Collecting snow-falls early in the season, the slopes and peaks surrounding the ski resort of Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc offer a soft, ideal relief for Ski-Mountaineering instruction, the authentic and convivial Ski. In a small group of six to eight skiers, managed by a Mountain Guide or a Ski Instructor, you will feel the pleasure of opening up the trail through forests and mountain pastures, far from the obstructed ski-runs. Your Mountain Guide or Ski Instructor will show you all the tricks and the techniques of Backcountry Skiing.
During this week-end, your Mountain Guide or Ski Instructor will learn you the main technics and tricks used in Ski Mountaineering :
- how to keep an economical pace, drink and eat steadily
- how to open up the route
- how to use for the best the specific equipment of Ski Mountaineering
- how to improve your skiing downhill technic
- how to take one's bearings
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Programme of your Backcountry Skiing instruction week-end : Meeting place in Contamines-Montjoie on Saturday morning (free roundtrip shuttle from Geneva airport), stop by ski-shop to hire ski touring equipment, ski touring up to the Alp of Balme (5,597 feet), night in a lodge or in a two stars hôtel / Sunday, ski touring, ascent of "Petit Croisse-Baulet" (6,591 feet) and "Grand Croisse-Baulet" (7,336 feet), shuttle back to Geneva airport.
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Free roundtrip shuttle from Geneva airport.
Your flights : the free roundtrip shuttle from Geneva airport will leave the airport very early on Saturday morning (at 7.20 am). So, choose a flight landing in Geneva on Friday evening, and taking off after 8.00 pm on Sunday evening.
If you arrive in Geneva airport on Friday evening, we propose you a night in a motel close to Geneva airport + Saturday breakfast, for 60 EUR extra charge, with free welcome in Geneva airport on Friday evening, and free transfer to your motel.
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Your Guide : A French IFMGA Mountain Guide, or a French Ski Instructor, speaking fluently English with a near-native comprehension, expert of backcountry skiing.
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Your Level:
- you are a Ski-Mountaineering beginner, and you want to learn ski-mountaineering technique. You practise a good parallel turn, and you control your skis and your speed on all the red and black ski runs. Falling over is the exception rather than the rule and you are keen to learn and improve.
- your fitness : you are in good condition (you practise sports twice a week).
- Average difference in height : 1,700 feet a day.
- Pace : ascent of 800 feet to 1,000 feet per hour.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
The price includes :
- guiding by a IFMGA Mountain Guide or a Ski Instructor
- the following group equipment: radio linked to the relief organization, pharmacy, survival blanket, maps, compass, GPS, altimeter
- the loan of a Avalanche Transceiver, a probe and a shovel
- chair lifts tickets for Sunday
- half-board by a lodge or a two stars hotel for Saturday night if you have chosen this option
- all road transfers during the week-end for the four first participants registered, including free roundtrip shuttle from Geneva airport
* The price does not include :
- optional insurances GENERALI / EUROP ASSISTANCE
- your pic nics
- your drinks
- your personal expenses
- the personal equipment and the technical equipment required for this tour
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