RESORTS

All our courses are run in Western Canada, renowned for its champagne powder and un-crowded resorts. Fernie, Banff, Whistler and Red Mountain each have their own individual merits and characters, but all are famous for the variety of ski terrain, high annual snowfalls, and fun communities.

Update from the New Zealand Ski Instructor Trainees

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

Read this post Pete | July 30th, 2010

Powder and the 4 progressions for our New Zealand ski instructor trainees

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

Read this post Pete | July 28th, 2010

Career change: From Graphic Designer to Snowboard Instructor

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

Read this post Nonstop | July 12th, 2010

My Journey From Accountant to Ski Instructor (Part 2)

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

Read this post Nonstop | July 8th, 2010

Banff blags Olympic chairlift

“Sunshine Village’s Strawberry Chair”… Doesn’t that sound like a fairy-tail place of joy andĀ 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. … Read more

Read this post Pete | May 19th, 2010

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