Resort Visitation Policies

Alta Ski Area – Alf Engen Ski School

Visiting Instructor Policy 2023 – 2024 Season                 

Authorized Ski Instruction and Guiding

Alta Ski Area operates with a special-use permit from the US Forest Service to conduct ski area operations on specified public lands. Ski instruction/guiding conducted with the knowledge and approval of Alta Ski Area is an authorized activity and is within the scope of our special-use permit. Any ski teaching/guiding within the Alta Ski Area boundaries conducted without the knowledge and approval of Alta Ski Area is unauthorized and in potential violation of Forest Service regulations.

Visiting Instructors from PSIA Member Ski Schools

An instructor visiting Alta Ski Area with clients is permitted one day of teaching per seven-day period. This privilege is limited to five days total during a season.

Consecutive days for clients with a visiting instructor at Alta require the hiring of an Alf Engen Ski School Instructor. The Alf Engen Ski School Instructor will be the lead instructor/guide and the Alf Engen Ski School Instructor will have lift line privilege.

Complimentary lift tickets are not provided to visiting instructors.

Additional Requirements and Policies

• Ski School Director or Supervisor please email Scott Mathers at scott@alta.com a minimum of 48 hours in advance with the following information:
  • Date of Visit to Alta
  • Instructor Name and Home Ski School
  • Client Name
• Instructor must present a letter to the Albion Ski School Office from the home ski school confirming the purchase of the lesson services including the dollar figure of the lesson fee charged by the home ski school. A Visiting Instructor Fee of 10% of the lesson price will be charged at this time to cover US Forest Service fees and Alta Ski Area administrative expenses.
• We encourage purchasing lift tickets online in advance at

https://www.alta.com/tickets-and-passes#lift-tickets.

• Parking Reservations for students and instructor required Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Holiday periods. Please visit https://www.altaparking.com/ for parking reservations.
• The instructor must ski in the home ski school uniform with name tag attached.
• Lift line privilege not permitted without hiring and skiing with an Alta Instructor.

Snowbird Mt School Instructors

A limited number of Snowbird Mt School Instructors have lift-line privileges at Alta with approved private lessons when the Mineral Basin and Baldy Express Lifts are operational for the season. Snowbird Ski School Instructors are not required to pay the Visiting Instructor Fee.

Ski School Directors and Supervisors please provide your instructor with a copy of these policies before they arrive at Alta.

Non-teaching PSIA Certified Instructors 

PSIA Certified Instructors presenting a current PSIA Membership Card at the Albion Ski School Office are provided with a $20 discount off a full price lift ticket OR may receive a 50% discount if they teach at an IKON or Mt Collective partner resort. The appropriate IKON or Mt Collective paperwork must be obtained at the instructor’s home resort and provided to the Albion Ski School Office to receive the IKON/Mt Collective discount.

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Deer Valley Visiting Instructor Policy  

Deer Valley will be using an electronic Visiting Instructor request form. Use the following link or contact ids@deervalley.com to have a link sent to an authorized manager from your school.  

Deer Valley Visiting Instructor Form 

Visiting Instructor Policies: 

• Visiting Instructor Form must be submitted before 5:00 p.m., two days prior to requested date
• Visiting Instructors will be limited to 14-days teaching at Deer Valley per season
• Instructors must come in uniform with their resort identification/pass
• Guests MUST pre-purchase lift tickets to guarantee access for the dates they will be visiting. IKON pass holders must make a reservation
• A complimentary lift ticket will be reserved for the instructor for the requested dates. Instructors can pick up tickets at the following locations:
• Snow Park Lodge Ski School
• Silver Lake Lodge Rental Shop
• DV Sales office at the Montage Deer Valley
• DV Sales office at Stein Eriksen Lodge
• DV Sales office at St. Regis Deer Valley
• Visiting Instructors may NOT use priority lift lines

Visiting Non-teaching Instructors:  

Instructors visiting Deer Valley without clients receive an industry discount. Instructors must present a valid PSIA/AASI Level 1, 2, or 3 credential or ISIA stamp. A discounted ticket will be issued from the DV ticket office at Snow Park Lodge. This discount is not available on the following blackout dates: 

Blackout Dates: 

• 12/26/2023-1/5/2024
• 1/12/2024-1/15/2024
• 2/15/2024-2/24/2024
• 3/10/2024-3-31/2024

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Teaching Instructors: 

Grand Targhee Resort has a world class PSIA/AASI certified Ski and Snowboard School with instructors and coaches with vast experience and extensive knowledge of local terrain and conditions.  As such, we have a policy for instructors, coaches and guides (henceforth referred to as “instructors”) who would like to visit Grand Targhee with their personal clients.

