Alpine skiing Guides and Trips
Below are popular Alpine skiing guides and trips that you can use to plan your next adventure. You can download guides, including a detailed map, description and points of interest for a small fee to your iPhone or Android.
Guides
Standard Route with optional ski descent
5-days ski touring trip close to Bern in Switzerland
Skiing the Mt. Baker backcountry in deep winter powder or summer corn.
Explore the snowfields and glaciers of Mt. Rainier during winter or summer.
Backcountry ski tour to the summit of Naches Peak
Hike from the village of Kolatak to Gandzasar - with one of Karabakh's most beautiful monasteries.
Skiing the North Face of Table Mountain in the Mt. Baker Wilderness
Exploring the flanks of Mt. Herman and the basins around Table Mountain
Exploring the wilds of the Chiwaukum Mountains of the Central Cascades in winter
Summer skiing at its best on the Northwest face of Mt. Rainier.
Ski, snowboard or snowshoe the wilderness area just west of the Mt. Baker Ski Area in Washington State.
Easy hiking that's suitable for everyone. Trails are groomed cross country ski trails.
Drive to the top late-June to late-October. The guide also provides trail head information from various parking areas.
Trips
A skiing day in La Fouly, near the Massif du Mont Blanc in the alps of Switzerland, january 2010, -15 celsius, 20cm fresh snow.La Fouly is a beautiful small ski resort with slopes for expert skier and a cute
sector for beginner.La Fouly's gold
attractions are 7 black slopes highly technical and steep enough
to reach very high speeds within a few curves. In this small guide four of them are partially illustrated
the combe des...
24" of snow the week prior. Skied with friends Hank and Jeff for part of the day. Had some great off-piste runs, including hitting ~all of the 360o catchline road ("the eye") and dropping into the cirque thru the pinnacles ("threading"). Doing both in one day is what is called "threading the needle."Had one run with a manager at Mt Bachelor. Bert? Anyway he was a good skier and had a great run and...
Skiing some of the classic routes around Chamonix.day1: Weather was too bad to do Vallee Blanche so we kept to finding several ways down the Argentiere glacier. Then we took Bochart and skied down the Pendant glacier to Le lavancher through the trees and took bus home.day2: Lift to Aguille du midi shut so go to Brevant and ski the Pentes de l'hotel and the Couloir de l'ENSA. Weather at the top of...
Clearly every trip to switzerland must involve skiing, even when there is no snow. So we went all the way up to Les Diablerets (quite a trek from Zurich) and stayed in a nice little hotel there, then went up skiing at Glacier 3000, since nothing at Les Diablerets was open yet. The weather was beautiful but the terrain was a bit limited and 3/4 lifts were T-bars which don't allow for...
I almost got a full day of skiing over New Year's weekend but I took a bad spill that involved my left leg staying behind while the rest of me was too eager to get futher down the mountain. An hour or so later my leg had tightened up to the point where left turns were pretty painful, and i decided it wouldn't be a great idea to only rely on my...
Ski across the 4Vallées with family.
