Christa Ross
Alpine Examiner
Home Resort/School Seven Springs, Okemo PA,VT work
Notes
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? |
I trained as a graphic artist and spent 16 years doing animation for a video production company. |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? |
For the last 15 years, I have worked as a real estate agent in Pittsburgh. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? |
Hidden Valley Ski Resort when I was about 8 years old. It did not go well. My mother reminds me of this fact often. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? |
I started teaching skiing at Seven Springs in 1987, mostly because I wanted the pass and I wanted to ski all the time. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? |
It is not an overstatement to say that the people I have met while being an instructor have changed my life. My best friends, my family, and those that I have met briefly but encouraged me to pursue this passion have all come from this sport. I can’t point to a single favorite memory, but my snowsports career is the defining piece of my being. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? |
Honestly doesn’t matter where; give me a bluebird day or a snowstorm and a run that I can play in the trees or the bumps on, and I couldn’t be happier. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? |
I spend my off-season in the woods on my mountain bike. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? |
When I was younger, there were trainers, mentors, and ed staff that made me into the teacher and the skier I am today. Now I look around and realize it is my job to step into that role for others. My goal is to give those coming up in the sport the same encouragement, development, and occasional beat down that I got so they can achieve their goals. |
