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Time to ski Chile, make this your summer! We’ve been taking groups since 1995. August 11-18 (Aug 10/19 travel), base price $5995 Portillo, Chile is located 2.5 hours east of Santiago high in the Andes near the Argentine border. Aconcagua is within view when you’re high up on the mts there! Portillo is served by the most modern lifts, whisking you up the sides of the expert, advanced, and intermediate runs. There is something for everyone. With 400 beds and…

What do you think about when daydreaming summer vacation? Lying on the beach, tennis, canoeing, more time for crossword puzzles? Whatever your pleasure, rock climbing is a fantastic sport to challenge yourself, learn skills to move safely and efficiently over stone, face fears, enjoy breathtaking vistas, and find a new dynamic with friends and family. Rock climbing is very refreshing and satisfying! At NASTC we hire only the best guides, with years of experience facilitating positive experiences on the rock,…

Here is an inside look to what your first time rock climbing would be like. Click on the video to watch as we take KRNV (My News Channel 4) sports journalist,Gianna Giorgi, and photographer, Julian del Gaudio, on their very first rock climbing experience. We had a great time introducing them to this very fun and rewarding sport and showing them our Donner Summit playground. We are fortunate to have world class granite right here in Truckee which is the…

Chris, Jill, Howard, Dave, Laura, Jonathan getting after it Day 1 in Niseko, where its been snowing for weeks! If you haven’t been to Kicking Horse, join us FEB 3-9, 2019…one gondola, 5th longest vertical in North American, and NO crowds! Chris teaching powder skiing in the beautiful Canadian Rockies…KH is just west of Banff and Lake Louise. Stunning mountains! So much powder, no rush, helicopter below, good friends and my wife with me, does it get any better than…

Happy Holidays NASTC Nation! We wish you and yours the best! There’s so much snow in Japan! Last minute gift shopping? Buy a NASTC Gift Certificate! We hope you will join us this Holiday Season in Tahoe to improve your turns, or for some guided backcountry skiing, or just to say hi…and we hope you’ll keep doing your snow dance and sleeping with a spoon under your pillow (or wash your car). It all helps placate the snow gods! The…

GET THEM A POWDER SKIING CLINIC! Book between now and 5 hours and 39 minutes, and get FREE overnight shipping! Just kidding – but we are serious about the powder skiing part. We’ve got some snow (5″ new) in Tahoe (the skiing is really good!) There is GREAT snow at some other NASTC destinations like Niseko Japan, Kicking Horse, Big Sky (done, that was last week), Iceland, and we WILL definitely have it in time for our March 5-7 Squaw…

How does this sound: sleep soundly between luxurious 400 thread count European sheets, on fluffy down pillows, waking up to the sound of patrol blasting light new powder? After a big breakfast and a warm cup of joe, walk a mere feet to meet your NASTC group for morning meeting and movement prep/stretching session? Then walk a few more feet outside, click into your skis, scoot over to the lift, and boom you’re being whisked up, up, an away, off…