Off Piste Ski Course In Revelstoke: More Skiing, More Mountain.
This isn’t about collecting ski days. It’s about making every one count, with the safety training to go further. Here is everything that comes with it.
Worried you can't keep up?
Strong Intermediate? You'll Keep Up.
As long as you're a strong intermediate or better, you'll find the progression manageable. We split the group by ability, so strong skiers can push on with the brakes off and everyone else learns at their own pace. Nobody gets left behind and nobody gets held back.
Check your level with the skiing ability guide ›Included In The All-Mountain Programme.
Coaching
Experienced coaches, sharper technique and the confidence to ski more of the mountain
Terrain
Groomers to powder, steeps, trees and technical terrain
Backcountry
Avalanche training, Companion Rescue and touring in Rogers Pass
First aid
40-hour Wilderness Advanced First Aid, taught outdoors
Beyond the resort
A night in a remote mountain lodge
“Amazing (yet challenging) ski terrain, fresh powder and invaluable coaching. My ski ability and confidence really improved.”
Pick Your Winter: Dates, Prices And Versions For January 2027.
Three ways to do this freeride ski course in Revelstoke, one start date. Choose by how long you can stay and how much appetite you have for exams.
Can I keep up?
Probably, yes. We have had people on this course with only five weeks of skiing behind them, and the technical coaching at the start is there to get you up to speed. Check the skiing ability guide
Room
10-Week All-Mountain Programme
Starts 7th January
£9,400
Everything in the core programme. Freeride coaching, AST 1, Companion Rescue, 40-hour Wilderness Advanced First Aid, 6 touring days and the overnight lodge.
Hold your place with a £300 deposit
Life off the mountain
Good Skiing. Good People. Your Home For The Winter.
The best ski days don’t always end when the lifts close.
Share a house with fellow skiers, swap stories over dinner and settle into life in one of Canada’s proper mountain towns.
Accommodation, 4 breakfasts and 4 dinners a week, a season lift pass and airport transfers are included in your package.
Room choices and full accommodation details are in Snow Geek below.
The detail behind the winterThe Week By Week Detail: Go Full Snow Geek.
Snow Geek is our name for the week by week detail of the course: what you ski, what you learn and when, for anyone who wants to know exactly what they are signing up for. Open whichever catches your eye.
Can I Keep Up?How much skiing you need, and which course suits a more timid skier
Worried it is too advanced?
Can I Keep Up?
Revelstoke has a big reputation and that scares people off. It shouldn't. If you're a strong intermediate or better, you'll find the progression manageable, because we split the group by ability. We taught our own 8 and 10 year old daughters to ski there. We have had people on this course with only five weeks of skiing. Here is the honest version.
Under 7 weeks
You can still do this
Turn up fit, and be ready for a tough couple of weeks while you get up to speed. The technical coaching at the start is there for exactly this.
7 weeks plus
The sweet spot
You will improve dramatically over the season. This is where people go from confident on piste to capable anywhere on the hill.
Timid skier
Start with the sister course
If steeper terrain frightens you, the 9 to 13 Week Intensive Instructor course builds the base first. No shame in it, it is the smarter route.
Not sure where you sit? Check the skiing ability guide →
The Season, Step By StepFrom technical skiing on piste to two days in Rogers Pass
From Groomers To Rogers Pass.
Every step is built on the one below it. You climb from technical skiing to the backcountry, so by the time you reach the big terrain you have earned it.
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Start here
Get Your Ski Legs Back
Technical on-piste coaching first. Shake off the rust, fix the habits and get confident before the terrain gets bigger.
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All season
Freeride Coaching
Powder, trees, chopped snow, steeper pitches and technical sections. Whatever Revelstoke throws at you that day.
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Safety
AST 1 And Companion Rescue
Read avalanche terrain, use the forecast, plan the day and dig your mates out if it goes wrong.
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4 days
Touring In Revelstoke
Four days touring the slackcountry from Revelstoke Mountain Resort. Learn the kit, the transitions and the systems before the big stuff.
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40 hours
Wilderness Advanced First Aid
An internationally recognised qualification for places where help is not five minutes away.
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The summit
Rogers Pass And The Lodge
Two days touring one of the most famous backcountry areas in North America, plus a night in a remote lodge.
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Optional
Go Further If You Want
A compressed CSIA Level 2 and the PSIC Big Mountain Pathway, or Avalanche Skills Training Level 2.
The order flexes with snow and weather. Revelstoke decides some days, and it will. Sideways. With snow.
