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Ski tours and avalanches | Training weekend in Central Switzerland with a mountain guide
Learn and deepen your knowledge in the various areas of ski touring, from ascent and descent to avalanche awareness.
Technics
Endurance
Oberalp Pass, Central Switzerland
During these two days, we will be out and about together. With the aim of experiencing, learning and directly applying as much as possible. You have the opportunity to become active yourself, make decisions and be supported at all times. We clarify open questions and important topics in a practical way on site - exactly where they are relevant.
If you have already gained some experience on a ski tour and would like to deepen your knowledge of avalanche awareness, tour planning and ski touring technique, this is the right place for you. Depending on the interests of the participants, we will cover different aspects of ski touring - from safe track setting and avalanche assessment to tour planning and technique. All you need is curiosity, motivation and a desire to learn outdoors.
The area around the Maighelshütte above the Oberalp Pass offers ideal conditions for this. The wide slopes, the open terrain and the impressive mountain scenery between Piz Badus, Piz Cavradi and Maighelshorn make the area a varied and instructive touring area. Thanks to the diverse exposures and altitudes, a wide variety of situations can be experienced and analysed here. Perfect conditions for directly combining theory and practice.
For optimum preparation, we recommend that you attend a Avalanche theory evening to take part. The 2-day course is compact and practice-orientated. For more in-depth and comprehensive training with additional application tours, we recommend the 4-day training course in Safiental or the Training week in Sedrun.
Come with us to the area around the Maighelshütte - a place where learning becomes experience, knowledge becomes safety and a group becomes a real community.
Course content and procedure
We’ll meet at the Oberalp Pass, the starting point of our tour to the Maighelshütte. After a brief welcome from the mountain guide, we’ll set off together and make our way up to the hut at a leisurely pace through the snow-covered winter landscape. Once there, we’ll get straight into the training, building on your previous experience.
On the first day, we’ll build on your previous experience and go into more depth on the basics of ski touring. We’ll analyse your current movement patterns, refine your walking technique and kick turns, and practise using avalanche equipment safely. The aim is to enable you to apply individual techniques efficiently and independently.
Daily destination: You’ll build on what you’ve learnt so far, improve your technical skills and gain greater confidence in using your equipment.
On the second day, we put what we’ve learnt into practice on a group ski tour. We planned the tour together the evening before. Along the way, we assess the terrain and the avalanche conditions and discuss key decision points openly within the group. You’ll gain an insight into the mountain guide’s thought process and learn to assess dangers and risks more independently.
Daily destination: You can combine your knowledge with practical application, recognise relevant hazards in the terrain and gain greater confidence in assessing and planning your own ski tours.
Over the course of the two days, you will consolidate what you have learnt so far and develop your practical skills in the following areas:
Ski touring technique
- Optimising walking techniques
- Performing U-turns efficiently
Avalanche awareness and safety equipment
- Correct and efficient use of an avalanche transceiver, probe and shovel
- Procedure for searching for avalanche victims and raising the alarm
- Interpreting the avalanche bulletin
- Gaining a deeper understanding of the basics of avalanche science
Route planning and risk assessment
- 3×3 route planning
- Risk assessment during route planning and off-road
- Assessment of terrain steepness and avalanche risk
- Assessing risks, hazards and potential consequences
- Identifying safe islands and organising your runs carefully
After completing this advanced course, you’ll be better able to apply your knowledge in practice. You’ll gain greater confidence in assessing terrain and avalanche conditions, and you’ll be well-prepared to plan your next ski tours more thoughtfully and independently.
After our ski tour together, we’ll return to the Oberalp Pass and bring the training days to a close. You’ll take away in-depth knowledge, practical experience and new tools to help you plan and undertake your next ski tours with greater awareness and independence.
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 short ski tours with an ascent of around 800 - 1000 metres at a leisurely pace (~300m/h).
- Splitboarders are welcome.
Price and services
- CHF 490.-
- Small group with 4 - 8 guests per mountain guide.
- Including professional planning and realisation with a mountain guide and his travel expenses.
- Including overnight stay with half board
- Excluding travel expenses, possible train tickets, personal consumption.
Material and equipment
- For this tour you need the material from this PDF. We carry our equipment with us the whole time. Only pack the essentials.
- General material and packing tips we have also put together for you.
Bergschaft tours and courses are conducted in German as standard. However, our mountain guides speak good English, as do many of the participants. If you speak English, you are of course very welcome. Depending on the tour, it may be worth asking us in advance whether the guide and the group are comfortable speaking English.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us, preferably via the Contact form.
Accommodation
Maighelshütte
The Maighelshütte SAC is situated at 2,310 metres above the Oberalp Pass in the headwaters of the Rhine - surrounded by an impressive mountain landscape with peaks such as Piz Cavradi, Piz Badus and Piz Nair. It is an ideal starting point for ski tours, alpine tours and training courses in varied, snow-sure terrain. The hut is cosy, hospitable and known for its warm hospitality and fine, home-made cuisine. It offers around 90 beds, modern infrastructure and a warm, familiar atmosphere in which you immediately feel at home.
Whether for touring, learning or simply enjoying - the Maighelshütte is the perfect place to experience mountains, community and tranquillity.
That's what our guests say:
Marcin Stryczek
Fantastic opportunity to teach the avalanche theory base with good people!
Impressions: Ski touring and avalanche training Maighels
So come with us to the Maighelshütte training weekend:
Weekend from 12 - 13 December 2026
Freie Plätze, Durchführung gesichert.
Mountain guidesCHF 490.-The weekend of 26–27 December 2026
Nur noch 5 freie Plätze, mit einer weiteren Buchung ist die Durchführung gesichert.
Mountain guideCHF 490.-Weekend from 9 - 10 January 2027
Weekend from 23 - 24 January 2027
Weekend from 6 - 7 February 2027
The weekend of 20–21 February 2027
Freie PlätzeCHF 490.-
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