More than most people realise. Once you’ve got your patrol credentials, the doors include heli-skiing operations, cat skiing, backcountry guiding, dog sled safety teams, bike patrol in summer, avalanche mitigation and clearance teams working across industries including transportation and rail networks, scientific work in remote areas, fire fighting, adventure guiding, and weather analysis. The skills transfer because they’re built on safety, decision making, and operating in challenging environments. Those don’t switch off when the snow melts. We’re also building an affiliation with a university to create a pipeline into professional guiding careers. Patrol is a boarding pass, not a destination.