• 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.

Ross Matlock
PSIA Nordic Team

Instructor, Crested Butte Mountain Resort, CO

• PSIA Telemark Trainer and apprentice examiner for Rocky Mtn Division track/skate
• Childrens' accredited
• Certified American Avalanche Institute Level I Instructor

Skiing and PSIA is a family affair for Ross Matlock. Wife Jill Sickels Matlock was a National Alpine team member from 2000-2004 and they’re raising a couple of little rippers of their own. Ross is convinced that kids can and should learn to telemark at an early age, and has launched a children’s telemark program at Crested Butte Ski School. He has also helped organize several telemark festivals, including the US Telemark Slopestyle Championships and Tele X festivals in Crested Butte, the Telemark Free Ski Championships, Mountain Adventure Seminars and Grand Targee Telephoria.  Ross has been a ski school director, clinic leader, telemark instructor and backcountry ski guide in his native Australia. His globe trotting adventures are numerous, ranging from skiing the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt, to ski mountaineering in Valdez and 1st descents in the Ruth Glacier area of Alaska.

Training Manager, Jackson Hole Mountain Sports School, Jackson Hole, WY

• PSIA Track, Telemark and Backcountry Examiner and Clinic Leader
• Certified American Avalanche Institute Level III
• American Mountain Guides Association Graduate of Alpine and Ski Guide Courses
• Past president, US Telemark Ski Association
• Career high ranking of 14th at FIS World Cup Telemark GS, Snowbird, 1998

Scott has been deeply involved in skiing and outdoor education since his college days, when he supervised the telemark and cross-country ski programs for the legendary Dartmouth Outing Club. He’s taught and guided throughout the Rocky Mountain West for resorts, colleges, private outfitters, and several renowned Outward Bound Schools.  Scott has worked with all sorts of populations from 14 and 15 year olds to groups of classroom teachers to corporate executives on 8 to 28 day river and mountain courses. He is among the most widely certified members of the Nordic Team with certifications in teaching, avalanche, and guiding. A past president of the US Telemark Ski Association, Scott has numerous top-10 finishes in local and national tele competitions to show for it.  He has also been widely published in ski newsletters and magazines. Scott isn’t just an academic: Demonstrating he is an all-season mountaineer, in addition to working as chief trainer for Jackson Hole’s celebrated Mountain Sports School, he teaches and guides with Exum Mountain Guides in the Tetons. This is Scott’s second term on the PSIA National Nordic Team.