Pacific Northwest Division of the National Ski Patrol
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Join us as we sit down with past and present patrollers, hosts, and friends of the Pacific Northwest Division of the National Ski Patrol to preserve their stories and grow our History Project together. Patroller Chats was started in 2023 for the History Project by Shirley Cummings.Tune in for fun, informative, inspirational, and occasionally spirited conversations, where we explore traditions deeply rooted in history and full of heart.Honoring the NSP Creed: Service and Safety since 1938, we’re preserving our legacy and building lasting connections for the future. Join us on Patroller Chats!
A patrol jacket's lettering can change whom you'd trust at an accident scene.
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Kathy Alexander traces patrol work through service, uniforms, and volunteers giving their days off to ski-area safety.
Kathy Alexander's route into patrol work begins long before the red jacket. Girl Scouts, camp, lifeguard training, winter YMCA shifts, and summers at a Staten Island swim club all feed into a life shaped by teaching, helping, and being outdoors.
A relaxed Hyak remembrance built from patrol work, family logistics, REI, and years around the mountain.
Patroller Chats stays close to Shirley Cummings and Gary as they look back on the family routines and mountain work that shaped their Hyak years. Shirley remembers joining the Ski Patrol in 1966, with a one-year-old at home and Gary already tied to the Hyak ski shop through REI.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Carl Peacher explains how aviation's crew resource management can make ski patrol safer.
A high-speed skier broke Gordy's five ribs and punctured his lung at 4,700 feet in Lech, Austria.
Kathy Alexander connects Girl Scout camp, lifeguarding, CPR instruction at Miramar in 1974, and teaching to her long career in ski patrol.
On Patroller Chats, Shirley and Gary Cummings connect their 1965-1966 Hyak patrol service with decades of changes at Summit East.
Barbara Learson traces her patrol career from Wilderness Emergency Care in 1988 at Marshall Ski Hill near Missoula to aid-room work at Summit Central.