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Avalanche Level 2

AIARE Level 2 AVALANCHE TRAINING December 5-7, 2021 & March 6-8, 2022 Price: $645, to book please email jenny@skinastc.com or text 530-386-2102 Add the 1-day RESCUE COURSE on December 4, 2021 or March 5, 2022: reduced price of $850 total (4 consecutive days) Location: Truckee, CA The AIARE Level 2 course is a 3-day program that provides avid backcountry skiers and riders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision making skills. Led by the top instructors in the…

NEW Avy AIARE Level 1 Classes Offered This Year!

ADDITIONAL PRIVATE GROUP LEVEL 1 GOING OUT IN MARCH AND POSSIBLY APRIL DEPENDING ON SNOW CONDITIONS Contact our office for more info: text or call 530-386-2102 or email jenny@skinastc.com

Intro to Backcountry Skiing in Tahoe-groups or private lessons

This intro day is chock full of information, and chock full of fun skiing! We all love skiing at the resorts with high speed quads whisking us to the top of the mountain for quick runs. But what about those crowded weekends when you want to be alone in the woods, earning your turns, and enjoying untracked well past 9:05AM? Before you go out, you need to have the skills and safety know-how or you’re endangering yourself and others. NASTC’s…

Yes Tahoe’s OPEN

Earliest Opening Day in Tahoe in over a Decade! Tahoe has been steadily blanketed with a hefty layer of early November snow! And its cold! This snow is going to stay! Ok so it doesn’t look QUITE as good as this photo YET but Alpine Meadows had its earliest opening in over a decade last week and Squaw opened Saturday. Sugar Bowl will open Thanksgiving week! Join us at Sugar Bowl starting in December! Join us at Squaw and…

Kidz Climb Camp

KIDZ CLIMB CAMP Dates: 2019 DATES TBA Price: $125 In this popular camp (in its 13th year!) your child will get to climb Donner Summit’s classic granite. Whether beginner or intermediate they’ll thrive, grow, and reach “new heights” during this course led by NASTC’s top guides. Students begin with an equipment orientation, learn how to use their climbing slippers well, and familiarize themselves with a couple climbing knots. We keep groups 5:1, and kids climb a bunch! We break for…

2016 Women’s Ski Day

Get your season on with us at Sugar Bowl and celebrate International Women’s Ski Day! NASTC has partnered with Coalition Snow to help you fine tune your skiing skills before the season gets underway. PSIA Alpine and Tech Team instructors will do nothing short of improving your skills in a non-competitive and super fun environment. Only $95 secures your spot. Fee does not include lift tickets or food/drink. (But we know you have those four tickets from your Alpine/Squaw pass…

Corralco, Chile Ski Adventure

Join us for a summer skiing adventure in Chile! This is the summer dream skiing you’ve been waiting for. Imagine this and you’ll capture a bit of Corralco in your mind’s eye: you’re staring into the cauldron of the Lonquimay volcano, you look around at breath taking scenery, and now you point your skis down, making your descent in fresh powder back to the base of the resort. This is a ski adventure unlike what you have experienced before. With…

Private Ski Guiding

Private Ski Guiding (from $95-$495 full or half/private or group/customized/all levels): Design your own day! Our private ski guiding day allows you to design exactly the day you want or your group wants! Want to ski new lines all day? Or gain lots more education about backcountry skiing safety. The backcountry skiing is great this year! Your day can be based at the resort, and we’ll tour into the sidecountry, returning to the chairlifts after skiing long, untracked lines. Or…

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…