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SAFETY POLICY
Your child’s safety is your number one concern and the top priority of SKI TRAVEL, too. Our ski and snowboard trips offer students a wholesome activity with chaperones and professional transportation. In many ways they’re safer than when they’re out with friends on a regular weekend at home, when they may be unsupervised and subject to teen drivers. Our tour buses are driven by experienced operators from a reputable company, Gunther Charters. We go for safety all the way and a mechanics even follows our buses to ensure safe and on-time travel.
Once in Tremblant, students find themselves in a charming pedestrian village. The village offers plenty to keep travelers entertained when the slopes close at day’s end. The village is small enough for chaperones to keep a watchful eye on students...read more
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DAN CALLAHAN | Trip Director
Dan was born in Philadelphia, PA but grew up in Northern Virginia. He founded Ski Travel in 1981 while still a high school student at Bishop O'Connell High School. While in college at George Mason University he expanded the business to include additional high schools throughout the VA, MD, D.C. area. Since 1981 Dan has supervised and directed trips for over 80,000 students. He founded Ski Travel to fill the need for safe, chaperoned alternatives to discontinued school sponsored ski clubs and ski trips. As the father of a large family including six teenagers, he understands the concerns of parents. All of his children have learned to ski and snowboard while on Ski Travel trips over the last 32 years. Many of the children play an active role in the company including Jimmy who is now Assistant Director. Dan lives in Fairfax, VA with his wife Rita and their 13 children.
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LEWIS RHODES | Head of Security
Lewis a native of Arlington, Virginia chaperoned his first trip in 2000 and gradually increased the number of trips he attended each year. He became our head of security in 2007 and attends every trip. He is available throughout the night on the trips for any situation that may arrive. He is a father of two and lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
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JIMMY CALLAHAN | Assistant Trip Director
Jimmy was born in Fairfax, Virginia and is an avid skier. He graduated from the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina majoring in History and minoring in American Politics. Jimmy got married in August 2011 and lives in Burke, Virginia with his wife Jacqueline. He has helped run many of our high school trips including three 2011 trips to Mont Tremblant and one trip to Snowshoe, West Virginia last year. Jimmy is experienced as both a chaperone and an assistant trip director working with both resort officials and security personel on the mountain. He is looking forward to another winter filled with great skiing and safe trips.
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JACKIE KIDWELL | Tour Agent & Trip Chaperone
Jackie grew up in Fauquier County, Virginia in a very active family full of sports enthusiasts. She was an all-state and all-conference athlete throughout high school, playing varsity tennis, basketball, and lacrosse at Middleburg Academy (Middleburg, VA) freshman and sophomore year and then Highland School (Warrenton, VA) junior and senior year, where she was also granted Athlete of the Year and the Highland Spirit Award. She found her love for snowboarding in high school when her schools offered ski and snowboarding programs throughout the winter. This became extremely important to Jackie after a devastating knee injury that required five surgeries and ended her ability to play sports competitively for a university. Snowboarding quickly became something she could turn to and she continued to do so throughout college, participating in university snowboard clubs and taking trips to mountains with friends and family. ...read more
Jackie graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Communications focusing in Public Relations with a minor in Political Science. While at Tech, Jackie remained extremely active as VP Public Relations of Delta Delta Delta, three star national chapter of the year that also raised over $65,000 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Public Relations & Event Planning Chair of College Republicans and helped run Montgomery County GOP headquarters as Volunteer Coordinator there for the McCain Campaign, member of the Virginia Tech Greek Homecoming Board and VT Club Tennis. Jackie is First Aid & CPR certified and has held a number of internships, including the Assistant Camp Director for DMB Sports Group's athletic camps where she coached kids and ran numerous camps that served hundreds of kids from kindergarten through high school. She is currently a member of a USTA 4.0 tennis team in Northern Virginia and works as our PR/Marketing Manager as well as a Tour Agent. Jackie loves to work with kids, especially in sports, so she is counting down the days to get on the mountain with all of you!
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HOBY PATRICK | Chaperone
Hoby is 45 years old and married with 4 children ranging from 15 to 7. He was born and raised in Fairfax City where he attended Fairfax High School and George Mason University. He has made his home in Potomac Falls for the last 11 years and his children attend Potomac Falls High School, Riverbend Middle School and Horizon Elementary School. He works in Tyson’s Corner for NeoSystems Corp., as a Database Administrator/Senior Technical Consultant. In his personal life he has attended four mission trips with his church to Honduras where they helped build school buildings and dormitories for impoverished children. While in college he came to work with Ski Travel as a Tour Agent. He attended High School and College Ski trips with the company as a Chaperone and Trip Coordinator for about five years in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Ski Travel has always provided a trip that is second to none for the young skier. ...read more
It offers the students the chance to attend a ski trip that allows them to stay at resort lodging on the mountain but at a reasonable price. The students are able to share an incredible ski trip with their classmates which they will remember for a long time. All the while their parents can be comforted to know that the Ski Travel staff works tirelessly to provide for a safe environment for their children. My children are now reaching the age where they can attend the ski trips so I have come full circle in my life with Ski Travel. I now return to Ski Travel as a Parent Chaperone where I will be able to share some great skiing adventures with my kids.