What Is Included And What Is NotEverything in every option, and what to budget for on top
In every option
- Accommodation
- 4 breakfasts and 4 dinners a week, every week
- Season lift pass
- Airport transfers
- Freeride and all-mountain coaching
- Avalanche Skills Training Level 1
- Companion Rescue
- 40-hour Wilderness Advanced First Aid
- 4 days slackcountry touring from Revelstoke Mountain Resort
- 2 days touring in Rogers Pass
- Overnight lodge experience
- Avalanche pack hire for the course
- Welcome meal and gift bag
- WSC G.O.A.T hoodie
Not in the price
- Flights
- Travel and medical insurance
- Lunches and food outside the shared meals
- Your own ski kit
- Bolt-ons and week 10 upgrades
Touring And Wilderness First AidRogers Pass, the touring days and why the first aid qualification matters
6 touring days · 4 slackcountry · 2 Rogers Pass
Real Terrain. Real Decisions.
Four days in the slackcountry around Revelstoke Mountain Resort to learn the kit, transitions and terrain reading. Then two days in Rogers Pass, one of the most famous touring areas in North America. Big, snowy, wild and absolutely iconic. Not classroom theory.
40 hours · recognised internationally
Be The Useful One.
Wilderness Advanced First Aid is a serious qualification in its own right, built for places where help is not five minutes away. Valuable for ski patrol, guiding and outdoor careers, and better than standing there holding a flapjack and looking concerned.
Week 10 Choices And Bolt-OnsAST 2, the PSIC Big Mountain Pathway, free skiing and CSIA Level 1
Week 10, your choice
- AST 2For a more advanced avalanche qualification
- £850
- PSIC Big Mountain PathwayBig-mountain focused development. Needs Level 1 first
- £650
- Free ski and relaxTime to ski, recover and enjoy Revelstoke
- Included
Optional bolt-on
- CSIA Level 14 days of Level 1 training, plus the examCompulsory if you are doing the compressed CSIA Level 2 in the last three weeks
- £650
The Overnight LodgeA night in a remote mountain lodge, and the food that keeps you going
Halfway through the Rogers Pass trip, you swap town for a remote mountain lodge. It is the part of the winter people mention first when they get home: a long day touring, a warm room at the end of it and a night surrounded by nothing but mountains.
After the tour
An Evening You Have Earned
It comes after a full day in the backcountry with your coaches, so getting in the door feels like a proper reward.
Around the table
The Group, Properly Together
Shared food, stories from the day and time to get to know the people you have spent the winter skiing with.
The next morning
Wake Up In The Mountains
Coffee, a view most people only see in photos, then straight out for the second day of touring in Rogers Pass.
Living In RevelstokeThe shared house, transfers, lift pass, welcome and The Rogues Gallery
A Proper Mountain Town.
Revelstoke is not a resort village. It is a real town with history, a great restaurant scene and people who live to ski, five minutes from one of the biggest mountains in North America.
Your base
Shared house in town
Accommodation is included for the whole programme, a short walk from the restaurants and shops.
Getting there
Airport transfers
Picked up on arrival and dropped back at the end. No working out bus timetables with two ski bags.
On the hill
Season lift pass
Valid for the whole season, so if you stay on, your pass already works.
Day one
Welcome meal and gift bag
Plus the WSC G.O.A.T hoodie. You will wear it until it falls apart.
The Rogues Gallery.
What actually lands on the table after a big day on the hill. Four breakfasts and four dinners a week, every week.
“Chef Alice made the most wonderful food for us. Imagine a full English roast dinner on a random Tuesday after a day on the mountain.”
Ready for a winter that changes things?
“If you’ve been working for a few years and looking for a break or want to explore opportunities in the snow sports industry, this is the perfect course.”
Why Revelstoke Skiers Call Themselves GOATSThe poster, the hoodie and the story behind it
It might be a freebie, but the mountain makes you earn it
Sheep Go To Whistler. GOATS Go To Revelstoke.
No queues for the famous name. Just a big, steep, snowy mountain and a crew who would rather climb for it. Everyone gets the now infamous, coveted WSC G.O.A.T hoodie on day one.
Hear It From Past Revelstoke Clients.
Previous clients, filmed on the mountain. Real people, not actors, and no script.
The instructors teaching us have all been brilliant and full of energy, and the mountain itself is epic. Amazing long runs, off piste moguls, and beautiful tree glades to explore. It’s been so much fun that I have decided to extend my stay!
Hattie Alvis
All-Mountain, Revelstoke 2024
What Past Clients Say.
Questions Before You Book: Straight Answers.
