UK School Groups

The English schools have arrived! Every year at this time we have schools from the UK descend upon Winter Park for their Easter vacation. This spring Winter Park is hosting over 800 school children.

This year I am skiing and snowboarding with three schools. I spent a week riding with Stanbridge Earls. We had quite a wide range of abilities but we all rode around as a crew and had a good time.

I spent a week skiing with a group from Roundwood Park. All of the kids were great skiers on groomed runs and we ripped around for a week.

This week I am skiing with some first time skiers from a school called Polesworth. We started from scratch and were skiing blue runs comfortably by the end of our time together.

Ski Instructors have Free Time

The life of a ski instructor is probably not what you think it is.

The schedule allows for 5 hours of work a day, so almost all of have other jobs as well. Some weeks you may not work at all and during the month of March you may go 20+ days without a day off.

When we do get time off, especially in March, we like to play as we know it may be the only chance that we get.