Author: Ski NASTC

February 4-6 is the last NASTC AIARE Certified Avalanche Safety Level 1 class.  We have a couple of spots open, next class will be in 2012.  This is a 3-day course that provides you with the basic safety know how.  This course will give you an overview of the avalanche phenomena.  What are the conditions that present a higher risk of avalanche, snowpack, layering.  The class will also go over information gathering as to how to make the most informed decision possible in regards to avalanche risk.  The class will cover Avalanche danger factors, avalanche terrain recognition, assessment, route finding, trip planning, decision making, companion rescue and more. Click here for more information.

Join us at legendary Squaw Valley for 3 days of great skiing and terrain.  Ranked as one of the top resorts in the country, Squaw Valley’s Hollywood like reputation will inspire you to push your limits and expand your skiing comfort zone.  NASTC will take you through a step by step progression that will develop your skill base even further and open up more tactical choices so skiing the various types of conditions and terrain that the mountain throws at us will be less of a challenge. 

$1100 for 3 days of skiing & training with PSIA Alpine Demo Team members, video feedback, tech talks, lift tickets, a group dinner and raffle.

The Snowbird NASTC camp is coming up soon and our favorite Aussie is going to be leading the charge.  Richie Jameson will have just returned from Austria where he was representing his homeland as member of the Australian Demo Team at the Interski Congress.  Interski is like the Olympics for ski teaching professionals, it is an event/symposium that takes place every 4 years.  Richie will likely be looking forward to try out some of the new ideas that he gained while at Interski.  There is still space available in the course, this will be a fun event with good people and good skiing and a great way to get personalized coaching and feedback.  Oh and Richie is pretty darn entertaining.

Dates:  Jan 27-31
Includes:  4 nights lodging in a dbl occupancy rm, breakfast daily, lift tickets, 4 days of instruction w/video feedback and indoor clinics
Price: $2050

Join us at the Bookshelf in Truckee (next to Safeway) tomorrow Jan 22nd for a presentation and book signing by Chris Fellows. 5:30pm.  Wine and snacks will be provided.

A couple more slideshows of our courses have been added to the Photo Gallery as well as some new video and ski tips.  To view the ski tips make sure you register on the site as a user. 

If you will be up in the Lake Tahoe area over the weekend, join us for a 1-day Total Skiing Clinic this Saturday at Sugar Bowl or jump in the All Conditions/All Terrain Course, now $995 and as a special bonus, we will get to see Daron Rahlves and some of the best skiers in the country and area duke it out on Alpine Meadows’ Beaver Bowl.

We haven’t seen good early season conditions like this in over 5 years; and as this is shaping up to be one of the best seasons in a long time, we want to make sure that all you avid skiers out there have an opportunity to also make this one of your best seasons ever.  Therefore we are offering the ACAT course at Alpine Meadows and Northstar at $995, The ACAT Squaw Valley course at $1100 and the Snowbird Performance Skiing Camp at $2050.  We hope this will give you all the opportunity to come out and ski with us and step your skiing up a level or two.

Under mostly blue skies and on excellent snow, the first Total Skiing group enjoyed a complete immersion into ski improvement with Chris Fellows and Malcolm Ridenour at Sugar Bowl January 13-14.  Using principles from Chris Fellows’s new ski improvement book Total Skiing  the instructors led the group through a step by step progression in which they got the chance to really look at their own building blocks of good skiing:  fitness, equipment and technique/tactics.  They were then able to go away with a complete personalized program for ski improvement.  Sugar Bowl is NASTC’s home base and provides the perfect venue for these high-touch, high-level, customized clinics.  The next Total Skiing clinics are Jan. 22,  Feb. 5, Feb. 12, and March 17-18.

NASTC goes to Alpine Meadows with the popular All Conditions All Terrain clinic on Jan. 23-25. This advanced skiing clinic will focus on the steeps, bowls, powder, chutes and bumps Alpine dishes up so well. With record-breaking snowfall, the skiing is beyond fantastic…and now we’re getting more fresh stuff falling! Top instructors Chris Fellows (with new book out Total Skiing) and Richie Jameson will lead these fun 3 days!