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ALESSANDRA CARNEIRO| Tour Agent & Trip Chaperone
Alessandra is from Bethesda, Maryland. She attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High school, and was part of the last graduating class out of the Wheaton campus in 2006, whats upppp falcons! She was involved in field hockey and swimming while enrolled there and also attended the SkiTravel Snow Escape trips in 2005 and 2006. After high school she went to the University of John Carroll in Ohio, right outside of Cleveland where it snowed from October until April (for real). In the winter of 2007 she was on the John Carroll Ski team, which traveled to different cities and states to compete in down hill slalom and giant slalom with other schools. She also organized for her team members to go on SkiTravel's Spring Break College trips. ...read more
In the fall of 2007 she transferred to the University of Delaware to study fine art, art history, and photography. She had the best time of her life as a bird of prey- a fighting blue hen. Got to see Joe Flacco before he left to become a Raven (why are they all birds?) which was really awesome. She worked as a waitress and hostess at Klondike Kates, one of the best restaurants on Main Street at UD. In March of 2009, she was craving the beautiful trails of Mont Tremblant, and returned this time for College Fest in late March with other students from UD. She has worked in primary care health facilities and is an experienced child care provider. Currently working as a fashion merchandiser for Ellen Tracy, she travels between 8 different stores in the DC, MD, and VA area. It is a great job that allows her to balance working at Skitravel, in addition to attend all the trips! holler holler pop your collar. see you on the slopes.
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JOSE JAMES | Production Manager & Head Chaperone
Jose, a Washington native has been with Ski Travel since the Fall of 2002. His experiences as a Marine( including 3 tours of Iraq) and as an Eagle Scout have enabled him to successfully lead and organize marketing production at the company. A snowboarder, he has also chaperoned trips every year he has been with Ski Travel making him one of our most seasoned chaperones. He is currently a part-time graduate student as well.
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JOE PORIER | County Police Officer & Trip Chaperone
Joe is a Fairfax County Police officer and an avid snowboarder. He has attend our trips for more than 8 years and looks forwarding chaperoning again this year. One of our most experienced chaperones Joe has been on staff for trips with over 15,000 students.
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JENN HOLLM | Intern Tour Agent & Trip Chaperone
Jenn is currently a Senior at George Mason University where she is an active sister of the Iota Alpha Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta. She is working on a Major in Tourism & Events Management along with a Minor in Business. During her College years Jenn has volunteered with Best Buddies, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and has helped raised money for her sororities Philanthropy, Autism Speaks. She grew up in Northern Virginia playing basketball, soccer and lacrosse for the local youth clubs. She attended Paul VI Catholic High where she was a first chair floutist, she also took part in many piano festivals and guilds. Throughout her High School career she ran indoor and outdoor ...read more
hurdles on her track team as well as held Captain positions in Cheerleading and Lacrosse. Jenn has worked alot with the soccer community; she coached a U12 soccer team as well as Refereed for over 5 years during which she officiated state cup matches and was nominated for the ODP tournament in Virginia. Jenns father was a ski instructor in Upstate New York so naturally skiing was Jenns original snow-sport but she has recently started snowboarding. Her father also brought her into the Hiking community as a volunteer for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC), where she maintains trails so that Hikers may be able to enjoy the Shenandoah Region of the Appalachian Trail. Jenn has seen first hand the amazing times to be had in Canada both on and off the slopes and can't wait to share the upcoming trips with students from all over the East Coast!
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NATE DALLY | Chaperone
Nate was born and raised in Springfield, Virginia and still lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Anailim. He is a certified child care supervisor with Fairfax County Public Schools SACC and Recreation programs. He works directly with students at various schools throughout the county. Over the past five years he has learned to deeply develop child interests into lifelong passions through his work with elementary / middle school students. Administratively he spearheaded a department wide consultation team, but the real fun for him has come from working on interschool programs such as: Flag Football League, Pine Wood Dirby, Invention of Dance, Mountain Bike Club, Break Dance Crew, and Pen Pals of the 21st century. Through these programs he has taken students on many trips. He would love to work in the green market. On the side he is studying to become a LEED Green Associate with aspirations to become AP. He has been an adult mentor on the Fairfax Surf Shop Skateboard Team for five years and has skated for fifteen years. He is also an experienced snowboarder.
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