Weems takes over
Replacing Larry Lasch as director of the Coronet Peak ski school this season is the fast-talking American, Weems Westteldt, who will be having his third year on the mountain.
Westfeldt, aged 33, is a supervisor at the Taos ski school in New Mexico an.d a former member of the United States ski demonstration team.
He is an examiner for both the New Zealand Ski Instructors Association and the Rocky Mountains Ski Instructors Association. And as a staff ski writer for “Powder” magazine and a contributor to “Ski” and "Powderhound” he is kept busy off the slopes.
A New Zealander, Fraser Skinner, will help run the ski school as codirector.
Also returning to Coronet Peak for another season will be the husband-and-wife ski professional combination, Christopher and Chrissie Rawlings. Chrissie, a Scotiish-born instructor, in her fifth season at Coronet, was a member of the N.Z.S.I.A. “demo” team at the world event Interski, in Zao, Japan, earlier this year. She will be in charge of the children’s ski school while h.&r husband heads the ski patrol.
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