How to sign in, pick your shifts, change one when plans shift, and get your schedule onto your phone. It takes about ten minutes the first time.
Go to your patrol's page and sign in with either your member ID number or the email address on your roster record — whichever you find easier to remember. Your member ID is the number on your NSP card.
If you have never set a password, your last name works as one, and capitalisation does not matter. If you have forgotten it, use on the sign-in page: a reset link is emailed to the address on your record and is good for 15 minutes. You do not need to ask anyone to reset it for you.
If the address on file is out of date, your patrol director can change it for you — that is the one case where you will need them.
Open and make sure your email address is right. Shift reminders, swap notices and password resets all go there, so an old address means you quietly stop hearing from the patrol.
Two settings on that page are worth a moment:
Set a password of your own while you are there, if you have not already.
shows the season a month at a time, with the shifts for each day and who is already on them. Move between months with the arrows.
Click an empty slot on the day and shift you want, then Submit. Your name appears in that slot straight away. Repeat for as many shifts as your patrol allows.
lists everything you have taken, so you can see your season at a glance.
Plans change. Click your own name on the calendar and you are offered several things:
Anyone on the substitute list is emailed when a shift is given up, so a shift you cannot work is usually picked up quickly.
You can change a shift that is still ahead of you. Days that have already passed are fixed, and some patrols let only their directors make changes — if the options are missing, that is why.
You will be emailed a reminder before each shift you are down for. How many days' notice that is depends on your patrol — commonly a day or two.
Your patrol schedule can appear in the calendar you already use — Google, Apple or Outlook — and keep itself up to date. Take a shift here and it turns up on your phone; give one away and it disappears again.
On , press Create my calendar link, copy the link, and paste it into your calendar. The page walks you through each of Google, Apple and Outlook. You do this once.
The link is yours alone and shows only your own shifts, so do not pass it on. If you cannot see the option, your patrol has not switched it on yet — ask a director.
The Sample Resort is a working copy of the site with invented patrollers, there precisely so you can experiment. Sign-in details are printed on its own sign-in page, nothing you do there sends email to anybody, and it is reset every night.
Ask your own patrol director first — they can correct your roster record, your email address and your shifts. For a fault in the site itself, write to Steve@Gledhills.com.
PatrolCalendar is shift scheduling for ski patrols, maintained by one volunteer patroller and free to use. Donations cover the hosting. More about it.