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Having spent the last 4 months in Val d'Isere managing the courses I thought it was time to get in the car and pop over to Meribel for the day. I couldn't have picked a better day than Thursday this past week. We had had about 30cm of snow here in Val d'Isere on Wednesday so I figured Me Read More »

Basecamp are offering those that sign onto a full instructor course before the end of the month a free pair of skis or a snowboard.  We will be giving out Salomon 24 Hour skis and a range of Signal Snowboards. Both brands are extremely friendly all over the mountain and are perfect Read More »

Wow, having just got off the phone to Stuart Bernard, a ski instructor and member of the Basecamp team, I have learned that his group of Basecampers are off heli skiing this afternoon. They have headed towards Tignes and are about to do a 45 minute hike along a ridge before dropping a 30 minute off Read More »

Hello again from sunny Val d'Isere, Since my last post we have had a pretty busy week. The BASI guys are in their last day of exams and having been up with both groups this week, I have to say they are all doing very well. It's now a matter of hours until we hear the results, fi Read More »

Wow, it's been a busy busy week in Val d'Isere, so much has been going on it's hard to know where to start... Well, BASI 2 would be a good place. The guys had a very full on action packed week last week as it was the first week of the level 2 exam. We had some nervous faces at the piste Read More »

Hi All, It's that time again, to let all those back home the going's on in Val d'Isere, and to hopefully not make you to jealous. Again it's been a great 10 or so days here. We have been blessed with sunshine, warm tempartures at last, which have been great but have been Read More »

Yesterday was another highly successful day on our quest to take Basecamp courses back to the top of the maple tree when it comes to running snowboard and ski instructor courses in Canada. As I said yesterday, Basecamp courses in Banff traditionally favour the Lake Louise resort. Follow Read More »

Right about now Linley and I are in Canada, and more specifically Whistler Blackcomb. Whilst Basecamp has been running both snowboard instructor and ski instructor courses in Whistler since 2004, this is my first time to Canada since taking over the course development side of Basec Read More »

Hi All, Following on from the Basecamp Val d'isere lifetsyle video, I have put together another blog summing up our last 10 days in the mountains. We are having one incredible time, the conditions have been amazing, and it's even starting to warm up and you can really notice the Read More »