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Has anyone ever taken a skiing class?

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muffMan.
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My university has an “advanced skiing” class. From what I heard you pretty much go with a guide and hit a bunch of sidecountry stuff and it counts as a credit.

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SendyMcSendyface
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My school has a whole ass "Adventure Guide" program. Basically you get some guiding certs, avy courses, and your 40hr WFR. Seems pretty stupid to me, they've just taken all the regular skiing/whitewater/climbing ect. certs and combined them into a 2 year diploma that you get charged an arm and a leg for. It's basically the trust fund baby degree.
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BradFiAusNzCoCa
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Mine had a similar one. If I’m remembering correctly, it was ODAL - outdoor adventure leadership or something. Same thing. All that money to be a raft guide
SendyMcSendyfaceMy school has a whole ass "Adventure Guide" program. Basically you get some guiding certs, avy courses, and your 40hr WFR. Seems pretty stupid to me, they've just taken all the regular skiing/whitewater/climbing ect. certs and combined them into a 2 year diploma that you get charged an arm and a leg for. It's basically the trust fund baby degree.
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dmcdmc
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SUNY Binghamton in upstate NY had a snowboard/ski gym class that satisfied the req. Free night skiing once a week that included free lessons with really chill instructors who would do whatever you were in the mood for.

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buck_nasty
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Coleg55My university has an “advanced skiing” class. From what I heard you pretty much go with a guide and hit a bunch of sidecountry stuff and it counts as a credit.

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Hell yeah take the class!! I did this in college and it was super dope. I was the only person in the advanced class so I basically got to ride with a private instructor/guide. Brought the homies along a couple of times too. Also I already had a season pass so I made some cash selling my day tickets in the parking lot. 10/10 would recommend!
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GayWolf420
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SendyMcSendyfaceMy school has a whole ass "Adventure Guide" program. Basically you get some guiding certs, avy courses, and your 40hr WFR. Seems pretty stupid to me, they've just taken all the regular skiing/whitewater/climbing ect. certs and combined them into a 2 year diploma that you get charged an arm and a leg for. It's basically the trust fund baby degree.


Only thing I could see this being useful for is someone who's involved in outdoor emergency care/ems, works for an agency, has tuition reimbursement, and is doing it for continuing education or more certs for their resume. You're kinda right though lol but I'm sure someone loves this degree.
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theabortionator
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Friend of mine did for community college. Just kinda went off and skied park om his own. Seemed to enjoy it.
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Michigan_Sucks
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Lol we had begineer thru advanced skiing and snowboarding at our college for PE credits. You could opt out of the lessons if you just logged your skiing with Trace. I think you only needed 7,000 vert per session. 8 weeks, 7,000 vert a week, didn't even have to be every week you could do it all at the beginning end etc. Used Trace on my phone for 1 week and got an easy .5 credit. Did that 4 times with begineer ski, begineer snowboard, inter ski, inter snowboard. Easiest 2 credits ever.
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ReturnToMonkey
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I took that class freshman year. It was so worth it. Basically skied with 5 other rippers and a fun old ski instructor who taught us part of the ridge of BB each Thursday. Some days I would just ski by myself/with friends until 2 pm when we met up at the base, then just kept shredding til the end. If you can't drive or get a ride, they have a bus that leaves from the SUB scheduled to work with the class.
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a_burger
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I have an "alpine operations certificate" as part of my outdoor rec major. Unfortunately their weren't really any classes aimed at the operations side of stuff aside from your internship and a few guest speakers, did take a class called SKI 122 though which was basically a prep class for a psia level 1 cert. Was my lowest grade in my whole college career (C- I think?) lmao
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muffMan.
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Oh sick im actually at MSU rn, only got one class before too so im pumped
ReturnToMonkeyI took that class freshman year. It was so worth it. Basically skied with 5 other rippers and a fun old ski instructor who taught us part of the ridge of BB each Thursday. Some days I would just ski by myself/with friends until 2 pm when we met up at the base, then just kept shredding til the end. If you can't drive or get a ride, they have a bus that leaves from the SUB scheduled to work with the class.
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r00kie
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SendyMcSendyfaceMy school has a whole ass "Adventure Guide" program. Basically you get some guiding certs, avy courses, and your 40hr WFR. Seems pretty stupid to me, they've just taken all the regular skiing/whitewater/climbing ect. certs and combined them into a 2 year diploma that you get charged an arm and a leg for. It's basically the trust fund baby degree.


Thats an expensive way to make 14k a year and never be able to settle down.
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TRIHSSH
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Take the class, get an A and tell your
mom it helped boost your GPA. What is there to think about?
Coleg55My university has an “advanced skiing” class. From what I heard you pretty much go with a guide and hit a bunch of sidecountry stuff and it counts as a credit.

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ModMommy
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I took it as MSU 8 years ago, it was an absolute blast.
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