The Weekend Update

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Welcome to The Weekend Update

Be sure to sign up for your volunteer role before you head up the mountain this weekend. Saturday is Ski California Safety Day. Join us in practicing safe etiquette on the slopes and lifts.

Read below for everything you need to know this weekend.

This Weekend's Headlines

Before the weekend begins, log in to your Bloomerang account and select your desired volunteer positions. For the best experience, download the app. 

Volunteering is a mandatory aspect of our Learn to Ski & Ride programs. Recording your volunteer hours allows us to better organize our programs, keep our costs in check, and place trackable value behind your hard work —essential for our financial grants. 

EVERYONE over 18 must have an account and sign up for at least 2 hours of volunteering, including instructors. You must sign up each week. 

Lesson Logistics and Schedule

Requirements and Reminders

• All students must have their Sky Tavern pass on them.
• Helmets, goggles or sunglasses, and gloves are required.
• Check your equipment (tighten screws, wax, check bindings, etc.)
• Label everything (skis, poles, goggles, gloves, etc.)!
• Late students: We will do our best to accommodate, but we cannot make any guarantees.

Sky Kids

Check-In: 8:45 - 9:15 AM

In an effort to reduce the time spent waiting and in line, we’re trying something new!! Look for the signage for check-in zones based on levels! Click here for more info!

Grommets

Check-In at the Aspens, 9 - 9:15 AM

Sky Kid and Grommets FAQs

Junior Ski/Junior Snowboard

• Junior Ski Check-In: the far side of the Aspens near the America Lift, 8:30 - 9 AM
• Junior Snowboard Check-In: the slope side of the Aspens between Sky Ridge and America, 8:30 - 9 AM
• Lesson duration: 9 - 11:30 AM
• Parents/Guardians should make a plan to meet after the lesson

Adult Ski Lessons

• Sign-Up on the corkboard in the upstairs back room
• AM Lessons, 9:45 - 11:30 AM. Sign up by 9:30 AM and meet outside by 9:45 AM at the bottom of the deck stairs.  
• Beginners only (Yellow and Green Card)
• PM Lessons, 1 - 3 PM. Sign up by 12:45 PM and meet at the bottom of the deck stairs by 1 PM

Adult Snowboard Lessons

• AM Lessons, All levels, 9 - 11:30 AM
• Check-in by 8:45 AM on the slopeside of the Aspens.
• All members must volunteer! Base Setup and Clean Up volunteer positions allow you to participate in morning lessons.  
• PM Adult Lessons, Green level+, No first timers, 1-3 PM
• Sign up upstairs on the corkboard by 12:45 PM

All Instructors

Reminders and Preparations

Thank you to all of the instructors who supported our first program weekend!  

Program Assignments

• Please RSVP via Bloomerang! Pick the role that best describes your background and skills. We could use more CIs in Sky Kids.  
• Sky Kids and Grommet Parents should check into these programs to instruct. 

Morning Meetings

Please report to your assigned program for your morning meeting. Parents with kids in other programs, please join as soon as possible.

• Jr Ski & Ski Adults @ 8:15 AM (Backside of Aspens)
• Jr SB & SB Adults @ 8:15 AM (Uphill of Aspens)
• Sky Kids/Grommets @ 8:30 AM in the All LTSR Programs Room

Certified Instructor Jackets

• Must have completed your SafeSport training and Background Check 
• Daily pick-up times: 7:30 - 8 AM and 3 - 3:30 PM
• Only check out with Lythia or Kristen.

Instructor Clinics

Available daily depending on trainer availability. 

• Sign up on the corkboard in the upstairs back room by 12:45 PM
• Certification training and a variety of hot topics.
• Clinic Times: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM, 1 - 3 PM

PM Adult Lessons

Turning students into future instructors! Helping adults ski and ride as a family! More mileage for those leveling up their certification!

• Please RSVP to lead lessons in Bloomerang!
• Lesson Times: 1 - 3 PM

New! Leveling Cards

Our new Leveling cards were created to track athletes' progress, promote skill development, mountain safety, and accountability. After each lesson, instructors will mark the skills that the students practiced as “learning” or “mastered.”

“Learning” indicates the skill was introduced, but the student struggles to perform the skill autonomously. “Mastered” indicates the student can complete the skill with little or no coaching and has demonstrated the skill more than 3x.  

Alpine Leveling Cards

Snowboard Leveling Cards

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