Renting versus buying gear?

I get asked all the time whether to buy new skis or boots or continue to rent. Largely it depends on your budget and how often you ski. For me as a rule of thumb if you do one week or more a year seriously think about buying some boots. Rental stuff does the job […]


10 reasons to take a ski lesson

Here are 10 reasons to take a ski lesson: 1. If you have never skied before, a lesson can make a challenging day super easy, build confidence and allow you to develop at speed that suits you. You’ll also learn about the mountain, snow, weather, skier code etc… 2. Cut the queues. In a lesson […]

Mammoth amounts of powder

Went to go for a couple of runs today and ended up spending 5 hours skiing knee to waist deep powder. This would rate in my top 6 days ever. Up there with heli-skiing in New Zealand (I use to manage a helicopter company with some great perks!) There’s still a few days in the […]


It’s snowing again!!!

So far we have had three feet of new snow in the last 24 hours and as I enjoy a Mammoth Epic IPA it’s still trucking it down outside. Some locals reckon we can expect another 10 feet in the next few days, time to breakout the fat skis and get a lesson on powder […]


It’s snowing

Well it’s snowing which is fantastic, the minis I’m teaching tomorrow may well be up to their waists in fresh pow pow!!