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...
Yesterday, the Organising Committee issued the 4th issue of Snowflakes, the newsletter containing updated information about the upcoming XX FIPS Congress. The PDF file contains information about arrivals and transfers from the airpots Milan MALPENSA (MXP), Milan LINATE (LIN) and Milan ORIO AL SERIO (BGY). This latter is in...
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...
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!
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...
In these days we received a few updates about FIPS 19th Congress. It moved to Big White Ski Resort and registration with guaranteed space will be open unti Dec., 31st 2013 as long as Space permits. To summarize all, we remind to all attendees the dates. Ski patrol from...
