Saas Fee Ski and Snowboard Instructor Course – Week 1 Blog

Saas Fee Ski and Snowboard Instructor Course – Week 1 Blog

Last week the new batch of Peak Leaders trainees arrived for the Autumn Instructor Course in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Arriving from various destinations across the globe including U.K., Mexico and Greece, everyone was very excited and eager for the course to commence. Eager to get skiing and boarding all the trainees, despite feeling a bit tired from travelling, were up early on Sunday morning. The […]

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Morzine Ski or Snowboard Instructor Course – Week 8

  This is crazy, the time out here has just flown past! Week 8 saw the last of the training with the teams from BASS and Mint before the guys sit their BASI level 2 exams! With the guys completing all of their shadowing in week 7 it meant the only thing  left to do was to spend as much time on the hill as […]

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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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Saas Fee Ski & Snowboard Instructor Course – Week 7

  Last week up in snowy Saas Fee winter swiftly arrived with a big dump of snow. Luckily for the trainees it “dumped it down” during the night so we had bluebird conditions in the morning. Similarly to last years course the trainees have had a great week skiing and riding powder up on the glacier. This was a great opportunity to get to grips […]

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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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