ALL-MOUNTAIN SKI TRAINING

Expert Instructors
at the Best Resorts and Ranges
in the World

BASED IN LAKE TAHOE SINCE 1994

All-Mountain Adventures

At NASTC, you truly improve your all-mountain skiing! And you get to do this at the best resorts and mountain ranges in the world. We chose our resorts carefully (after 32 years in business) and curate your experience, guaranteeing you are safe, have fun, and improve. Join one of our clinics in a group of adventure enthusiasts like yourself.

Advanced Ski Clinics

NASTC was founded in 1994 as an alternative to the quick-fix approach of some ski schools. We are a unique performance ski school offering multi-day, total immersion, adventure ski clinics for advanced intermediate, advanced, and expert skiers. Based in Lake Tahoe, CA, we offer all-mountain free-skiing clinics all over the world.

Our Methodology

NASTC’s methodology towards ski improvement is based on a 3-part approach that addresses fitness, equipment, skiing technique and tactics. The total immersion teaching approach is not a quick fix or band-aid method. And you will be taught by the top instructors in the world: PSIA Alpine Team members and Education Staff leaders.

About Us

We draw from the top guns in the world of ski instruction — the teachers of ski instructors. These “PhDs” of ski instruction have made careers teaching skiing (usually year-round) and helping people truly improve in all conditions and terrain. With over three decades under our belt running our ski clinics, we know how to deliver a top-notch adventure travel experience. We chose the best resorts, hotels, and leadership to help you finally bring your skiing to the next level.

Each year we rotate our resorts, choosing from a total of over 30 around the world. We curate an adventure ski training vacation for you and give you access to small group camps led by our best-in-class staff.

We are also Tahoe/Truckee’s oldest AIARE school — the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education. In an era of more people than ever skiing in the backcountry, we recommend getting at least your 24-hour AIARE Level 1, as well as taking the 1-day AIARE Rescue Course. We offer all both plus the 32-hour Level 2. Our AIARE instructors are – as with our ski improvement camps – the best of the best. They are AIARE Instructor Training Leaders, Course Leaders, and Course Instructors.

We also offer a Donner Summit backcountry guide service, offering day tours by private arrangement.

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Personalized Training

When you come to NASTC, you don’t just “take a clinic” and leave. You become part of a plan (your personal ski improvement plan) and part of a family. You will find you truly improve and leave with a road towards further improvement. You can use us as a resource as you progress down the road of continually improving your ski technique and tactics.

We don’t pick our resorts at random.

Our Story

Chris and Jenny Fellows, along with the late Mike Sodergren (“Soddy”), had a dream to create a total immersion ski school along the lines of the great Austrian and French Academies where students immersed themselves for multiple days improving their skiing in all conditions: steeps, bumps, powder, chutes, spring corn, trees…whatever challenged them most. Both Chris and Soddy had attended the Austrian “Bundessportheim” in the 1980’s. The idea was that in order to improve our bodies need to repeat new movements over and over, so let’s create multi-day camps.

So, in 1994 we founded NASTC with 6 camps at Donner Ski Ranch, Sugar Bowl, and Whistler-Blackcomb. In 1995 we added Portillo, Chile, and Kirkwood, CA. We are grateful to our early supporters and followers.

The dream quickly became a reality as intermediate, advanced, and expert skiers flocked to the popular courses led by PSIA Alpine Team members. We responded by adding destinations our students asked for year after year. Tragically in 1997 Soddy and his wife were killed along with 16 others in the Thredbo, Australia landslide.

NASTC succeeded in creating a high-performance ski school where “students of the sport” could get the advanced training they sought and have the opportunity to experience greater adventure at ranges around the world. As of 2026 we have taught thousands of skiers just like you. Bring your passion to NASTC, we can’t wait to ski with you in the best mountains of the world!

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Come Join Us

Not sure where to start? Call us anytime, and let’s figure out how best to improve your skiing. Come join us – and see your world in skiing, the mountains, and deep snow open up like never before.

We are eager to ski with you at Palisades Tahoe, Sugar Bowl, Big Sky, Grand Targhee, Powder Mountain, Aspen, Kicking Horse, St Anton, Chamonix, the Dolomites, Zermatt, Andermatt, Iceland Sail/Ski, Niseko, Portillo, Corralco and more.

— Chris and Jenny Fellows, Founders/Directors

“Incomparable”

“I was stuck at advanced intermediate. This is the best clinic I’ve ever been to! It felt like I discovered a secret. Highly recommended!”

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Kaylan Patel

“Why Did I Wait?”

“The personalized treatment at NASTC is unique. The ratios are tiny, and you get to ski with the best instructors in the world. I cannot emphasize enough – call NASTC!”

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Chantel Freeman

“So much fun!”

“I have always loved skiing and travel but my friends/family didn’t want to combine the two. The Portillo camp was the coolest experience! I’ll be back for sure.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Jim McAllister

Contact Us

We’d love to hear from you! We’re here to answer your questions or help you plan your next mountain adventure.

Get in touch

NASTC

P.O. Box 9119
Truckee, CA 96162

(530) 386-2102

JennyNASTC@gmail.com

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