Instructors wishing to visit Grand Targhee with their personal clients need to follow these guidelines:

• Contact our Ski and Snowboard School Director, Mark Hanson (mhanson@grandtarghee.com), at least 48 hours prior to arrival to state their intentions and share planned visitation dates.   Information needed include:  Instructor and guests’ names, dates of visit and any special inquiries. 
• Provide confirmation that lesson was purchased through their home Ski School.
• Instructor is required to wear home resort uniform with name tag.
• Each visiting instructor will be charged a fee of $100/day for the length of their stay while working with any guests of this resort. 
• If the visiting instructor also arranges to book one of Grand Targhee’s instructors to help with the clients for full day lessons, the fee will be waived. 
• The visiting instructor should present him/herself to the Ski School Director upon arrival and again prior to departure to ensure that the correct fees are charged.  The fee is charged to the instructor and not to the guest. Payments can be made in the Ski & Snowboard School.
• Visiting Instructors should be aware of and must follow all Grand Targhee Resort policies including those policies addressing Covid and possible resort capacity. Updates can be found at:
  • grandtarghee.com

The Ski School Director or other Grand Targhee Resort management reserve the right to refuse any visiting instructor, coach or guide the right to work with our guests.  Policy does not apply under reciprocal agreement with Jackson Hole Mountain resort.

Non-Teaching Instructors:  PSIA/AASI and ISAA members may receive a full day lift ticket for the half day rate when they present either current membership card.

Visiting Instructor Policy:

• Manager or Director must contact Jackson Hole Director or Managers 48 hours prior to arrival and ensure that instructor and guests have tickets or passes for specific dates. (For the 20-21 season we will not be able to offer a comp ticket to visiting instructors)
• Private lesson product must be sold at home area ensuring that USFS fees are paid
• Compensation and Worker’s Comp are covered by the home resort
• Instructors must be in uniform and wearing a helmet
• Instructor must check in with the JH sales desk to sign release of liability form
• Line cutting privileges will not be available
• Visiting instructor may not exceed seven days at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Park City welcomes instructors from other resorts to visit Park City Mountain with clients. The intent of this program is to allow instructors from another resort to visit Park City Mountain with their client from their home resort (not clients of Park City Mountain). We ask that visiting instructors adhere to these protocols:

• The home resort that the instructor is visiting from must be open and operating.
• Home resort Director or Manager must contact Alissa Weitz, Mary Flinn Ware, Rachael Milner and Dave Lundberg via email a minimum of 48 hours in advance with visiting instructors name, client name, date of visit and specific starting base location – Canyons Village or Mountain Village (Adweitz@vailresorts.com mflinnware@vailresorts.com A.Milner@vailresorts.com dolundberg@vailresorts.com).
• Visiting instructors must bring a form/letter from their resort that includes the instructors name, guest(s) name and date visiting with a manager/supervisor signature.
• The letter/form should be brought to the Park City Mountain Village Base Ski & Snowboard School Sales Office or the Canyons Village Base Ski & Snowboard School Sales Office, sign the lift access release of liability as well as the visiting instructor release of liability to receive a complimentary lift ticket if the home resort has made contact 48 hours in advance.
• Instructors are compensated by their home area and covered under the home area’s worker’s compensation.
• Lesson product is sold at home area – ensuring that USFS or other use fees are paid. Visiting instructor will bring proof of payment from home area (previously mentioned letter/form with manager/supervisor signature is sufficient).
• Visiting instructors must wear a snow sports helmet and be in their full home resort uniform including name tag.
• Visiting Instructor’s Private lesson guest(s) will be expected to purchase their own lift ticket
• For multi-day visits this process will need to be repeated daily (including a letter/form each day).
• We will be capping the maximum number of visits by any non-Vail Resorts instructor to 7 days per individual instructor, per season.

Please remind your instructors that the Ski and Snowboard School/mtn. Patrol lift lanes are not to be used by visiting instructors and that all transactions at the resort will be cashless.  