The questions people ask before they commit a winter, answered the way we would on the phone.
How good a skier do I need to be?
Honestly, less than you think. If you're a strong intermediate or better, you'll find the progression manageable. We split the group by ability, so strong skiers can push on with the brakes off and everyone else learns at their own pace. Revelstoke is not just for experts: we taught our own daughters to ski there at 8 and 10. We have had people on this course with only five weeks of skiing behind them. With seven weeks or more you will improve dramatically over the season. With fewer than seven, turn up fit and be ready for a tough couple of weeks while you get up to speed. If you are a timid skier, the 9 to 13 Week Intensive Instructor course is the better fit. Not sure where you sit? Check the skiing ability guide.
Who is this course aimed at?
This freeride ski course in Revelstoke suits anyone who wants a winter that feels like an adventure. Career breaks, sabbaticals and people who have promised themselves a proper winter for years. If instructor qualifications are your main goal, look at the 9 to 13 Week Intensive.
Do I have to take instructor exams?
No. The core programme has no instructor exams at all. CSIA Level 1 is an optional bolt-on for £650, and Level 2 is only on the 13-week Level 2 Pathway. Plenty of people come purely to ski better and do it safely in bigger terrain.
What is the difference between the two 13-week options?
Both add three weeks after the core programme, with extra accommodation and food. The plain 13-week option has no training in those weeks, so it is more skiing and spring conditions. The Level 2 Pathway fills them with 8 days of Level 2 training, 4 days of modules and 2 days of exams.
Can I do the PSIC Big Mountain Pathway in week 10?
Only if you already hold a Level 1 instructor certification, because that is the prerequisite. If you do not, add the CSIA Level 1 bolt-on earlier in the course and you will have it in time.
Can I get a single room?
Yes. Single rooms are available in our nearby accommodation. Ask us and we will price it for your dates.
Is the backcountry part safe?
Touring is built in order. Avalanche Skills Training and Companion Rescue come first, then 4 days touring in Revelstoke, and only then Rogers Pass. Avalanche pack hire is included. The mountains always carry risk, and the point of this course is learning to manage it properly, not pretending it is not there.
What will it cost me on top?
Flights, travel insurance, lunches and food outside the shared meals, your own ski kit, any bolt-ons you pick, and spending money for a town with a very good restaurant scene. Ask us on a call and we will give you a realistic range for your own plans.
Am I protected if something goes wrong?
Yes. We are ATOL bonded and you get an ATOL certificate when you book.
How do I pay?
A £300 deposit holds your place. Then a £1,000 deposit is due 20 weeks before you fly and the final balance 12 weeks before you fly, or you can spread it in equal weekly or monthly standing orders that run until 2 weeks before you fly.
Free Guides Before You Decide.
Free guides for an all-mountain winter. Read the comparison and cost guides before anyone's price list, ours included.
Resort Comparison Guide
Big White, Sun Peaks, Panorama or Revelstoke. Mountain size, snowfall, accommodation, nightlife, terrain, and who each one suits best.
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Course Finder Quiz
A few quick questions about your skiing, your time and your goals, and it points you to the course that fits.
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Skiing Ability Guide
Work out your real level, what each course expects on day one, and whether to train now, arrive early or pick a different programme.
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Real Cost Of A Season
The course fee is the headline, not the total. Flights, insurance, food, kit, the visa, and the money you have to land with.
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Course Price Calculator
Course fee, flights, insurance, food, kit and spending money. Move the sliders and watch the real total, with no hidden extras.
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How To Book
When to secure your place, what happens if you leave it late, and how to avoid losing the resort, room type or programme you wanted.
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Insurance Guide
The cover you really need for a winter of freeride and backcountry, and the gaps that catch people out. We are not brokers, so this is advice rather than a sales pitch.
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Fitness Guide
Arrive stronger and fitter for long training days, exams, cold weather and the occasional ego check from Canadian terrain.
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Girls On Tour
A big sister chat to calm those nerves and answer the common concerns of travelling on your own.
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What Nobody Tells You
Jet lag, supermarket prices, and the quiet week in January when your hours drop. The bits that never make the brochure.
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What To Take
A packing checklist for the whole season. Ski gear, travel essentials, documents, tech and the things people always forget.
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Clothing Essentials
Base layers, ski socks, gloves, helmets and après layers. What to wear for a full Canadian winter, and what not to bother buying.
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CSIA Qualification Guide
Level 1 gets you in the door, Level 2 makes you employable, Level 3 makes it a career. What each one lets you teach, and what the exams ask of you.
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