Ski Staff

Steph’s introduction to skiing was on the living room floor with her parent’s old leather lace-ups on wooden skis. At aged 13 Steph finally made it to the snow, graduating to the slopes of Whakapapa. Her Dad taught her the giant snow plough and dragged her all over...

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 an Examiner with the NZSIA since 2006. He is...

Yolinde (a.k.a Yoyo) got into teaching skiing in 1995 at Treble Cone where she taught her first lesson after participating in the Rookie Weekend Programme through the Ski School. She thought it would be great a job as she wanted to look as “cool” as the Ski...

Garett grew up skiing Treble Cone in Wanaka and in 1992 signed up for an instructor training course there. He passed his Stage One (now Level Two), went to Canada that summer and has been teaching skiing around the world ever since… These days Garett is a current...

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...

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...

Ali's introduction to skiing was on the artificial slopes in Edinburgh, Scotland. He began to teach skiing on the dry-slope during his last couple of years of high school and continued to instruct during his time studying at University. Ali reached the shores of New...

Born and bred in ski country Queenstown, Toby started skiing at 3 years old at The Remarkables. He has been skiing ever since and some of his skiing highlights are competing in the World Juniors and the World University Games. Since then Toby has made his career in...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Senior Examiner, Demo Team member and a Trainer. 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...