Where should I work this season?

BlairWitch

BlairWitch

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Im a Level 2 IASI (Irish system) ski instructor with a couple season of experiance. What are the best places to do an instructors season in the US or Canada. looking to basically just ride park all season when ever I'm not teaching. Looking at hood and places round Lake Tahoe and that but wondering if anyone has any recommendations or anything

**This thread was edited on Jun 28th 2019 at 3:10:31pm
 
I would recommend Castle Mountain Southern Alberta. Wages are good, and full time is usually like 20 hours max a week so you have lots of time to ski. The only thing that might turn you off is the park is tiny and kind of inaccessible. That place has pretty epic big mountain terrain and the snow is excellent though, plus it has a real small hill, locals only vibe. The nice thing about Alberta is taxes are really low on everything. In Alberta you could also check out Sunshine and Lake Louise, which are some of the busiest resorts anywhere but have world class terrain and bangin' parks.You'll be working all the time at those places though. Might be worth looking at Marmot Basin too. It's in a really beautiful national park and great skiing there. In BC, Fernie is really great, with fun natural terrain, but the parks have no big jumps because of a law suit way back. Whistler is probably the best for park laps and also has all the rest in terms of skiing, but the place can be a real zoo.
 
14042222:B.Gillis said:
Are you coming with friends or coming solo? I’d say any resort is easy to get a teaching job at. You just need to worry about all the variables, housing, cost of housing, will you need a part time job if the snow isn’t flowing heavily you may not get full time hours. Just do some shopping around. Honestly, I work at Northstar and it’s not a bad resort to get started teaching at, we offer employee housing and the park is amazing.
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Idk that I would consider Northstar a place that offers employee housing. They're one of the worst bigger mtns on that.

And they're "attemp" to address it last year by trying to throw 7 million j1s in a house was hilarious. Showed how disconnected they were or how little they cared.

I like Northstar but they're fucking terrible on the housing game imo.
 
14042302:theabortionator said:
Idk that I would consider Northstar a place that offers employee housing. They're one of the worst bigger mtns on that.

And they're "attemp" to address it last year by trying to throw 7 million j1s in a house was hilarious. Showed how disconnected they were or how little they cared.

I like Northstar but they're fucking terrible on the housing game imo.
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I don't know anything about working at ski Hills but my initial thought on answering OP's question is...whereever has the best employee housing. Or anywhere decent with a reasonably low cost of living.
 
I can get you a recommendation to work at Keystone if you want. You have free access to Breck and Keystone's park, which are two of the best in the country. Let me know if you have any questions on working there, they offer employee housing for new hires that's not the greatest situation, but is reasonably priced compared to anything else in the county.
 
Park all day? C.o.p. In calgary alberta, easy to get a job and you can work as many hours as you want, you can probably find a place to live fairly close for pretty cheap and the mountains are a bus ride away where a bid pass and lift ticket is like 100$ for the day, (i think)
 
Keystone, copper, vail, telluride, Aspen Snowmass, steamboat all offer housing for employees but it’s always a shit show to who gets what.

Apply everywhere and see what offers sound the best before fall comes.
 
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