Ski Staff
Stephanie Brown – Ski Course Manager
Stephanie began her skiing with her family at Whakapapa, Mt Ruapheu. Her ski instructing career began at Mt Hutt and under the expert guidance of the NZSIA Examiners at Mt Hutt she gained Full certification and in 1987 become an NZSIA examiner. Steph was representing...
Daniel Bogue – NZSIA examiner, technical team member, President of the NZSIA.
Works at Treble Cone for Rookie Academy Daniel started skiing at the age of 11 on a school ski trip. He loved it so much he convinced his family that it was a sport they should all do. Since then its been all downhill. (Skiing Downhill) . Both Daniel and his brother...
Colin Tanner – Ski Trainer, Committee Member and Ski Division Rep
Works at: Coronet Peak & The Remarkables Colin, originally from Scotland, started his ski instructing career at Coronet Peak, in 1995. Since then he has never looked back and has been doing winter seasons between Queenstown and Val d’Isere, France. Colin has been...
Garett Shore – Ski Trainer and Committee Member
Garett grew up skiing Treble Cone in Wanaka and in 1992 signed up for an instructor training course there. After successfully passing the NZSIA Stage 1 (now Level 2) went to Canada that summer and has been teaching skiing around the world ever since… Garett has been...
Yolinde Magill – Northern Hemisphere Ski Manager, Ski Trainer and Committee Member
Works at Cardrona for ITC. Yoyo (AKA Yolinde Magill) is a born & bred kiwi chick -a rare breed in the ski industry! She grew up skiing at Cardrona and loved it so much that she became an instructor whilst still at school. Yoyo became an examiner in 2003 when doing...
Tim Cafe – Ski Trainer
Tim started skiing at 3 on Coronet Peak under the guise of his father Wayne, a former NZSIA instructor. Having figured out at the age of 12 skiing was the only sport he wasn’t terrible at Tim decided to pursue the sport through the world of ski racing....
Simon Wilkinson – Ski Trainer
Simon started skiing at Whakapapa ski area sometime around the early 80’s. Somehow he managed to get a coveted place on the Whakapapa rookie program which was quite something as skiing in jeans with your feet glued together was quite the look back in 1990. Moving thru...
Yusuke Inoue – NZSIA examiner, technical team member
Yusuke was born and raised in the capital of powder skiing; Japan. However The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, he left Japan 2006, moved to Europe skiing after learning English in Canada and stayed in Europe for 8 years. Since 2015 he moved to...
Harry McFadden – Ski Trainer
Harry Mcfadden started skiing at Mt Hutt and Broken River as a teenager and started his pathway into the ski instruction world in 2010 after leaving school when he enrolled in a training program at Cardrona and completed the Level 1 And Level 2 Certifications. Since...
Campbell Mason – Ski Trainer
Campbell has been skiing since he was knee high to a grasshopper at Cardrona Alpine Resort spending every winter weekend (and most weekdays) skiing as much as he could. Once he finished school and realized that skiing was life he convinced his parents that uni could...
Bryan Cleaver – NZSIA examiner
From my roots in the Arctic chill of the Northern Canadian Rockies, I’m stoked to be a part of the amazing NZSIA examiner team to train the instructors of the future. Love of the powder and culture of Japan to the Steeps and beauty of Treble Cone New Zealand, skiing...
Dean Hunter – Ski Trainer
Dean has been skiing since he saved enough paper-run money for a season pass at Treble Cone and a ride up the hill. He was about 11 years old then, hanging out in Wanaka with his parents on family holidays from his home town, Mosgiel. Dean started an instructor...
Joshua Duncan-Smith – Ski Trainer
Works at: Treble Cone for The Rookie Academy Josh was fortunate to find his passion when he got his first job in a small ski school in the Swiss Alps in 2011. Since then, his passion in snowsports instructing has driven him to make a rewarding career in the art of...
