FIPS’ President reminds us all: At each FIPS Congress our flag passes from host (France 2012) to host (Canada 2014) HERE IT IS AT CSP Headquarters in Ottawa !! (Side note – flag was hand sewn & made by ASPA in Australia and presented to FIPS at Thredbo in 1981). In a few days CSP’...
We are glad to report a news we knew from FIPS’ President: Saturday (12.05.12) … Congratulations Hugh Thomassin, FIPS Corp-Secr, who has been elected to the CSP-PCS Board of Directors today. We’d like join and say “Thank you!” to Hugh.
Kate -thank you!- pointed us to the page of FIS Web site dedicated to World Snow Day (WSD). The aim of this initiative is “to promote snow activities as a healthy leisure recreation, notably for the young” as a meaning to bring back more skiers to the mountains an try to revert the results of...
In the end of October 2011 FISPS –Italian FIPS’ member– got in touch with a FIS Delegate Ms. Vestri and together started to plan a set of events to promote ski relate activities to be scheduled along the upcoming 2011-12 winter season. Due to the lack of snow just one of them took place, the...
The newspaper Dauphiné Libéré published a post about upcoming FIPS congress. Click on the image to read the article (in French).
The start of 2012 FIPS’ Congress is coming closer and closer. Châtel, the resort that will host the meeting, broadcasts information about happenings in the skiarea, about the weather, about slopes a lifts via this channel: http://live.chatel.com/english-version.html Stay connected, stay updated.
We receive the information from the friends in SLAO and forward to the readers of this blog. Marie let us know they are putting together a book with all the images and memories about Jocke from friends who met him while on duty, in the congresses in other happenings. If you have any, please send...
We regret to write this post because we are saying goodbye to a friend. An avalanche took away Jocke while he was carrying out his duty in avalanche safety check. In this article is possible to read more about the accident. All of us will miss him.
Sciare Magazine is a Italian review focused on the world of ski and mountain as its name plainly says: “sciare” is “to ski”. Since a few years, FISPS (Italian Ski Patrol Association) started a contribution with the magazine an every two weeks a post on the magazine talk to the reader about the world of...
The registration form to for the 2012 FIPS Congress in Chatel is available in the MediaGallery. Click here to download the file.
