Why skiers get hooked to their instructor…

Skiing at Park City, and particularly in its Canyons area can get quite complicated if you don’t know your way around well, and this is why my wife loves skiing behind me and not having to worry about where to go and turn.

She can focus on the bright side of her skiing experience and not have to worry about which run to take and turn to make. This is the exact same reason why some people can’t ski without their instructor.

This is particularly true in the Alps, less in America, because ski school don’t know how to price and sell the services of their ski instructor.

The reasons for this are many. Most instructor are too much into technique and not enough into guiding or hosting. Further, too many are also not skiing to a level that would be acceptable for that kind of work.

To make things worse, ski school hourly rates are excessive and the clientele hasn’t been prepped for that kind of service. Call it a lost business opportunities for American ski areas that are a bit too greedy to developed lifetime habits with their clients...