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Snow Camps Europe — Andy Rose
Andy Rose at Snow Camps Europe is my recommendation for exploring Kaprun and Kitzsteinhorn with a focus on improving your skiing. Our conversations cover the mountain, confidence and understanding how you learn.
Explore lessons & contact the team ↗More than another ski week
Snow Camps Europe offers small-group ski camps, private lessons and themed trips, including confidence-focused Fear-Less camps and Ski-Solo weeks. Its programmes work with partner ski schools, so ask who will coach your group and which format suits your skiing.
A clearer picture of your skiing
Episode 34 explores Andy’s Skier Insights assessment, coaching preferences and why the same instruction can land differently for different people. Episode 15 looks at Kaprun, glacier skiing, resort choices and practical trip planning.
Start with the right conversation
Send Andy your dates, skiing experience and goals. Confirm the location, ability requirements, inclusions, accommodation arrangements and current cost before booking. The linked resort guide brings together the CarveCast Kaprun and Kitzsteinhorn material.
Meet them on CarveCast.
Keep planning.
Recommendation: Adam Matthews. Service details checked against the provider’s website on 5 November 2026. Confirm current programmes, prices and availability directly.
From first qualification to camp director.
PSIE’s trainer biography traces Andy’s first ski-instructor qualification to 1986 and his first winter season to 1988/89. It records his return to full-time coaching in 2012, a move to Austria and requalification through the Austrian instructor system.
That biography describes work with a long-established Kaprun ski school, Snowminds and the SIA Austria training team. It links the creation of Snow Camps Europe to Andy’s wish for a more personal coaching experience following an injury. PSIE now lists him as a Licensed Professional Trainer and creator of the Skier Insights Assessment.
Source: Andy’s Professional Ski Instructors of Europe trainer biography ↗
A camp built around the individual.
Snow Camps Europe dates its beginnings to 2018. Its current About page names Andy as owner and camp director and identifies a teaching partnership with Cold Candy Snow School. Its stated priorities are quality, personal attention and an experience shaped around different skiers, rather than a single lesson format for everyone.
The camp idea also includes the social part of a mountain week. Small-group coaching sits alongside opportunities to spend time with other guests off the snow. Ask which evenings and activities are included in your particular booking; joining a group need not mean committing to every social event.
Source: Snow Camps Europe’s story and current teaching partnership ↗
Choose the camp for the skiing you have now.
Beginner camps
A structured introduction for people starting skiing, with a focus on learning the basics in a supportive group.
Improver camps
For skiers working towards more dependable parallel turns, control and confidence. Describe your current skiing to help the team place you.
Technical camps
For stronger skiers seeking more demanding work on piste technique, moguls, steeper terrain and changing snow.
These are the provider’s programme categories, not a remote assessment of your level. Discuss the terrain and pace before choosing. Current dates, prices and inclusions are listed on the official camp page.
When nerves shape the whole ski day.
The Fear-Less programme is aimed at skiers whose confidence drops when slopes feel steeper, narrower or busier. It offers a more specifically confidence-focused option than simply joining a faster group and hoping to keep up.
In our episode 34 conversation, Andy and I also explore why confidence may be the visible symptom of a different learning problem. A useful enquiry describes the actual situations that trigger hesitation: a busy piste, firmer snow, a particular gradient or losing control of speed. Ask the team how they would approach that starting point.
Source: Fear-Less programme ↗
Skier Insights: start with a better question.
Our episode 34 centres on Andy’s Skier Insights assessment. It looks beyond a broad beginner/intermediate/advanced label to explore why progress might have stalled. The conversation covers control, confidence, terrain, learning environments and the difference between coached time and simply accumulating mileage.
Profiles discussed include cautious, plateaued and inconsistent skiers, as well as social improvers and skiers ready for more mileage. Use an assessment as a starting point for a conversation with a coach, rather than a promise of results or a substitute for watching you ski.
Hear the full Skier Insights conversation ↗
Source: CarveCast episode 34 ↗
Considering instructor training?
Snow Camps Europe is a Licensed Course Provider for PSIE and advertises a Level 1 route into ski teaching. The published course page describes a six-day camp including four days of official assessment. Confirm the format for the specific course you intend to join.
If working as an instructor is the goal, ask about entry requirements, what the qualification permits in the country where you hope to teach and what further training may be needed. A course listing alone should not be treated as a guarantee of employment or unrestricted permission to work.
Put the coaching at the centre of the trip.
Our episode 15 covers Kaprun, Kitzsteinhorn and practical resort planning. Pair it with the CarveCast destination guide when thinking about your base, lesson meeting points and time on the mountain.
- Ask how your group will be matched and who is delivering the coaching.
- Check whether lift passes, equipment, accommodation and transfers are included or separate.
- Explain whether you are travelling alone, with another skier or with a mixed-ability group.
- Agree a realistic goal and ask how you can keep working on it afterwards.