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Here’s Our Stance, What’s Yours? – By Gunner Wolf – Granite Chief, Truckee There are many ingredients to a properly fit ski boot. One of the most underrated and overlooked aspects are stance or balance which is both lateral canting and fore and aft balance. Being canted and balanced correctly not only improves your skiing experience but also helps your comfort level tremendously because you are now standing in the boot where the manufacture intended you to be, not pre-loading…

A chilling story of life and survival in the mountains.  A story that anyone who spends any time in the mountains should read, or even if you don’t spend time in the mountains but are constantly in the pursuit of pushing your limits.  When you interact with nature on such an extreme level or engage in activities that push your boundaries, the rewards are great but so are the risks.  Some people only feel alive when their mortality is challenged,…

Are you an intermediate, advanced, or expert skier? Come join us this month at Sugar Bowl or Northstar! The snow is so good! NEW snow just today in Tahoe!! Space in both is limited! Email: [email protected] Or call: 530-582-4772 / 530-386-2102 See below for more information!   SUGAR BOWL ALL CONDITIONS/ALL TERRAIN CLINIC Dates: March 15-16 Price: $650 Includes: 2 days instruction, lift tickets and tech talks   This two day ski improvement clinic is great tune up that that…

Two spots left!! Call 530-386-2102 to book for this Friday!

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We are going to La Grave and YOU need to come! Good for intermediate through expert skiers, we have 2 groups going! There are 3 spots left on this epic trip. We only do it once every about 5 years. La Grave is unpatrolled, uncontrolled, inexplicably amazing terrain: over 7000 vertical feet off one chairlift! We stay at the charming Auberge Edelweiss and enjoy fine food and wine after long days of skiing this treasured valley. Hear about it from…

Greetings NASTC Nation! While its so far an unsually (read: painfully!) light snow year in Tahoe, NASTC students are enjoying deep powder cat skiing today and tomorrow in Schweitzer with Selkirk Powder Cats, next month in Snowbird, and in March in La Grave, France. Phew! Our AIARE Avalanche courses are also filling up. Of course anyday now its got to do the Sierra Nevada “thing” and dump…for days…and days. That would make us very happy. Keep your eye on our…