Toby Wignall – Ski Trainer
Toby is a North Island boy who grew up skiing on the Magic Mountain of Mt Ruapehu. A little grom skiing a slalom course through the T-bars. Since then Toby has made his Career in the ski industry for 10 years working first as a rookie then moving to coaching and...
Jon Gass – Ski Trainer
Jon first learnt to ski in 1985, qualified as an instructor in 2000 and has been in love with ski teaching ever since. For the last decade he has been living the endless winter moving between a southern hemisphere based in Wanaka where he and his lovely wife now own a...
Martin Bennett – Ski Trainer
Martin decided to pursue ‘the dream’ in 2009 by travelling to NZ to qualify as a ski instructor. After spending a winter at Porters skiing, training and socialising he realised the ski world was far more fulfilling than the job he had left in England. He immediately...
Ashley Murphy – Ski Trainer
Ashley cut his teeth skiing around 3 years of age at Broken River and Mount Hutt. A move to Queenstown following on from that started Ashley's real involvement in the industry a junior racer in the Queenstown Alpine Ski Team. A few season's as an athlete training and...
Sebastian Swann – Ski Trainer
Works at: Cardrona As an Aussie looking for an adventure I moved over the ditch to NZ. I trained with SITCo (ski instructor training company) in 2005 at Coronet Peak and passed my level one and two that season. From there I fell in love with teaching skiing and get a...
Sarah Walls – Ski Trainer
Sarah aka Sem, is a nomad from Taranaki, NZ. She was raised on skis at Turoa, Mt. Ruapehu and came to the NZSIA examing team in 2009. Whilst studying at Otago University she hitch hiked every winter weekend to Wanaka, Queenstown and surrounding local ski resorts to...
Scott Dagg – Ski Trainer
Scott was bitten by the ski bug from the young age of 10, from there he begun his teaching career at the Remarkables in 1988. Yes Scott was once ‘Captain Remarkables’ but he now prefers to wear his undies on the inside. Scott became an Examiner in 1993. 13 years of...
Simon Grove – Ski Trainer
In 1996 Simon moved to Lake Wanaka to seek his fortune in the skiing gold mine of Instruction. 3 years of training at Treble Cone supported by night work as a ski technician saw the launch of his new career. After 2 seasons teaching at Treble Cone Simon moved to...
Dave Taylor – Ski Trainer
Dave grew up skiing the edge deep powder of Scotland. He learned his trade through the BASI system and working at Nevis Range on the West Coast of Scotland. Dave came to New Zealand in 1998 arriving in wanaka with no job and no house. He slept in an old and very cold...
Bob Irwin – Ski Trainer
Bob’s been teaching skiing since 1979 and now has more than 50 seasons experience from across Austria, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Bob spent four years as the Treble Cone Ski School Director and is now a member of the Instructor Training...
Marc Davies – Ski Trainer
Marc started his years in the ski industry in 1990, at Mt. Buller, Victoria Australia. However, he believes he learned all his most important skills at Mt. Hutt, where he has been flying under the radar since 1995. Marc has also spent time working in Austria, Canada...
Gavin McAuliffe – Ski Trainer
Almost a late comer to the sport of skiing Gavin has been teaching since 1993 and examining since 2000. Ten years of back-to-back winters mostly between Queenstown and Colorado saw him hone his customer service skills to a fine art, although the Americans never quite...
Brendan Reeves – Ski Trainer
Works for: Rookie Academy Resort: Treble Cone/Cardrona Brendan is from New Zealand and has over 25 plus winters teaching skiing in New Zealand, Japan, Canada and China. He is a NZSIA trainer and examiner working for Rookie Academy in the New Zealand winters training...
Matt Lewis -Ski Trainer
Resort working at: Cardrona/Treble Cone Matt got hooked on skiing as a wee nipper thanks to his persistent parents. His first days on the boards were at Round Hill (Tekapo Ski Area). Growing up in the Canterbury area meant he was never too far from one of the South...