Need some NSP Wiki' stuff

Ask a patroller on the hill, or go to the first aid room and tell them you are interested in becoming a patroller.

Do you have specific questions??  Why not throw some of them into this thread and we can fill in the blanks for you.

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Originally Posted by Talyn 

 

I am interested in ski patrol info, perhaps some of the NSP members here can collaborate and set up some wiki's for people like me who are intersted in this sort of thing and are not 100% sure where to start.

Starting points

NSP is a National Organization

Volunteer and/or Pro. Patrols

Nordic or Alpine

NSP is mostly volunteeer

NSP is madeup of 8 Divisions

each Division is made up of multiple Regions

each Region is made up of multiple Patrols

each Patrol is managed by a "Patrol Representive" whom is in communication the Area, Region, and Patrollers. 

From your location, you would be in the Western Michigan Region of the Central Division, of course you could travel north and patrol in the Northern Michigan Region of the Central Division.

W. Michigan is close to 100 % volunteer, N. Michigan is probably over 80% volunteer.

NSP patrollers are representives of the area of which they patrol, and that specific area assigns the responsibilites to the patrol for which the patroller is responsibile for at that area.

Local procol to carry out these responsibilites in a common operation format is set by the Area, Patrol and outside entities (EMS and Law enforcement).

These talking points should give you a place to start asking questions, see you on the hill maybe.

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Originally Posted by Steve2ski 

 

Starting points

NSP is a National Organization

Volunteer and/or Pro. Patrols

Nordic or Alpine

NSP is mostly volunteeer

NSP is madeup of 8 Divisions

each Division is made up of multiple Regions

each Region is made up of multiple Patrols

each Patrol is managed by a "Patrol Representive" whom is in communication the Area, Region, and Patrollers. 

From your location, you would be in the Western Michigan Region of the Central Division, of course you could travel north and patrol in the Northern Michigan Region of the Central Division.

W. Michigan is close to 100 % volunteer, N. Michigan is probably over 80% volunteer.

NSP patrollers are representives of the area of which they patrol, and that specific area assigns the responsibilites to the patrol for which the patroller is responsibile for at that area.

Local procol to carry out these responsibilites in a common operation format is set by the Area, Patrol and outside entities (EMS and Law enforcement).

 

These talking points should give you a place to start asking questions, see you on the hill maybe.

 

 

 

 

just small correction, 8 Continental plus Alaska, Europe and Professional make that 11 divisions + an Asian liason
 

Here's a good starting point based on your location...

http://www.nspcentral.org/index.php

Look under "Who are we?" > Regions > they have the patrol public websites.  Contact the Patrol Representative listed at your site.  They will give you tons of info and set you on the right track.  Also from each patrol site, there should be a lot of info to query.  I know there is at our Region site.  http://www.d.umn.edu/~nspscdwr/ (I ~think this is public, I don't think I'm auto-login).

NSP is a great volunteer org and you'll have a great time patrolling!  Meeting people, helping people...

_mark

Laurie does a great job documenting NSP history.  Don't be stealing her work though.

http://teachski.com/articles/nsp/nsp.htm

http://teachski.com/