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Course Finder
Twelve honest questions about ability, budget, age and timing. You get the best fit, a sensible backup, and the ones to leave well alone.
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Stage one
Before You Choose.
Most people pick the wrong course because they compare prices before they compare winters. Start with what you can actually ski, how long you can go for, and which mountain suits you.
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Course Comparison
Two of our courses side by side, then sign up to add another provider. Fees, weeks on snow, exams, rooms and meals, all priced the same way, so you see the real difference.
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Resort Comparison Guide
Big White, Sun Peaks, Panorama or Revelstoke. Mountain size, snowfall, accommodation, nightlife, terrain, and who each one genuinely suits.
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Internship Comparison Guide
How much of your winter is training, exams, shadowing, paid work and free skiing. A realistic breakdown rather than brochure fluff.
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Ski 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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Snowboard Ability Guide
Snowboard levels, course requirements, and what you need to be comfortable riding before a CASI or freeride programme.
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Internship Guide
Training, exams, accommodation, resort jobs, visas and costs, plus what life is actually like on a Canadian instructor internship.
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Ski Patrol Guide
What the job really is. Avalanche control, medical response, ropes and sleds, the training, the visa reality and the honest bit about the money.
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Girls On Tour
Will I be the only girl in the group, will I be good enough, how do I settle in? Each worry answered honestly, plus which courses and internships suit you.
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Stage two
Before You Book.
This is where the deadlines live. Visa timing, real costs, and the conversation with your parents that goes better when they have read something proper.
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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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Meet The Goat
Sixteen years of answers in one chatbot. Pass rates, wages, visas, room types. No sales patter, and it never goes to bed.
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How To Book Your Course
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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Parent Guide
Safety, accommodation, visas, insurance, support, costs and what actually happens once your son or daughter lands in Canada.
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Visa Guide, Part 1
When to enter the IEC pool, what to do while you wait, and how visa timing affects booking, flights, insurance and resort work.
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Stage three
Before You Fly.
Booked, visa in hand, three months to go. These are the ones people wish they had read in September rather than the week before the flight.
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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What To Take
A packing checklist for the whole season. Ski gear, travel essentials, documents, tech, toiletries and the things people always forget.
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Clothing Essentials
Base layers, ski socks, gloves, helmets and apres layers. What to wear for a full Canadian winter, and what not to bother buying.
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Any age, any stage
Not Everyone Is Nineteen.
We wrote these because older clients kept asking questions the rest of the library never answered. They are not age-gated and they are not only for the over-forties. If you are coming to this with a career, a mortgage, a bit of rust, or a reason that has nothing to do with a gap year, start here.
Behind closed doors
The Onboarding System.
The guides above are the public library. Behind them sits the part clients actually get: a full onboarding system that runs from the day you book to the day you clock on, sequenced so each piece arrives when it becomes useful rather than in one unreadable dump in July.
It is not the same pack for everybody. An internship, a course and a patrol placement ask completely different things of you, so each route has its own sequence, its own deadlines and its own checklists. You get yours, and none of the pages that have nothing to do with you.
Built Around You, Not A Template.
We only send what applies. If you are twenty-nine and paying your own way, you will never see a parent guide. If you are on a course and need no work permit, the visa timeline never lands in your inbox. Nothing is padded out to look thorough.
Everything we take you through
Paperwork and eligibility. Visa or eTA, whichever applies. Flights, baggage and transfers. Insurance that actually covers what you are doing. Medicals and first aid where the role needs them. Pre-season fitness. Kit and clothing, bought once and bought right. Money, banking and your first pay cycle. Accommodation and who you are living with. Arrivals and your first forty-eight hours. Lift pass, rentals and uniform. Coaching groups, timetables and exam dates. Resort life, local admin and the quiet weeks. Then someone you can actually phone, all season.
See the courses →More Guides Land Through The Season.
New ones get added as the questions change. If there is something you wanted and could not find, tell us and we will either point you at the answer or go and write it.
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