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INTRODUCTION TO OFF PISTE SKIING in Val d’Isère & ESPACE KILLY

Enjoy with us the powder and off-piste slopes of VAL d’Isère & Tignes, off beaten tracks as we are specialists and know all the hidden bowls and nice valleys! We’ll do our best to make your holiday fun and so as to find the best snow for you! Explore the biggest “on piste” and off-piste ski area of our planet. A day or week of great skiing awaits you!!

Level
Intermediate level
Duration
2 or 3days
Period
From late November to May 8th

Diaporama

Details of the program

Easy off-pistes but you need to have an intermediate level in off-piste (OR in ski-touring).

Big easy (or not easy on demand!!) off-piste runs of VAL d’Isère  ….
OR in 3 Vallées : Mont Vallon, La Masse, Pierre Lory, big vertical drop descents to Beaune or to other Maurienne  places (minimum 1700 m vertical height)….…

This is an Introduction to off-piste:  You must be able to ski everywhere on pistes,even though you don’t feel comfortable on black runs. Come with wider skis (minimum 90 mm waist).

 

Teaching contents:

_  ski technique (and VIDEO filming and corrections on demand)

_ avalanche searching exercises (introduction and more!) +

How to make ski a group with maximum safety, depending on the number of participants

What must be the behaviour of every skier in dangerous or potential avalanche terrain?

_ skilled skiers: where to turn depending on the kind of snow;  when and where use   COMPRESSION TURNS or jumped turns better then classic turns/ How to use less energy to ski = how to understand (: to read”) the terrain and use it.

_ couloirs skiing or snowboarding

We are really motivated and skilled ski teachers, able to teach you in 8 different languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, german, RUSSIAN…); we aim to make you improve your technique and to help you as much as possible with analytical and technical tips, so as you spend the best holidays and have FUN while improving your skiing!

Practical information

Guiding by
UIAGM mountain guide or ski instructor, or both. Most of our day activities and courses/ ski-tours are guided and coached by UIAGM mountain guides of Savoie-Mont Blanc
Level
Intermediate level
Group
1 to 7 persons
Duration
2 or 3
Period
From late November to May 8th

Price

2 days

490 euros / Participants

With 4 participants minimum

3 days

690 euros / Participants

With 4 participants minimum

1 day of private guiding

500 euros / Participants

(430 € outside school holidays & High season)

1 day of Group lessons

150 euros / Participants

To book

Program

Day 1

Welcoming you at the start of  Solaise express chairlift at 8h30 a.m. Check up of your gear & skis.

We can lend for FREE: DVA beepers/ transceivers, shovles, probes, and ….if needed the harnesses.

TECHNIQUE =  TEACHING and  filming YOU  with video  CORRECTIONS

Days 1 & 2

Skiing on “Pays désert” or the several “Super L”  (west facings) or skiing two routes on “La Banane” (east face), from Bellevarde. In the afternoon, ski on west slopes like “Les Marmottes”.

Days 2 & 3

Val d’Isère Le Fornet (several intermediate difficulty lines in GRANDS VALLONS); or skiing in Tignes, easy couloirs of Petite Balme (P2, P3), and “Tour de Pramecou” (Tignes), etc…..

If we ski on Le Fornet, we’ll ski many fantastic routes on “Vallonnets”and “Grands Vallons” and “Signal west” and “Signal nord”. If the snow conditions are good, the best are “Signal nord” and the steep “Vallonnets” ; we’ll eat at lunch at the best altitude gastronomic restaurant on Espace Killy : the Signal restaurant.

So probably one day skiing in Tignes and one skiing in Val d’Isère.

To book