Ski mountaineering and couloir skiing - adventure and experience

• Course content and procedure

  We get to know each other and clarify your expectations.

  • Day 1 - Welcome and getting to know each other

    approx. 09:00 a.m.

    We get to know each other and clarify your expectations.

  • Day 1 - Application tour to the accommodation

    After the welcome, the food needed for the next few days in the self-catering hut is distributed in the rucksacks. We use the cable cars to cover the first metres in altitude and gather initial information about the conditions and terrain. Following the 3×3 planning pattern, we discuss what we have seen and the planned tour for the day. The professional decision-making processes of the mountain guides are communicated transparently and discussed together so that you have the opportunity to apply what you have learnt and ask questions.

    Daily destination: After a great and interesting ascent and a varied descent, we reached our destination for the day, the self-catering hut.

    Daily content:

    Assessment of the terrain in which we move

    • Steepness
    • Avalanche danger
    • Risk check in the field

    Evening

    We cater for ourselves in the hut, melting snow and cooking together make this day unique and incredibly exciting.

    Tour planning

    • 3×3 tour planning
    • Avalanche bulletin
    • Avalanche awareness
    • Risk check
  • Day 2 - Application tour around the hut

    The areas in which we are travelling offer numerous opportunities for ascents with crampons and ropes. Great descents bring a smile to our faces. To complete the adventure, we use the rope to abseil over cornices or ledges.

    Daily destination: You have experienced a unique tour and learnt new techniques for challenging ski tours.

    Daily content:

    Ascent

    • Ascent track
    • Crampons and ice axe

    Departure

    • Organisation in the departure
      • Couloir
      • Steep terrain

    Abseiling

    • Improvised anchor point
    • Abseiling techniques

    Avalanche awareness

     

     

  • Day 3 - Application tour

    We undertake another exciting and varied "ski mountaineering and couloir tour"

    Daily destination: You will be challenged once again, learn new things and can already apply some of them independently.

    Daily content

    Repeat and independently apply what you have learnt and make your own decisions

  • Conclusion

    approx. 15:00

    We complete the tour together.

• Venues

  Ramotzhütte, Graubünden: 

  Meeting point: ~08:35 - bus stop - Lenzerheide/Lai, Rothornbahn - directly after arrival of public transport
  Finish: ~15:00 Lenzerheid, Arosa or Davos

   

• Requirements

  • Mastering the ski touring technique with its basics (skins, hairpin turns).
  • Safe downhill technique in open terrain and in different types of snow
  • Stamina for ski tours with an ascent of around 1200 metres
  • Stamina for more than 1200 metres of downhill skiing in different types of snow
  • Splitboarders are welcome, provided they are experienced

   

  • Experience with walking on crampons
  • Free from giddiness
  • You already have experience in summer mountaineering or rock climbing
  • You can rope up independently with a figure eight knot

• Price and services

  • CHF 1090.-
  • Smallest group with 3 - 4 guests per mountain guide:in. - Small group
  • Including planning and realisation with mountain guide and his travel expenses
  • Including accommodation costs and half board
  • Excluding travelling expenses, any train tickets, personal consumption

• Material and equipment

  • For this tour you need the following material from this PDF. We carry our equipment with us all the time. Pack only what is necessary.

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Impressions: Ski mountaineering and couloir