Welcome to Fall Festival 2026!
“Serving Great Instructors”
Here you will find everything you need to know for
Fall Festival, December 4-6, at the Big Sky Resort
Join our community of instructors for 2½ days of multi-discipline snow sports clinics and après ski festivities guaranteed to get you primed for the season. Sessions focus on what it takes to be a GREAT instructor, including on-snow skills, teaching, creativity, alignment, kids and other ways of sliding on snow. For more info on the individual sessions, keep scrolling!
The talented team leading the sessions at Fall Fest include current and alumni National Team members and many of NRM’s Education Team members.
The packages for Fall Festival are 1 day for $169, 2 days for $291, and 2½ days for $373. These include all on-snow events, shirt, swag, and après ski events. These prices DO NOT include lodging or tickets. Please note that we are only offering core group sessions Sunday morning, no afternoon electives. The listed prices are the first chair pricing. Prices will increase as we get closer to the event.
Click here to register
To make an appointment for boot fitting with Brent Amsbury please contact Brent directly at: pcputah@gmail.com. We suggest you contact him ASAP as he gets booked up.
New this year are afternoon sessions Friday December 4th with Big Sky’s Lone Peak Physical Therapy. These sessions will include personalized, performance based evaluations that focus on strength, balance, and range of motion screenings, as well as more! To book a session, please click here to sign up!
Lodging and lift Ticket Info for Fall Festival
To make lodging reservations contact Big Sky Resort at 800-548-4486, Option 2, mention PSIA-NRM 2025 to receive special pricing.
Lodging Rates:
Huntley (2 Queen) $172/single or double (including 23.3% taxes & fees)
Please note that the above lodging rates do not include a daily breakfast in the Huntley Dining room for each registered guest. The above rates do not include tax and service fees of 27%. Guests in addition to double occupancy please add $25 per person per night
Lift tickets:
Tickets will be available at a discounted rate.
Registered Fall Fest participants will receive an email a week before Fall Fest begins with a unique link that will allow you to purchase tickets online through December 4th.
No discounts will be available on site, you will need to purchase the tickets online!
Fall Festival 2026
Sessions & Electives
Alpine, Snowboard, Telemark, and Children’s Specialist Core
(Friday, Saturday, & Sunday AM, all disciplines)
Enjoy sliding and working with the same group each morning. Groups will be divided by speed on the first morning and return to the same group each morning to work with the same trainer, your personal improvement and hopefully creating new friendships and connections!
Intro to CARV
(Friday & Saturday PM, Alpine only)
Come along with CARV ambassadors Brenna Kelleher (Sat) and Katie White (Sun) to either learn how you can use CARV with your clients and in training to improve your own skills, or work with one of these pros to improve your scores and hence your skiing in general! Units will be provided for a set number of people in the groups. Sign up now to reserve your spot!
CARV Pro
(Friday & Saturday PM, Alpine only)
Have your own CARV unit & want to improve your score? Join us (& bring your CARV unit, fully charged) to work on just that. We will work through improving your score, working through road blocks, & the technical skills behind those movements while learning how to use this tool to help our clients. This clinic is for people with CARV units & accounts.
Recognizing Misalignment through Equipment
(Friday & Saturday PM, Alpine only)
With Master Boot Technician Brent Amsbury. Learn how to recognize alignment issues that come from equipment issues. Understand the impact this has on skiers’ movements and how to begin to correct. This is not a boot fitting appointment clinic.
Pattern Breaking
(Friday PM, Alpine and Snowboard)
Dust off the cobwebs and start the season strong with a clinic based on changing your movement patterns. With an open mind, these afternoon sessions will help you move towards your more efficient self. Whether you’re pursuing a new certification, working through an injury, or just want to explore your skiing and riding range, this is the clinic for you!
Ski and ride with the Legends
(Friday PM, All disciplines)
For over 60 years NRM has been the home of many of the pioneers and leaders of snow sports education in America and the world. NRM has had a large presence on the PSIA-AASI National Teams and in the governance leadership of PSIA-AASI. Come spend the afternoon with some of these LEGENDS of PSIA-AASI, who we are proud to have as NRM members!
Snowsports Leadership
(Friday PM, All disciplines)
Want to learn what it takes to move upwards in our industry? Slide and learn with our very own supervisors and managers. They will share the steps they took to prepare themselves to be able to step in the role of supervisors. Managing lesson distribution and meeting with not so happy parents, this clinic will help provide some tangible steps towards those roles and beyond!
Learning Through Movement
(Saturday PM, All disciplines)
This clinic is focused on using movement to introduce and reinforce the skills and learning without repeating and rehashing the same drills and activities we see frequently on the hill. More of a round table clinic, bring your tried and true bag of tools and learn what others have in their bag.
Intro to Freestyle
(Saturday PM, All disciplines)
This clinic is a true introduction to freestyle skiing & riding. We will focus on using flatland maneuvers to build towards introductory terrain park features, building skills you will need to start feeling comfortable to start moving into the park & how you could translate this into your lessons. This clinic will start outside of any terrain park, slowly moving into Wolf pup if terrain is available. This clinic is not for those wanting to improve anything beyond a Freestyle Specialist level 1 certification.
Safety First
(Saturday PM, All disciplines)
How do you break through the wall of fear our students can show up with? They have signed up for a lesson, yet they are afraid of the actual act of skiing and snowboarding. This clinic will work through the mental side of skiing and snowboarding, helping our students (and ourselves) overcome the fear that creeps in and learn to trust themselves, so they can enjoy sliding on snow unencumbered.
XC Skate Skiing
(Friday PM)
All levels of experience are welcome! (You will need your own equipment) Come join the amazing NRM XC Staff as they help you refine your skate skiing technique and get you pumped for a winter of fitness!
MA and video
(Saturday PM, Alpine)
Have you wanted to improve your movement analysis skills, either to help your clients or to progress on your certification journey? Join us for an afternoon of just that. Using phone cameras, your clinic leaders
Dynamic Telemark vs Alpine Carving
(Saturday PM, Tele & Alpine)
A multidisciplinary carving clinic looking at the similarities and differences between carving on Telemark and Alpine equipment. Come on whichever gear you prefer and improve or hone your carving skills!
Fall Festival 2026
Non-Electives
Physical Therapy Ski Assessments at Northern Rocky Mountain (NRM) Fall Festival
Lone Peak Physical Therapy will be providing ski specific Physical Therapy assessments during Northern Rocky Mountain Fall Festival this year for Instructors. These will be indoor individual 30-minute sessions that will require sign-up prior to the event (see link below for sign up and BSR room location). The session will include a range of motion screen and alignment assessment, strength testing using isometric dynamometry, force plate assessment of loading responses and dynamic balance testing. Therapists may also be available to discuss current injuries or concerns and possible treatment options. All sessions will be provided by a licensed DPT at Lone Peak Physical Therapy. The assessments will be available Friday Dec 4 tt . There is no extra cost for these assessment. To reserve a session, please sign up below. (Still waiting to get link)
Boot Fitting with Brent
Do you have a set of new boots or old boots with some hot spots? New Liners? Need new footbeds? Email Brent Amsbry directly at pcputah@gmail.com. He does book up quickly, so make sure you contact him quickly for any appointment.
Thank you!
