Chris Magerl

Chris gets to spend more than 100 days a year on skis, and most of it is on the clock, making him the luckiest person he knows. He has taught in the juniors programs for TUNA in Salt Lake City and for the National Sports Foundation in Park City. Chris coordinates the grooming crew for The Utah Nordic Alliance at the Mountain Dell course in Salt Lake City. He also runs the TUNA adults' 9-week clinic as well as coaching private clients at Mountain Dell. Chris has been on the teaching staff at White Pine Touring in Park City since 2005. His clients there run the range from sea-level warm climate folks putting on skis for the first time in their life to masters age group winners looking for classic technique work to national guard biathletes competing internationally. A few years ago, over the course of one month at White Pine Chris taught a lesson to a 3-year-old and a 98-year-old, setting a shop record client age span of 95 years in one season, a mark that might be hard to beat. The 98-year-old bought new classic skis at the end of the lesson. "That sense of skiing being a life-long pursuit resonates strongly with me. My idols are the unbelievable 70-year-olds I get to line up with in our race series, and I hope to be so fortunate as to be one of those strong old guys on skis a few decades down the road." "I also love the idea that I will be learning ski technique for as long as I can stand on skis. This ancient sport continues to evolve and there is always more for me to learn and new skills to develop. Rather than find that frustrating, I find that to be its own reward."