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Best Ski Weeks?

fundad77

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Hi, I did the Taos ski week program last year and it was great. A friend did the Killington race camp last year and said it is was phenomenal. This concept seem to be very common in Europe but not many North American mountains that I have seen offer these programs. Are there any good ski week programs that you recommend?
 

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The vacation policy in Europe is so different than North America. Most skiers take a week or 2 off work for holidays and go skiing. Then they don't ski again till next year. So the Ski Week with lessons and guiding is their thing.

Until the 80's you could find lots of ski areas that did them. The best one back then, was Grey Rocks in St. Jovite Quebec or Talisman in Ontario. (Gee, maybe that's why both are now closed?) I've done the Ski Week through Club Med at Copper back in 1989. We were with a group and didn't really want lessons, but a guided tour.
 
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KevinF

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Jackson Hole has their “steep and deep” camp. There’s a thread somewhere regarding the differences between that and the Taos program. Whistler has (had?) an “Extremely Canadian” program as well.

However, as you have noticed, programs of this nature are few and far between.
 

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Jackson Hole has their “steep and deep” camp. There’s a thread somewhere regarding the differences between that and the Taos program. Whistler has (had?) an “Extremely Canadian” program as well.

However, as you have noticed, programs of this nature are few and far between.

It looks like most of the other camps like Extremely Canadian, Alta, Egan camp at Big Sky, Deb Armstrong/SkiStrong at Taos are 3 day camps. JH Steep and Deep camp is 4 full days and Taos Ski Week is 6 half days. They're all pretty expensive ($2K plus) except the Taos Ski Week ($360) which looks like the best bargain in the US ski instruction world.
 

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Warren Jobbitt has started a travelling ski workshop. So far everyone loves it. But it's not a full week. He has a couple of 4 day camps. It's not just for ski instructors.

 

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For a full week worth considering Europe. Warren Smith Snoworks, New Generation, BASS etc all do respected week long English speaking programmes
 

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Years ago a friend, after his first year of skiing and ski bumming, wanted to fast track his learning curve, so in his second season he signed up for a Level 1 ski instructor course even though he had no interst in becoming a ski instructor. 3 day course, I think.
 

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