PATROLLER CHECK LIST – All items below must be checked off prior to being approved to wear an Alpine Meadows Patrol jacket. Some items require a signature from an approved trainer.
Completed Verification Signature
Patroller Requirements
Parking
Sign on procedure
Required uniform and equipment
Transceiver
Probe poles
Shovel
First aid supplies
Dress code
Locker room etiquette

Pro Patrol Manuals are kept at each standby station and in the patrol rooms.

1. Avalanche control plan (Must read chapter in pro manual)
Road guard
Hill opening on a/c days
Ski cutting technique and philosophy
Must complete the Basic Avalanche Course

2. Avalanche rescue (Must read chapter in pro manual)
Transceiver proficiency
Proper equipment
Rescue caches: main, patrol room, Scott, Lakeview, Summit, Sherwood

3. Lift evacuation plan (Must read chapter in pro manual)
Variation depending on lift type
Line saver
Zed operation and location
Evacuation packs
Hangers

4. Incident reporting (Must read chapter in pro manual)
Accident management
Incident reports
Witness reports
Red flag incidents
Camera

Completed Verification Signature
5. Opening procedures
Opening of each complex (Calling hill boss)
Summit
Sherwood
Lakeview

6. Closing procedures
Closing of each complex
Summit
Sherwood
Lakeview
Sweeps
High traverse
Beaver bowl
Promised land
Lower 40
High yellow
Meeting points

7. Speed control
Philosophy
Bumps

8. Family ski zone

9. Sign lines
Beaver-Estelle
Round rock
Low Beaver-Sisters
High traverse-backside Ward Peak – South Face
Keyhole-Lower saddle
Marhankas
Deer camp
Scott chute

10. Mountain orientation
Locate & identify runs listed on NSP map

11. Radio procedures
Calling info in to Mountain dispatch
Openings, closing
Ambulance
Wind holds/alerts
Accident scene arrival
Know the “10 codes”
Using telephone vs radio
Channel 2

Completed Verification Signature
12. First aid room
Procedures
Equipment storage locations

13. Equipment inventory at standby station
Oxygen packs: contents and locations
Backboard equipment procedures
Traction splints
Backrest
Spare skis
Evacuation equipment
Belay packs

14. Risk management & terrain orientation
Liability concerns
Hill safety
Hazard marking

15. Know the NSAA Skier Responsibility Code

16. Area boundary policy
Closed vs area boundary

17. Sleds
Handling technique
Sled belly chain
Sled locations on hill
Sled loading on lifts
Sled packs
Breakdown sled
Crash sled

18. Rope handling
Knots
Belay technique
Location of ropes

19. VSP benefits
Season pass
Comps
Meals
Visiting patrollers
Lessons
Pro form deals
Discounts

20. Other suggested reading in the Pro Patrol manual:
Missing person
Sweep
Blood borne pathagen
Explosives
Dogs
Avalauncher SOP
106 Rifle SOP
Citizens arrest
Inventory
Helicopter
Placer county skier ordinance
New patroller checklist
USFS site operating plan
Route sheets
Childe abuse
AED