Skiing

A Dane working in the Austrian Alps as a Ski instructor and –guide is very unusual, but I got in to it back in 2004.

After spending the first season as a so called “ski bum” I decided to take the first part of the ski instructor course, also called the “Anwärter” so I could start teaching kids and beginners. Already before the next season started I finished the “Landeslehrer” so that I could start to teach intermitted skiers and also start taking them off-piste.

Not very offen do I have somebody to take a photo of me, but lucky enough here was an opportunity to see me in action, down a nice and steep chute, with plenty of fresh powder snow.

That was when my passion for the area outside the groomed runs really started growing, so I started spending all my available time not teaching, improving my skiing techniques so that I could eventually pass the entry exam for the “Staatlicher”, which is a prerequisite for entering the skiing part of the Austrian Mountain guide education. So when I finally passed that back in the spring of 2001 my path was laid, now being able to spend as much time as possible in the backcountry area of the Arlberg region of Austria.

So now, I have done that full time for 8 seasons, I can say that I pretty much know every small corner of this vast off-piste arena, there are though still places that I like to explore a bit more, which I do on a regular basis when possible.

My career as a Ski instructor also brought me to Australia. Yes they do have mountains and snow down-under, so I spent 5 winter seasons (northern summers) in a resort called Mt. Hotham, this eventually brought my attention in to scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef up in Queensland so…..