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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…

Olympic Valley, CA Price: $945 (2 days instruction in group of 6 or fewer + tech talk / Optional Banquet $60)  ($795 til 9/1/24) Skier levels: 6-10 Lodging: email or text our office 530-386-2102 Join us to kick off your ski season right with lots of mileage under the careful tutelage of our top instructors! This carefully crafted curriculum will look at the building blocks of your skill package while skiing you all over the early season terrain. We’ll work…

Price: $995 (3 days instruction in group of 6 or fewer + tech talks / Optional Banquet $60)  Skier levels: 6-10 Lodging: email or text our office 530-386-2102 This camp is designed to get you off that intermediate or advanced plateau. Our highly experience and nationally ranked coaches will help you make the changes you need to meet your skiing goals. Your goals are our goals.  Through a successful methodology including breaking down your skiing to its fundamentals, reviewing the…

Join NASTC and Mesa Rim Climbing & Fitness • Reno to make the switch from climbing indoors to the outdoors! It can be an overwhelming and even scary experience for the unfamiliar climber. Our course has you covered from choosing the right climbing venue for your team and bringing the appropriate selection of climbing equipment, to learning efficient climbing technique on various rock types. Join our certified guides for this intensive course in taking your climbing skills to the next…

Pick your day, hours, and bring your gang! Rock climbing is a great equalizer, you can bring friends and family members of different experience/ability/fitness/interest levels. If someone wants to watch and “maybe try,” that is fine too. Those who are not climbing can observe safely and enjoy the sun and view. It is a lovely way to spend a day, or part of a day together. We customize our climbs to your groups’ needs, so if you are trying to…

Dates: Feb 24-26 (all price options incl 3 days instruction in group of 6 or fewer + tech talks / Optional Banquet $60) Price: $2095 incl 2 nights lodging at Palisades Tahoe Lodge, 3 day lift ticket Price: $1475 no lodging, 3 day lift ticket  Price: $995 no lodging or lift tickets   Skier levels: 6-10 The All Terrain/All Conditions course is NASTC’s trademark full immersion course designed to get you off that intermediate or advanced plateau. We started offering this…

Join us in Adermatt and enjoy some of the best skiing you’ll ever have in the world at this quintessential Alps resort! There is no shortage of steep and long runs in this alpine paradise. Apres ski is an equally lively scene and strolling around the pedestrian town is a memorable part of this rich experience. The center of town is at once chic and rustic, with stylish couples rubbing shoulders with the hardiest of mountaineers. To round out the…