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SINGLE PITCH LEAD CLIMBING WITH BLACKBIRD MOUNTAIN GUIDES

FOR 2024 ROCK CLIMBING RESERVATIONS PLEASE CONTACT: Blackbird Mountain Guides We have exciting news: we sold our NASTC rock climbing school to Truckee-based Blackbird Mountain Guides. We are very pleased to be selling to them. They run a highly respected backcountry ski, avalanche, mountaineering, and rock climbing school. We have known the owner Zeb Blais for many years, respect him very much, and they are a standout company in the mountain guiding world. Zeb is a IFMGA full certified…

ANCHOR BUILDING WITH BLACKBIRD MOUNTAIN GUIDES

FOR 2024 ROCK CLIMBING RESERVATIONS PLEASE CONTACT: Blackbird Mountain Guides We have exciting news: we sold our NASTC rock climbing school to Truckee-based Blackbird Mountain Guides. We are very pleased to be selling to them. They run a highly respected backcountry ski, avalanche, mountaineering, and rock climbing school. We have known the owner Zeb Blais for many years, respect him very much, and they are a standout company in the mountain guiding world. Zeb is a IFMGA full certified…

St Anton am Arlberg, Austria Heart of the Alps All-Moutain Adventure

ST ANTON MARCH 7-14, 2026

March 7-14, 2026: $7750 includes: 7 nights double occupancy lodging at the 4-star Hotel Grieshof in St. Anton, breakfast and dinner daily, 6 full days guiding and instruction, logistics, and video review. Single room upgrades are available. Lift tickets will be approx $500 for the 6 days and are easier to purchase yourself online. Get the 20 euro insurance. Fly to Zurich or Munich and take the train 2 or 3 hours respectively. Heart of the Alps, All-Mountain Adventure in…

Andermatt March 14-21, 2026

ALL MOUNTAIN STEEPS AND POWDER SKIING CLINIC Off-piste/All Mountain adventure skiing was born in Switzerland. Improve your technique in the steeps, powder and other off-piste conditions and terrain in the idyllic setting of the Swiss Alps. Explore a unique destination, and eye-opening experience, while receiving personalized coaching from some of the best instructors and coaches in the industry. You will have a memorable skiing experience and your skiing will improve tremendously. Step away from mainstream in beautiful Andermatt. Located…

ASPEN JAN 25-30, 2027

Travel days: Jan 25 and 30 / Ski days: Jan 26-29 Price: TBA in Augu(includes 5 nights lodging, 5 breakfasts, 4 full days small group instruction, tech talks and no-host group dinner planning) Reservations: open now, very popular NASTC course Aspen Snowmass doesn’t need much of an introduction to the serious skier. The four mountains of Aspen, Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass have just about every kind of terrain and excellent snow consistency. NASTC will give you the insider look to…

PRIVATE GUIDED BACKCOUNTRY SKIING (TAHOE/TRUCKEE)

Want to get out away from the crowds, lift lines, parking lot reservations, and $30 hamburgers? Are you new to the backcountry? Or are you a seasoned backcountry skier looking to learn some new descents? Hire a guide for a day! Our veteran guides can show you the way to great Tahoe snow away from the crowds, and help you increase your know-how, no matter how experienced you are. If you are new, we offer a one-day curriculum that will…

ROCK CLIMBING THIS SUMMER?

Dear Climbers, we don’t know yet when we will resume climbing on Donner Pass but when we do we hope you’ll be up there with us! Privates and groups will join our certified guides hopefully by July? August? Your guess is better than mine likely! But rock climbing is what we do all summer and fall (and usually part of spring, depending on the snowpack up on Donner Pass, which is 7000′. In the mean time, here are some exercises…

GRAND TARGHEE FEB 2027

Grand Targhee sits in a beautiful setting in the Tetons mountain range. It is filled with Western charm and hospitality and known for it’s abundance of fresh light powder snow (over 500 inches annually). Grand Targhee has 600 acres of pristine powder reserved just for cat-skiing. You will be delivered by a snow cat to powder filled tree glades, open faces and exhilarating gullies. This course is ideal for skiers looking to raise their adventure level up a notch and to…

NISEKO, JAPAN Jan 2027

Includes 7 nights lodging, 3 dinners, 6 days lift tickets (let us know if you have IKON), small group instruction all 6 days at 4 different mountains, RT bus Sapporo-Niseko-Sapporo, trip organization). Flight to Sapporo not included. Single upgrades available for approx $750/week. IN A WORD: From the west coast this is about like going to Europe mid season for a week, the travel is NOT that hard! We stay in a lovely hotel and enjoy the BEST cuisine….

SILVERTON, CO 2027

SILVERTON Silverton, CO is big mountain skiing at its best. This course is for serious powder skiers, no groomed terrain is available. You ski helicopter skiing type of terrain here in the Colorado backcountry without the expense and take your off-piste/side-country skiing skills to the next level as the terrain demands. Silverton is not your typical resort: you leave all the glitz and hustle of resort-skiing behind. What you get is fresh, untracked powder in a quiet and beautiful setting….