Ski Club of Great Britain has an excellent article about the Downhill Only Club.
If you’re going skiing this Easter or still hoping to find a late deal for a ski holiday, and you have slightly older children that can already ski, you may be wondering what to do with them.
Do they go into ski school, with the potential to be a bit bored or perhaps the ski school only runs half day sessions? The Ski Club’s Vanessa Fisher looks at a few alternatives.
Whilst skiing in Wengen at February half term we discovered an English run ski club that ticked all the boxes for our enthusiastic 8 year old. Run by Bob Eastwood, also a member of the Swiss Ski School in Wengen, this ski club is for 7-13 year old children that can ski fast around the mountain all day.
Sitting under the ‘Downhill Only Club’ umbrella, which was founded in Wengen, Switzerland, in 1925, the ‘Coggins’ as the children are called, meet every day during school holidays for a full day of fun skiing on the mountain.
Our 8 year old loved it, made some good friends and at the end of the week, after taking part in a short slalom course, was the proudest little boy collecting his DHO badge and Coggins certificate.
Older children (13yrs+) can slot into the DHO ‘Eagles’ club if they are good, confident skiers and again are up for skiing all day. At half term there was a big group of ‘Eagles’ skiers having a brilliant time with a young, fun ski instructor.
Alternatively if your children have really got the ski bug and want to be pushed to a higher level, The Alpine Training Centre offers children’s ski camps during the school holidays.
Family skiing made easy this Easter
The Ski Club's Vanessa Fisher looks at the different options when taking young children out to the mountains
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Snowli at the children’s Swiss Ski School |
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Coggins race day |
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Prize giving for Coggins |
If you’re going skiing this Easter or still hoping to find a late deal for a ski holiday, and you have slightly older children that can already ski, you may be wondering what to do with them.
Do they go into ski school, with the potential to be a bit bored or perhaps the ski school only runs half day sessions? The Ski Club’s Vanessa Fisher looks at a few alternatives.
Whilst skiing in Wengen at February half term we discovered an English run ski club that ticked all the boxes for our enthusiastic 8 year old. Run by Bob Eastwood, also a member of the Swiss Ski School in Wengen, this ski club is for 7-13 year old children that can ski fast around the mountain all day.
Sitting under the ‘Downhill Only Club’ umbrella, which was founded in Wengen, Switzerland, in 1925, the ‘Coggins’ as the children are called, meet every day during school holidays for a full day of fun skiing on the mountain.
Our 8 year old loved it, made some good friends and at the end of the week, after taking part in a short slalom course, was the proudest little boy collecting his DHO badge and Coggins certificate.
Older children (13yrs+) can slot into the DHO ‘Eagles’ club if they are good, confident skiers and again are up for skiing all day. At half term there was a big group of ‘Eagles’ skiers having a brilliant time with a young, fun ski instructor.
Alternatively if your children have really got the ski bug and want to be pushed to a higher level, The Alpine Training Centre offers children’s ski camps during the school holidays.
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