Snowboard Camps for Teens

Our world class coaches will take your snowboarding skills the next level. This camp works through specific progressions to ensure skill development in fun and dynamic camp environment.

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Focuses for the Camp:

• Progress core skills and levels of riding
• Discovering the extensive offerings of Telluride’s terrain to increase freeriding skills
• To take terrain park skills to the next level
  Whether this is an introduction to this environment, or perfecting your favorite tricks

Camp Includes:

• Full-Day Instruction from 9am – 4pm (lunch not included)

New Year’s Camp (4-Day) December 30, 2024 – January 2, 2025

• $1,300 w/ lift
• $1,100 w/o lift

Presidents’ Day Camp (4-Day) February 16 – 19, 2025

• $1,300 w/ lift
• $1,100 w/o lift

March Spring Break Camp (4-Day) March 10 – 13, 2025

• $1,300 w/ lift
• $1,100 w/o lift

Rider Qualifications:

• 13 – 17 years old
• At minimum, comfortable connecting and linking turns on Blue terrain

For Additional Details:

Please contact Lindsey Welter at lwelter@telski.com

Development Squad is a 7-session, full-day ski and snowboard program offered through the Telluride Ski & Snowboard School.
D-Squad’s goal is to foster a fun and safe learning environment, while developing well-rounded skiers and snowboarders who have a true love for the sport, the mountain, and Telluride. Each session, D-Squad will promote team building and model safe mountain tactics in a non-competitive environment.

We will continue to offer Terrain Park, Big Mountain, and Race training in the second half of the program for those age groups and abilities that are appropriate for learning these disciplines. D-Squad is limited to one day per weekend, per child. For example, you may not sign your child up to Ski on Saturday, then Snowboard on Sunday.

Please also note that lunch is included. If your child has any food allergies, we highly recommend packing them a lunch.

COACHES

Coaches are experienced Telluride Ski & Snowboard School instructors.

DATES:
Saturday Program: December 21; January 4, 11, 18, 25; February 1, 8, 22 (No 15th)
Sunday Program: December 22; January 5, 12, 19, 26; February 2, 9, 23 (No 16th)
*December 21-22 will be Skier/Rider Assessments and Assignments*

AGES: Alpine: 5-14 years old | Snowboard:  5-14 years old

PRICE: $865

ABILITY LEVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• Skiers ages 5-14 – Green (able to ski Chair 10, making controlled wedge turns) through Black level
• Snowboarders ages 5-6 – all experience levels
• Snowboarders ages 7-14 – Green (able to ride Chair 10, making controlled turns) through Black level

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Fun. Skiing. Improvement.

A women’s specific program offered as a 5-day or 3-day camp. Ski in small groups with other women with similar goals + skills. Guided and taught by PSIA-certified, female instructors.

Women’s Week (5-Day) – January 27 – 31, 2025

• $2,510 w/ lift
• $2,260 w/o lift

Women’s Weekend (3-Day) – February 28 – March 2, 2025

• $965 w/ lift
• $815 w/o lift

This camp is focused on ski improvement based on the Four Fundamentals:

1. Stance: Balance fore and aft, and side-to-side
2. Steering: Actively turning both feet
3. Edging: Increasing or decreasing the amount the ski is on edge
4. Pressure: Increasing or decreasing the amount of weight applied to the ski

Camp Includes:

• Meet + Greet Event
• Full Days of Skiing + Instruction
• Post Ski Day Activities

Skier Qualifications:

• Must be able to safely ski intermediate, Blue terrain
• Ages 15 and up

For Additional Details:

Please contact Lindsey Welter at lwelter@telski.com

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The essence of efficient, effortless skiing.

A 4-day camp with 3 full days of skiing + instruction. A science-based approach to precise ski performance that is guided and taught by PSIA-certified instructors.

Ski Biomechanics Camp (4-Day) – February 7 – 10, 2025

• $2,200 w/ lift
• $2,050 w/o lift

If you want to take your skiing to a new level, Biomechanics is the vehicle to get you there. Biomechanics is a science-based approach to teaching skiing. Instruction is centered on the awareness of natural functional skeletal alignment. By using this alignment, it allows the muscles to do less work. This innovative approach is widely accepted as a part of Telluride Ski & Snowboard School’s elite training program for professional instructors.

Benefits:

• Easier skiing; learn to ‘stack’ your bones so that your muscles do less work.
• Continuity of Instruction over 3 days on-snow and in the classroom.
• Personalized Feedback from Telluride’s most acclaimed instructors.
• Pre and Post Camp Personal Video Analysis.

Goals:

• Learn ‘how the body works.’
• Gain technical knowledge, improved skills, and training exercises.
• Efficient and precise ski performance.

