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ROAD TRIP WORTH TAKING: Fly South This Summer!
#SNOWPROS #ROADTRIP
If you’ve got a bucket list, then it most assuredly has “Go skiing and snowboarding in South America” written somewhere near the top. Well, a trip to Portillo, Chile, this summer can help you cross off that must-do. One of the most storied destinations in all of ski-dom, the Hotel Portillo feels like a grand cruise ship perched on the sparkling blue water of the Lake of the Incas, surrounded by stunning peaks in every direction you look. It’s also a ski and snowboard instructor’s mecca, where PSIA Alpine Team Coach Michael Rogan acts as mountain manager and Alpine Team member Robin Barnes directs the ski and snowboard school. Check out
Skiportillo.com for more information.
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MEMBER SINCE/ DIVISION
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO SOMEONE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO TRY SKIING OR SNOWBOARDING?
Tripp Wray Liberty Mountain Resort, PA
Snowboard Level III, Alpine Level I, Children's Specialist 1
2009
Northern Rocky Mountain & Eastern
It's a lifelong sport that you can always pick back up after years RI WLPH Rff <RX FDQ share it with friends and family. And, most importantly, it will make you fall in love with snow and winter.
Meghan Kelsey
Stowe (Vermont); Perisher (Australia)
Alpine Level III, Children’s Specialist 2
Rich Noonan Big Sky, MT
Alpine Level III;
Snowboard Level I (and in the last century I was a clinician and accredited children’s educator in Northwest Division, and a member of the board of directors and executive committee for Northwest and Northern Rocky Mountain Divisions)
Liz Tomaschko Arizona Snowbowl, AZ
Snowboard Level I, Children's Specialist 1
2013 Eastern
Skiing is the greatest thing I've ever done; the experience is life changing. Do your research; get a good pair of ski boots, and take a lesson with a snow pro.
1979 Currently
Intermountain; Previously
Northern Rocky Mountain; Northwest; Eastern
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IN 2016, PSIA Alpine Team member Brenna Kelleher put women's skis to the test at Portillo. See her photos at
instagram.com/thesnowpros.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR TEACHING STYLE STANDS OUT?
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I teach with the maximum level of patience anyone could muster.
40- to 50- year-olds because they are either doing it as a way to stay in shape or because they want to impress their spouse or kids.
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ACCOMPLISHMENT AS AN INSTRUCTOR?
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My enthusiasm and passion for skiing. I like to keep my lessons full of energy and experiences.
8- to 11-year-olds. They're enthusiastic, competitive, and they like to go fast.
Passing my Alpine III cert this past season; it's opened up some real opportunities for me.
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2015 Rocky
Mountain
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A student named Stu. He went from being a passive observer joining in his wife's lessons, knowing there wasn't much I could help him with, to a totally changed skier with a completely reinvigorated passion for the sport.
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