Find Your Snowboard Level

First Timer
Never snowboarded before.
– Getting comfortable with the equipment, balancing on flat terrain, sliding and skating with one foot strapped in, stance and basic movement, learning to stop safely, and introduction to side slipping.

Beginner
You’ve tried snowboarding once or twice and know the very basics.
– Build confidence, control speed on gentle green runs with side slipping (falling leaf and basic garlands moving toward proper turns), ride beginner lifts comfortably, and start beginner turns.

Intermediate
You are beginning to turn and starting to make turns of a variety of sizes and stop where you want.
– Progress to towards blue runs, develop more dynamic riding with a variety of turn shapes, improve edge control and balance, start building speed with confidence, and prepare for steeper and more varied terrain.

Advanced
You ride most blue runs and some red runs comfortably with good speed control on groomed snow.
– Refine technique for carving short, medium, and long-radius turns, tackle steeper red and black runs, ride confidently in variable conditions (moguls, powder, choppy snow), explore switch riding, and take on natural features or terrain parks.

First Timer / White: Never Snowboarded before.
– Equipment familiarization, attaching the board on flat terrain, skating, straight running with 1 foot attached, intro to side-slipping.

Level 1 / Yellow: Able to side slip on one edge.
 – Learning to use our opposite edge, working towards falling leaf on both edges.

Level 2 / Green: Able to do falling leaf on both edges.
– Learning to traverse and intro to turning.

Level 3 / Blue: Able to link turns on green (Beginner) terrain.
 – Learning to refine our turns and explore red (Intermediate) terrain.

Level 4 / Red: Able to link turns on red (Intermediate) terrain.
 – Learn more dynamic riding and intro to switch riding, off-piste, powder and freestyle.

Level 5 / Black: Able to snowboard black (Advanced) terrain.
 – Learning to refine our advanced riding techniques and gaining confidence in all terrain and turn types (carving, moguls & park).