Banff Ski or Snowboard Instructor Course – Week 5

  Week 5 in Banff was the busiest week for our intrepid trainee ski and snowboard instructors since the start of the course.  The beginning of the week marked the start of the CSIA/CASI level 1 assessment for the trainees, so understandably they were all very quiet at breakfast on Monday morning.  Although course leader Tom and trainers Jesse and Kenji were quietly confident about […]

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Cat-Skiing on Fortress Mtn with James Poulton

  The Peak Leaders crew in Banff recently went on a Cat-skiing mission to a deserted ski resort called Fortress Mountain. Not only is Fortress Mountain the Cat-skiing mecca of Alberta but it’s also where the snow scenes of the Hollywood Blockbusters ‘The Bourne Legacy’ and ‘Inception’ were filmed. Unfortunately for the girls we didn’t bump into Leonardo DiCaprio, but we did ski and snowboard […]

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VIDEO BLOG: Banff 2014 (Blog 3)

  Over the past couple of weeks our trainees in Banff have been seriously busy. Not only have they completed their CSIA / CASI level 1, which they ALL passed, but they’ve also had a day of Cat-skiing/boarding up at Fortress Mountain and an evening hitting the rails and kickers in the Norquay Park. It’s fair to say that the trainees are loving the course […]

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Cat-Boarding at Baguales Mountain Reserve

  While on their brief visit to Argentina, to check-out our 9-week instructor course, office team members Tom and Mhairi spent a day Cat-Boarding at Baguales Mountain Reserve. As this is available to all trainees on our Argentina course, as an optional extra, a number of the trainees and BASI trainers on the course this summer managed to visit Baguales to shred. Wanting to see what […]

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The ‘Yack’ goes Cat-skiing at Baguales Mountain Reserve

  Although our 9-week course down in Bariloche, Argentina, finished a little while ago Tom ‘The Yack’ Yaxley has been busy creating a video edit of his favourite day on the course. After completing the BASI level 1 exam The Yack, course leader Paul Marsden, and a gang of trainees and BASI trainers travelled to Baguales Mountain Reserve to ski some untouched powder. Baguales Mountain […]

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