Qualification - CSIA Level 1 and Level 2.

Favourite place to ski - Revelstoke Mountain Resort, Canada. Large amounts of terrain for varying abilities, from steep runs to large amounts of back country - some of the best powder skiing you'll get.

Top skiing tip - You can never have a good enough snowplough. 

Outside of skiing - Play and watch all kinds of sports. My main sports being swimming and golf.

Favourite joke - How do you know when a ski instructor walks into the room? 

Don't worry, they will tell you. 

Name: Shelly Louise Wickings

Qualification: BASI Level 1 (Re-taking level 2 due to broken foot during the course) 

When Gained: 2011

Where Gained: Tamworth Snow Centre 

Favourite place to Ski and why:  I love skiing in Austria, St Anton and Ischgl are my best two resorts. The Skiing is great for a variety of levels and the Apres Ski is Amazing! The Snow conditions and weather have been some of the best experienced! I have spent many lunch times sunbathing at the top of the mountain!

Top Skiing tip: Learn to Stop!!

Favourite thing to do outside of skiing: Shopping for lots of sparkly things!! 

Favourite Joke: Ok… so I don't know any jokes and don't get them either…and that's not a joke!

Qualification: BASI Level 2 

When Gained: 2013

Where Gained: Verbier, Switzerland

Favourite place to Ski and why:   Has to be Verbier. I know it the best, and as the place where I really learnt properly how to ski it will always be special to me. Awesome itinerary and off-piste routes - even if one or two of the lifts could do with replacing. Remember your avalanche kit if you go there!

Top Skiing tip: Watch out for cat tracks when skiing off-piste! (I broke my wrist falling on to one).

Favourite thing to do outside of skiing: Playing the guitar.

Favourite Joke: A sandwich walks into a bar. The barman says: "Sorry, we don't serve food in here".

Qualification: BASI Level 2

When Gained: 1988

Where Gained: Flaine, France 

Favourite place to Ski and why:  Has to be Chamonix. It has everything, Glaciers, stunning vistas, fantastic slopes, some of the best off piste in the world. It was the venue for the first ever winter Olympics, home to the Kandahar World cup downhill run and it also has the famous Valle Blanche, a 17km off piste descent from the top of Mont Blanc.

Top Skiing tip: Clench your bum.

Favourite thing to do outside of skiing: Music, football and 3 wonderful children.

Favourite Joke: What do you call a fly with no wings?
A walk 

Qualification:  BASI Level 2

When Gained: 2011

Where Gained:  Tignes, Courchevel

Favourite place to Ski and why:  My favorite place to ski would have to be Val D'isere, France. This has to be the best place I've skied as everything is so open and the views and scenery are mind blowing. The off piste in Val is the best I've ever done its like your skiing on air the snows so fluffy and pure.

Top Skiing tip:  Be the one in the group with all the gear and no idea.

Favourite thing to do outside of skiing: I play lots of sports including; Football, Golf and sometimes race motocross.

Favourite Joke:  What's brown and sticky?
A stick

Qualification:  CSIA Level 2

When Gained: March, 2013

Where Gained:  Red Mountain, BC, Canada

Favourite place to Ski and why:  My favourite place to ski is and always will be The Rockies and in particular Red Mountain because of the pow and the people. You just don't get snow anywhere else in the world as good as it is in Western Canada. Rossland is also close to the US border so its a lot warmer than Whistler and it has more trees. This means it snows slightly less but the snow that does fall is soft powder all the way through not hard ice underneath as it is up north. Just to add to that there is loads of tree skiing to be done and by the end of the season its warm enough to ski in a t-shirt. To top it off Canadian's are embarrassingly friendly in BC, if a stranger openly talked to you the same way in the Alps you'd be suspicious of them.

Top Skiing tip:   Never follow the guy that says 'I'm the best skier on the mountain!'.

Favourite thing to do outside of skiing: Playing the guitar.

Favourite Joke:  For Sale: Parachute. Used only once, never opened.

 

 

Qualification: CASI Level 2 Snowbaord

When Gained: 2010

Where Gained:  Banff, Canada

Favourite place to Ski and why:  Skiplex - because I like how silky smooth the surface is.

Favourite thing to do outside of skiing: Taming lions by music.

Favourite Joke:  What do you call and alligator wearing a vest?
An investigator! 

Qualification: CSIA Level 1

When Gained: 2013

Where Gained: Banff, Canada

Favourite place to Ski and why:  My favourite place to ski is Sunshine Village, Banff. Sunshine is a great resort due to its wide variatinon of pistes, endless beautiful views and amazing conditions. It also feels like almost two resorts as Goats Eye mountain feels like a whole other resort! Another great thing is that there is hardly any ques for lifts which is always a bonus! 

Top Skiing tip:  Dont fall over.

Favourite thing to do outside of skiing: I love going to music festivals and travelling/seeing different cultures.

Favourite Joke: How do you get Pikachu on the bus?
Poke him on

Qualification - Level 2 CSIA which I gained in March 2014 in Lake Louise, Alberta

Favourite place to ski - Lake Louise in Canada as I spent three months living there to gain my ski qualifications. The skiing is amazing with some of the best views I have ever seen and I have so many fantastic memories of that place!

Top skiing tip - Don't lean on your inside ski

Outside of skiing - Reading, I am a terrible book worm!

Favourite joke - I'm so lazy that I have a smoke alarm with a snooze button

Qualification: CSIA level 2 & CSIA freestyle level 1

Where Gained: Fernie/ Whistler

Favourite place to Ski and why: Whistler, because of the massive snowfall, crazy terrain and amazing scenery. Feels like home instantly and everyone is so friendly.

Top Skiing tip: Just go for it

Favourite Joke: I'm learning the hokey cokey. Not all of it but I've got the ins & outs