The Last Best SKI - Cory Birkenbuel / Instructor The Yellowstone Club

Yellowstone Club ski instructor Cory Birkenbuel grew up shredding the slopes at Maverick Mountain.  His school project dubbed Montana’s Sweet 16 made him the first Montanan to ski each ski resort in Montana on consecutive days.  Cory shares his love of skiing and SW Montana. Cory and I grew up skiing through the little skiers program to impromptu ski days with our boisterous crews in high school.

Man, I’ll tell you what - walking in boots, you can tell something about somebody right away. How they walk in their boots little kids to older people, if their shins are slammed up against the boot and they are walking like that you can already see what they need to work on. With true progression its those little steps from the boots, take one ski across the parking lot. Put both skis on, start walking on them. Teach it on the flat ground first. You want to build up confidence and that’s what skiing is; confidence.

Cory Birkenbuel skiing upper ridge, Maverick Mountain

my hometown ski area Maverick mountain

Cory Skiing upper ridge