Meet the team: Emma Cairns

  Meet Emma Cairns. Emma is a course leader for Peak Leaders and is also the head ski trainer on our Verbier and Saas Fee courses. For the majority of the year Emma is based in Verbier, where she works for European Snowsport and is a BASI level 4 instructor and Swiss Patente holder. Emma has been a course leader on our Switzerland and Argentina courses […]

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Tom & Mhairi visit Argentina (Film Part 1)

  This summer we sent our marketing department (Tom & Mhairi) to Bariloche to visit our 9-week ski and snowboard instructor course. They had an amazing time; snowboarding, cat-boarding (not snowboarding on a cat), horse-riding and eating their fair share of Argentine steak. Check-out the first part of their visit where they travel out to Patagonia, then go shredding with the group and local pro […]

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Tom and Mhairi’s visit to Argentina (Part 1)

  This summer we sent Mhairi and Tom, one half of our office team, down to Argentina to check out our 9-week BASI instructor course in beautiful San Carlos de Bariloche. Although they were only in Argentina for a week they managed to see the trainees in action and to witness, first hand, the amazing experiences available to the guys and girls on the course. […]

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10 Ways To Improve Your Snowboarding Technique

  Snowboarding can be a frustrating game at times; there’s nothing worst than feeling like you’ve hit a ‘glass ceiling’ that you can’t progress beyond. Part of what drives us to snowboard is the feeling of elation we get when we improve or land a new trick. If you feel like your snowboarding technique has recently plateau’d, don’t despair because our Community Manager and Course […]

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