Team Member Profile
Craig Panarisi
Coach, PSIA Nordic Team
- Training and program manager for all Instructional Activities - Jackson Hole, WY
- PSIA-Intermountain clinician/examiner
- Contributor and technical reviewer for The Professional Skier magazine
Panarisi’s big love is telemark skiing. He began his career in 1983 at Purgatory Ski Resort in Colorado, teaching telemark lessons and driving snowcats. In 1990 he continued telemark skiing as a full-time ski touring guide and staff trainer at the Ski Schools of Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado. The next season, Panarisi moved to Utah to work as a staff trainer, guide, and snowsports instructor at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort. Following his six seasons at Snowbird, he became assistant ski school director at nearby Solitude for eight years. Panarisi then moved to Jackson Hole to become a training and program manager. Highlights of a tenure with PSIA’s Nordic Team that began in 1988 include representing PSIA at Interski events in Austria, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia and Korea as well as a United States Disabled Ski Team blind skier guide. He also facilitated three one-month ski training courses for the U.S. military’s winter warfare operations. In the summer, Panarisi is an avid paraglider pilot and enjoys fly fishing.