09/10 SEASON SNOWBOARD

Fernie course diaries 09/10

Here are a selection of 09/10 course diaries from the home of legendary powder – Fernie, BC: … Read more

2-Week Improvement Course Diary

I’m Ben, 32 and a skier and have recently completed the NONSTOP 2 week improvement course in Fernie. I’m right now taking a few extra days at the end of the holiday to consolidate on what I’ve learnt. This is my account of my time here…

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Cat skiing at Valhalla Powdercats

Here’s another update from the Red Mountain NONSTOP crew. Here’s Ben Warner’s take on Catskiing in Valhalla:

Those of us who went to Valhalla are still smiling, those who didn’t go now hate us. Everytime they log in to Facebook and see some more photos or videos of us floating on 3 feet of fresh powder their hatred grows  and grows. … Read more

Red Mountain 11-week instructor course diary – week 8

It’s been an exciting week in Red Mountain for those taking part in the Valhalla cat-ski day. Here’s an update from Shim Star:

On the evening of Saturday March 13^th, I emailed Pincus to ensure his house remembered about the daylight saving and the fact that we were getting picked up at 6am the following morning for Valhalla catskiing/boarding we discussed how bad would it be to sleep in on Valhalla day… … Read more

Banff 11-week instructor course diary – Week 9

Here are the some of NONSTOP Banff’s edited highlights from Gavin Morton, with no gossip included whatsoever…

On the hill

Monday morning started slowly as a number of the group were suffering from helping Canada celebrate their well deserved ice hockey gold medal and doing such an excellent job of hosting the 2010 winter Olympics.  Johnny had his snowboard group in a spin all week with notable achievements from Matt Pratt landing his first 360 on the Standish run and Martin hitting his first 720 (360 in the air and the remaining 360 on his stomach).  Johnny will be thrilled to learn that Martin’s dedication to rotating and spinning had him practicing energetically until the early hours of Friday morning on Hoodoos’ dance floor.
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