Back-country skiing Guides and Trips in Switzerland
Below are popular Back-country skiing guides in Switzerland 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.
Trips
Verbier - Mont Fort Extreme Skiing 2008-01-17
Le Châble, Valais, Switzerland
Back-country skiing | 44 miles
Back-country skiing | 44 miles
This trip mostly aimed to ski the couloirs off the back side of Mont Fort at Verbier. Since it takes about 2.5 hours to do one loop, only two Mont Fort couloirs were skied, but another one on Atelas was skied at the end of the day.
3 day skitour in the Oberland.
3 jours de randonnée à ski dans l'Oberland Bernois.
This is a nice, short skitour for "beginners" who know how to ski in deep snow. As it is frequently done, there are allways tracks you can follow. I did it twice with my 12 year old son and he liked it very much.The tour starts at the "Berghaus Malbun" in Buchs. After the end of the ski-lift you walk up to the forest and turn right. Just follow the tracks up to...
An excellent beginner course at Grimmialp for the weekend. Saturday we went up the eastern valley, but the visibility was quite poor so the sense of accomplishment was quite limited. Sunday we went up the middle valley and the weather was fantastic (I burned myself even with plenty of suntan lotion on). We made it up to the Traumlücke (Dream saddle) and had a great view of the region. The view was...
Join Brian, John, John and Alex with guide Rheini taking the verticals in fabulous off piste snow with clear blue skies. We started from the top of the Klein Matterhorn, skiied down the piste until cutting off to the right on the glacier. Great to see the amazing crevasses and wind swept hills of snow and ice.Highlight of the trip was coming across an ice cave. We took our skis off and...
VD - Sommet des Diablerets (3209m)
Les Diablerets, Vaud, Switzerland
Back-country skiing | 2.8 miles
Back-country skiing | 2.8 miles
Skitour up the to the 'Sommet des Diablerets' culminant point of the Canton de Vaud.The day was windy, so I went directly to the top and back down straight away.Spent the rest of the afternoon skiing on the Glacier 3000 ski slopes.Randonée à ski au 'Sommet des Diablerets', point culminant du Canton de Vaud.La journée a été ventée, alors je suis monté au sommets sans trainer.Profiter du reste de l'après midi à...
Skitouring to the top of schiesshorn from Arosa village. Great weather and snow conditions simply not enough of it
Easy ski touring up to la Fava. Nice view of some of the 4000 of the alps.
Ski touring on the Crêta Vella. Valais Switzerland
Winter Hike up the Rosablanche. From Verbier
2 days in the Bernese Oberland to climb the Finsteraarhorn.The bad weather prevented us to climb the summit.(wind, fog, minus 15°c at 3750 meters high)2 Jours dans l\'Oberland Bernois pour gravir le Finsteraarhorn.Le mauvais temps nous a contraint de renoncer à gravir le sommet.(vent, brouillard, -15°c à 3750 mètres)
This short ski tour leads up the wide open hillside of Sevelerberg. It is not very steep and can be done by ski-tour beginners, if they know how to ski off-piste.It starts at the end of the road in direction Skihaus Sevelerberg. You follow the tracks up to the Skihaus, wich is open on weekends and winter holidays, and further on to Alp Arin (1 h). From here you go up close...
Skitour up to the summit of l'Arpille.
Skitour from the Col des Gentianes to the Rosablanche. Skied down to Siviez.Randonée a ski depuis le col des Gentianes à la Rosablanche. Descente a ski jusq'à Siviez.
Ski tour up to the Tête Ronde depuis La Caffe.
