Ski Off-Piste – Advanced
Become a better and safer off-piste skier!
Venturing off piste, getting fresh tracks, exploring away from the lifts is exciting and exhilerating but not without risk; experience, local knowledge, mountain awareness and off-piste technique are essential. With this in mind, Chamonix Experience has developed our off-piste course.
Course Description
Designed for those who want to both learn more and explore, our 6 day advanced off-piste course offers a mix of instruction and off-piste guiding, during which you will be able to improve both your technique and mountain safety skills at the same time as exploring one of the best off-piste areas in the world.
A few of the Chamonix Experience guides are qualified ski instructors as well as IFMGA mountain guides and normally it will be one of them leading the course. Alternatively, the first three days will be under the tutelage of a ski instructor who will hone your off-piste technique. For the rest of the week you will be with an IFMGA mountain guide, whose agenda will be to take you to the wild and remote areas of the region at the same time as teaching the essential skills of avalanche awareness and skiing safely on glaciers.
To maximise your time and your skiing we leave it up to your guide and instructors to tailor the programme to suit weather, conditions and the overall level of the group. Every day s/he will choose the area offering the best off-piste skiing at the moment.
Watch some great skiing shots and get inspired!
Course Details
Duration: 6 days (Sunday to Saturday – welcome meeting Sunday night at the Chamonix Experience office, ski days Monday to Saturday inclusibe)
2012 Dates:
February 12-18
February 19 – 25 – 5 places left
March 18 – 24 - Full
Group Size: 4-6
Ratio: 1:6
Included: 5 days instruction and guiding, avalanche transceiver, shovel, probe, in-resort transport.
Not included: Personal ski equipment, harness, mountain rescue insurance, accommodation and food, lift pass (255€ 6 day unlimited Chamonix lift pass – we can purchase this for you in advance if you wish).
Equipment: See Equipment List or contact our office.
Price: 595€ per person
For whom: Very competent piste skiers who have off – piste experience (i.e. you should be able to ski easy angle off-piste runs and be ready for more challenging terrain) and want to learn better technique, safety and explore the off piste terrain. If you are thinking of starting ski touring and your off-piste experience is limited we highly recommend doing this course first.
