Keep up to date with all the informaton regaring our ski and snowboard courses in Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, India, Japan and Europewide.http://peakleaders.com/rss/rss.php?feed=digestBy Alexandra, Domi and Shonagh (well contributions weren’t exactly equal) Winter finally started to hit Saas Fee over the weekend, leaving us...somewhat snowed in on Monday as we had our first http://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Week-6....-it-was-a-busy-one!/266Ex Peaks trainee, Jack Harvard Taylor (Argentina 2008) has recently made the GB Telemark Teamhttp://www.peakleaders.com/news/Peaks-Trainee-makes-GB-Telemark-Team/29By Jordan and Alex, Week 5 turned out to be very eventful for us all due to a sudden surge of ILM activities. Morven started off the week with her dance session which all the lads quite enjoyed, espehttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Dancing,-pool,-gorges-and-lycra...../265By Tom.... On Monday during week 3 we started our day with BASI training. The skiers had a new ski instructor called Loz who replaced Larry, since he had recovered from a recent ankle injury. The skihttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Week-3!/264Here is a short vid of the crew, ripping it up in Whistler. Nice one Spencer on the quality editing!  http://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/A-crew-on-video..../263This week we had BASI exam throughout the whole week, however because of the weather the first two days were cancelled on the mountain. Instead we...undertook theory lessons to aid our comprehension ohttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/BASI-Level-1......./262Sparkly silver birch trees....pillows of snow...endless powder... sounds like an imaginary land? Thankfully it's not - it's JAPAN! Myoko is no exception with its vast area incorporating 9 resorts.http://www.peakleaders.com/instructor_courses/Japan/14British Ski and Snowboard Show at the NEC Birminghamhttp://www.peakleaders.com/news/Coming-to-the-Birmingham-Ski-and-Snowboard-Show?/28Having left Glasgow with 70kg of luggage, you can imagine my relief when I finally managed to drag myself into Verbier 36hours later. However I was lucky as when I arrived in Geneva I met a cool localhttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Arrival-Time/253The FINAL Week!!!! This was quite a strange feeling as the time had passed so quickly as we had all had such a great time but it was not over yet by a long shot as this was not only the final week buthttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Final-Week/258By this point we had started to focus on the final weeks exam. To prepare for this, PeakLeaders had arranged for us to teach and guide a group of local riders which we all thought was excellent preperhttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Week-5/257After exploring some of what Verbier had to offer we were offered the chance to go and ride some of the other resorts in the local area, well France! But the drive was only 1 hour, a half hour less thhttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Week-3/255  Things were starting heat up and we were all begining to feel more comfortable on the Big Mountain Terrain. After a week and half of constant nagging Mark was on his big bike and had been pershttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Week-2/25412/10/09   So the week began with our avalanche awareness course whilst one group did the course the rest enjoyed a day of free skiing or a day...in the park for some! The rest of the week was http://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Powder-and-Teletubbies.../261So this is the last blog entry for the Peak Leaders 09 Argentina course…….sad times. The unfortunate truth is that I’m now sat at home in my parents living room, trying to ignore thttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/The-Final-Week!!!!!!!!/260We were greeted by another day of glorious sunshine which has been great for the first week with the instructors. Everyone seems to be coming back...with stories that they are improving. We had our fihttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Week-2!/259We continued exploring the almost endless network of trails to be found in the Verbier area, Downhill! :-) and Uphill! :-( By this point everbodies riding was becoming better by the minute and our phyhttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/Week-4/256Day 1! We arrived in Saas Fee on Saturday to great weather, we all met on the terrace of the park hotel and the introductions began. We then met...Patrick the owner of the hotel before dinner and alshttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/The-Start!--By-sam-Farrell/252 Firstly I’d like to apologise to all those parents and friends out there who have been eagerly awaiting the next instalment of the Peak Leaders Argentina 09 blog….but to no avail. Ihttp://www.peakleaders.com/course_blogs/The-road-to-Esquel/250On Sunday 18th October 2009 we will be at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hemstead. Come along at 12 - 4 and meet the team, the trainers, and the success stories from past Peak Leaders instructor training courhttp://www.peakleaders.com/news/Come-and-get-a-taste-for-it!/9