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Every Winter
and Spring I have a 3 month programme of ski tours ranging from Easy/Introductory
to Intermediate to Advanced. The programme varies each year, bringing
new and less well-known areas as well as featuring some of the old
favourites. If you have not been with me before I would like to say
that I will do everything I can to help you enjoy your holiday, as
well as trying to achieve the objectives of the trip. If you have been
with me before, you get the usual reward of loyalty and long sufferance
by a discount off the Guiding Fee. |
Ski Touring Programme 2008
Due to other commitments, I will only be able to do the one trip this year.
VILLARS – KANDERSTEG SKI SAFARI Wed 16th - Wed 23rd January
This is a ski safari through the northern slopes of the Wildhorn and the Wildstrubel, using mechanical transport wherever possible and skins up to 2 hours daily, to give access to great off-piste descents, many on north facing slopes. Accommodation is in comfortable hotels, some very comfortable.
Day 1: meet at Villars. Day 2: Training day skiing at Villars. Day 3: ski the linked lift system to Les Diablerets with off-piste variations. Day 4: lift to Isenau 1855m short descent then climb on skins to the Waglihurli 2050 (1½ hrs) great 900m N-facing descent to Feutersoey bus and train to Saanen Moser - hotel. Day 5: Lift to Gandlauengrat 2005m short descent then climb Wisttathorn 2362m (2 hrs). 1,400m descent on N-facing slopes to St.Stephen bus/train to Lenk - hotel. Day 6: off-piste skiing using the Lenk/Adelboden lift system finishing with a run down to Adelboden. Bus and lift to Engstligenalp - hotel. Day 7: lift, then climb the Tierhornli 2894m (2 hrs), fantastic 1600m N-facing descent to Kandersteg. Train back to Leysin - hotel. Day 8: depart.
Grade: Intermediate. Strong basic (i.e. feet apart) parallel, skiing Red runs comfortably and fairly happy on the easier Black runs. Some previous off-piste experience, enough to know that you can keep up a reasonably steady pace without too many falls. No previous mountaineering experience required. No crevassed glaciers. .
Guide: Peter Cliff.
Travel: Air to Geneva, train to Villars-sur-Ollon.
Guiding Fee: £370 Local Currency: SF 1,460
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