{"id":1333,"date":"2026-04-27T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:49:01","slug":"mountain-division-competition-and-training-seminar-at-castle-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/2026\/04\/27\/mountain-division-competition-and-training-seminar-at-castle-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Division competition and training seminar at Castle Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teams from across the CSP Mountain Division met at Castle Mountain near Pincher Creek, Alta on March 6 and 7 for the 2026 First Aid and On Snow Training Seminar (FAST).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1331\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1331\" src=\"https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/27094001\/748-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/27094001\/748-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/27094001\/748-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/27094001\/748-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/27094001\/748-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/27094001\/748-rotated.jpg 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Mackenzie from Palliser Zone (Medicine Hat) assists with the toboggan course set up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The program included a full day of professional development (PD) training on Friday, March 6, and a first aid competition and toboggan challenge on Saturday, March 7. Thanks to Terry Abrams and Chris Oliver for leading the PD sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The first aid competition centres around a scenario, overseen by CSP first aid examiners, to which each of the three-person competition teams responds. Teams are marked by a pair of examiners on the team\u2019s ability to respond to the mock incident, with a 25-minute deadline. The scenario involved two patients, so triage and prioritizing care was paramount.<\/p>\n<p>The toboggan challenge centres around navigating a marked alpine course with a weighted toboggan, with mandatory side-slip areas and each of the team\u2019s three members required to safely pilot the toboggan through a portion of the course. Toboggan transfers must be safely completed in pre-defined areas. The focus is on a controlled descent down the slope.<br \/>\nThe event wrapped up with a banquet and awards on Saturday, March 7.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the competition can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/27094401\/Awards-results-March-2026.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams from across the CSP Mountain Division met at Castle Mountain near Pincher Creek, Alta on March 6 and 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6132,"featured_media":1331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/mountain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}