Become a Ski Club Rep

Each year, the Club welcomes dozens of new Reps ready to serve the Club in resort and on the Club’s Freshtracks holidays. Keen to follow suit? Check out what it take to qualify as a Rep and start your journey today!

Looking to become a Ski Club Rep?

Let's start your journey

Each year, the Club welcomes dozens of new Reps ready to serve the Club in resort and on the Club’s Freshtracks holidays. Keen to follow suit? Check out what it take to qualify as a Rep and start your journey today!

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Ski with the Club

To undertake the Ski Club’s Mountain Safety and Leadership Course (aka the “Reps Course”), you need to be an experienced skier, having skied regularly over the last few years. As a rough guide, we look for a skiing ability in line with our purple (advanced) grading both on- and off piste. The best way for us to understand your skiing ability is to ski with Club, especially on our Freshtracks holidays, where our current Reps will be able to offer gradings. We also accept other measures of skiing, such as BASI qualifications or equivalent.

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Interview

In the Autumn, you will be invited to interview with members of Club staff who liaise directly with Reps on a day to day basis. This is an informal interview, not so much a job interview but more like a discussion about your skiing experience, where you’ve skied previously, and what you can bring to the Club as a Rep.

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Mountain Safety & Leadership Course

This course will be the minimum requirement for anyone to act as a Ski Club Rep as part of our new in resort Rep service and on our extensive range of Ski Club Holidays. This course will again contain high-level instruction, avalanche safety training and leadership skills development – all led by our expert team out in resort. As in previous years the course is available for anyone of the Purple Ski Club ski standard and above. Please note if you have already passed the previous Reps course you do not need to attend this course and you are already qualified to act as a Rep, although may need to complete refresher and first aid courses from time to time as required.

What’s Included

Return transfers from Geneva airport to Tignes
Half board accommodation in Tignes resort
11-day full area lift pass
All course content

The 2024 Mountain Safety and Leadership Course will take place in Tignes between 2 and 14 December. For interest and enquiries please contact the On-Snow Services Department here.

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Rep!

You can now represent the Club in resort or on our Freshtracks holidays!

Our resort Rep slots are a fortnight long, and we ask that you ski four six days each week with a day off on either Saturday or Sunday (resort depending), joining your fellow Members on snow for an amazing time exploring the whole of your base resort, and beyond! You will be responsible for signing new Members to the Club, and reporting on the total Members who skied with the Club in resort over your period in resort, as well as submitting daily reports on what you and your group got up to, and the weather for that day.

Your role on Freshtracks trips may vary. On holidays with guides or instructors, you will ski as a back-marker; on trips where it is just Reps, you will be responsible for co-ordinating social skiing in a similar way to Resort Rep slots.

Mountain Safety & Leadership Course

There are four elements to the course, each of which will be assessed at the end of the course to make sure you reach the required standard.

The 2024 Mountain Safety and Leadership Course will take place in Tignes between 2 and 14 December.

Ski Performance

Led by Andy Jerram

This technical module will explore ski and snowboard performance. Using BASI trainers we will introduce modern ski performance techniques as well as introducing kit and equipment and how it affects our ski performance. The module will be delivered over two days on snow.

Day 1 – On Snow

Objective – To introduce correct ski/snowboard performance.

Day 2 – Training and Development

Objective – To introduce personal skiing/snowboarding performance assessment and training

Ski Club Repping

Led by Danny Edwards, Alexandra Buchanan and Owen Chapman

This module will aim to introduce candidates to what makes a great Ski Club Rep. It will look at different approaches to group management in all aspects of life and how we can bring that experience to the slopes. It will explore industry standard techniques on effective and safe group management with a mixture of off and on snow sessions throughout the two weeks.

We’ll start by looking at what makes a great rep, before moving on to looking at creating a team and how the rep impacts this process, how we can communicate better and how to manage and control groups.

All Terrain Leadership

Led by Bruce Goodlad

This on-snow module will look at effective leading and group management in variable and off piste terrain. It will explore the considerations we must make when travelling in off piste terrain, what equipment is needed when skiing away from the piste and how to ensure your group are safe.

Avalanche Rescue Skills

Led by Bruce Goodlad, Mike Austin, Graham McMahon and Kathy Murphy

The final module will take place at the end of the course and will teach best practice avalanche rescue technique. It will introduce candidates to correct accident procedure in the event of an avalanche and use practical exercises to assess candidates in effective rescue scenarios.

The level 1 American Avalanche Association Avalanche Safety Course will make up the main body of this module with an additional day on burial scenarios and effective rescue. It will be delivered on snow over three days, including a theoretical morning/evening session indoors.