Welcome and let me be the first to congratulate you on installing Geeklog. Please take the time to read everything in the docs directory. Geeklog now has enhanced, user-based security. You should thoroughly understand how these work before you run a production Geeklog Site.

Last Wednesday Friulian FISPS' branch held a lesson on voluntary service at Padova University . Luca, Emilio and me spoke about branch's history, legal background and relationships with FISPS and between FISPS and FIPS.

The lesson was part of a Master on Third Sector, term which means all the world that runs around voluntary services.

Professor De Goetzen invited us to join the Master again next year planning to open the session to a broader audience.

FISPS is working on the new national ski suit. Yesterday we received the first prototype.

It is a two pieces set, jacket and trousers, built on the XT 10.8 model made by Extreme.

The farbrics used to tailor the suit are EN 343 Protective clothing Protection against rain, EN 342 Protective clothing Ensembles and garments for protection against cold and EN 471 High-visibility warning clothing for professional use compliant.

The inner layer is a 60 g/m^2 wadding and Wind-Tex, the external shell is kordura (blue) and nylon (the orange).

Price: about 300 euro.

Your comments and suggestions are welcommed.

WHY NOT JOIN WITH US !! On April 23rd 2007, a year from today, we will again welcome ski patrollers from around the globe to learn from each other, grow together and benefit from each others experiences.

Take a look at the Media Gallery... It is the place to look for images, audio, small movies and so on.
I just added a couple of photos taken in Tignes on April 2005.

Hope you will enjoy!

I added in the Link Exchange section a few pointers to the website of FIPS' members.

If your Associaton's homepage isn't yet listed, please post a comment to this article with the URL and a short description.

Hi Bruce, Davy noticed that you have the wrong hyperlink to the BASP website as a link to Davy’s article about Tignes. Here is the correct one: http://www.basp.org.uk/fips.asp

Hello everyone - Take a look at April 2006 snow & weather reports. http://www.snowbird.com/ Maybe we will be so lucky in April 2007 ! Bruce.