Camp Includes:

• Welcome Event
• Daily Classroom Sessions
• On-Snow Training
• Lunch
• Closing Reception

Skier Qualifications:

• Comfortable skiing on Double Green terrain
• Ages 15 and up

For Additional Details:

Please contact Richard Thorpe, Ski Biomechanics Camp Director, at rthypno@yahoo.com

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DR. KIM HEWSON

Orthopedic Surgeon, Former Director of Sports Medicine at University of Arizona, Telluride Ski + Snowboard School Instructor and Staff Trainer refined this industry-leading biomechanics approach to ski instruction for two decades.

RICHARD THORPE

Colorado Ski Country – USA Instructor of the Year (2010), 44 Years of Teaching Experience, Telluride Ski + Snowboard School Instructor and Staff Trainer

Explore the fundamentals to ski moguls the easy way.

A 3-day camp guided and taught by PSIA-certified instructors.

Making Friends with Moguls Session 1 – January 24 – 26, 2025

• $1,040 w/ lift
• $890 w/o lift

Making Friends with Moguls Session 2 – February 28 – March 2, 2025

• $1,040 w/ lift
• $890 w/o lift

In the moguls, space and time between turns are abbreviated. Therefore, inefficiencies that can be disguised on groomed runs will be ineffective in the moguls. To ski moguls easily requires more precise movement patterns. In our camp, we spend time on groomed runs refining these precise movement patterns before entering mogul fields. We will start out slowly, with proven exercises and progressions, to help you achieve your goals. The amount of time spent on progressions will be determined by the skills you bring to the camp. Groups will be based on skier ability levels. Camp Leaders are mature skiers who have successfully taught these techniques for many years at Telluride Ski & Snowboard School.

Camp Includes:

• Drills on Groomed Runs
• Discussion of Mogul Lines and Tactics
• Practical Application on Mogul Runs

Benefits:

• Explore the fundamentals of efficient skiing in moguls
• Create tactics for low impact skiing
• Develop a mogul strategy that can be used on any bump run
• Learn how the correct equipment choices make skiing bumps easier

Goals:

• Make friends with moguls
• Be comfortable on Blue level mogul runs
• See more of the mountain than ever before
• Learn to overcome the fear of skiing moguls

Skier Qualifications:

• Comfortable skiing on groomed Black terrain
• Ages 15 and up

For Additional Details:

Please contact Lindsey Welter at lwelter@telski.com

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RICHARD THORPE

Colorado Ski Country – USA Instructor of the Year (2010), 44 Years of Teaching Experience, fully certified Telluride Ski + Snowboard School Instructor and Staff Trainer. Richard specializes in mogul skiing. He has an extensive bag of tricks to make learning to ski easy and fun.

ANDY DEMMING

Andrea has taught skiing for 38 years in Vermont, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado; at Breckenridge, Purgatory, Monarch, and Telluride. By identifying your personal strengths along with embracing efficient moves, Andrea believes your day on the hill will be more FUN, even while skiing bumps! Yup, bumps are a challenge, no doubt about it. Our camp is successful because you are given time to learn and your coach time to teach.

For skiers 50 years young and up.

A 4-week session offered in January and February. You will ski in small groups with new friends who have similar goals and abilities. We attempt to keep the same coach and group together for the entire 4-week session. The program is guided and taught by certified instructors.

Silver Skier Program 2025 Session 1 – January 9, 16, 23, 30

Silver Skier Program 2025 Session 2 – February 6, 13, 20, 27

• $220 Half-Day w/o lift

Skier Qualifications:

• Must be able to safely ski Double Green & Blue trails
• Novice/Cruisers all the way through Advanced/Hardcore Skiers
• Ages 50 and up

For Additional Details:

Please contact Lindsey Welter at lwelter@telski.com

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Meet the Coaches

Christi Northrop McRoy:

Christi started skiing at age 4 at Winter Park, CO. With an Austrian father, skiing was a way of life. In 1962 she switched from racing to teaching children for Jack Beattie, while she attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1976 she wrote the book SKIING WITH KIDS. This led to a 25-year career with Ski Magazine, where she helped develop and run Ski Magazine’s National Children’s Program, SKIwee. She also covered children’s gear and directed a Junior Ski Test at Winter Park, CO. From 1991-2006 she coached juniors for the Winter Park Competition Center and raced in the Rocky Mountain Masters Program. In 2007 Christi and her late husband John moved their ranch from Steamboat to Montrose and began running the JC Heart Ranch. The ranch raises AQHA registered cow horses and has been fortunate to have had several champions. Christi joined the Telluride Ski and Snowboard School in 2007 teaching children. Christi is a Level 2 USSA ski coach. In 2016, she helped start Silver Skiers which continues to grow. In 2024, she was awarded the Telluride Andrew Grey Memorial Award for “Achievements in Teaching Children’s Skiing and Overall Contribution to the Sport.” Christi is joined by a group of very accomplished senior instructors who help teach the Silver Skiers.

Other Coaches

Will be from the “Senior” Ski & Snowboard School Staff who have a passion for making skiing fun, relaxed, and enjoyable with our fellow seniors.