Back-country skiing Guides and Trips
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White Pine Canyon
Turramurra Lodge Condominiums, Utah, United States
Back-country skiing | 2.6 miles
Back-country skiing | 2.6 miles
To break up a long drive, we go for a little ski in Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah.
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 ...
A group of nine of us did the wondeful "Mt Rose to  Floriston" tour today.  We started by setting up the shuttle at Floriston at 7:00 and then got everyone up to the Rose backcountry parking lot by ~9.  We had clouds most of the day, which kept the snow really light.  After a 1200 foot climb to the top of "Hourglass", we went to the next bowl and skied "Broken Glass"....
Croce dell'Alpe Piazza - 4.12.2010
Cosio Valtellino, Lombardy, Italy
Back-country skiing | 9.5 miles
Back-country skiing | 9.5 miles
http://www.camptocamp.org/outings/245515/it/croce-dell-alpe-piazza-per-l-alpe-tagliataGita e itinerario di "una volta" quando la neve scendeva abbondante anche a quote basse.Primo tratto tipico orobico: bosco e stradina seguiti da belle radure e prati.L'alpe Piazza sorge in un luogo splendido che merita da solo una visita per la bellezza e per il panorama.Neve ottima, ancora soffice e deumidificata e sufficiente a non far tocacre il fondo.
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.
Splitboarding Unnamed Peak - Emigrant Gulch, Montana
Emigrant, Montana, United States
Back-country skiing | 5.7 miles
Back-country skiing | 5.7 miles
Sep and Sam met up for some backcountry turns. Sep was on AT skis and Sam on his splitboard. Sep and I set off to climb Chico Peak - had bad beta -
and ended up climbing an unnamed peak across the gulch from Emigrant.
Due to waiting for some people who were supposed to join us we didn't
leave Bozeman 'til 7:4am.We arrived at the trailhead, booted
for the first 1/4 or 1/2 mile at...
Ski touring on the Crêta Vella. Valais Switzerland
Winter Hike up the Rosablanche. From Verbier
gita presso Rocca Meja (corso SA1 Righini)
Grange Pieccia, Piemonte, Italy
Back-country skiing | 2.5 miles
Back-country skiing | 2.5 miles
Cross-country skiing in the Zug valley
Lech - Zug, Vorarlberg, Austria
Back-country skiing | 7.9 miles
Back-country skiing | 7.9 miles
By bus from Lech to Zug (Haltestelle Kloesterle), from there on the cross-country trail along the Lech valley to the Spulerbach and to the far end of the loop (towards Formarinsee). There I turned off the GPS. The very last GPS position apparently is wrong, and so are some of the elevation and speed statistics. :-) Click on Stats on the top-left of the map to see them.
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)
Taylor and Sam get out for some November turns.
Climbing Pyramid Peak is a great way to experience Desolation Wilderness in the winter. Â Kristin, Malin, Tim, Posy, Sitka and I had a blast as we turned a climb that could be done as a day trip into a 2 day snow camping adventure.After an early departure from San Francisco on a Saturday morning we were parked at Pyramid Creek on Highway 50 and underway by about 10am. Â After some relatively steep...
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