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It has been some busy weeks at NASTC.  Despite the low snow levels earlier this season, people have been coming out skiing and training.  It is great to see people recognizing the opportunity to improve their skiing during these challenging snow conditions.  We’ve been working with national ski patrollers, instructors, race coaches and avid skiers both inbounds and in the backcountry.  We had a great camp at Crested Butte taught by Kim Mann, a Western Team candidate for National Team Tryouts.  Snow conditions were as perfect as they get and the group pretty much skied every inch of Crested Butte.  Check out the pictures (w/ Geotags) in our photo gallery.  In Kim’s words the snow was “like skiing on satin.”  We are also very proud to be a part of Squaw Valley’s and Alpine Meadows’ endeavour to get as many of their instructors AIARE Avalanche Level 1 certified.  This has been a very sad year with the numerous avalanche accidents and fatalities – we firmly believe that education helps mitigate the risk.  We are looking forward to the NASTC camp in Chamonix, France next week.  It is going to be great skiing, Chamonix has been having a great season and our local guide, Michael Silitch, and Chris Fellows have mapped out an exciting week.  No doubt the group will have some fun adventures, make some big breakthroughs in their skiing.  We can’t wait to hear the stories!