Ability Guide
We love to welcome riders of all levels and styles. The main pre-requisites are a stoke for snow and appetite to learn. Read our ability guide to see where you sit.
Novice
- Skiing is a new hobby of yours but you’re hooked and want to learn more.
- You are more than comfortable with snow plough turns and are progressing into parallel turns, but at times you find it difficult to turn when you want to.
- At the start of the turn you use a little snowplough to begin the direction change and then finish with parallel ski.
- You are prepared to ski outside your comfort zone (within reason) in order to ski steeper terrain and develop your skills.
- You have skied easier blue runs but steep blues and black runs are still intimidating.
Intermediate
- You are becoming more confident on your skis and can turn when you want to and if you need to.
- You are skiing increasingly steeper terrain (steeper blue runs, some easy blacks or the equivalent European Reds).
- The snowplough at the start of your turn is only evident when the terrain is particularly difficult or steep, but in easier terrain you are almost always parallel.
- You are beginning to understand the concept of carving and are starting to ski at speed with both skis running on an edge.
- You are happy to explore easier off-piste and un-groomed terrain.
Advanced
- You are a confident skier who enjoys skiing a variety of terrain (including powder), but needs coaching to iron out bad habits.
- You enjoy skiing black runs and fast on groomed runs.
- You can adapt your turns to suit the terrain and vary between steered shorter turns and longer carved turns.
- You are willing to push your skiing in moguls and trees but need practice and coaching to really feel comfortable.
- Steep un-groomed black runs and challenging off-piste cause bad habits to return.
Expert
- You have been skiing for years and are comfortable when asked to ski almost any terrain.
- You can make adjustments in your skiing to allow for changing conditions whilst moving e.g. when skiing from groomed to un-groomed or from a shallow pitch to a steeper pitch.
- You have experience skiing trees, moguls, powder, choppy snow, ice and any other condition the mountain can throw up, even if you cannot always ski it with style.
- You feel like you can ski anything but would like to be able to refine your technique and improve your control.
- You can carve at speed down black runs.
Novice
- Skiing is a new hobby of yours but you’re hooked and want to learn more.
- You are more than comfortable with snow plough turns and are progressing into parallel turns, but at times you find it difficult to turn when you want to.
- At the start of the turn you use a little snowplough to begin the direction change and then finish with parallel ski.
- You are prepared to ski outside your comfort zone (within reason) in order to ski steeper terrain and develop your skills.
- You have skied easier blue runs but steep blues and black runs are still intimidating.
Intermediate
- You are becoming more confident on your skis and can turn when you want to and if you need to.
- You are skiing increasingly steeper terrain (steeper blue runs, some easy blacks or the equivalent European Reds).
- The snowplough at the start of your turn is only evident when the terrain is particularly difficult or steep, but in easier terrain you are almost always parallel.
- You are beginning to understand the concept of carving and are starting to ski at speed with both skis running on an edge.
- You are happy to explore easier off-piste and un-groomed terrain.
Advanced
- You are a confident skier who enjoys skiing a variety of terrain (including powder), but needs coaching to iron out bad habits.
- You enjoy skiing black runs and fast on groomed runs.
- You can adapt your turns to suit the terrain and vary between steered shorter turns and longer carved turns.
- You are willing to push your skiing in moguls and trees but need practice and coaching to really feel comfortable.
- Steep un-groomed black runs and challenging off-piste cause bad habits to return.
Expert
- You have been skiing for years and are comfortable when asked to ski almost any terrain.
- You can make adjustments in your skiing to allow for changing conditions whilst moving e.g. when skiing from groomed to un-groomed or from a shallow pitch to a steeper pitch.
- You have experience skiing trees, moguls, powder, choppy snow, ice and any other condition the mountain can throw up, even if you cannot always ski it with style.
- You feel like you can ski anything but would like to be able to refine your technique and improve your control.
- You can carve at speed down black runs.