their time, skills and resources to assist and transport injured guests as well as encourage/enforce mountain safety. It is our goal to make Snow Summit a safe environment for all mountain guests. If you enjoy spending your weekends on the slopes, helping others and working side by side with a group of highly trained team members then you just may be a patroller at heart. We invite you to spend the day with us and find out what being a patroller is all about: March 13th, 2010, 7:30am-4pm.

What to Expect:

Report for ticket assignment and check in at 7:30 am
Learn the benefits of becoming a member of the Nation Ski Patrol
Gain knowledge of Snow Summit’s Ski Patrol requirements
Dine at our new state of the art, mountain top patrol station for a free BBQ lunch with fellow patrollers
Ski evaluation (contingent upon instructor availability and conditions)
Ski with members of our experienced ski patrol to experience a-day-in-the-life-of a patroller.

What you need to d0:

RSVP as soon as possible to ensure your spot on March 13^th

Space is limited.

Report at 7:30 am
Wear appropriate clothing for a day on the snow
Bring your equipment (ski/snowboard)

We hope that you will join us for our Ski-With-Patrol day on March 13th.

If you have further questions, we can be reached by phone,

714-397-4515 or email us at

snowsummitnewpatrol@yahoo.com.

Bob and Krista Fisher

Snow Summit’s Candidate Coordinators

Big Bear Valley Ski Patrol

About Us
Big Bear Valley National Ski Patrol (BBVNSP) is an organization of approximately 140 unpaid volunteers who are trained in first aid, Outdoor Emergency Care, CPR, and winter rescue. We are part of a larger international organization, the National Ski Patrol System (NSPS), which includes almost 27,000 patrollers. We combine our first aid and skiing/snowboarding skills to serve the ski area and public with Big Bear Mountain Resorts at Snow Summit in Big Bear Lake. While on duty at Snow Summit, we patrol as agents of Snow Summit and work as part of the Snow Summit Volunteer Ski Patrol (SSVSP) Department.

Our primary function is to provide basic life support, first aid, rescue, and on-the-slope transportation to injured skiers. Besides first aid and winter rescue duties, patrol members frequently assist in public relations, area operations, skier safety programs, and other actions requiring patrol involvement to ensure the general safety of the skiing/snowboarding public at Snow Summit. This may include issuing a warning to a reckless skier or snowboarder or even removing that person's lift ticket if they are endangering the public with their actions. Besides finding us at the ski area, you may see some of our members giving presentations or demonstrations at local ski shows, ski clubs, or ski swap meets. You can identify us by the red jackets with the white cross on the back. We are the first ones on the mountain in the morning, and we are the last ones off, regardless of weather or skiing/snowboarding conditions.

We continually strive to improve our service to the skiing public as well as the ski patrol community. Our patrollers regularly help train other patrollers from many different ski areas in the western US. In the past decade our patrol has been recognized as one of the best in the nation. We have had the honor of being named the outstanding patrol in the Southern California Region eleven years in a row. The Far West Division (California, Nevada and Arizona) of the NSPS has named us the outstanding patrol in that Division six of the past ten years. Finally, the NSPS has recognized BBVSNP as Outstanding Ski Patrol in the Nation in 1995, 1998 and 2001 and runner up in 2000. No other patrol in the history of the NSPS has had this recognition three times.