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Total Skiing at Sugar Bowl

March 13-14, 2015 $450 Includes lift tickets, all day instruction in groups of 6 or fewer, tech talks, video review, course materials and SWAG Perched atop Donner Summit, Sugar Bowl is the ideal place to challenge yourself and focus in on the building blocks of your skiing. With an approach and curriculum taken from Chris’s book, Total Skiing, you’ll bring your skills up a notch in this 2-day clinic. Our top trainers will address your specific issues holding you back…

SNOWCAT ADVENTURES AT HOMEWOOD

NEW this year! The most exciting thing to hit Tahoe: Snowat skiing at Homewood! This is an on-going, book-when-you’re-ready NASTC offering. Bring your group, or call us and we’ll add you to one! Homewood Snowcat Adventures will debut this winter on 750+ acres of backcountry terrain on the flanks of Ellis Peak! Our guides are ready to take you out to enjoy it and improve with guided instruction! Once transported to the peak, groups of up to 10 skiers and…

All Conditions/All Terrain – Squaw Valley, CA

Dates:  TBA Skier levels: 6-9 Price: $650  Includes:  instruction, lift tickets, personalized video reviews, tech talks and a group dinner. This course is a step by step progression designed to help you move past your intermediate or advanced plateau and skiing the entire mountain well whatever the conditions.  Getting 3 consecutive days of instruction and feedback from the National and Regional Demonstration Team members will elevate your skiing to a new level.  Focus on addressing some of the fundamental flaws…

FAMILY CLIMB 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…

NASTC Kids Race & Freeskiing Camp!

NASTC Kids Race & Freeskiing Camp!Portillo has always been our summer home and many of our clients who have gone without their families have requested we run a separate NASTC Kids Camp! So we are! Kids and adults will be divided up during the day to ski with their own trainers and then come together in the evenings to enjoy family oriented fun at the hotel as well as family dinners.  Kids will run gates in the morning and continue…

For Left promo box in Fall

Total SKIINGWritten by Chris Fellows, two time member of the PSIA National Alpine Team and director of the North American Ski Training Center. Total Skiing was developed specifically to increase your skiing performance by addressing the strengths and weaknesses in your fundamental movements, equipment selection, your tactical choices and technical execution on the hill.  BUY NOW! 

Sample Event Listings

Lake Tahoe Mt Shasta Climb and Ski – Shasta, CA Dates: May 14-16 Price: $595 All Conditions / All Terrain Mt Shasta Climb and Ski – Shasta, CA Dates: May 14-16 Price: $595

NASTC Portillo Camp – 2011

Day 1 of the NASTC-Portillo Camp 2011 Today was a great day despite the fact that Chris was still in transit to Chile after a flight cancellation delayed him by 24hrs.  Kim Mann filled in Chris’s spot for the day and together with Nick Herrin they kicked things off with a bang.  It was a spectacular day, blue skies and balmy temperatures.

Val Gardena Day 3 Update

The group sucessfully skied most of the Sella Ronda on Tuesday.  They logged in 13, 812 vertical feet in 5 hours of skiing! They skied a total of 16 miles in one day – pretty impressive!! Looks like they are getting a fresh coat of snow for their ski adventures tomorrow. 

Early Season Jumpstart

Dates:  December 3-6, 2014 Location:  Northstar Skier levels: 6-9 Price: $1195 (includes lift tickets) This course is designed to boost your confidence levels and dial in the technique that you need to ski hard the rest of the season.  Creating a strong technical platform at the start of the season will help you ski better throughout the season.  In addition to your skiing technique your coaches will assess your equipment and dryland training needs to make sure they are the best fit for…