Episodios

  • A Conversation with Career Patrol Directors

    A Conversation with Career Patrol Directors
    May 3 2022
    On this episode of Ski Patrol Radio, we sat down with patrol directors Drew Kneeland of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Janna Allen of Brundage Mountain to discuss what brought them into the profession of ski patrolling. They discuss their career path, what they love about their jobs, the threats to the next generation of career patrollers, and how the National Ski Patrol as an organization supports them and where it can improve.
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    36 m
  • A Deep Dive with Peter Gannon

    A Deep Dive with Peter Gannon
    Mar 8 2022
    Ski patrollers bring a variety of unique experiences and perspectives to their work, but very few have the experience and background that our guest Peter Gannon arrived with. Peter grew up on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota and is a member of the Cheyenne River tribe. Listen to our conversation about how Peter’s family and life experience affects the way he sees life in the mountains, what it is like to come to skiing as an adult and as a person of color, and what he loves about patrolling.  
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    22 m
  • COVID Updates for the 2021-2022 Ski Season

    COVID Updates for the 2021-2022 Ski Season
    Dec 3 2021

    As ski season kicks off around the country, we sit down with the National Ski Area Association’s Director of Risk & Regulatory Affairs, Dave Byrd, and National Ski Patrol medical committee member and Infectious Disease Physician, Dr. Jon Persichino. We discuss their recommended COVID precautions to keep ski patrollers and guests safe and healthy for the 2021 – 2022 ski season.
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    29 m
  • A Conversation with Chris Castilian, NSP's new CEO

    A Conversation with Chris Castilian, NSP's new CEO
    Sep 29 2021

    We sit down with the National Ski Patrol’s new CEO Chris Castilian in this episode of Ski Patrol Radio. We talk about his prior experiences, his goals for bringing the National Ski Patrol forward in the ski industry, and honoring NSP’s past without living in it.
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    34 m
  • Avalanches, Everest, and Lessons Learned with Dave Watson

    Avalanches, Everest, and Lessons Learned with Dave Watson
    Jul 21 2021

    On this episode of Ski Patrol Radio we sit down with Mount Hood ski patroller Dave Watson. He speaks about his experiences training patrollers in Kashmir, India, being buried while conducting avalanche mitigation in Oregon, and how his training and experiences as a ski patroller have aided him while climbing the tallest peaks in the world, including Mount Everest twice!
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    35 m
  • Women of the National Ski Patrol

    Women of the National Ski Patrol
    May 18 2021

    In the historically male-centric culture of ski patrolling, women are finding a better place in the community. We sit down with Kolina Coe, the Assistant Director and a dog handler at Northstar California, and Kristen Russo, the Assistant Patrol Director at Holiday Valley in New York state. We discuss their experiences as being women ski patrollers, what has changed over the years, and what still needs to be improved.
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    29 m
  • The Season in Review: Patrolling during COVID

    The Season in Review: Patrolling during COVID
    Apr 7 2021

    It’s been a year since ski resorts all over the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to Patroller Directors Tony Cammarata of Arapahoe Basin and Denise McLaughlin of Bogus Basin discuss their year of wins and losses, moving through the unknown, and staying safe. Finally, they share the silver lining and light at the end of the tunnel for everyone.
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    35 m
  • Avalanche Dogs…and their Handlers

    Avalanche Dogs…and their Handlers
    Mar 19 2021

    Join us for an in-depth conversation with two Search and Rescue dog handlers and experts, Andy VanHouten and Julia McCarrier. VanHouten is Park City’s Snow Safety Director and the president of Wasatch Backcountry Rescue (WBR). McCarrier is the Patrol Supervisor there and a dog handler. They share experiences bonding with and training their dogs, and some amazing stories of their work in Search and Rescue
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    40 m