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Powder Mountain Resort 

Teaching instructors:

• Powder Mountain welcomes instructors from other resorts to visit with their clients. 
• The following policies and procedures must be adhered to 
• Powder Mountain will be using an electronic request form. Send contact information for authorized managers to Justin Soine jsoine@powdermountain.comThose managers will receive a link to the form.
• Electronic request form must be submitted at least 48 hours prior to the day of the intended visit. 
• Instructor must check in at Sundown Ski School Desk upon arrival to receive their lift ticket.
• The instructor’s guests will need to purchase an RFID card and lift tickets online before they arrive.
• Lift Tickets are limited each day of the season. Purchase early to guarantee availability. If the date chosen is already sold out, the instructor and guest will be notified and can choose another date. 
• The visiting Instructor must be in their uniform and wear their name tag. . 
• Visiting Instructors and guests must use public lift lines.
• The maximum number of days any individual instructor can visit in a season is 10. 

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact Jill Bourne jbourne@powdermountain.com

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

These policies are for Ski/Snowboard Instructors traveling to Snowbasin Resort from other P.S.I.A. Intermountain Division schools with their guests.

• Instructors must come in uniform with a management-signed letter from their Ski School (one letter for each day they plan to ski) that states the instructor name, the guest(s) name(s) and the date of the lesson at Snowbasin.
• Instructors must present a letter each day at the learning center desk. They will receive a complimentary lift ticket, and their guest(s) will need to purchase a lift ticket at full rate (Instructors should encourage guest to buy tickets online in advance).
• Lift tickets may not be available for purchase day of.
• These policies are subject to change.

AUTHORIZED SKI INSTRUCTION AND GUIDING

Please follow the policies below to access Snowbird Resort as a visiting instructor. Thank you and we welcome you and your guests.

1. Visiting resort manager MUST contact Snowbird Mountain School a minimum of 48 hours prior to the lesson. Email mtnschool@snowbird.com and include the instructor name and guest name(s) and date of lesson.
2. Instructors must be in uniform and wearing a helmet and name tag.
3. Instructor must go to the Snowbird Mountain School Sales Office on level 3 of the Snowbird Center to retrieve lift ticket.
4. Guests must purchase their own tickets.
5. Parking must be arranged by the guest or visiting instructor. Snowbird will not take responsibility for parking or transportation concerns.
6. Visiting instructors will be limited to 7 days per individual per season.
7. Visiting instructors may NOT access the Mountain School lift lines.
8. Past Snowbird Mountain School employees who do not have a good rehire status will not be allowed this privilege.
9. Past Snowbird Mountain School employees must wait 1 full season before visiting Snowbird with previous Snowbird guests.

Please remind all instructors to follow Snowbird Resort policies and protocols.

Non-teaching instructors: Bring PSIA or AASI membership card for discounted lift ticket.

Teaching instructors:

Solitude Mountain Resort has a special-use permit from the US Forest Service to conduct ski area operations on specified public lands. Snowsports instruction/guiding conducted with the knowledge and approval of Solitude Ski & Ride School is an authorized activity and is within the scope of our special-use permit. Any Snowsports teaching/guiding within the Solitude boundaries conducted without the knowledge and approval of Solitude Ski & Ride School is unauthorized and in potential violation of US Forest Service regulations.

1. Visiting resort director or managers MUST contact Solitude Ski & Ride School a minimum of 48 hours prior to the lesson. Email: smrskischool@solitudemountain.com  and include the instructor’s name and guest name(s) and date of lesson.
2. Instructors must be in uniform and wearing a Snowsports name tag.
3. Instructor must go to the Solitude Ski & Ride School Moonbeam Sales Office on level 2 of the Snowsports Center to retrieve their lift ticket and sign a release.
4. Guests must purchase their own tickets.
5. Parking must be arranged by the guest or visiting instructor. Solitude will not take responsibility for parking or transportation concerns.
6. Compensation and Worker’s Comp are covered by the home resort
7. Visiting instructors will be limited to 7 days per individual per season.
8. Visiting instructors may NOT access the Ski & Ride School lift lines.
9. Past Solitude Mountain Resort employees who do not have a good rehire status will not be allowed this privilege.

Please remind all instructors to follow Solitude Mountain Resort policies and protocols including those pertaining to COVID.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.

Non-teaching instructors: Please contact the resort.