What Is Mountain Travel & Rescue (MTR) in Ski Patrol?

MTR stands for Mountain Travel & Rescue, one of the educational disciplines delivered by the National Ski Patrol (NSP) through its regional organizations. In New Hampshire, the NH Region Ski Patrol operates the educational infrastructure for NSP and lists MTR alongside Outdoor Emergency Care (OEC), Outdoor Emergency Transportation (OET), Avalanche Certification (AVA), and Instructor Development as one of its core course offerings. If you are an NSP member looking to build skills for traveling and responding in mountainous terrain beyond the groomed slope, MTR is the discipline aimed at that need.

Where MTR fits in the NSP training lineup

The NH Region presents its educational services as a set of parallel disciplines rather than a single ladder:

MTR sits between the on-hill patient-care and transport skills (OEC, OET) and the hazard-specific avalanche training (AVA). It addresses the broader question of how to move through and respond in mountain terrain, which is why it is grouped with the other disciplines as a standalone program rather than folded into OEC or OET.

Who takes MTR

The NH Region describes its courses as open for student registrations to NSP members, and it names specific audiences in its program listings: members looking for Toboggan Enhancement, Senior Program events, Mountain Travel and Rescue, and Avalanche. That places MTR in the same registration stream as the Senior Program and other advancement-oriented training, so it appeals to patrollers pursuing additional qualifications as well as those who simply want stronger mountain travel and rescue skills.

The region serves almost five hundred NSP members in New Hampshire — both volunteers and professionals — spread across 18 member patrols. MTR is one of the programs available to that membership.

How to find MTR courses and schedules

The NH Region points members to two entry points:

• The Calendar — the starting point the region recommends for Mountain Travel and Rescue, along with Toboggan Enhancement, Senior Program events, and Avalanche.
• The PROGRAMS webpage — where event pages specific to each discipline are posted.

Program-specific news also appears inside the individual educational services pages, so if a course date or registration window is not yet on the calendar, the MTR program page is the next place to check.

What to confirm before registering

The source material confirms that MTR is an NSP educational discipline offered through the NH Region and that registration runs through the calendar and program pages. It does not publish course length, prerequisites, fees, or whether any component is open to non-members. Those details live on the individual event pages, so check the specific course listing rather than assuming terms carry over from OEC or OET.