Nords take part in a family BBQ, Argentina style.


The Snowboard Team’s Scott Anfang fi nds eager takers for the team’s Interski handout on The Learning Connection.


A TRUE INTERSKI FAMILY By Megan Spurkland, PSIA Nordic Team


PSIA’s on-snow clinic drew a wide-ranging international audience.


explanations of how to teach skiing fundamentals regardless of terrain, speed, adaptive equipment used, or skier talent. T e presentation was so well received that it ran nearly 30 minutes long because of all the extra questions.


STAGE SET FOR MORE INFORMATION SHARING T e saying goes that the best instructors are the best students, and what the Team learned at Interski 2015 will continue to be discussed, challenged, and woven into the fabric of U.S. instruction for the benefi t of PSIA-AASI members. Please join this discussion on the PSIA-AASI social media channels, and in T e Community, where you can also fi nd videos, more photos, and additional reporting from the event. Many of you will have already seen, or can expect to see, Team members present this information in on-snow clinics this season, and there will also be ongoing news and analysis from the Team members and attendees in upcoming issues of 32 Degrees and at T eSnowPros.org.


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Peter Kray is the lead content offi cer for PSIA-AASI, focusing on emerging ski and snowboard trends and on-snow innovations. He skis, telemarks, and snowboards out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is the author of The God of Skiing (bit.ly/godofskiing), which is being hailed as “The greatest ski novel of all time.” Email: pkray@ thesnowpros.org


24 | 32 DEGREES • WINTER 2016


From the fi rst day on snow in the magnifi cent mountain valley that ringed the 20-km ski trail in Ushuaia, nordic-minded Interski attendees began to realize that there was a thriving cross country ski community. An Italian Demo Team member, Giuseppe Cottrer, had bright-eyed reunions with two of the local women whom he had trained and raced with in international biathlon competitions. Each day we skied through the woods to a diff erent trailside restaurant, sipping tiny coff ees and stomping the snow off our boots before sitting down to fresh Patagonian lamb.


Nordic Team member Megan Spurkland shares the stoke.. Our international ski circle grew stronger each day, and


on the fi nal night, the Cornejo family invited the entire cross country delegation to an asado, or a barbeque. Attendees from Australia, Finland, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Argentina and the U.S. all gathered for a generous feast that lasted late into the night. The patriarch of the family spoke at length and his son acknowledged that his parents built their family around skiing; to have this unexpected gathering of international ski instructors meant the world to them. Tears fl owed, and as we left, Oula-Matti from Finland said, “I have been to six Interskis, and not until tonight have I understood the true Interski Family.”


COURTESY OF MEGAN SPURKLAND


COURTESY OF MEGAN SPURKLAND


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