Here’s a continuation of the week two diary from the famous “Aspen Boy”. Unfortunately no more photos at this stage, but the powder-filled video from Porters is definitely worth embedding again…
After an in-weekend, we were all itching to go skiing again and see whether our skis had survived our first attempt at tuning them. Monday saw us each receive hour-long private lessons from our magnificent teacher, Jase. We all felt our skiing come along leaps and bounds, and we also had a chance to rip up the slopes of Porters. … Read more
It looks like the New Zealand NONSTOPers have had an epic second week, so much so that it took them until mid way through week 3 before they got round to writing a blog about it. You can’t blame them though when you take a look at the conditions they’ve had in the video below. No blogs on a powder day!
So on to week 2 we go. Apologies for the delay but the fun and frivolity of life on the hill drew my attention away from the thing I was meant to be doing. … Read more
In the latest of our instructor articles, Spike Lupton tells how he changed his career from a Graphic Designer to Snowboard Instructor at Cypress Mountain for the Olympic year.
It all started a few years ago, when I was an increasingly frustrated Graphic Designer. Frustrated with the day to day toil of sitting in front of a computer screen and the non-active lifestyle that goes with working long hours and frustrated with the company I was working for. … Read more
In Part 1, Paul Cooper told the story of his journey from his Accountancy job to CSIA Level 2, via a couple of NONSTOP ski instructor courses (read part 1 here). The next challenge was getting a job… … Read more
“Sunshine Village’s Strawberry Chair”… Doesn’t that sound like a fairy-tail place of joy and happiness? In reality though it’s a 35 year old, painfully slow chair lift that provides access to Sunshine’s Green and Blue runs. This summer though, the Strawberry Chair will be passing on to the great bean-stalk in the sky, as Sunshine have just secured a deal to replace it with a fancy new high-speed four-man.
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Pete | July 30th, 2010
