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On the slopes at Cardrona

Ski & Snowboard Instructor Course Resort Guide

Snowfall

Because Cardrona Ski Resort has New Zealand’s highest lift-served skiing and snowboarding, you are all but guaranteed a good snowfall from the beginning of the season until the end. With an average of ten feet of natural, powder snow per year, Cardrona has one of the best snowfall records in New Zealand backed-up by extensive snow-making facilities throughout the mountain.

Wanaka is rarely snowed-in and so even though you can be skiing/ riding powder up at the Cardrona ski hill, the conditions are a lot more favourable down in the town centre where mild temperatures and sunny weather are the norm.

Terrain

Cardrona is the south island’s second largest ski area with almost seven hundred acres of skiable terrain. The mountain is ideal for hosting ski or snowboard instructor training courses: the slopes are perfect for demonstrating ski/ snowboard techniques and drills to ensure that you become the best instructor that you can be. There is also plenty of exciting backcountry terrain to keep the more intrepid skier or snowboarder satisfied.

For those of a more adventurous nature, the freestyle park at Cardrona offers every type of kicker, table top and rail imaginable. With a new hi speed quad replacing the old chair at the Captains Lift, it will now be two-and-a-half times quicker to get to the top of the mountain. What this basically means is less time sitting on the chairlift and more time skiing or riding.

The High Performance Centre

In Cardrona, SnowSkool works with a specialist School whose sole purpose is training people to become a
snowboard or a ski instructor. The High Performance Centre employs only the most experienced and highly-qualified ski instructors and snowboard instructors. This is a highly technical programme and the improvements
in your skiing and snowboarding will be profound and achieved in a very quick and efficient fashion.

“Our mission at the High Performance Centre here in Cardrona is to provide the best instructor training
programmes internationally and we do this by employing the very best, most highly-qualified and most
experienced instructors. We are delighted to continue working with SnowSkool for the 2008 season.”

Bridget Legnavsky, Cardrona Snowsports Manager.
Bridget is also President of the NZSIA & member of New Zealand’s Interski Demo Team