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Reservations

For Snow Sports School reservations phone (02) 6459 4044 or click here to email

For Thredbo Child Care Centre reservations phone 1300 020 589 or click here to email

What level are you?

Thredbo snow sports has developed an easy to understand system for defining levels of skiing or boarding

Level Adult Symbol Child Symbol Adult/Child Skier Adult/Child Boarder
1 adult symbol Yellow smiley face with goggles
Eric Echidna
New to Snow Sports. Terrain-Flat New to Snow Sports. Terrain-Flat
2 adult symbol Sid Koala You can snowplough and stop. You will learn to turn & ride a lift. Terrain-Friday Flat, Snow Runner You can stop on heel and toeside. You will learn to turn & ride a lift. Terrain-Friday Flat, Snow Runner
3 adult symbol Pygmy Possum You can snowplough turn and have ridden a chairlift. You will get mileage and consolidate skills. Terrain-Easy Does It Chairlift You are learning to turn and have ridden a chairlift. You will get mileage and consolidate skills. Terrain-Easy Does It Chairlift
4 adult symbol Rocky Cocky You are starting basic Christies. You will consolidate stem Christies and increase the parallel phase of the turn. Terrain-Cruiser You can link turns on Friday Flat. You will ride some more challenging areas. Terrain-Cruiser
5 adult symbol Eddy Emu You are getting control on Blue runs. You will learn long and short parallel turns. Terrain-Supertrails, Antons & Sponars You can turn on all Blue runs. You will learn fakie and small jumps. Terrain-Cruiser & Supertrails
6 adult symbol child symbol You are mastering Blue and dabbling in Black runs. You will ski some more challenging areas. Terrain-Black runs & Blue moguls You can ride all Blue terrain and ride fakie on Green terrain. You will learn some Freestyle tricks. Terrain-Supertrails, Antons & Sponars
7 adult symbol Wally wombat & Ruby Roo You can make short parallel turns with a pole plant. You will learn dynamic short turns, introduce bumps and steep terrain You can ride Black terrain and ride fakie on Blue terrain. You will learn advanced freestyle and advanced terrain riding
8 adult symbol Extreme Rat You are skiing the whole mountain. You will learn off-piste, powder, bumps, ice and steeps. Terrain-All-Mountain You are riding the whole mountain. You will learn steeps, bumps, cliffs & cornices. Terrain-All-Mountain

All kids skiing and boarding work with a skill awards passport where each step of the progression is signed and a badge awarded for the level achieved.

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