Beginner Ski Packages in Gulmarg

Day 1, Standing, sliding, stopping. Standing, sliding, stopping

Morning starts with boot fitting and a proper equipment check: boot fit, binding release setting, pole length. Then onto the Baby Slope. You'll learn the athletic stance skiing actually needs, how to move around on flat snow, side-stepping and herringbone to climb, and how to fall and get back up without wearing yourself out.

The core skill of Day 1 is the snowplough, the wedge shape that lets you control speed and come to a complete stop whenever you want. By the end of the afternoon you'll be sliding the Baby Slope and stopping on command at a point your instructor picks.

Day 2, Linking turns. Linking turns

Turning, both directions, in the snowplough. This is the day the sport starts to make sense: you'll learn how pressure and steering change your direction, how to traverse across a slope, and how to use the beginner lift so you spend your energy skiing rather than walking uphill.

We move to the 8-5 slope once your stops are reliable. Longer runs, more speed to manage, and the beginnings of slope awareness, reading pitch, judging stopping distance, and the right-of-way rules that keep a busy Gulmarg slope safe.

Day 3, Skiing a full run on your own. Skiing a full run on your own

Highland Park. Longer descents, linked turns from top to bottom, and the first steps toward matching your skis at the end of each turn, the movement that eventually becomes a parallel turn. You'll bring in pole use, work on rhythm rather than one turn at a time, and finish the day skiing the run repeatedly without your instructor needing to talk you down it.

Day 1, Standing, sliding, stopping. Standing, sliding, stopping

Equipment fitting and binding check, then the Baby Slope. Athletic stance, moving on flat snow, side-stepping and herringbone, falling and recovering efficiently, and the snowplough, speed control and a reliable stop on command.

Day 2, Linking turns. Linking turns

Snowplough turns in both directions, traversing, and using the beginner lift. Once your stops are dependable we move to the 8-5 slope for longer runs, more speed to manage, and slope awareness: reading pitch, judging stopping distance, right of way.

Day 3, Full runs at Highland Park. Full runs at Highland Park

Longer descents, turns linked top to bottom, and the first work on matching your skis at the end of each turn. Pole use, rhythm, and enough repetition that skiing a full run stops feeling like a series of separate decisions.

Day 4, Gondola Phase 1, Kongdoori. Gondola Phase 1, Kongdoori

Your first mountain day. The Gondola takes you from the Gulmarg base at 2,650 m up to Kongdoori at around 3,100 m, and the descent back down is longer and more varied than anything you have skied so far, changing pitch, changing snow, other skiers to read.

The technical work is the stem christie: starting a turn from a wedge and finishing it with both skis matched and on edge. This is the bridge to parallel skiing, and Day 4 is where most people first feel their skis running together instead of fighting each other.

Day 5, Parallel turns. Parallel turns

Wedge out, parallel in. You'll work on initiating turns with edge and pressure rather than by pushing the tail out, build rhythm through medium-radius turns, and then take it down the full Kongdoori descent repeatedly until it holds up under fatigue, which is the real test of whether a skill has stuck.

We finish the day skiing top to bottom together, with your instructor riding behind you rather than in front.

Day 1, Standing, sliding, stopping. Standing, sliding, stopping

Equipment fitting and binding check. Baby Slope: stance, moving on flat snow, side-stepping and herringbone, falling and recovering, and the snowplough for speed control and a stop on command.

Day 2, Linking turns. Linking turns

Snowplough turns both directions, traversing, using the beginner lift. Onto the 8-5 slope for longer runs, more speed to manage, and slope awareness and right of way.

Day 3, Full runs at Highland Park. Full runs at Highland Park

Longer descents, turns linked top to bottom, first work on matching the skis at the end of a turn. Pole use and rhythm.

Day 4, Gondola Phase 1, Kongdoori. Gondola Phase 1, Kongdoori

Base at 2,650 m up to Kongdoori at around 3,100 m. Long descents on varied pitch and varied snow. The stem christie: turn starts from a wedge, finishes matched and on edge.

Day 5, Parallel turns. Parallel turns

The wedge comes out of the turn initiation. Edge and pressure replace pushing the tail out. Medium-radius turns with rhythm, repeated on the full Kongdoori descent until they survive being tired.

Day 6, The chairlift, and steeper snow. The chairlift, and steeper snow

The chairlift above Kongdoori opens terrain with more pitch and more variety than the Gondola runs. Here your parallel turns stop being a technique and start being a tool: short-radius turns for control on steeper sections, edge grip on firm morning snow, and your first turns in soft snow off the groomed edge under close instruction.

We also run a beginner mountain-safety session on Day 6, what avalanche terrain looks like, why we ski where we ski, how to read a forecast, and where the boundaries are between in-bounds skiing and the backcountry. Our guiding team is certified through AIARE, Avalanche Canada and the Kashmir Avalanche Association, and we think every skier should understand this before they are tempted past a rope line.

Day 7, Putting it together. Putting it together

A full mountain day with no new technique introduced, the day everything consolidates. Dynamic parallel turns, varying turn shape and speed to suit terrain rather than skiing one turn for everything, and choosing your own lines. Your instructor will finish with an honest assessment of where you are and what to work on next.