09/10 COURSE DIARIES

Our NZ ski instructors don their red jackets for the first time…

It’s not just pow, pow and more pow in New Zealand at the moment, although the videos below show that it’s been a week of epic freeskiing. Andrew has provided the written blog this week, so read on below… but to get you started, here’s a little something to get you jealous: … Read more

Read this post Pete+ | August 4th, 2010

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

New Zealand Instructor Course 2010 – Diary Week 1

It’s exciting times, as our Ski Instructor Course in Porters and the club fields region of New Zealand has just got underway. Alice and Sophia are the first volunteers to write a course diary. Take it away ladies…

The first week was a week of many firsts. We all met for the first time on Sunday, having woken Alice up from a 40 hour slumber, and got ready for the first day of skiing on Monday. … Read more

Read this post Nonstop | July 15th, 2010

Winter Camping

Last week we spent Thursday night sleeping on the mountain… well more like “in” the mountain than “on”.  We headed up the mountain at 3pm and spent the next two and a half hours digging our homes for the night. … Read more

Read this post Rupert | April 8th, 2010

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